Westsider Records

Tested and working. 80s retro cool

Prototype bag.

We carry a lot of rock and jazz, among other kinds of music, at Westsider Records, but we did start life as a classical store two generations ago, and we still carry a lot of it. Back in 1955, a Canadian pianist named Glenn Gould (1932-1982) burst on the recording scene with a record of Bach's Goldberg Variations that has endured across nearly 70 years as one of the definitive documents of the work. Over the decades, it's been reissued in other formats, even in fake stereo (and Sony in Japan even did an audiophile CD issue of the fake stereo version about 20 years ago), and Gould closed out his career with a new recording of the work in 1979. Vinyl originals of the 1956 issue in very good condition still sell fast, and at healthy prices, but now Sony Classical has released an audiophile-quality 2024 LP edition of Gould's original Goldberg Variations, and we've got it.

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Prototype T. Yay or nay?

Westsider Records updated their business hours.

MC 2205. Plus a C39 preamplifier. A Christmas gift for you?

NEW ARRIVALS

New arrivals

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Fancy a listen? We’re open until 7pm tonight for all your auditory needs!

From the stacks

The Faces

New arrivals

It's a bright, cool Thursday morning in late June -- I've got Westsider Records open two hours early, just because I wanted to. A breeze is blowing through the shop, the sun is shining, and the Yardbirds (with Eric Clapton on lead guitar, natch) are playing a Bo Diddley song on the speakers.

Could there be a better place to be at this moment?

It was one year ago today that the record store and the bookstore reopened.

An article about the record store. https://www.landmarkwest.org/we-have-time-to-burn-lets-burn-it-listening-to-records/

We Have Time to Burn, Let’s Burn it Listening to Records - LANDMARK WEST By Claudie Benjamin Dorian Thornley is the owner of Westsider Books and Westsider Records with shops on 80th and Broadway (2246 Broadway) and at 233 West 72nd Street. Most of the records are for sale at the 72nd Street location where Bruce Eder has been Manager since 2012. Eder’s easy banter and j...