Roger Hecht expands the used-record store report:

>[...] really, if you're in New York looking for records, head south to
>the Princeton Record Exchange in Princeton.  You can do it by New Jersey
>Rail.  Takes about an hour. Its a big store with great selection and decent
>prices.

Strongest endorsement here for the Princeton Record Exchange; prices
are much better than anywhere in NYC, and the selection is very large.
L'Echange on Mont Royal in Montreal is also worth a visit, and the prices
are very low.  Moving well away from metropolitan centers in the east, a
visit to Berkshire Record Outlet can be productive, and I think they're
open "normal" hours during the Tanglewood season.  The store warehouse is
just south of Lee, Massachusetts, perhaps fifteen minutes' drive from
Tanglewood.  Their website:

   http://www.berkshirerecoutlet.com

By appointment only is Parnassus Records, a mailorder dealer physically
located between Woodstock and Saugerties, NY, just off state route 212.
The basement of Parnassus proprietor Les Gerber is chock full of CDs and
LPs, high-and-low-end both.  The Parnassus website:

   http://www.parnassusrecords.com

I have no connection with either firm, though I will be found to have a
production credit line on older Parnassus CD issues.

John Wiser
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