Bookoff - An Old School Record Store Experience
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- Join me for one of my New Music Finds shopping excursions at my local record store. Bookoff is not your typical record store. It’s buried in the back of a combination book/electronics/gaming store in Midtown Manhattan. But it’s worth the visit as you will see and is one of the last record stores in NYC. While CD’s are dwindling and being eliminated from other stores, Bookoff is going strong with the biggest selection in all of NYC. If you’re in the Manhattan make sure you check them out for that old school record store experience.
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I've never seen so many cd's! They almost have as many as you. Looks like a place I could get lost in for hours! Great video.
If I had the space, my house might look like this!
Holy smokes -- CD honey hole! I could spend a ton of time and $$$ in that joint. Still wish you would do an intro (giving a little background on the shop, how long you've been going there, etc.) and a post-visit review of your purchase.
The background on the shop is written in the description. This was a brand new music store find for me. And the purchase are always covered each Wednesday during episodes of New Music Finds.
Hey Brendon -- Guess I don't usually look at descriptions unless I'm directed there. I just think if you did an intro (from your apt.) basically saying what you wrote in the description -- that'd be perfect. And for the post-visit, you could hold up the stack of CDs and say something like, "I found 12 CDs at [fill in store name] today. Tune into my next new music finds video on Wed. where I'll recap this purchase, plus other music I picked up during the week." Could help drive viewers to more of your videos. Just a thought...
WOW !!! 😮 what an incredible amount of CDs there…Pocket friendly prices too 👍😃👍
Very good price too with lots of rarities and there was a whole wall of $1.50 CD’s too.
OMG I am totally baffed. Thank you Brendon for sharing this wonderful piece of NYC.
You’re welcome Bernt! I was shocked to find this place too!
As usual love your episodes! keep on doin this man!
Glad you’re enjoying them. As I come across new stores I’ll keep making these kinds of videos.
Some favorites once again!!! Coverdale / Page, Infectious Grooves, Green River and the amazing "Weight" by Rollins Band!!!
Yeah this store was full of so many good ones!
Wow, what a great shop, you randomly pulled out many that I have owned. Fun times!
Most of what I pulled out I already own myself, but I know for lots who are watching they would be good finds to show them what this store has to offer.
I been to this store before, I was blown away with the cds and games you could find here.
Exactly! I couldn’t believe it either!
All i can say is wow!! I wish i was there i saw some titles you showed that ive been looking for seems like forever like that badlands voodoo highway and the first La Guns.
That’s why I showed the Badlands, it’s very hard to find and I was shocked to see it. If I didn’t already own it I would have picked it up for sure!
Wow. What a selection of CDs and well organized too. High five for Hanoi Rocks CD!
I love the band Hanoi Rocks as well as all of the many projects that Michael Monroe had done. Highly underrated band and musician.
Watching this post makes me realize how bad I need to get my 5k+ collection in some semblance of order. Stacked everywhere in my cd room so a real pain to find certain ones sometimes.
Cool store you found Brendon and thanks for the post.
Yeah I can’t stand it when I’m looking for a particular album but can’t find it. I try and keep my collection as organized as much as possible just so I can keep that from happening too often.
One of my absolute favorite spots to dig!
It just became a new favorite of mine!
Oh that is so 🆒 Brendon I had no idea that record stores like that were still around
They’re very rare! Especially ones with this many CD’s!
I would have a field day in that store credit card would have been happy 😊 I though I saw made in the shade stones did you buy it
No I passed on it because the spine was damaged. I’ll wait for a better copy.
I'm at work. Can't wait to get off of work and watch this video
I hope you enjoy it as much as the other recent record store experience videos!
I think I would have to bring an empty backpack and spend 2-4 hours. Thank you for sharing! I only have one local shop that gets used stuff rather sparingly, but I find a handful from time to time. Yesterday was a great day - found 6 discs for $15.
Congrats man that’s a good deal! Enjoy
Wow! What a huge inventory they have. If my son went there, he'd be lost for hours!
I was lost for 3 hrs…
Goodness me that looks amazing . Missing Persons Greatest Hits and Police Message in a Box , I d better get over there !
Lots of great stuff with hours of fun sifting through all they have to offer.
nice looks intresting
I went back to NY several months ago to visit family and went to Bookoff at around 8:30 at night and it was closed. So I still haven't gotten to see that place, but I'm going to next time I'm in NY. In the mean time, it was fun to see this video. I'm looking even more forward to going there now.
Yeah unfortunately they close at 8pm. But that’s actually open late for a music store here in NYC. I was surprised they were open that late regularly. Definitely when you return, stop by and make sure to save a lot of time for going through it all.
@@BrendonSnyder I'm definitely going there.I'm going to have to bring someone with me to make sure i leave. It's a shame the record stores close early now. In the early to mid- 80's, many of them were open late as I recall and it was always fun to make a late night run to a record store.
Super!!
I know right! Love this place.
Man, you had that TESLA Greatest Hits CD at the end of the video on the pay no mind list. Made me sad you didn’t bring it home. ☹️☹️😂😂
Keep in mind I have a collection of over 11,000 CDs…so I already own most things including the Tesla Greatest Hist and their whole catalogue, plus most side projects.
Awesome..Wish it were close to me
I wish it was close to you too.
That place looks like it could be a CD goldmine! CD Warehouse in Arlington TX is the only real CD store near me that has the type of music i listen to (i have to order stuff online if i can’t make a trip to CD Warehouse)
Great video, Brendon!
Yeah it can provide endless hours of fun hunting for rare gems.
oooohh nice video!!!
Glad you liked it Lance!
Looks like a great place to get odds 'n ends/missing/grail titles. I was just in NYC last month but focused mainly on the Salvation Army stores looking for CD's (the one in Hell's Kitchen wore me out!). Will check it out next time!
- Red
That’s exactly it! Lots of lost gems to be found.
Good ole Bookoff. I remember the Bookoff and Hardoff stores from when I was stationed in Japan. In Japan however, it was difficult for me to find what I was looking for without help because all of the artist names and titles were in kanji. After some time I was able to recognize the kanji for bands like KISS and Alice Cooper etc. I loved living in Japan. The people, the culture are just wonderful.
I can image it must have been awesome having easy access to all of those Japanese import copies that we all love.
@@BrendonSnyder It was! One day, if COVID ever ends, we plan to take a vacation in Japan. Visit the old stomping grounds. They still have a Tower Records in Shibuya.
The store doesn't make sense often. They'll have a sealed new copy of a CD for $1.50 and , on the opposite shelf, a scratched, beat up copy for $10. Much of the stock will never sell at any price. But it's worth an occasional visit. The used records are also strangely priced. Most will be trashed, I think. They did away with categories like country and oldies recently and just put everybody in alphabetical order, although the jazz, classical, and Christmas music is separate. The used records were just moved recently to those shelves at the end of the video. They had been in boxes near the front of the CD aisle.
I noticed that as well but I think it has to do with when the CD came into the store. Some of these are worth more than they are marked and others are worth less. I do my homework before buying to know what the relative cost of something should be and if the album is still in print or not. It helps be decide if I want to buy an album or not.
@@BrendonSnyder they moved the LPs to very nice wood crates opposite the CDs but the top shelf is hard to look through.
Amazing video. Atleast someone values the compact discs and gets in deep catalog titles.
I was so surprised to find a place like this still existed! It was pure joy!
Wow, now that's my kind of place. Looks like decent prices too. I would be in there all the time. Only in New York City.
Well if you ever make a trip here now you know a place you have to visit.
Iam like ithis...video...thanks
My pleasure!
Great cd store, that Tears for Fears album is pretty expensive on ebay. Got a feeling I could have gotten it there for a bargain. If only I lived closer. Lol
Hi Steve, yeah just a few weeks back I ordered a copy of the Tears For Fears off eBay from Canada. Wish I knew there was a copy sitting right here in this store!
Hi Steve, yeah just a few weeks back I ordered a copy of the Tears For Fears off eBay from Canada. Wish I knew there was a copy sitting right here in this store!
Awesome place
I was in heaven!
@@BrendonSnyder I'm very jealous!!!
Also at the end, I see that the record section has been expanded. Are their prices still around $5? Cause I know a lot of them are priced about $1.50 at times.
I didn’t really pay attention to the prices. Sorry.
Love Bookoff - can spend hours just going thru the 1.50 CD's.
I spent about 3 hrs during my last visit!
Great video! Did you buy anything?
Yes, 6 CD’s that I will show in Wednesday’s New Music Finds episode.
What a store full of CDs!!! I'd go to town with a few of them!!! Where's it at?
It’s midtown Manhattan on 45th.
@@BrendonSnyder cool
That Bonham CD would have been a score for me. I had the cassette back in the and really liked it. I’ve never seen it on CD
It’s a great album! If I didn’t already own it, I would have bought it too.
Nice store. Wasnt this video up earlier?
It was listed as a premier but had not aired. There was a glitch in the upload so I took it down and reloaded it but didn’t set it as a premiere the 2nd time.
This name... This space... Seems familiar to me : we also have Book Off in Paris. You can find really good stuff at a really good price. And this particular store looks like paradise, doesn't it ?
I didn’t realize these stores were all over the place but someone else mentioned they’re in Japan too.
Man, I'd like to go there.
Come on down and I’ll give you and tour…
Did you buy that Rods CD? And were there any others?
Most of the CD’s I showed including The Rods I already owned. The 6 albums I did buy will be shown in Wednesday’s New Music Finds episode.
I wish there was a place like this in the UK; INSANE!!
I was pretty blown away myself
This is heaven.
It sure is!! 🤘
It’s funny as I see you looking through the rows and shelves of CD’s I think you’re house would look something like that if you put all your CD’s on shelves out of the boxes
My dream is to live in an old school CD store…so yeah 😂
What a cd shop .
My sentiments exactly!
The CD store is not mentioned in the website.
Maybe it’s a magical hidden place that only exists in my reality 🤷♂️😂
How much was that Badlands CD?!?!
I don’t recall. You’ll have to pause the video and zoom in.
i want the Lillian axe cd
It’s a great album!
if you had the room Brendon that is what your house would look like lol
That’s my dream!
Were is located. Big record store.
Midtown Manhattan on 45th Street.
@@BrendonSnyder cool. I’ll check it out I live in nyc
I finally got off of work
👍
Holy Cds.. Even the height of compact discs we never had a store with so many.. Unless its deceiving Sam Goodies and other mall stores didn't hold a candle
Back in the early 2000’s we had Virgin Records in Times Square that was 3 stores tall with miles and miles of CD’s. I really miss that place.
@@BrendonSnyder I bet..One of the perks of living in the big city
Where is this brother
I put that info in the description. It’s midtown Manhattan.
Almost cds are pre-owned
So awesome. CDs may not be the "IT" thing at the moment, like vinyl, but there is still a nice market for it. CD Player sales went through the roof in 20 and 2021. Cds wouldn't continue to be made by artist, if there wasn't an interest. Long live CDs!!
CD’s still outsell equivalent streaming sales. Vinyl makes more money but sells less physical copies than CD’s. So from all data, CD’s are still the dominate form of music. The industry just likes to make you think they are passé.
@@BrendonSnyderExactly Right!
you mean compact disc store ? wheres the records ?
No…I mean record store. First of all a record store is a generic term used the same as music store. Second, you didn’t watch the whole video or you would have seen vinyl at the end. But yes the uniqueness of this store over others is it’s large collection of CD’s so that was the focus.
Kinda expensive !
The more expensive ones are rare and out of print. There was a whole wall behind me of CD’s for $1.50.
Не встречался вам Кросби , Стилз, Нейшел анд Янг 1967 г без имён и фамилий название пластинки
Звукозапись ! Жду ответ . Проходящий альбом !
Just how in the hell are we supposed to understand this post?!?! WTF?
Weak without any narration or commentary.
There is an explanatory text in the video description. Also what more information do you need besides the front cover, the back cover and the cd price?
Michael , it’s a point of view first hand experience so that’s why there is no narration. Do you talk to yourself while shopping?
Why don't you go play your scratchy Lps while claiming a wonderful experience. Troll!
@@BrendonSnyder because you are making the video for our entertainment. It's not talking to yourself! Offer some commentary as you browse. 💡
Amazing selection of CDs at that store! Now I know why you have so many new big stacks of CDs each week 😁
This record store was a new find for me and my first visit. But I plan to hit it more often now that I know about it. Can’t believe I never heard of it before.