freebird records (2 Viewers)

[Diumraid]

diarmuid/hoovering,
well, we have 2nd hand broken up into A to Z, metal, punk, country, folk, trad, world, classical, rap/hiphop/r&b, reggae, dance, electronic.

and a new arrivals section in 2nd hand? wouldn't really work in SBR at least because tonnes of new stuff goes out every day. so the top 2/3 CDs on the shelf are new ones.
as far as I know we have a new arrivals 2nd hand shelf in cope st as there is less trunover there.

Yar, maybe you could have some kind of filter / two-tier system that puts the contemporary / high-profile / top-price stuff together and cheaper unknown quantities / reissues / specialist stuff etc together.. The A-Z really is too much for me in it's entirety.

Would love to see that vinyl store-room purge happen..

 

[Flux]

The A-Z really is too much for me in it's entirety.

Absolutely. Power of Dreams, Peter Gabriel, Simply Red, too much information

 

[jimbobjones]

Freebrid Records is the business! Brian is sound as a pound.
Freebird has been extremely supportive of local zines, as has City Discs. only for those two there would be nowhere to sell zines in Dublin basically.

 

[cesspooldublin]

vague suggestion I suppose but with Sentinel and Road closing now might be the time to sort your non-electronic/dance/hiphop vinyl sections out.As a kid back in the early/mid 90s, Freebird was the shop for hardcore/metal/obscure indie rock vinyl, there was an incredible selection particularly of smaller labels. I'm guessing that was more to do with whoever was working there at the time being into that kind of thing like.

Don't mean that in a bitchy way, just there's certain shops I reagard as specialists for certain genres, and Freebird I pretty much associate with hip/hop electronic stuff nowadays.I'd rarely go in the for anything other than that. And to be honest, yes, some (not all) of the prices for second hand vinyl I've seen in the Temple Bar shop have been beyond obnoxious , particularly when you had the big vinyl section upstairs.Were ye just pulling figures from thin air or what? There were in particular a bunch of old second handFall lps and thrash metal records that were stupidly over priced.

 

[lympog]

this might be silly.........


but would it be worthwhile to give promoters a shout with the idea of selling a certain artists'/label's material at a show in return for some sort of sponsorship?

 

[nlgbbbblth]

Are records priced using 'the book' (RRPG)?

"current mint values for every UK single worth over £5, EP over £8, CD single over £8, LP over £12 and CD over £18."

I have seen a number of records - that don't fit the above parameters but are UK pressings - priced above those rates. And not in mint condition either.

Not just in Freebird, but other places too.

2010 edition of the book is just out.

 

[GARYXKNIFEDX]

I'm stealing this phrase from someone else on another board
"Price to sell"
I reckon that's the most important thing in retail right now. Better off with 5 or 10euro in the till now than waiting for the off chance that someone will pay 20 or 30 sometime in the future.

 

[Wayne]

Is there any way to set up something like what they did in the UK? Or that indie record stores could link their stock on a central site, take a leaf from ABEbooks?

There's already a site that does that on an international scale.
http://www.gemm.com/

I've used it to find quite a lot of rare stuff at a fairly cheap price in the past and without having to wait for weeks/months for them to come in stock.
It's mostly from small shops worldwide.

 

[old]

Is Freebird in Temple Bar closing down?

 

[GARYXKNIFEDX]

Borderline is.

 

[HMD]

Is Freebird in Temple Bar closing down?

i heard that to. is it true?

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

Borderline is.

i heard he wasnt really,just put up signs to that effect to drum up business

 

[GARYXKNIFEDX]

i heard he wasnt really,just put up signs to that effect to drum up business

I wouldn't be surprised,but I heard from someone else he is closing.

 

[GARYXKNIFEDX]

Is Freebird in Temple Bar closing down?

If they do,no one else should ever open a record shop there again. It's cursed.

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

I wouldn't be surprised,but I heard from someone else he is closing.

fair enough,cant see him doing a lot of business really.never understood why record stores where freebird is now failed,i can only imagine the amount of people going by it every day is huge.

 

[Kermit McDermott]

Borderline is.

I was in there a while back. It was around the time Road was going to close, I was just talking to the guy behind the counter. He said then that they would be going the same way soon. He said teenagers just don't buy music anymore, not in record shops anyway. "Have a look" he said, it was a Saturday afternoon and the place was empty.

That guy with the baseball hat has been around a long time. I remember he had a shop in the abbey mall. I used to buy trash metal albums in there. It must be nearly 20 years ago.

 

[pete]

That guy with the baseball hat has been around a long time. I remember he had a shop in the abbey mall. I used to buy trash metal albums in there. It must be nearly 20 years ago.

Ah, Motley.

Razor Cuts in the Abbey Mall. Great days.

 

[evil bandit]

fair enough,cant see him doing a lot of business really.never understood why record stores where freebird is now failed,i can only imagine the amount of people going by it every day is huge.

It's mostly tourists and skater/emo folk who illegally download all their music!!

A mate of mine works in the central bank for about 8 years now and had no idea there was ever a record shop in there, he always assumed it was a clothes shop

 

[IFF]

fair enough,cant see him doing a lot of business really.never understood why record stores where freebird is now failed,i can only imagine the amount of people going by it every day is huge.

but then again, it is tough to find. a friend of mine was looking for a place to buy second hand books and i was trying to direct him the secret book shop which shares with freebird and he had no idea what i was on about.

it's kind of hidden away

 

[Jerry Twig]

That guy with the baseball hat has been around a long time. I remember he had a shop in the abbey mall. I used to buy trash metal albums in there. It must be nearly 20 years ago.

What was that called again, DLR or something?
Brilliant shop.