Just a minor warning concerning a new store: Good Music, from Toronto. I dunno if they have a Discogs seller on here. This store happens to be in a downstairs basement clothing store (Black Market Clothing) on Queen Street West. The owner also happens to own Vortex Records, a better known/more-respected record store in Toronto.
I've noticed that there are a ton of water damaged LPs selling at this store for $20-$40 and up (unbelievable!), I politely asked the guy at the counter if I could perhaps get a discount on a Lou Barlow LP, the sleeve was just water-warped beyond belief, it looked like someone poured tea all over the sleeve and who knows if the vinyl was warped as well. He cut me off mid-sentence and said "Nope, I saw that one go for $50 and more on the Internet". Also used reissues at this store are unmarked as "reissues" and I nearly bought two records under the assumption that they were original pressings, you'd have to check the back of the sleeve to check for a reissue date.
Not a *bad* store, there is a decent collection of rare indie vinyl. Just a heads up for those who are visiting this store soon. No discounts for water-warped LPs but you could probably find the same LPs at Kops (and they'd probably give you a somewhat decent discount for the damaged sleeves) for muuuuch cheaper and in probably better condition. :P
(...btw, the Lou Barlow LP in question happens to sell for around $10-20 on Discogs and on Ebay, LOL.)
Cheers and keep digging.
I fail to see how your experience at this record store would compel you to issue a warning. You saw a record in water-damaged condition for a price you thought was too high and the owner refused to lower the price. The solution is to not buy the record. If I posted every time I saw a record at what I thought was the wrong price, I would do nothing else but make posts and never buy records.
FWIW, Good Music is one of my favourite stores, and I have never seen any water damaged records in stock. The prices are more than fair and he always has new stock coming in. Even then, I have seen a few things in stock at Good Music that I thought were priced too high, so I simply did not buy them. Generally, his prices are better than most other stores.
Also, the store recently closed and is moving to a temporary location. A new record store is taking its place. Oh, as as far as I know, the owner of Good Music does not own Vortex, but he was once the record buyer for Vortex.
