In the meantime, if you are lucky enough to live near our following top 50 or so stores, support them because they carry the real shiz for which you fiend.

P.S. If you're a record store on this list and you've got a website, e-mail us so we can link you up. If you're a record store and you're not on this list but you think you should be, e-mail us your beef and we'll see what we can do.

Arizona
Swell Records
2515 N. Scottsdale Rd. Suite 2, Scottsdale, AZ 85257, (602) 945-3898

California - Northern
Amoeba Records
2445 Telegraph Ave., Berkeley, CA 94707, (510) 549-1125

CD Research
407 G Street, Davis, CA 95616, (916) 756-0499

Cue's
6340 Mission Street, Daly City, CA 94104, (415) 755-1110

Groove Smith
400 Florence, Palo Alto, CA 94301, (415) 328-5463

Hot Wax
1051 E. Capitol Ave., San Jose, CA 95121, (408) 227-0864

Open Mind Music
342 Divisadero, San Francisco, CA 94117, (415) 621-2244

Rasputin's
2401 Telegraph Ave., Berkeley, CA 94704, (510) 848-9005

Street Beat
1080B Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94102, (415) 522-0866

Top Ten
6800 65th Expressway, Sacramento, CA 95828, (916) 457-3140

Tower 118-San Francisco Stonestown
3205 20th Ave., Second Floor, San Francisco, CA 94132, (415) 681-2001

Tower 123-San Mateo
2727 S. El Camino Real, San Mateo, CA 94403, (415) 570-4611

Virgin Music-San Francisco
2 Stockton Street, San Francisco, CA 94108, (415) 397-4525

Zebra Records
475 Haight Street, San Francisco, CA 94117, (415) 626-9145

California - Southern
AC&S Records
665 H Street Suite G, Chula Vista, CA 91910, (619) 476-1212

Aron's Records
1150 Highland, Los Angeles, CA 90038, (213) 469-4700

Beat Non Stop
7262 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046, (213) 930-2121

DMC
7621 1/2 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046, (213) 651-3520

Fat Beats
1768 N. Vermont, Los Angeles, CA 90027, (213) 667-1355

Groove Riders
14566 Ventura Boulevard, Sherman Oaks, CA 91403, (818) 981-4657

Martin's Records
5111 W. Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90019, (213) 934-5854

Music Max
14200 Beach Boulevard, Westminster, CA 92683, (714) 379-1994

Prime Cuts
7758 Santa Monica Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90046, (310) 231-1986

Streetsounds
7751 Melrose Avenue, W. Hollywood, CA 90044, (213) 651-0630

Tower 134 -West Covina
1205 West Covina Parkway, West Covina, CA 91790 (818) 962-8707

Tower 161-San Diego Sports Arena
3029 Brookpine Court, Spring Valley, CA 91978, (619) 670-3731

Colorado
Club Records
943 Pearl Street, Boulder, CO 80302, (303) 413-1238

Independent Records
3030 Platte Ave., Colorado Springs, CO 80909 (719) 473-0882

Kontents
919 East Colfax, Denver, CO 80218, (303) 832-5944

Tower 831-Denver
Denver, (303) 377-2400

District of Columbia
12" Dance
2010 P Street NW, Washington, DC 20036, (202) 659-2010

Florida
Bad Mood Records
223 N. Magnolia Ave., Orlando, FL 32801 (407) 246-0072

Stratus Records
813 W. University Ave., Gainesville, FL 32601, (352) 338-0770

Georgia
Criminal Records International Headquarters
466 Moreland Ave NE, Atlanta, GA 30307, (404) 215-9511

Ear Wax
1052 Peachtree Street, Atlanta, GA 30309, (404) 875-5600

Hawai'i
Jelly's
2919 Kapiolani, Honolulu, HI 96826, (808) 735-7676

Illinois
Gramaphone
2663 N. Clark, Chicago, IL 60614, (312) 472-3683

Indiana
Stevie Ray's House of Wax
714 S. Tillotson Ave., Muncie, IN 47304, (317) 288-2302

Kentucky
Ear X-Tacy
1534 Bardstown Road, Louisville, KY 40205, (502)452-1799

Maryland
Tower 154-Rockville
Rockville, (301) 468-8901

Massachusetts
Biscuithead Records
93 Massachussetts Ave., Boston, MA 02115, (617) 247-3268

Tower 172-Boston
Boston, (617) 247-5900

Minnesota
Let It Be
Minneapolis

New York
Beat Street
494 Fulton Street, New York, NY 11201, (718) 624-7465

Eightball - The Shop
105 East Ninth Street, New York, NY 10003, (212) 337-1200

Sandbox Automatic (http://www.sandboxautomatic.com)
462 Seventh Avenue, 17th Floor, New York, NY 10018, FAX: (212) 967-5963
mercer@walrus.com

Virgin Megastore-Times Square
1540 Broadway, NYC, (212) 921-1020

North Carolina
Manifest Discs & Tapes
4314 Market St., Wilmington, NC 28403

Ohio
Everybody's Records
6106 Montgomery Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45213 (513) 531-4500

Singing Dog Records
1630 North High, Columbus, OH 43201, (614) 262-6265

Oregon
House of Records
258 E. 13th Street, Eugene, OR 97401, (503) 344-7242

Music Millenium
Portland, (503) 231-8943

Record Garden
1030 Willamette, Eugene, OR 97401

South Carolina
Manifest Discs & Tapes
1563 A Broad River Rd., Columbia, SC 29210
1418 Laurens Rd., Greenville, SC 29607
362 College St., Clemson, SC 29631
946 Orleans Rd., Charleston, SC 29407
2805 David McLeod Blvd., Florence, SC 29501

Tennessee
Boss Ugly Bob's
726 East McLemore, Memphis, TN 38106 (901) 774-6400

Texas
Alien Records
503B West Fifteenth, Austin, TX 78701 (512) 477-3909

Bill's Records
8118 Spring Valley Road, Dallas, TX 75240, (214) 234-1496

Intergalactic Groove Source
831C Exposition Ave., Dallas, TX 75226, (214) 827-9223

Neurolux
3402 Camp Bowie, Fort Worth, TX 76107 (817) 338-4558

Spin Masters
10675 ENW Highway, Dallas, TX 75238, (214) 342-1200

Still Diggin
3227 Milam, Houston, TX 77006, (713) 630-1087

Washington
Platinum
915 East Pike Street, Seattle, WA 98122, (206) 324-8032

Tower 186-Seattle University
4321 University Way NE, Seattle, WA 98105, (206) 632-1187

Outside the United States
FWUH
552 Beatty Street, Vancouver, British Columbia V6B 2L3 CANADA, (604) 687-7464

Soul Choice
5b Horn Street, London, Ontario CANADA, (519) 645-7685