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Can anyone recommend some good record shops in Paris?

Also i ll be seeing Nick Cave with his badass seeds next week at the Zenith, is it a very big venue?
do i get there easily by subway?

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Niko what is the address of the venue ?
Let me see if Laurent organize anything at Paris next days.... and write down in here :D
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Porte de Pantin M5 line of metro :D
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And the plan of the venue to find your places

http://www.zenith-paris.com/pages/infos ... ement.html

Seems big enough... ;D
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If you are today in Paris, VNV Nation play at a very pretty venue at 20:00 in Montmartre (Divan du Monde) :innocent:

Vinyl Shops
http://crocodisc.com/English/english.html

and a list have a look on comments (some people post missing shops) too


http://www.timeout.com/paris/en/shopping/music-shops
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The Sisters played Le Zenith in 2006. Quite big place and extremely nice located in the parc of La Vilette!
I believe the venue has a capacity of 6 or 7000. There were 4 or 5000 at the Sisters' gig :wink:
Oh, expect your beers to be very expensive. Wine is usually cheaper over there.

And recordshops in Paris are quite hard to find, but there must be some...
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Arriving from the airports the best way is taking the RER until gare du nord and changing to the motro
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Yep, going to GdN and then changing to Metro there is the best and a cheap way to get into the city. I haven't been to Paris in the last 2 years but when I was there last time, I can't remember having seen ANY record shop in the inner city :|
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Just for clarification: Re record shops, I mean shops selling a decent number of vinyl records. However, there used to be Crocodisc in the Rue des Ecoles and that not that far from the city centre...
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I've always been a FNAC fan myself - there's still one on the Champs Élysées - but this Time Out list seems comprehensive if it's vinyl you're after http://www.timeout.fr/paris/shopping/vinyl-disquaires.
Le Zenith is not too far from Pere Lachaise so you could also make a pilgrimage to Jim Morrison's grave if you've got time to kill.
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Nikolas Vitus Lagartija wrote:I've always been a FNAC fan myself - there's still one on the Champs Élysées - but this Time Out list seems comprehensive if it's vinyl you're after http://www.timeout.fr/paris/shopping/vinyl-disquaires.
Le Zenith is not too far from Pere Lachaise so you could also make a pilgrimage to Jim Morrison's grave if you've got time to kill.
Wow, that's a nice list of record shops in Paris. :notworthy:
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I like the fact that in one of the shop photos there's a close-up of an album by the real Von - Von LMO ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_LMO for the uninitiated). That's seriously obscure !
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Nikolas Vitus Lagartija wrote:I've always been a FNAC fan myself - there's still one on the Champs Élysées - but this Time Out list seems comprehensive if it's vinyl you're after http://www.timeout.fr/paris/shopping/vinyl-disquaires.
Le Zenith is not too far from Pere Lachaise so you could also make a pilgrimage to Jim Morrison's grave if you've got time to kill.
That is a very very nice list indeed :notworthy:
I am thinking of going soon with such list in hands ;D
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Wow, thank you eveyone for your help!!

This will make things a lot easier

Yeap! i m not looking for Fnac but a good old fashion record shop with second hand vinyl.

@ jesus : i had to choose either Nick Cave or Vnv nation so Cave was the obvious choice since i haven't seen him live since 1989 ,though vnv nation's new album is just awesome but i did see them live 5 times already.
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