Shopping, or What to Do When Not At the Club

Triangle Shopping

• "Things to Do in Raleigh"
• alt.music.chapel-hill's triangle music guide has links to clubs (maps, schedules) and local bands
• another Triangle music scene guide
• rXr CDs
• Innovations - closed 24 December 2001.
• Crooked Beat Records in Mission Valley Shopping Center on Avent Ferry Rd - near the CupAJoe, the Record Exchange, and the Mission Valley Theater. Best shopping for punk CDs in the Triangle that I know of.
  (Closed 2003)
  
• LITMUS Gallery - 312 W. Cabarrus Street, Raleigh. (919) 844-1047.
• Radio Free Records - best selection of darkwave/industrial music in RTP. (Closed 31 July 2003.)

Charlotte Shopping

• Infinity's Images closed 17 July 2000
  
• Manifest Records
  On South Boulevard, in the Starmount shopping centre, near the intersection of South & Archdale.
  6239 South Boulevard At the Intersection of Archdale, in the Starmount Center, next to the Post Office. (704) 552 8448
  Where to buy World Serpent CDs off the shelf in Charlotte.
• Value Village thrift store (formerly Bargain Hunters):
  "To get to Value Village (a thrift store, so WYSIWYG), to make it simple, I'll give directions from Sharon Amity. (I can alter these for anyone who needs me to do so.) From Sharon Amity, turn onto Central Avenue (you'll turn left if you're coming down Sharon Amity from Independence, and right if you're coming from the university area). You'll cross Roseland Ave. (the first light after Sharon Amity on Central), where you will see a small club called Mayday's on the right. You will pass an apartment complex called Darby Acres on the right. Then, you will see a shopping center on the right called Darby Terrace. This is where Value Village is. It's the large store roughly in the middle of the shopping center. I don't guarantee that any of you will find anything,but it has really surprised me a few times. You'll probably want to scour the store, if you're a serious thrifter like I am."
• Galore:
  "it's on 10th Street across from Piedmont Open Middle School. Galore is kinda small, it's very independently owned. She gets a lot of cool smoking-jacket type items for men, and she may have cool shoes."

  "*Galore is on 10th Street across from Piedmont Open Middle School. Take Central Avenue, heading into the downtown area (which means if you were coming from Bargain Hunters, you would turn right out of the parking lot onto Central), until you're at the weird intersection (i.e. three roads meet up in one spot: Central, Louise Ave. and 10th St.) where Swing 1000 and the Salvation Army sit across from each other (it's literally the 1000 block of Central Avenue, so that should help out). You'll notice that at this traffic light, there's another road that branches off at the right from Central - that is 10th St. Take 10th St. and you won't go far until you'll see a grey and pink house on the left, which should have quite a lot of clothes on the porch. That's *Galore, and you can park in the school parking lot and walk across the street."

• Boris and Natasha's:
  1214 Thomas Ave. Telephone# 704.375.0079. "We sell lines such as Lip Service, Serious, House of Field, Fine, Nataya, etc. New stuff....from funky club flashy glitter stuff to some evolved goth wear. great platforms by NYLA for the torture lover. jewerly in sterling silver and rhinestones. for the men, as well...Krush, lip service, etc."
  Near Central Ave., at 1214 Thomas Ave. Next door to the wig and makeup shop Hysteric Glamour.
  For more information contact Elizabeth
• Mixed Media:
  Mixed Media is a small used CD, record & book shop (hence the name). It's at 2007 Commonwealth Avenue, just around the corner from Thomas St. Tavern. To get there from Central Avenue coming from downtown, simply turn right at the Plaza, turn right on Commonwealth and then turn right into the Mixed Media parking lot (it should be the first building on the right after the fire station). If you're coming down Central from the Eastland Mall area, turn left onto the Plaza and follow the above directions from there. If you're visiting Hysteric Glamour or Boris & Natasha's, all you have to do is turn left out of the parking lot, turn left onto Commonwealth and make a left into the first parking lot you see. It's a small brick building shared with a hydroponics shop. At Mixed Media, I've found used Legendary Pink Dots, as well as stuff like The Fall, Brian Eno, Patti Smith and other electronic/indie/punk type music. The emphasis seems to be on non-mainstream music of all kinds, no one genre in particular. I haven't checked out their vinyl selection quite as extensively, but I did see a rare early R.E.M. record. The book selection includes some good horror titles and a lot of sci-fi. Their phone number is (704) 344-9988.
• Fifi Mahoney's:
  Opened in October '99 and closed in March 2001.
• Hysteric Glamour
  Opened Saturday April 6 2002 in the location formerly occupied by Fifi Mahoney's.
  1216 Thomas Avenue, Charlotte NC 28205. Telephone 704-334-4888.
  Retail stock will be shoes, corsets, wigs/hair, cosmetics, accessories, tshirts, and anything else for dressing up. For more information contact Kim.
• Skirmishes (in Cornelius)
  Gaming (RPGs) shop.
  Directions: In Charlotte, take Harris west, hit Old Statesville (Highway 170?) and go for about 20 minutes. It'll be on your right.

Other Shopping in North Carolina:

• Greensboro
  • Hypnotica - on the corner of Spring Garden and Mendenhall near UNCG

Most recent update 22 January 2007.

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