Parkdale Platters

Always walk away with some great punk gems and insightful music chat. Parkdale Platters is an excellent edition to the neighbourhood.

A new shop for vintage records has opened in Parkdale, with the clever title of Parkdale Platters.
I stopped in recently and am pretty indifferent to the experience, but mostly due to genre selection. I typically stick to golden era hip hop and classic funk or soul when it comes to my vinyl needs, and this store admittedly not aimed at that crowd, and is focused more on rock and roll, punk, and guitar led type sounds.
I literally dug through the entire places crates in about 20 minutes, and ended up with 1 hip hop twelve inch and about 4 or 5 various 45’s of varying genres including David Bowies Let’s Dance which was probably the score of the day. The redeeming factor of this lack of selection was that they were dirt cheap ($ 1-​$ 5 per record).
Despite being titled Parkdale Platters (plural), take note that there is only one actual turntable platter in the place, which is right up at the til and manned by the store worker. So there is no actual listening station that you can listed to and skip through the tracks on your own, which is kind of a deal breaker for me.
But I left with a few pieces of wax and hardly a dent in my wallet, so for those who are looking more along the rock genres of vinyl purchasing, it’s probably worth stopping in.