Poor choices for record store names

[slide_advantage_redoux]

Used LP store in Munich:

"the vinyl solution"

[romualdo]

I know this is a bit off the topic (but not too distant)

I remember a hairdresser here in Brisbane in the 70's called "HAIR-OSHIMA"

Their logo was a woman's head with an atomic mushroom cloud emerging from the top of it!!

Won the weekly "Golden Galah" award in our University mag

[BillF]

Sorry if I get off topic, but I wasn't taken by these store names I saw in Paris in the 70s:

Selling sports shoes: ATHLETE'S FOOT

Dry cleaning: STOP PRESSING

[Big Beat Steve]

No matter how (dis)tasteful these names are, they invariably do achieve one major goal of any self-respecting publicity action: They get TALKED ABOUT and stick in one's (customer's?) mind. Mission accomplished.

[BillF]

No matter how (dis)tasteful these names are, they invariably do achieve one major goal of any self-respecting publicity action: They get TALKED ABOUT and stick in one's (customer's?) mind. Mission accomplished.

Yeah, but I don't think it was a "mission" - just a desire to use English without sufficient knowledge of the language.

For apostrophe freaks, I'll just mention that there was an Italian brand of jeans at the time called JEAN'S WEST.

[Eric]

I always found this one a bit curious: Electric Fetus

http://www.electricfetus.com/Home

[mikeweil]

Used LP store in Munich:

"the vinyl solution"

Sounds like an ad for a new brand of condoms for people with allergic reactions to latex.

[mikelz777]

I always found this one a bit curious: Electric Fetus

http://www.electricfetus.com/Home

The Electric Fetus was born in 1968 so it's a name that is reflective of its time. I've been to 2 of their 3 locations and they are pretty cool stores.

Edited June 22, 2012 by mikelz777

[WD45]

There is the other storied Minneapolis store, Treehouse Records, which was formerly known as "Oar Folkjokeopus." For reals.

Love the Electric Fetus, which we all refer to simply as "The 'Fetus". For better or worse. More worse, methinks.

[Rooster_Ties]

Well, as long as we're on the subject of store names (or brand names) that raise the eyebrows...

...there's always "fcuk" (link goes to Wikipedia article on the history of the brand name), which I found more interesting than I'd expected to.

[romualdo]

There is the other storied Minneapolis store, Treehouse Records, which was formerly known as "Oar Folkjokeopus." For reals.

Love the Electric Fetus, which we all refer to simply as "The 'Fetus". For better or worse. More worse, methinks.

"Folkjokeopus" - That's the title of a Roy Harper LP (1969) - probably took the name from the record

Edited June 22, 2012 by romualdo

[A Lark Ascending]

Our Price

A long extinct UK chain. The name is actually neutral but implies an advantage to customers. They were generally more expensive than the competition.

Still 'our price', I suppose.

Edited June 22, 2012 by A Lark Ascending

[Big Beat Steve]

I always found this one a bit curious: Electric Fetus

http://www.electricfetus.com/Home

The Electric Fetus was born in 1968 so it's a name that is reflective of its time. I've been to 2 of their 3 locations and they are pretty cool stores.

Speaking of signs of their times, I suppose it is not hard to see where the (stylistic) origins of the SICK WRECKORDS store in Frankfurt (Germany) lie either ...

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

There's a shop in Windhoek, Namibia, called 'American Imports'. But they have no American imports. WHole lot of South African imports, though

In Paris, there is, or was a few years ago, a record shop, with its own record label of the same name, called TAT Audio Visual! African stuff, of course.

Another record shop in Paris was Drame Afrique Tissus - partly a cloth merchant.

MG

[Big Beat Steve]

Used LP store in Munich:

"the vinyl solution"

BTW; no need to go oversas for you:

There are more of the same:

http://www.vinylsolutionrecords.com/

and there seems to have been another one in London at one time:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinyl_Solution

Edited June 22, 2012 by Big Beat Steve

[clifford_thornton]

There was/is a seller on eBay going under the name "jazzanese" which I thought was hilarious.

[Eric]

I always found this one a bit curious: Electric Fetus

http://www.electricfetus.com/Home

The Electric Fetus was born in 1968 so it's a name that is reflective of its time. I've been to 2 of their 3 locations and they are pretty cool stores.

I stopped by one of the Minneapolis stores maybe 15 years ago. Figured the name was a function of the era ... and yeah, cool place.

[slide_advantage_redoux]

I always thought a good name for a second hand Indian wear shop would be

Who's Sari Now?

[Chuck Nessa]

Vinyl Solution was the name of a wonderful store in Grand Rapids, MI a few years ago.

The remnants of that experience live on at Vertigo.

[paul secor]

Manhattan had Finyl Vinyl back in the day. True to their name, they went out of business.