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Aron's Records - CLOSED
Category: Shopping Books, Mags, Music and Video Music & DVDs Music & DVDs [Edit]
1150 N. Highland Ave.Los Angeles, CA 90038
Neighborhood: Hollywood
- Price Range:
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$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
3 reviews for Aron's Records
3 reviews in English
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Review from Todd L.
Los Angeles, CA
1/30/2012
r.i.p.
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Review from terry h.
San Jose, CA
8/12/2008
This is used to be such a great record store. It was hot, hot, hot with every possible album available and lots of rare Beatles type stuff on the walls for sale. I bought a lot here and made trips it seems like once a week from college to go through the stacks. Bought a rare French Pink Floyd "The Wall." here that I still remember.
Alas, when it was on Melrose it was crowded but then the entire street went hip and drove these guys away into obscurity. They soon died a quick death due to rising rents and had to move. Amoeba took over quickly and Aron's is now dead and a memory.
Too bad. It was a great age for vinyl. Excited and new every week. Now gone forever. -
Review from J-rodd D.
Fountain Valley, CA
12/22/2008
this is a tribute to Aron's Records....
it has been closed down for a while, but I thought about how going here to spend my money was the most important expense in my life....
I thought of how many bills I skipped on paying just so that I could violently abuse my account by drowning in the sea of used records they had here....
I honestly don't know why the first reviewer gave this store 2 stars...he's trippin....
first of all, its not Aron's fault that the rent went up....
its not Aron's fault that Amoeba opened up down the street and snagged customers away....
its not Aron's fault that itunes, shared mp3s and the playlist generation of hipsters and music-hording douchebags made it impossible for them to compete in a market where easily accessible music on the internet reigned supreme....
its not Arons fault that the hipster movement was in its infant stages and buying vinyl wasn't the 'cool thing to do' just yet....
seriously....you f*ckin hipsters would have dug it....
I wouldn't have minded lookin for records with y'all in this store cuz it was big...
you would've been on the other side checkin' out the new Interpol or Kaiser Chiefs record while I was in the used section....
now I have to rub elbows with y'all at Turntable Lab...
Aron's was the O.G. before Amoeba rolled into town...
don't get me wrong, I love Amoeba...
but right now, its not about Amoeba, its time for Aron's to shine....
parking wasn't the best...but it was a pretty accessible spot by LA standards...
the used vinyl section was ridiculous....
not the biggest I've ever seen, but def good-sized and organized...
I ALWAYS found some treasures over here...
me and the homie bradowski would make 'Arons runs' like frat boys would make keg runs....
'what you gettin into right now?...nothin?....lets go to Aron's, fool!!!!...'
ALWAYS found something in the used hiphop section...full-length LPs....12 inch singles....
ALWAYS found must-haves in the jazz section....Blue Note, Verve, CTI, etc.....all the usual suspects were in there....
ALWAYS found shit that I would see at Amoeba at Aron's for a cheaper price....
ALWAYS found dope underground hiphop, eclectic, funky, soulful CDs...both new and used....at reasonable prices....
ALWAYS posted up at the listening station to listen to some of the funky 45s that I would be curious about...
ALWAYS found a few last minute records for a set I might be doing that same night....
(I saw the homie J-Rocc of the World Famous Beat Junkies grab some last minute records there for his set at Funky Sole that night..........homie was actually rippin through the plastic and playin' some of that brand new vinyl while spinning....)
I want to thank all the Arons employees for not being the usual d-bag know-it-all-music-heads(don't get me wrong they knew their sh!t)...including the big homie with the bushy beard that checked your bags before you left....
I want to thank Arons for being a place that I could spend 3 hours in very easily without batting an eye....(also, spending $300 in without batting an eye)
I def want to thank Arons for being responsible for a good chunk of my record collection....
it quickly became my favorite record store to visit when I started DJing...
and it was def one of the saddest days of my life when they closed up shop for good.....(the huge 60% off sale the weeks that preceded were def bittersweet)
fuck digital music and file sharing....
fuck the 'playlist' generation....
y'all mu'fuckas missed out....big time....
