Let's Take A Walk Inside Dusty Groove, Shall We?

[JSngry]

https://www.google.com/maps?q=Dusty+Groove&layer=c&panoid=00BGJGFlTJoAAAQIt757mA&cbp=13,241.1013524531692,,0,0

[John L]

The bastards covered their faces!

[xybert]

That's really cool. Much smaller than i pictured it.

[sidewinder]

I see there's a Mosaic box up on the wall !

[David Ayers]

So Dusty Groove is in America! Helpful reminder to absorbed customers what country they are in when they raise their eyes from the racks.

[erwbol]

Why does everyone keep calling them bastards?

[sonnymax]

Why does everyone keep calling them bastards?

IIRC, it is a term of endearment earned by the fact that DG has been one of the few online sellers where jazz fans like us can find import titles, cut-outs, or new releases at fairly reasonable prices with good customer service. Hence, "Dusty has a bunch of the new CDs I want. There goes my paycheck, the bastards."

[Scott Dolan]

That's really cool. Much smaller than i pictured it.

You think? Looks like a pretty good size record store, IMO (did you look at it from the back?). Nice to know at least one still exists...

Edited March 13, 2014 by Scott Dolan

[Eric]

With Chicago only being a short flight from KC, I've the pleasure of stopping by a number of times over the years. It is on the smallish side, but not small. Certainly it would be dwarfed by say Amoeba in SF. Well-organized and of course it is a blast to see all the stuff they carry on their web site in person.

[Eric]

Why does everyone keep calling them bastards?

IIRC, it is a term of endearment earned by the fact that DG has been one of the few online sellers where jazz fans like us can find import titles, cut-outs, or new releases at fairly reasonable prices with good customer service. Hence, "Dusty has a bunch of the new CDs I want. There goes my paycheck, the bastards."

Very much a term of endearment. It is also appropriate the include the "TM" symbol as used in this thread:

[tomatamot]

https://www.google.com/maps?q=Dusty+Groove&layer=c&panoid=00BGJGFlTJoAAAQIt757mA&cbp=13,241.1013524531692,,0,0

Thank you very much for this link!!!

Good to see it`s a decent shop. Chapeau!

I get every week their news letter and certainly i`m a repeated buyer.

[king ubu]

But how did the google car fit in there? And are these the final pictures taken by a camera in front if the car, whilst in back, it tore down everything?

Seriously, looks like a good place to check out ... wonder if I deserve the bastardly honour of being their best swiss customer?

[medjuck]

Wow! Very neat and clean.

[Kevin Bresnahan]

I went there quite a few times in the 90's and it's looks very different. Also, there used to be an archway about halfway down the wall that led to the LP section, which was another room by itself.

Of course, I could be remembering it all wrong too.

[peterintoronto]

Every package I get from Dusty Groove is postmarked from Sweden. Even parcels including used cds. Does anyone know why that is?

Edited March 13, 2014 by peterintoronto

[Scott Dolan]

With Chicago only being a short flight from KC, I've the pleasure of stopping by a number of times over the years. It is on the smallish side, but not small. Certainly it would be dwarfed by say Amoeba in SF. Well-organized and of course it is a blast to see all the stuff they carry on their web site in person.

For some bizarre reason I always thought Dusty Groove was in NYC. I must have been mixing it up with DTMG.

We go to Chicago about once a year (7 hour drive from Jefferson City), and I have never been in there. I'll have to pay a visit next time we're in town.

Edited March 13, 2014 by Scott Dolan

[JSngry]

I've never been to Dusty Groove, but my daughter has. We Skype-shopped. Did the same thing with her from, what's it called, Books-A-Lot(?) in L.A. last week. Hardly a substitute for the real thing, but as a fun novelty, hey.

[mjazzg]

Looks a fine place, the sort of shop I wish we still had in London. I hope they get more customers in there at other times of the day - maybe they all dived out as the Google car came in

[sidewinder]

Looks a fine place, the sort of shop I wish we still had in London. I hope they get more customers in there at other times of the day - maybe they all dived out as the Google car came in

'Rays' before they shifted it upstairs is probably the nearest equivalent I guess. Second your sentiment - it is criminal that a city the size and importance of London doesn't have such a specialist emporium these days.

Edited March 13, 2014 by sidewinder

[mjazzg]

Looks a fine place, the sort of shop I wish we still had in London. I hope they get more customers in there at other times of the day - maybe they all dived out as the Google car came in

'Rays' before they shifted it upstairs is probably the nearest equivalent I guess. Second your sentiment - it is criminal that a city the size and importance of London doesn't have such a specialist emporium these days.

I guess if you combined 'Rays' with 'Sounds of the Universe' and 'Honest Jons' moved them to a modern, pleasant, airy, bright site then it might be close enough

[sidewinder]

'Sounds of the Universe'? - Don't know that one. Any good?

I like JSngry's suggestion - look forward to the day when we can rent a droid by the hour as a surrogate anywhere on the planet to go digging the second hand LP racks for us and beam back pictures of any findings pending a 'buy' command from home base. May well turn into robot wars in some stores though..

Edited March 13, 2014 by sidewinder

[Scott Dolan]

I've never been to Dusty Groove, but my daughter has. We Skype-shopped. Did the same thing with her from, what's it called, Books-A-Lot(?) in L.A. last week. Hardly a substitute for the real thing, but as a fun novelty, hey.

Books-A-Million?

We had those in Florida.

[Leeway]

I suspect they make a lot more from their mail order/online business than they do from their shop. I was only in their ship once, some time ago. Looks different than the picture but can't place exactly why. It was a nice shop, but I thought there were better ones in Chicago for digging O/P LPs. But their mail order business is incredibly effective.

[JSngry]

I've never been to Dusty Groove, but my daughter has. We Skype-shopped. Did the same thing with her from, what's it called, Books-A-Lot(?) in L.A. last week. Hardly a substitute for the real thing, but as a fun novelty, hey.

Books-A-Million?

We had those in Florida.

No, we got Books-A-Million here too...when she first told me about it, I though it was the same thing too.

Just called her, and the place is call BookOff, actually. It's a Japan-based company, and in L.A. they have "Japanese" stores and "American" stores, with inventory targeted accordingly. She and her BF go to both, but they favor the "Japanese" store, because they're into J-Pop & Anime & Manga, and all that. The CD selection that I could see over Skype was not really exciting, but they did have Jaki Byard's Blues For Smoke for five bucks, so what the hell, family time, etc.

[BeBop]

I visit twice a year, more out of tradition than any real shopping desire.The on-line store has a much larger selection, though I don't know where "the rest" is stored. The location pictured is the third (?) I think I remember. Like Jazz Record Mart, they've moved a couple of times within my shopping days (back to the 70s in Chicago, though Dusty Groove doesn't go back that far.) It's definitely on the "clean and well-organized" end of the record store spectrum.