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    Cheap Thrills

    4.3 (28 reviews)
    Open 11:00 am - 6:00 pm

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    Lekan O.

    Boutique record store located in the heart of Montreal. They have all kinds of genres. Ended up buying some nice LPs from Whitney Houston and Lionel Ritchie. Definitely a place to stop if you're into records.

    Jeff K.

    I recently checked out Cheap Thrills during my first visit to Montreal. It was the last shop I stopped at before heading back to the U.S. I must start my review first talking about the god awful parking. This is a very busy area and parking was seriously the worst. I'm not sure if it was because of the workday or what, but it was an inconvenience. The shop itself is located upstairs in a building that houses other businesses. After walking up the carpeted stairs I noticed the shop on the left. Inside I really liked the overall setup and look. Small, but lots of records. The ratio of new vinyl really trumped the used selection by a lot! There was a great variety though of new records, but that's not really what I was searching for. There was one record not on the floor that I requested from the discogs page. The guy behind the counter kindly grabbed it for me. I picked through most of the used records, and only seemed to find one other one that caught my eye. I have to admit I was a bit disappointed with the overall used selection, especially hip hop. Yes they technically had a section, but it was mostly 12"'s and abysmal. They also had cassettes, CDs, and books. I'm glad I checked out the shop for its history, but not a really deep used vinyl selection worth the headache to park.

    Seanzor F.

    Welcome to cheap thrills, the store that try's to kill you before entering it! After you do a spin o Rama move around the homeless man outside asking for spare change make a quick sprint up the slippery unsalted front stairs for and leap for that door handle. Now time for the tricky part of going up the purple stairs, make sure your grappling hook is sharp and ready, make three giant swings and release it. The grappling hook should grab on to the carpet first or second time, then while holding a firm grip on your rope pull yourself up the stairs. Once you've reached the summit aka the store you will be greeted by a man with greasy hair and glasses, be careful of this one as anything you say your looking for will be answered with another question within a question followed by a condescending answer. The spin o rama move here won't work at the upstairs has very confined spaces, my advice is to hang an hard left for the jazz section and wait for him to get distractedly someone looking to sell old DVD box sets of "the hills". You'll find the prices on majority of the vinyl are somewhat fair and will have a wide variety to select from, lots of rare records and mass produced arcade fire to choose from. Aside from the troll behind the desk and the busted building it's a fun place to visit, lots of metal and punk records too which is hard to find in normal Montreal record stores.

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    Great recent arrivals. Prices were reasonable. Wish they still had shirts! Would def come back.

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    Go here. Fun vinyl collection, knowledgeable staff. Good stuff--I was a tourist visitor and wish I had a shop like this in my town.

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    Review Highlights - Cheap Thrills

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    L'Échange

    L'Échange

    3.9(15 reviews)
    2.7 kmPlateau-Mont-Royal
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    I loved this place to shop for books. However, I had a recent experience that put me off…read more I came to sell about 50 books that are in very good condition and quite popular, but most were turned down. Even when I said I wasn't necessarily looking to make money, just donate to a place I like, they told me that taking my books would "burden" them... Even though that's what this place is for, selling and buying used books! I went to a bookstore further up Mont-Royal who took them. I certainly understand that they couldn't take all of them depending on the value, but it was really their dismissive and quite rude attitude that took me off guard. Not sure I'll shop there again, unfortunately.

    I recently checked out LEchange during my first visit to Montreal. It wasn't on my initial wishlist…read moreof places to check out, but noticed it driving through the city. My review is really based on vinyl records as that's what lured me in. The shop is very clean and neatly organized. They had some nice new arrivals plus several bins of rock, jazz, classical, and whatever else in between. I found one record I wanted, but a few others I already had that I otherwise would have grabbed. Prices were pretty fair. They also carried CDs, but no cassettes. Of course they have lots of books and nice area to sit and relax. Cool spot worth checking out for a little browsing.

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    Aux 33 Tours

    4.4(32 reviews)
    3.2 kmPlateau-Mont-Royal
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    An absolutely wonderful record shop, with a very wide range of genres, and with excellent…read moreorganization. The prices are a little unpredictable, some things seemed way overpriced to me, yet other more unique and rare things seemed undervalued. So: lots of fun to look through, and some very high quality recordings, old, new, re-issues, and unique new vinyl. I only checked out classical and jazz, my loves, but the other sections seemed chock full and varied. Glad that stores like this still exist.

    I was recently in Montreal so I made it a point to dig in nearly every record shop in town. Aux 33…read moreTours was pretty high on my list. The shop is located in a nice shopping and dining area of Mount Royal. The shop itself is very clean, well-lit, organized, easy to navigate. They had practically every genre with both new and used vinyl available. One of the biggest issues I had was the mixing of used and new records in the same bins. It just took longer too search through since I mainly was looking for used. Either way, I still walked away with some great stuff. Everything I looked at was in good shape. They had tons of new vinyl and reissues. Easily, the largest selection of new vinyl in Montreal. I also noticed tapes (fairly small) and CDs too. They also run a discogs account where some stuff on there may not be located on the main sales floor. The staff at the counter were friendly as well. I really liked Aux 33 Tours and would recommend checking it out!

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    Free-Son

    Free-Son

    3.0(2 reviews)
    3.3 kmPlateau-Mont-Royal
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    Worst record experience in 25 years of collecting. Went check some records they had listed online…read moreat their shop, the person responsible of that was obviously completely stranger to the record world. First while I was checking the records (like 50 of them, I was planning of getting a lot), he stand behind my back the whole time making me feel pressured. I mentioned him that most of the records were warped, he didn't even know what that meant!!! And he couldn't care less. I asked if he played/checked them, and he gave me attitude. There is no turntable in the shop (in a record shop, sure, what for?), so I could only check the records with the naked eye, and as you know it sometimes hard to tell how badly warped it is until you actually play it. Turned out there was some bad ones once I played them. The next day I call him explaining him, asking him if he could take back the worse ones, for a refund or even a store credit, he he didn't want hear anything, not even for credit?! Then he complained again that I checked the records and that nobody forced me to buy them; worse argument for someone who doesn't have a record player around. We're talking about $100 records here, for a total of several hundreds. I wanted to return half of them, so it's a huge loss for me. Never judge a book by its cover? My ass! This douchey hipster probably spend more time at the gym and at those barber shops than in a shows or record conventions (None of my business but I don't understand why gay man won't come out of the closet nowadays, it's 2020, live your life buddy!). On block away west there is Aux 33 tours records store who will offer more references for better prices and WAY better customer service.

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