Great selection of music with very happy, helpful and friendly staff. Been shopping here for a few…read moreyears now and I've gotta say it's the best record shop on the coast.

From the owner: At Atlantis Music, we're more than just a record store; we're a 21st century music outlet, an…read moreon-line store, a social media portal, a website, and in the future a live performance venue. Together with our customers we're a meeting place for Queensland's most colourful community of progressive and creative musical minds. As in any organisation, the people who work together, make our company what it is. We pride ourselves in selecting people with a unique blend of skills. Our staff is an all-star team of music retail veterans and fresh record enthusiasts, with a collective depth of knowledge that is virtually unparalleled in the business. Many of us are musicians, or make music our lives in one way or another, and we take seriously the importance of our customers' relationships to music. We put customer service first and foremost; after all, our mission is to bring people and music together to make everyone feel at home.

Ahhh Unidisc... you have been very good to me over the years. You started my first ever CD…read morecollection back in the day... it's a great shop you have here. With secondhand cds and dvds you will always find your vintage to your modern music here in this tiny shop they have cramped full of these old treasures. Sometimes you can find a new only used once type deal cd, and othertimes you will find CDs that were lost in translation many many years ago. Whatever the case, this shop has a history to it, it has the music to back up the history and a very knowledgeable guy at the counter to direct you through the chaos and tell you exactly what you would need, in my case a little bit of lost Van Halen.

Unidisc is every lecturer's worst nightmare. I can categorically say that Unidisc is the reason for…read morethe sole reason for 90% of the lectures I was ever late for at UQ. Whenever I saw other students sheepishly sneaking into a lecture late - and we all know that's impossible to do subtly because your guaranteed to trip, drop your books, and accidentally slam the door just as your phone rings and you sneeze- I always wonder if, like me, they got sucked into the vortex that is Unidisc. 'Just a quick look' never fails to turn into at least a 10 minute reconnaissance of Unidiscs ever-evolving collection of pre-loved, secondhand books, CDs, videos, and DVDs. I always find Unidisc to be a lot easier to find some treasure in than many secondhand book and music places and I've come to the conclusion that this is because it's located on campus which means the majority customers and traders are roughly of my generation and thus enjoy similar things. Definitely make sure you go to Unidisc when you're next killing time between classes. Don't go if you're running late for something though! You're bound to find a bargain, and it'll keep you out of the lolly shops grips for a while, too!

Civic Video Rosalie is actually quite surprising. Since the place looks pretty small, you would…read morethink that this place would not have a very good range but to my surprise, they actually have all sorts of DVDs available. They also offer good customers service and deals for their customers. Upon first entering this video rental store, I was worried I would not find anything to watch judging by the size of the place. I quickly realised how wrong I was as I noticed the number of classics, art house films, documentaries and television series on offer. Whoever makes the selection of the films available here must be a bit of a film buff! Another great thing about this place is their Tuesday $1 deal, that's right- every DVD is only $1 to rent out every Tuesday! I will occasionally receive a text message from this place announcing exclusive offers. The staff have always been helpful and will make little comments about the films you rent out which is always nice. I'm pretty pleased with my local DVD rental store, it has a good range and customer service.

I'm sure that if you're a horror movie buff you will know that Scream 4 came out earlier this year…read more You'll also know that it's compulsory to have a movie marathon of the first three Scream movies with your friends before you all line up at the cinema to see the new edition. I know you know this because in April when my friends and I were trying to track down a copy of Scream 3 just days before Scream 4's release, all the shops had sold out and every video store we rang said it was hired out. Looks like great, twisted minds think alike, huh? By the night before Scream 4 was due to be released, my friends and I had set up an unintentional telethon type situation as we all sat around someone's kitchen table with our phones and the yellow pages and rang just about every video store in Brisbane. Finally we found a few that had Scream 3, but none would put it on hold for us, some would but only if we were already members and we weren't allowed to join over the phone. Next on my call list was Civic Video Rosalie. I dialled their number and a lovely chap answered and jovially informed me that yes, they did have a copy of Scream 3, and yes I'd be welcome to put it on hold. Of course it didn't matter that I wasn't a member. Of course they could hold it not just for an hour or two but until tomorrow. And that was the beginning of a beautiful friendship. Even after Project Scream (as I like to call it) was over, I continued to frequent Civic Vid at Rosalie because they have a rad collection of films and they're just a lovely, helpful bunch. I know what you did last summer, and I know what I'll be doing this summer: renting movies from these guys.

I remember being a fresh-faced university student prowling through Rocking Horse Records, looking…read morefor CDs, records, posters, strangers eyes, discussing with likeminded friends about how we knew, "the music would save us". After four years of university and life I don't know if I would rummage through Rocking Horse Records with the same optimism that I once did. Rocking Horse Records offers an extensive range of CDs, DVDs and EPs old and new. The establishment itself seems to permeate a sort of grungy vibe, however now days the service staff seem to dress more hipster, as opposed to diehard, melancholic Nirvana fans from the late 90s. It's nice to see a music store with such a vast range outside of those larger outlets that dominate that CBD. All the products are categorized accordingly; it's just up to you to know if you're "into" 'alternative folk dubstep' or 'new-age punk metal' (categories may not be as specific as the latter). It's no mystery that the electronic innovations in music have hit the music industry hard, especially in terms of unique stores like Rocking Horse Records. There are of course attempts to reestablish their necessity in the market, such as being a place to purchase tickets for concerts and festivals. In addition, has anyone noticed how vinyl has made a real comeback? Even I have developed a real romantic inclination towards listening to my favorite music on an EP. I don't know if it's real or just manufactured in my head, but it does seem to add a certain quality to the sound that seems to hit me harder; perhaps it's just because we're sick of our music existing solely in our phones and on our computers? I couldn't help but wish that Rocking Horse Records would have a more extensive range of EPs, however I can understand how it may prove to be unprofitable to stock a wide range of music on record, when only a handful of people would come looking for. This being said, shouldn't they be establishing themselves as a business that offers us something we can't get online? Maybe if they got on board with this "hipster" trend and sold more EPs and record players we'd leave the safety of our computers and flock there on mass. After all, they are called Rocking Horse 'Records'. At the end of the day Rocking Horse Records is a great venue to have a browse and remember what it was like before we all had IPods. The unfortunate truth is I tend to go there to browse and buy my music online instead. This being said, those of you who prefer to have hard copies of music or have developed an ethereal connection to the sound of vinyl, Rocking Horse Records is the place for you.

Still the original and the best music store in Brisbane. You only had to see the outcry and the way…read morethe community pulled together earlier this year to save Rocking Horse from folding to understand the special place this record store holds in Brisbane's heart and history. Impressive that after so long in the business Rocking Horse manages to stay at the forefront of what's happening in music, especially indie music, and provide its customers with the rarest, coolest, and hardest-to-find records, CDs, t-shirts, memorabilia, and DVDs. Rocking Horse also sells tickets so if you are after a ticket to a music festival, band, or solo show chances are you can grab them at Rocking Horse. Sometimes I just go in to their ticket desk to see what's coming up. This is also a great idea if you want to buy someone tickets to something, but aren't sure what's on or what they'd like. Rock on, Rocking Horse!