Visiting the new AMOEBA RECORD STORE in HOLLYWOOD
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- čas přidán 26. 11. 2021
- I make a trip to the big city of LA to visit the new Amoeba Record Store in Hollywood. I check out their selection and pick up a few records myself. I check out some of my favorite artist.
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Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! I am extremely thankful for all of you and love sharing records with you.
My thanksgiving was filled with Hockey. I went to a Highschool game on Friday, Saturday I went to another my school had 2 home games and I stayed for the alumni game.that's my thanksgiving.
@@marksantucci4230 sounds fun and exhausting!
@@MonieMuse Fun.
I can fully relate to your feeling of being overwhelmed in a large record store. This happened to me every time I went to Sonic Boom (in Toronto, Canada, where I'm from) and I found my mind utterly BLANKED from the sheer amount they have. It didn't matter whether I had a mental list or an actual list either, they just have so much that I found it impossible to stick to a list. However, surrendering and browsing without any specifics in mind was also a lot of fun and I came away from my trips there with loads of records I wanted in my collection.
Haha exactly what happened!!!
Congratulations Monie!!! So happy for you and the family!
Thanks for taking us with you to Amoeba. I went to their old store back in June 2015 for my US trip.
Hollywood Blvd brought me so many good memories.
Nice to see you go for a fun dig and browse through their new store.
Explosions in the Sky! Such a great band! You should check out Mogwai not sure if you heard of them quite similar. And also another similar band from Sydney Australia sleepmakeswaves.
Enjoy your music!
Congrats once again!
Yes, sleepmakeswaves!! I found them years ago and love their stuff too.
How cool you had a change to see the old store. It was pretty awesome getting out, thank you for your wishes! Happy to add another baby to the family.
Love Among My Swan. It’s Mazzy Star’s masterpiece. Great choice.
That Mazzy Star album is amazing.
Yes it’s one of my favorites! 🥰
Congrats on new baby boy!!! Exciting to see your video "traveling to LA! hope you enjoy the things you did purchase *
Thank you tia!!! Yeah had fun getting out with my friends. I’m so blessed to have a husband who stayed home w the kids lol
First things: Congratulations on #3!!!!
Thank you for making this video! I’ve been curious about what the store looks like but never really saw a proper video tour until now! But yeah I agree that the new vinyl prices for are getting a little steep now. Hopefully they’ll come down a smidge at some point haha
Thank you 😁 what a compliment! Glad I was able to show a little what looks inside. I use to feel like an imposter at amoeba, just intimidated but this time I felt like I was in my environment haha I know my way around a record store now 😆 yeah the record bubble might bust. Next trip I’m gonna focus on cds.
Congrats on baby 👶 #3.🍾🍾
Awesome Video. I love Amoeba 🦠!!
Thank you! 😄
Oh my gosh, this store is full of everything I ever wanted but couldn’t afford 😂
WOOWOO!!!🥳👐👏👍😎🤸♂️🤸♂️🤸♂️CONGRATULATIONS, another ELVIS in the world! He is going to be so spoiled by your husband!...... The record store reminds me of ours in the 70s trough the early 2000s, called Record Theatre. Huge place and had the first coffee bar you could hang out and play your music you bought or they had as demos. I practically lived there. I don't know any of your purchases but I know they will sound awesome on your system. Take care you two.
Thank you! 🥰 I dreamt of a place like that, a record store, coffee shop and a place to listen to records, I’m so happy to learned a place like that once existed.
I’m actually surprise a lot of other subscribers have never heard of the records I’ve got. I gotta go in to details about them at some point 😁 thank you again for the Christmas album. I’m working on a new Christmas collection update 😉
@@MonieMuse
No problem. I'm trying to spread Elvis cheer. You would dig that store, it was across from Canisius College,so alot of hippies hung out. They knew me as "The Hippie with a job". Which was rare back then. They always asked for loose change which I had, for the girls only😉
Looking forward to your xmas additions. Thanks.
Very awesomeness. An amazing store.
Yes so much to look at! Next time I gotta spend more time in the used record section.
Congratulations, Monie! Great video, and I feel the same way about buying vinyl lately. I think 2022 I'm going to try really cutting back on my Vinyl spending in general, and budget more...knock on wood...!
Thank you Bennie! Yes prices of everything have gone up and unfortunately our beloved records have gotten hit, even used records. I’m thankful I started when I did, cause I couldn’t afford what I own now 🤣
@@MonieMuse Here, here, I'm glad I started collecting when I did, too 😄!!!
explosion in the sky ❤️😍🇵🇭
As always enjoyed your stroll in the record store. I do a majority of thrift store record shopping. But they seem to be raising their prices too. Who knows how far this goes. Congratulations on you upcoming new arrival. God bless
Thank you tony! I’m kinda glad I’m not the only one having to go on a tighter budget with records. It’s fun when you can find an awesome record for a low price! Now I’m feeling kinda cheated lol taking advantage of! Lol I think I gotta start looking at those unorganized privately owned thrift stores.
Man I'm from new york but when I went to cali this store like is one of the best record stores ever so nice and they have alot of good cds
Yes it’s a must stop for music lovers! I can spend hours here. Next time I gotta check out the used section
Aloha Monica
Thank you for an Awesome Video. Don't recall of hearing anyone of those bands, except for Mazzy Star. Looking forward to a review on sound Quality on the record album's you purchase today. Mahalo Ed
Great idea on comparing sound quality! I now own some of my favorites on vinyl and cd. I’ve been wondering if it’s worth collecting what I own on cd on vinyl too. What do you do?
I love their 4k movie section. Nice video
i gotta check it out next time!
Congrats on the new baby! It's hard to keep up with all the new records and they are pretty expensive and that's coming from an old single cat dad. I can't imagine trying to keep up with this hobby when your growing your family. I can't say I know any of the bands or artists that you picked up this go round, but they look interesting. I would like to have that new Springsteen and the E Street band, but, even on CD, it's kind of pricey. Hope your having a Happy Thanksgiving!
Thank you! Yes life is getting busy with more children lol but means I need my time away with my records to recharge 😄. Most of the records I picked up are from my early 20s. It’s been hard to back track the music I love. I’m actually not too familiar with music released this year, haven’t really heard of anything that caught my attention.
I’ll be here tomorrow !!! Flying in from Tokyo!!!
How fun!!
Love the weather there. Its snowing here. LOL
I like that Missy gets me on the Adele love. I love the way you said Khraungbin. Im officially calling them cocoban now. So cute. Mazzy star. Love your taste.
If $37 is pricey to you...dont ever come here. You would HATE the prices at the record stores here. Damn, I MISS the parking inside the place. That sucks.
No snow lol ever. Missy loves big vocals, I’m more of the “I’m too shy to sing” Kinda voice lol I almost moved to Canada! Vancouver. Yeah my heart breaks at high prices because I’m “stay at home mom poor” .
first & foremost congrats to yall on the new addition coming soon….
great vid. i cant wait to visit the new shop. i spend most of my time in the clearance section when im in amoeba. usually find some good stuff cheap. and i agree new vinyl is getting out of hand. $40 for album. remember how much we all complained back in day cause new CDs were almost $20. Now people dont think twice about dropping $40 for vinyl.
Thank you! 🥰 lol yes I couldn’t afford cds back then, I would rely on my friends mix cds. Yeah when I started collecting records they were $20! My taste is about to get super picky. Or maybe I’ll go back to only getting old records. I’m starting to only look out for cds. I just love physical formate and owning my music.
@@MonieMuse yeh i've tried to ease up on vinyl purchases too. just too expensive whereas CDs you can find pretty cheap. I'm with you though I love physical media.
love your kind of record list
thank you :)
Would be really intersting to visit some day there. Or somewhere else in that huge store.
That Moby's Reprise was quite nice.
Good luck with the boy, I hope everytyhing goes well.
mr. Finglish (Bäd English Recs)
Thank you! Yeah probably the largest record store I’ve been too. I think next visit I’ll buy more cds. They had a ton! Thank you bad English, Having a son is going to be a whole new adventure 😄
It’s good to go in those kind of places with a list,instead of being sucked into everything they have.👍♥️
Yeah! My mind went blank when I walked in
I’m looking to go there this month! I’m hoping I can find a good parking spot lol. Do they have a movie section specifically blu-rays & 4K blu rays?
We parked around the corner and put money in a meter, they do have a parking lot they recommended, it might say on their website which one to use. I wanna say their dvd section was small, I didn’t get a chance to look, we only had an hour.
Mazzy Star👍great taste.
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Hi Monie - Nice Mazzy 🌟 pick up ! Flowers In December is my favorite song on that album. You can probably get that Cure at 🎯 for 5-10 dollars less. If you are in the San Fernando Valley stop at Freakbeat Records which my old boss Bob Say owns. It's a cool shop 😎. Congratulations on baby # 3 - What a nice early Christmas 🎄 gift 👍
Thank you David! Yes flowers in December is so beautiful! I like listening to it when it gets cold and it’s time to be cozy. Oh, one day I’ll have to visit that record store. Did you once work there? Hope you had a great thanksgiving!
@@MonieMuse Thanks - I had a good turkey day 😋. I managed The Moby Disc ( A 🐋 Of A Record Store) in Santa Monica that Bob owned. This was in the 90's. 👋
@@davidellis5141 that’s how you know so much about music! 😄❤️
My issue with the large stores is that they are overwhelming. I never know where to start. You really need to have a list of specific albums overwise you can wander for days. Some nice pick ups and yes record prices are getting high and it will have people dropping out of buying records
Yes good idea! Totally needed a list of what I wanted, haha! Yeah i gotta get super picky now 😁
Man only if I could go back to cali cause it was so nice in la
Yeah it’s nice here but you gotta work around the homeless community when parking or walking around
Congrats Monica! 👶
Thank you mr. x! 😁
You and your videos nice and fresh! Hope to see you in Greece, someday!
thank you! Any record stores in Greece?
@@MonieMuse Yes, of course!
Congratulations on your new baby
Thank you Shaun! I’ve been enjoying your channel by the way! Keep going at it
@@MonieMuse I wonder if new baby will have a music based name, Harmony or Chorus
Congrats on your baby boy! I had two boys before my daughter and then I was done.
Oh how beautiful! Daughters are the best and now I’m nervous about a boy. Lol I say I’m done but I love adding members to my family lol
Amoeba is amazing 🤩 They’re decent with the pricing for vinyl records but they’re still too expensive so that’s why I’m collecting CD’s now and they are much more cheaper.
$100 for ten CD albums vs $100 for three vinyl LP’s.
do you have any special places where youre buying cds? Im finding it hard to find them on ebay where i use to be able to find anything.
@@MonieMuse Check out Rockaway Records that’s by Glendale or Fingerprints Records in Long Beach. :)
But other than that, I feel like not a lot of places carry a lot of CD’s and times like this, I wish Tower Records was still around.
I want to go there so bad!! One day
you should!
Looks nice
It was Heaven on earth 🤣
Where was Cameron? Lol. He called to invite me that morning and I almost went
Lol we all gotta do a record listening party
Hola!!! Do you hear about the band call los jaivas.?? .. Its a Prog band from chile... The Best sound of sud América!!!... Alturas de machu picchu is his másterpiece...easily top 10 Prog álbums of all time!!!
Never heard of them, listening to a song of their now and they sound interesting.
@@MonieMuse... His Best álbums are
El. Indio (1975)
Las alturas de machu picchu (1981)
Obras de violeta parra (1984)
The Best mixture of rock, Prog an folk from latinoamerica.. 10/10
Greetings from chile.. I love music.. Just like you!!!
Pungent Stench Been Caught Buttering new vinyl?
How far is this store from Rodeo drive, from the Wiskey , Paramount studios, Universal , Warner Bros ect how far from Culver city is the record store?
I see Beatles, Chicago ,
Texas Sun , explosion in the sky , Mazy star , how many stars for those albums out of 5? nicer a lot nicer than amazon?
In California we measure distance by how long it takes to get there, so Amoeba Record store on Hollywood blvd is about 30mins away from all those places, on a bad day 45m. In reality it’s probably only like 10 miles haha the Studios are usually in Burbank.
They have awesome book stores full of books about film making, I haven’t checked out if they have any record stores.
So the albums I bought are all my taste in music, so I give them all 5s! But my husband played Texas Sun and he didn’t like them. So you be the judge lol
@@MonieMuse I believe Culver city is where the game shows are like Wheel and Jeporady is ?
Parking is under Amoeba😳 I prefer the old Amoeba. Too many new records and not enough used LPs. Their CD collection is good👍👍
Oh yes totally agree, the old store was way better. They had a ton of used stuff and very unique records too.
@@MonieMuse - have you visited The Record Safari?
@@VintageLuxmanStereoCollector I haven’t! I gotta look it up and see where they are ☺️
I thought you was gonna show us round the store,not boring new vinyl.
1. I like boring new vinyl 😂
2. I think you’re on to something, did you ever visit the old location? It was massive with lots of sections of the store to visit.
The new store doesn’t seem as big although the store says it is lol. The USED rock section was small, they had a little spot for jazz, I didn’t see all those different genres they use to have. The store is more one big room.. I think the store is mainly new vinyl now.
I can be wrong and missed a part of the store but that’s why I was at the new vinyl cause I think that’s where they want the customers at.
Oh my you are adorable 🥰 do you have Instagram?
thank you! @ moniemuse on insta
@@MonieMuse you’re welcome okay I’ll follow I’m Justinengine313 and Justinpoetry13 😊