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Name: Phil Wight
Comment: In Edinburgh we had the much missed 'Record Exchange' (snappy name), with listening booths and a wide stock of new and used vinyl, I spent a lot of Saturday afternoons in there, wish I could go back with a pocketful of cash... the owner was another grumpy git who called every customer 'mister'... there was another place near the Hibs Stadium just off Easter Road where I used to go to on Friday lunchtimes when I got paid. It was close enough to my work to nip along and get back in an hour - more of a junk shop but the owner must have been buying promo copies from someone as I picked up a few Blue Horizon 45s there.

Name: Jay Kay.
Comment: Recent casualty. A very odd shop that stocked tons of easy listening mid-price rubbish and the occasional gem priced in a way that suggested they had no idea. Often a good source of newly released non-mainstream or indie stuff at ridiculously low prices. Seemed to have had a copy of Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out by The Rolling Stones in the window for decades.


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Dave Harwood
13 Oct 2024 at 03:26
I found this advert in the 'Edinburgh Evening News' dated 29th November 1957:
“PAY A VISIT TO OUR GRAMOPHONE RECORD STALL IN THE EDINBURGH SUPER MARKET, HIGH STREET. Large Selection including Long-Playing and Extended Play. RECORDS BOUGHT, SOLD AND EXCHANGED AT THE RECORD EXCHANGE, 11 LONDON ROAD.”
STUART
10 Nov 2024 at 05:55
My record buying 'career' started in the shop in Leith Walk,opposite McDonald road library. They had stuff for all tastes. You could place a deposit of 5 shillings (old money - this was 1970) and collect the item on paying the balance of 25 shillings. I got Taste On the boards,first zeppelin and sabbath albums by this method. There was another shop in Newington a wee bit past Queens Hall.

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