Spent a solid 4-5 hours in Spacehall when I visited Berlin, such an amazing selection of new stuff and old gems. Great vibes and tons of listening stations too, I had a massive stack to listen to and never felt like I was hogging the spot.
Theres a sick place in Budapest called Deep records, smallish store and pretty stand-off-ish hipstery dude behind the counter, but the selection was prime and the prices were fair.
Bm Soho was rad to check out, since I'm from the states and always have heard about it. Selection was not my style and there were a bunch of girls in there asking for tons of records to be pulled out and then not even putting them back in the sleeves when they were done listening, they also had no idea how to use a record player. Was pretty funny to see, albeit pretty disrespectful.
Chatted with the owner for a bit and he's a great guy though. We walked over to Sounds of the Universe afterwards, but there was a live set going on so we couldnt even get in the door
Next time!
Where I live in the states, the only really decent physical store is a larger place that caters more towards rock and rap and there are no listening stations. Really blew my mind to spend some quality time digging in the European shops and checking out records I would have never bought without hearing em first.
tl;dr Europe > U.S.A lol
