Tel: 2559 9562. Email: Website: Ĭollectables, started by two brothers in 1992, is the first used vinyl store I came across after I had moved to Hong Kong in 2005. Here’s a hint about your “local friendly record shop”: loyal, return customers of places like the Classic Shop (owned and operated by Chau Yiu Keung) will usually give you a discount on multiple item purchases.Ĭollectables: 1/F, Hong Kong City Hall Low Block, 5 Edinburgh Place, Central. On my most recent visit, though I was trying to resist buying anything, keeping to my agenda to mapping rather than purchasing, I couldn’t resist a Sidney Bechet 10 inch release with an awesome cover drawing of the saxophonist/clarinetist.
This is one shop where I have found it worth my while to dig through their Jazz bins, bagging releases by the likes of Lester Young and David Murray. Nevertheless, the shop has been there for 20 years selling a large selection of Jazz, Rock, Classical and Asian Pop along with used audio equipment. That alone should provoke the wanderer in you, because you have to poke around, keeping an eye out for Classic Shop’s non-descript signage. This shop is right off the Central escalator, down the alley that is packed with the iconic dai pai dongs (open air restaurants) that appear in Wong Kar Wai’s “Chungking Express”. This desire for tangibility also includes analog’s mode of listening, a somewhat more communal experience then the inherent isolation of the digital ear bud. File photo: Pexels.Īs with many forecasts of the obsolescence of analog formats (books, records) due to the all-encompassing binary code, it turns out that a lot of people want the object. And then what happened? On one hand, we can be cynical and take note of a pretentious hipster reversion to the old school, a technology that in fact, at times, sounds worse than newer formats.īut part of the impetus for Record Store Day was also to support your friendly local independent music outlet, the types that were hanging in there supported by the weight of a secondary market, all those crates of records that had been released years and tens of years ago, and that in some cases were being shuttled off to the landfill. This coming Saturday is Record Store Day, an event originally started in 2008 to promote the then marginalised vinyl record format which was supposedly being superseded by CDs and digital music files.
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