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Title:Welcome to the CD Notes Conference
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Created:Mon Feb 17 1986
Last Modified:Fri Mar 03 1989
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1517
Total number of notes:13349

408.0. "CD store in So. N.H." by MKTGSG::WUDYKA () Fri Jul 18 1986 17:30

    I've been buying most of my CD's at a small store in South Nashua
    ( New Hampshire) that has a modest supply of discs but a 
    surprisingly good selection of popular titles, ie: I can make 
    many trips to Lechmere in Manchester and go home with nothing, or
    make one trip to this place and wonder how I'm going to manage the
    payments on my Mastercard. I buy mostly jazz titles, but I'd guess
    their selection is dedicated about 80% to pop/rock, 15% jazz, and
    5% classical. They also buy used discs for $6, and sell them for
    $10, although they usually have only 10 or 20 on the shelf for 
    resale at any one time. Prices are normal list, and I don't think
    they ever have sales. The number of discs they sell has been 
    growing steadily in the 9 months I've been shopping there, and it
    looks like they plan to continue the trend. The place is called
    Rockit Records, and they're on the D.W. Highway South, in the 
    shopping center with Daddy's Junky Music, about 1/4 mile south
    of the junction with Spit Brook Road.
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408.1DirectionsAPPLE::MATUSRoger MatusSun Jul 20 1986 22:5210
    For those who don't know, Rock It Records is located about 1/2-mile
    north of the Pheasant Lane Mall with the new Lechmere in it.  It
    is on Daniel Webster Highway, on the other side of the street from
    the mall.
    
    Rock It advertises that they have the largest CD selection in N.H.
    But, I suspect that the new Lechmere has them beat.
    
    Roger
    
408.2MOSAIC::GALLAGHERMon Jul 21 1986 12:3012
    
    RE: .1
    >Rock It advertises that they have the largest CD selection in N.H.
    >But, I suspect that the new Lechemere has them beat.

    I was in the new Lechmere Saturday, and bought several disks.  I
    don't know about Rockit Records, but Lechmere certainly has a very
    large selection. This store is also *much better organized than
    the ones in Framingham, Woburn and Manchester.
    
    Watch out though:  I entered on the second level, and the floor
    shakes as people walk through!!!!
408.3QUARK::LIONELSteve LionelMon Jul 21 1986 13:486
    Well, since the Lechmere isn't officially open yet, I suppose
    Rockit's claim is still good.  Rockit does have a wide variety of
    discs, many that Lechmere wouldn't carry, but the Nashua store
    DOES have an awful lot of discs, and many copies of each one.  If
    I was looking for a hard-to-find disc, I'd try Rockit first.
    				Steve
408.4DSSDEV::DAVISONMon Jul 21 1986 18:568
    I've been to both stores, and if you're looking for Classical
    music on CDs, Lechmere definitely has a larger collection.
    I expect that the number of Rock CDs also outnumbers Rockit
    Records.  I'm waiting for a sale at Lechmere... and then I'll
    buy those CD's I've been waiting for.  I think that paying full
    price these days is simply not worth it.  If you want to laugh,
    go to Sears and examine their tiny collection of discs at $18
    each!
408.5RENOIR::MCLEMANJeff McLeman, Workstations DevelopmentTue Jul 22 1986 07:399
	I find Rockit has more of the discs that I like (particularly
    rare ones). Lechmere, well they may have the biggest, but biggest
    isn't the best. ( Not the meat but the motion syndrome?). I travel
    from Marlboro to Nashua just to see if Rockit has new rare ones
    at least once every two weeks, or if I go to a meeting in ZKO, I
    stop by.
    
    Jeff
    
408.6RockitDSSDEV::CHANTue Jul 22 1986 11:389
    RE-.1
    
    Not only does Rockit have rare CD's, you can leave a $5 deposit
    at the door and the next time the disk becomes available, they send
    you a postcard and you get first dibs on it.  I've never tried
    cancelling so I don't know if you would loose your deposit if you
    find it somewhere else.
    
    Kenney
408.7used CD = new CD - $$$PAMPAM::CLARKWard ClarkWed Jul 23 1986 14:114
    Rockit also has a small, but ever changing, selection of used CDs
    priced at $9.95.  I've picked up a few gems in visits past.
    
    -- Ward
408.8PSW::WINALSKIPaul S. WinalskiWed Jul 23 1986 18:146
Having been both to the new Nashua Lechmere and to Rockit Records, I would say
that Lechmere has more disks, but Rockit carries more titles.  Lechmere has
many copies of each CD that they stock.  Rockit stocks more titles, but fewer
copies of each.  Lechmere has a better classical selection, though.

--PSW