Subway

Name: Kaz Green
Comment: Used to buy all my Gary Numan vinyl in here. Great shop. Sadly missed.
(13 July 2017)

Name: Dave Morrison
Comment: I was the singles buyer for the short-lived Birmingham store, which opened bang opposite the HMV store on New Street. It was a company of such promise, but apparently very poorly managed from a financial perspective, as it was not around long. I moved on to pastures new when things started to go pear-shaped.
(2021)

Name: ​Richard Rees-Jones.
Comment: ​​There was also Subway Records on New Canal, Salisbury (in the building that is now the Salisbury Reds office), which had an excellent range of punk and new wave on vinyl.

Name: Joe Fish
Comment: There was also a Subway Records in Southampton, it was on the edge of the old bus station which is now an indoor shopping centre, it was a great store and had loads of Punk and New Wave stuff at 1980s prices, sadly missed.

Name: Millbrookedave
Comment: Subway Records in Southampton was a great place for punk records. As far as I know there are no record/CD shops left in Southampton now.

Name: Paul Hamerton
Comment: Still have HMV in Southampton but Subways and Henry's were the best.
(30 May 2014)

Comment: I can remember going into Subway Records in West Street in 1981 and buying the yellow album cover with a computer on it called Computerworld by Kraftwerk.

Comment: Ah, a mystery that’s puzzled me for years.

I recall a record shop at the top of North Street (left-hand side, above the Film Theatre and next door to Moss Bros or whatever the clothes shop on the corner of North Street/West Street is/was). Memory says the sign/logo was red and like the underground sign.

It was definitely open in 1968. They were busted for displaying the nude women cover to Jimi Hendrix’s Electric Ladyland and forced by the council to display it in a paper bag. They also got in trouble for The Fugs LP It Crawled Into My Hand, Honest, largely for the accompanying sticker that said ‘Get Fugged’. They removed them from the window and let me have the last 20 or so they had left when I bought the LP (it wasn’t a big seller).

I don’t recall the shop being open past about 1973, but Computerworld was issued in 1981, which matches, so if that memory is right they were open years beyond what I thought.