I am heading out to Houston for week at the end of April for a training course at Texas A&M University, College Station and wondered if there are any record stores or flea markets worth visiting?

 

Thanks

D 

theres about 4-5 shops in town ,many have no soul stuff at all ,i did find 1 in central Houston that had boxes of $1 material ,and hopefully i sorted through it but it was all well scratched and rubbish ,and not even of a good vintage .

i would say Houston is not good for anything decent ,although there was a few reasonable LPs on the racks and fare prices..

i was dissapointed ,but really its 20 years too late 

 

i did find some decent CDs at ok prices though 

Edited March 4, 201312 yr by sceneman

you will miss the Skatalites playing at Mangos in Houston on March 17 !

I went to the big Austin record fair about 10 years ago Found only small items Then moved on to Houston were I found hardly anythin But you never no so good luck and keep us informed if you do find any biggies

found a couple of janette williams on back beat in austin for a few dollars each - nowt much else around in the shops there

Houston's a fun city but I never found jack shit there. Maybe I was having too much fun not looking properly but that never affected me elsewhere. Not a key city for me.

 

Wrong demographic over the last 40 years I wonder......?

 

I couldn't even stumble into any decent Backbeat or Sure Shot records which I thought was weird.......

 

Ian D

Pretty much the same for me....I did find a couple of copies of harder Duke stuff, but it was seriously hard work...but Im sure theyll be stuff there, just a case of doin ya home work, diggin deep n an element of luck...how about startin with the UNI Radio station...?

 

Best Russ

i was staying wi my cousins in Houston and they drove me round to all the records shops , and they were astonished and gob smacked that such places existed still ,and theyre in their 50s and were brought up in Houston .

as we walked round the shop they were wide eyed in amazement at the old vinyl records on the racks ,so long was it that they had seen and used them .