I'm up there this weekend and fancy some retail theropy.

Paul.

There used to be a fantastic one just round the corner from Betty's - on the left as you're facing Betty's.

I found an original copy of Wire's 'Pink FLag' there and masses of other stuff, all at charity shop prices. This was about six years ago though....

Tim

Not sure about Harrogate, it's a fairly small and conservative place (in both senses). Leeds and York are close by and both offer serious opportunities for retail therapy including excellent Naim dealers.

Depends what you're into. Pomp and Circumstance is for new classical CD's. There's an Oxfam shop that has secondhand LP's, this is near Betty's (and maybe the one referred to above). I consider it's a bit overpriced normally. There's also a few charity shops to which the well-heeled residents sometimes give generously...

Has Mix Music gone now? Used to be down near the theatre. They had a branch in Skipton which was very helpful, shut here though.

Bruce

The two nearest new Vinyl stockists are Track Records in York and Jumbo Records in Leeds.

Whilst Harrogate is a great place to live, I'm afraid the music shop selection is not great unless you are looking for classical exclusively, in which case there are 2 good shops.
For "popular" music, Mix Music is just along from the Theatre, towards the Halifax Bank. Not a huge selection, and not cheap - around £13 normally for a CD - but the guys are generally quite friendly and knowledgable.
I tend to go into Leeds, where there is a large HMV, and Virgin megastore, plus several decent second hand shops stocking vinyl and CD. My favourite place however is Borders, with a good selection of CD's, with several listening booths, plus dvd's, books etc, and a Starbucks on site.

Steve D

Many thanks for the info.
As i'm traveling by train I might aswell stop of in Leeds. Wife is working all day Saturday so I could well end up with quite an armfull of lovely vinyl. Yum, yum


Paul.

Jumbo Records are here. Virgin is in Albion St., Borders in Briggate, and HMV is on Lands Lane (their website is wrong ) - all 3 streets are on the other side of the Headrow from Jumbo.

[This message was edited by Jez Quigley on Fri 29 October 2004 at 4:29.]