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Since a couple of other people have asked this about their cities, I figured I'd try. I think I have a decent handle on the stores, but there may be some that I haven't been to. I have been to:

Both Record Times

Car City Records

Dearborn Music (I've only been to Dearborn, not Canton)

Anything else I'm missing, especially stores that buy Punk / Independent records???

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Car City Records is amazing, I love that place.

There's melodies in memories.....on gratiot maybe? a lot of hip hop/dj stuff but if you do some digging you can find some good stuff.

my whole extended fam lives in Detroit, Car city is like a 10 minute walk from my grandma's house.

Yeah, that's my favorite too. They have the best selection of the music I listen to. It kind of sucks living in Motown. I do like some of that stuff, but most of the stores carry so much of that stuff and not enough from the past 20 years.

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1)stormy records in dearborn owned by windy and carl of the band windy and carl(very nice people) (found stuff like scared of chaka, get up kids, casket lottery)also, has lots of obscure stuff that I have never heard of plus lots of used classics.

2)flipside in clawson is decent

3) encore records in ann arbor (found my first copy of jew clarity on black vinyl used and also bleed american in the same trip) in other words you never know what kind of used gems you will run into. if you go to encore you need to know that the indie vinyl is in the very front to the right when you walk in, the 45s in the middle of the store under some used jazz records or something like that.

long live desirable discs(my favorite metro detroit area store, that went out of business like 4 or 5 years ago)

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1)stormy records in dearborn owned by windy and carl of the band windy and carl(very nice people) (found stuff like scared of chaka, get up kids, casket lottery)also, has lots of obscure stuff that I have never heard of plus lots of used classics.

2)flipside in clawson is decent

3) encore records in ann arbor (found my first copy of jew clarity on black vinyl used and also bleed american in the same trip) in other words you never know what kind of used gems you will run into. if you go to encore you need to know that the indie vinyl is in the very front to the right when you walk in, the 45s in the middle of the store under some used jazz records or something like that.

long live desirable discs(my favorite metro detroit area store, that went out of business like 4 or 5 years ago)

Sweet! I am planning on seeing Mustard Plug at the Blind Pig next month. I'll be checking out Encore then and possibly stormy tomorrow.

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