Join Mike and Aaron as they hunt for rare albums!
REPORT CARD
Sonic Boom, 782 Bathurst St – 5/5 stars
BMV, 471 Bloor Street West – 3.5/5 stars (Mike) 4/5 stars (Aaron)
Rotate This, 801 Queen St. W – 3/5 stars (no rating from Aaron)
Pauper’s Pub, 539 Bloor Street West – 3.5/5 stars
Paradise Bound, 270 August Ave – 4/5 stars * note I got the name wrong in the video
Moonbean, 30 Saint Andrew Street – 5/5 stars
Sonic Boom Kensington, 201 Augusta Ave – 4.5/5 stars
HMV, 333 Yonge Street – 1.5/5 stars
Sunrise, 220 Yonge Street, 1.5/5 stars (no rating from Aaron)
See what Aaron bought by clicking here!
FINAL NOTE: I procured a the Japanese import from eBay a week later, October 27, for $41, free shipping.
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Hey where’d the other post go? Comments and everything… gone! Oh well, all I did was wonder if you spent as much time on the video as we did in Toronto. ;)
As for your ratings, I’d give BMV a 4 for low prices alone. Rotate This did have cheap Metallica, but we didn’t spend a whole lotta time in there so I don’t feel like I can really rate it. If I’d had the burger at Pauper’s, it’d be a 4 or a 4.5 if my year-old memory of the burger is still the reality. I’m impressed you even gave the corporate whore stores 1.5. I’d have wagered on a pure 0. For me, HMV would go low like that, yeah, but we didn’t get to see Sunrise, really, so I just can’t rate it.
HUGE thanks to you, LeBrain, for putting all of this together. What a document of a crazy and eventful day!! Well done, sir.
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Yeah kind of a publicity stunt on my move, by creating a brand new post it emails people again with the new blog :) Then I moved the old one to draft mode so it didn’t appear twice, so the comments do still exist just only I can see them :)
I spent as much time on the video as I did in Toronto! But that was because of Winblows, I had to start over after I’d finished due to Winblows.
I’m gonna add your ratings. Cheers sir!
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I enjoyed that! Takes me back to record hunting trips in London…
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Thank you sir! While time consuming I would like to continue to do more video reviews of record shopping trips. I’m glad you found it entertaining. It sure was a good time doing it. Aaron tells me that some stores were giving me dirty looks while I filmed but nobody said anything to me. My home town (Kitchener) isn’t really comparable to London or Toronto for record stores, but look for more of these videos in the future. It was too fun to NOt do it again!
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perhaps you might send an invite my way…we can do LONDON record shops…I know one in particular !?!?
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Let’s do it!! I’ll film it and document our treasures. London used to have some good stores.
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oddly enough…we just missed a “record show” in London on October 28th…check this list for more coming later this year!!
http://www.vibrations.ca/record-shows (link probably doesn’t work!)
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Thanks!! But we should definitely try to do a record store excursion and film it for posterity. That would be a blast. It’s been a long long time.
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I’m in ! let’s hammer out some details
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Right on. Email me. We’ll have to do this for sure. And film it!
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