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International Vintage Guitars
In the Warehouse District, this is a small shop specializing in used guitars and amps. The collection usually features a few showpieces, but its stock generally consists of new Fenders, Epiphones and a few Gibsons. It's a convenient place to grab new strings if you busted yours while busking in the Quarter.
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Jim Russell's Records
A dense emporium of used 45s, with some highly rare, collectable and expensive disks featuring all the blues, R&B and soul stars of the past. (Collecting Johnny Adams' singles? This is the place.) The used LPs have mostly given way to CDs, with an uneven selection available. Turntables make it possible to assess the quality of your purchases before you lay down the crisp greenbacks.
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Louisiana Music Factory
Here's your first stop if you're looking for music. The selection of new and used CDs delves deep into New Orleans and Louisiana musical culture, with recordings from the 19-oughts all the way up to this week. You're sure to walk out of this store with sacks of CDs from the region's bottomless talent pool.
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Musica Latina Discoteca
With a growing Spanish-speaking population and well established cultural ties to the Caribbean, it makes sense that New Orleanians would have an appreciation for the exciting music of Latin America. That's all this jam-packed, one-room shop sells. It has everything covered, from the musical traditions of Cuba to Argentina. The mambo greats are thoroughly stocked and there's a smattering of mariachi and salsa artists from the ages.
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New Orleans Music Exchange
It's high time you learned how to play trumpet. This large shop, specializing mostly in second hand instruments, is the place to go for a nice used horn. There's an entire room of brass and woodwinds, all priced fairly. But to find it, you must weave through a maze of guitar and bass amps. They also sell guitars, guitar strings and all that other stuff. But you really ought to go for the trumpet.
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Rock & Roll Collectibles
In this cluttered and very exciting shop you'll find the French Quarter's largest selection of vinyl (that's old-timey 33 rpm long playing records, pal). Come to think of it, this is the only shop selling records in the Quarter anymore. After two-plus decades of CDs and the emergence of eBay as the primary marketplace for used LPs, this place keeps things humming. (Though the store does have a presence on eBay.)
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Tower Records
The huge international music chain has an immense store near Jackson Square. Commendably, Tower reopened its doors soon after Hurricane Katrina, thus showing more moxie than the innumerable chains that shied away for months afterwards. Here you'll find the usual complement of CDs in most every genre (with a special room dedicated to regional artists), along with underground comics, magazines and obscure publications.
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