INDIANA RECORD SPOTS

And on campus at Ohio State (also 3 hours from Indy) Used Kids I think is the best, although there are shops all over the place ...
There may be a decent record store in Oxford, O - (closer to the border) or at I.U. .. but it's been awhile since I've been to either place. Or Cincinnati/Clifton ...

I've never found a good shop in Indy....

you have not looked hard enough!

The other two in that neighborhood are harder to find as they are in small office buildings. One is in a one story office on Keystone that is next to a parking lot, I think there is a replacement window place in the front. The guy that owns it mostly does record shows, but has some store hours. It is the 'guys name' Records, but he doesn't really have a big sign.

There is another place a block or so off of Keystone, but in the same neighboorhood that does mailorder stuff, it is the old partner in Missing Link. They have tons of weird garage/psych and other reissues. They don't really have a store front, but if you go there they will let you browse and pick up stuff. I can't for the life of me remember the name of those guys operation.

Another place to get vinyl and cds is in Broad Ripple is Missing Link, it is on College a couple of blocks south of The Vogue. That should be about 60th street. At one time, I had more luck finding good used jazz and Krautrock cds there than anyplace before the Internet and mailorder.

There are supposedly a couple of new good used record/cd shops downtown and on the southside, but I haven't been there as I moved out of Indy a couple of years ago.

Bloomington has a half dozen record/cd shops on Kirkwood, including TDCDs & LPs, which I have learned is still in business under new ownership. There is another good place up on 10th street a couple of blocks from College called "All Ears" that has bunches of good vinyl and cds, the owner is a real cool guy. It opened after I left B-ton, but I have had luck the three times I went there.

Missing Link is OLD SKOOL and some how have survived moving a couple of times.

Rick's Records used to be in that same neighboorhood on College/52nd, but man it burned. Rick tried to stay open, but it wasn't the same. That place had a freaking crazy amount of good jazz on vinyl in the day.

I don't know Indy very well, but I love love love Missing Link. They have good selection, prices
A place called, I think, Indy CD & Vinyl, like a block or two away from Missing Link has a better selection but worse prices (also more CDs than records, if that's what you're interested in)

The best prices I've ever seen are in West Lafayette (probably because nobody who's into music would want to live there because there's nothing going on) at Von's (who don't carry used vinyl but have the cheapest CDs and new LPs) and J&L's (plenty of used vinyl). There's one other place, too, but I don't remember the name of it.

Earl are you thinking of

http://www.aether-or.com/

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St@n D3nski is the owner - he's a good egg.

That is the place. I couldn't remember the name. I went there a few times.

The last couple of times I went to Missing Link, they seemed to be back on track to the days when they were on Broad Ripple Ave. I have nothing but love for that place, even though it went downhill for awhile around the time it shared space with Ricks. I dropped some mad amount of money on some stuff there for a couple of years, but got some stuff used at killer prices like the Ornette, Miles Prestige and Heavyweight box sets. That is also where I got my Cluster, Amon Duul, Ash Ra Tempel, early Kraftwerk and bunches of Krautrock in the mid 90s.

Tom Donahue of TDsCDs&LPs was a saint. He turned me on to so much music both from his store and when he worked at Roscoes/CD Exchange, I couldn't thank him enough. He really was a nexus of music in that town as he knew everybody and was so involved with community radio.

The places that I knew about in Muncie have all gone. There has to be someone that took Stevie Ray's place, as that town has a bunch of music going on these days (hard to believe but actually true).

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Landlocked in Bloomington is pretty good, but TD's has got the better selection of super obscure shit

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