The Amoeba SF Platinum Anniversary Celebration is Friday, Nov. We’re still a little funky here.” While Amoeba architecturally resembles a big box, it’s still the place to go if you’d be more excited finding an out-of-print Wu-Tang solo album than running into Taylor Swift at Target. Goldmark brags Amoeba Music is “not like the big box retailers. “You don’t have to have any money to shop here, just bring some product that you’re tired of, CDs, LPs, posters, DVDs, anything.” “We’re a big trading post here,” Goldmark says. At least, the alternative ones do, and they’re playing vinyl again.” Every high school and college kid has to have a turntable. “CDs have been on the decline since the early 2000s. “One of the main reasons we’ve survived is because we’ve been a used store,” says Goldmark. “Everybody knew us from Berkeley, and they knew that we had been stockpiling the store for about a year, and that we would have tons of great stuff,” Goldmark says. “People were lined up early, around the block,” Amoeba SF partner Joe Goldmark tells SF Weekly, “We had a huge, huge day.” 15, 1997 day when Amoeba Music opened at Haight Street and Stanyan Street, as seen in the vintage snapshot above. Kids of the 1990s will remember that Nov. But the success of that Berkeley record store led to the Haight Street expansion that still stands as one of the most recognizable - and largest - record shops in the United States. That distinction belongs to the Telegraph Ave. As “the world’s largest independent record store” gets ready to celebrate, SF Weekly spoke to the iconic Haight Street music shop’s partner to find out how Amoeba SF has stayed on extended play for all these years.Īmoeba SF was not the first Amoeba Music location. The vinyl, CD, DVD, and poster emporium known as Amoeba Music on Haight Street celebrates its 20th anniversary this weekend, with Friday night and all-day Saturday parties, performances, and throwdowns.
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