The other week I found myself with a few hours to kill in Brisbane’s CBD and decided to embrace the chaos at The Record Exchange. You don’t see stores like this in Australia anymore.

Too large to fit in a photograph – warehouse style, partly organised with piles of random records under shelves, stacked on the floor and coating the walls, with metre high bins of unsorted 45s. The kind of place I’d dig at on a weekly basis if it were my local and time was on my side.

Many cheap gems hidden within so don’t be deterred by the $18 Carly Simon and J.J. Cale LPs (though you could consider renting these from $2 per week). Salvaged some wanted Australian disco oddities and an Innovative Communication classic with a price tag dated 1992. I wonder what else has been gathering dust there for just as long. The Record Exchange is located a walking distance from Egg Records and also stocks comics, books, CDs and other junk.

Record Exchange, 1st Floor, 65 Adelaide St, Brisbane. Tel (07) 3229 4923