Saturday, August 14, 2010

RECORD STORE REVIEWS 1 OF 15


DAVID WHITE GALLERY
88 ABLE SMITH ST, TE ARO WELLINGTON
Ratings
Stock, numbers of records 6/10
Collectible rare stock in stop 5/10
Quality and pricing 6/10
Service 7/10
Knowledge 6/10
Overall feel of shop 6.5/10
Average 6/10
Located in the cool end of Wellington city, top of Cuba st just down the road from the next VC. David White gallery is not exactly a record store but any shop with over a few thousand records get in on the ratings list. David White gallery actually has well over 10000 records and its one of my locals. Unlike conventional record stores there is nothing like record booths to look through at a comfortable standing height. Everything there is on the floor with crates of records everywhere and piles sitting against crates and boxes of more records. there is no one area for records they are nestled around the shop in between books, tapes, plates, swords, masks, paintings, clothes and other retro goods. It may look like a tip to some people but the owner David knows where most of the stuff is and if you look properly there is a lot of really cool retro items in this store. The shop is very unique to Wellington and attracts lots of interesting by passers. OK back to the records. David gets regular piles coming in weekly. Some of the stuff can really good and some quite bad. I have bought 100s of records from this shop some very rare stuff specially collectible NZ music and original 60s NZ pressings. There seems to be a huge amount of David Bowie, Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan records. So really this place is a good place to get fillers, upgrades or doubles. Don't think you can go through all of his records in a day like a did when i first went there. It will take a couple of visits. My sort of place to dig for records in the three rooms with National radio lightly going. 6/10 Not bad ae

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