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Phil's Record Store Field Guide
An Explorer's Guide to the Record Stores I Love
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For nearly forty years I've been buying music—records, cassettes, CDs—from shops big and small, legendary and long-forgotten. This field guide is my way of mapping those places: the current neighborhood favorites, the vanished gems, and the online stores that keep the hunt alive.
Part directory, part diary, all crate-digging.
I'm Phil Plencner. I've been buying music since the '80s — records, cassettes, CDs — from shops big and small across forty years and too many cities to count. This field guide is my personal map: one collector's account of the stores he loves, the shops he misses, and the records he found there.
You might know me from Phil's Phriday Picks, Phil's Daily Needle Drop, or from behind the decks as DJ AudioPhil — usually downstairs from Stardust Records at Brewer's Cask in Baltimore.