Welcome to Record Shop City

wilson_quoteThey still do, and 'kids' of all ages should be pleasantly surprised at just how many places in this city they can still buy records from. So this is our one-stop guide to the fantastic record shops of Greater Manchester, from the 'Vinyl Valley' that is Oldham Street in the Northern Quarter, to the windswept streets of Bolton, Lancashire. Browse the menu on the right hand side and go shopping! Contact Us and tell us what you think. Please enjoy the site and Support your local record shops. Or if you haven't got any local record shops, come to Manchester and support ours. Tony Wilson quote & image used with kind permission of the Wilson family. Support Oliver Wilson raising money for Macmillan Cancer Support. Visit www.justgiving.com/OliverWilson

Twitter Nonsense

Recent Comments

Endless Love

We’ve got another shop review for you, and it’s another absolute corker. Our man Carl went to Bury Old Road instead of Bury New Road, but eventually found his way to Prestwich village and located the amazing, and aptly named, Endless Music. Judging from his review, it’s fair to say he was suitably impressed by [...]

Join us on the Medium Wave

Episode 20 of our Podcast (known as the Medium Wave Podcast) is up now, in which we play and talk about some of the pop records we’ve purchased from these ‘ere shops recently.

It is fair to say that most of the bands and artistes we play on the show do not exactly live in [...]

Quark, Strangeness and Chart...

We’ve another new Top 10 added to our ‘charts’ section, this time kindly provided by Andy from Piccadilly Records, and a very fine and all-encompassing selection it is too. Everything from Space Rock, “proper” Indie (i.e not of landfill variety),  to groovesome Funk  and a certain Scottish band from the 80s, fond of standing [...]

Small is beautiful

OK it’s not in Manchester…but we couldn’t resist a feature on this Tardis-like record shop in North Wales.

Well what’s a digger meant to do when he has been working all day in Wales and gets off early…..go and visit what is reputably the UK’s smallest record shop that’s what. Nestled on the corner of Mold [...]

More shops added!

We keep finding ‘em! Two more shops have been added to our ever expanding list, both located in the suburbs of South Manchester. First up is Deco which is tucked away off a side street in Withington, a great little secondhand place which had escaped our radar up till now.  We’ve also added Sharston Books [...]

Who’s on the BBC then?

Tonight, Friday 2nd October between 11pm and 12am our man Carl will be appearing on the Anthony Cranks show on BBC Radio Manchester (95.1FM  or listen live here) to review this weeks new single releases. Tune in and see if he can slip in a cheeky plug or two for this ‘ere website. Good Luck [...]