I’ve been in the Ernest Tubb Record Store in Nashville. It’s a cool place and the people there are very nice. I bought a Chet Atkins tape in there.

I wonder what the criteria was for making the list. I’m still looking for a record store in Houston that will make me feel like I’m back home in St. Louis:-(

Soul Shack in Savannah GA, that’s the ticket. No longer there I believe.

I also spent my formative teen years in Spectrum Records on the Syracuse University campus. Converted old house with squeeky wood floors. Very cool.

Toad Hall in Rockford Illinois…did not all fit in one building! Amazing.

I’ve spent many hours in two on the list: Ear-x-tacy in Louisville and Newbury Comics in Boston. I can’t argue with either, because both are in the coolest section of town with an entire music community revolving around them. Vintage Vinyl would seem to fall in the same category, so I sure can’t explain the absence. (Do you think the Electric Fetus made the list just because it has the coolest name?)

I’ve been to the Newbury Comics store in Boston… Nothing better there than at Vintage Vinyl. PLUS, did they consider the releases that Vintage Vinyl hosts? + occasional live shows during releases? doesn’t seem like it…. Stop looking to New York, look to St. Louis. (Beskoniste)

the criteria for make this list was the workers not be condescending douche bags.

Was vintage vinyl ever on this list? Did it make this list in the past and then drop off? As it is, not enough info here to make the Paste list a very good indicator of VV’s cool status.
This post kinda ended up being more about Kevin C. Johnson dropping his knowledge of record stores than anything.
A better title: Kevin C. Johnson: Cooler than You!

Vinyl treasures are found when diggin through mom and pop neighborhood record stores that buy sell trade records keepin’ them afloat in these hard economic times. Stores like Out of the Past Collectibles Austin Texas thrive as locals bring in whole collections for sale. Austin Record Convention, largest in the world, held twice a year over 25 years ,proving that vinyl is cool and rules.

I agree with Chad. Vintage V (and Blueberry Hill) seems to be staffed with irritable, hipper-than-thou 30-somethings who are paid to be condescending and put out every time you have the audacity to spend money there. I think that someone believes that this adds to the style and atmosphere of the place, but I think it’s pretty pathetic.