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Discovery Used & Collectors Records
Category: Shopping Books, Mags, Music and Video Music & DVDs Music & DVDs [Edit]
1140 Queen Street EToronto, ON M4M 1L1
Neighbourhood: Leslieville
(416) 778-6394
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4 reviews for Discovery Used & Collectors Records
4 reviews in English
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Review from Craig B.
Pickering, ON
8/16/2011
Love the place. The labels on the album jackets are SN for surface noise, SS for surface scratches and no labels indicate error free.
The prices are bang on compared to most of the shops in Toronto.
They tend to get many new albums in each week and list them on their website each Sunday afternoon. Store is closed on Wednesday's.
Some have issues with the owner being a bit standoffish etc...but deep down I think he is a good guy. -
Review from Joebo J.
Toronto, ON
5/26/2009
Discovery is the best record store in Toronto, hands down. Although it's a small store it's been around for 18 years and it always has choice, excellent condition, well priced vinyl. I haven't been there in a year or so cause I no longer live in the area, but Discovery has provided me many gems in my record collection.
Discovery is pretty much half the price or less compared to the other completely retarded, overpriced downtown used record stores. This little store always gets records in, and the sells them at a great price. If you buy a record for $5 to $7 bucks there, 100% of the time it's in excellent to mint condition. Lots of rock, blues, R&B, punk etc and a nice little Jazz section tucked into the back part of the store. It has a nice collection of Beatles, Elvis and picture discs. No much hip hop, rap or dance, so it's not really a store for DJ's. The new arrivals and a complete store inventory is listed on the store's website. Worth checking out, if you can't make the trip.
The store's owner is a bit of a grump from what people have told me (but you would be too if you had to deal with fussy cheap record collectors for 18 years!), but he was always very helpful and friendly to me, cause I always bought tons of stuff every time I walked in there. Every year he has a great boxing week sale, where he sells everything for 50% off the store price! Not to be missed.
Check this place out, if the album you are looking for is not there, it will turn up there sooner or later. Well worth the trip. -
Review from Bryan T.
Toronto, ON
12/21/2010
I concur with others who have said this is the best record store in Toronto. Well, best *used* record store. Discovery has a pretty steady turnover-- always boxes of new records coming in. The store is also quite well organized; there aren't just things piled up everywhere as you find in other stores. What I like most is that the owner maintains a complete and up to date list of his inventory online. So you can browse without making a trip there, ask him to put something away for you, or make a shopping list from home. I don't find the owner grumpy so much as terse. I guess the one caveat is that this place deals solely in used records, and there as yet does not seem to be market in used, recently released vinyl. So if you want the new Arcade Fire or whatever, this isn't the place.
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Review from Jimi S.
ON
12/17/2008
so heres the goods on the table: i no longer have a record player.
okay, so here goes. this place is filled with records mostly, that are very well organized. you can go online, in fact, and download their record list which is updated every two weeks. as well, you can search online for records or just download their entire list for later. to illustrate how dedicated discovery is, you will be comforted to know that each and every record has been listened to at one point or another because on that list there is a grading system thats accompanies the records thats need it. in other words, records that arent perfect in terms of sound quality are categorized by codes like ss for slightly scuffs but plays well or sn indicates scratches on surface noise.
for those of you who still listen to cassette tapes (why god knows) will be happy to find that there is also a sizable amount of those available as well. in addition you will find towards the back of the store is a shelf dedicated to dvds - mostly music related, and some books of the same subject matter in the back room.
for me this store would be perfect for hard to find stuff thats not out on cd or i cant find online. but, hey, id welcome an eye opener any day of the week from a die hard record player to school me in the finer details of phonographic sound.
