CDs, Tapes & Vinyl

Leif Zurmuhlen

Altar Records and Internet Café
1040 Madison Ave, Albany, 690-2816. Selections in house, hiphop, trip-hop, trance, breaks, techno, and progressive. Includes café serving gourmet coffee, espresso and more. DJ lessons, sound and lighting rentals, Internet access and more available.

Barnes & Noble
20 Wolf Road, Colonie, 459-8183. The massive bookstore also has a large music section covering a wide range of styles.

Blue Note Records
156 Central Ave., Albany, 462-0221. Looking to expand your collection of rock & roll, country and R&B? This friendly treasure trove offers an extensive mix of music from the ’40s to the present. In business for over 55 years and specializing in 45s.

Borders Books & Music
59 Wolf Road, Colonie, 482-5816. This store boasts the “largest music department in upstate New York.”

Coconuts Stuyvesant Plaza,
438-3003; Delaware Plaza, Delmar, 439-2449; 477-7846; 5 Clifton Country Road, Clifton Park, 383-3644. CDs and videos galore.

Disc Go Round
2080 Western Ave., Guilderland, 452-0338. Store buys and sells used CDs, games and DVDs, offers a selection of new Top 100 CDs, special orders anything in print, both domestic and import, and offers scratch-repair service $2.99 a disc.

Edie’s CDs
Aviation Mall, Queensbury, 798-2929; Route 9, Million Dollar Half-Mile, Lake George. New and used; lots of vinyl, videos, cassettes and CDs. Specializing in imported and out-of-print stuff, rock, country and R&B. Buy, sell and trade.

Essential Sounds
204 Remsen St., Cohoes, 237-4653. New and used CDs, specializing in hardcore, death-metal, darkwave, goth and krishna-rock. Also sells skateboards, hats and accessories.

FYE
Clifton Park Center, 371-5599; Colonie Center, 437-0727; Crossgates Mall, 464-0199; Latham Circle Mall, 785-3651. A supermarket of music, video and video games. Offers the Top 100 plus a good selection of blues, hiphop, rap, country, reggae and classical.

Island Flavors
215 S. Pearl St., Albany, 432-0313. New and used CDs, cassettes and records specializing in hiphop, jazz, rap, R&B and reggae.

Joseph Custom Tailors
795 Madison Ave., Albany, 463-4972. Albany’s “Home of Dollar Music” buys and sells new and used records, cassettes and CDs. And they dry-clean, too!

Last Vestige
173 Quail St., Albany, 432-7736; 437 Broadway, Saratoga Springs, 226-0811. Choose from a wide array of rare records (both new and used), CDs, tapes and one of the area’s best selections of music-related videos. Knowledgeable staff, four private listening booths to preview your selections.

Music Shack
295 River St., Troy, 273-1400; 65 Central Ave., Albany, 436-4581. A great selection of techno, alternative, hiphop, metal and imports. T-shirts, too. Web site: www.redrocketrecords.com.

Red’s Underground
13 Broad St., Glens Falls, 798-2040. Unique store specializing in recycling CDs, videos, DVDs and games. Most music genres found here.

Sounds Unlimited
175 Glen St., Glens Falls, 743-0500. Carries quality used CDs, cassettes and DVDs as well as new and import CDs. Specializing in vinyl archived to CD.

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