Needles & Grooves

Yes, did something give you the idea they're not? Their customer service is really good, they sell a wide range of hardware, have constant 10% off vinyl (often bumping to 15-20%). They are also sister companies with MOFI (so it is easy to get MOFI releases through them), which is a stamp of sorts. YMMV

Oh yeah. Despite their very generic-sounding name, they're actually the company that owns Mobile Fidelity. Based in Chicago.

@TheMythOfSisyphus they had a record in stock that I had been having a tough time finding elsewhere. I've also been a little more paranoid because I've found this record on other scam shopify websites. Just trying to be sure

Worst case - their CS is very good and so is their return policy.

@TheMythOfSisyphus good to know. Thanks for the help!

They're one of my go-tos for stuff out of stock elsewhere - a lot of times they do have stuff left after others sell out. One thing to watch is that they continue to list (and take orders on) "awaiting repress" stuff, which never may get repressed. So, sometimes it looks like they have something but really don't.

@D Jilla I checked and the record I just bought from them was listed was as "Out of Stock: Usually leaves our warehouse in 3 - 7 business days" and they confirmed with me that the record will be ready to ship in 3-7 days, so I got it

Nice!

@D Jilla Acoustic Sounds does the same thing. You can still backorder albums that are def OOP. MD had copies of the Analogue Productions Hendrix "ABAL" long after they were though extinct. And, def a great selection of MOFI (even stuff that the MOFI site is listing out of stock).

Yep, I have to watch myself on both of those sites because of that

What record was it? As others have said, I've ordered from them in the past and had nothing but good things to say about the.

They are someway involved with mofi I believe as it is who is sending me my replacement disc for my ultra disk one step order placed through mfsl.

@MikeH it was slipknot’s self titled. It’s kind of silly cause this normally was a widely available record but the price just shot up all of a sudden