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Piccadilly Records is a Manchester institution and it doesn't half know it.
For the travelling record buyer, the place can seem moody and aloof. That said, after a handful of visits, you'll find that the reality is that half the staff are so shy that, if they had fringes, they'd hide behind them.
Anyway, they've got a great and varied amount of stock in there if you're after the kinds of things record shops sell - by which I mean, go to HMV if you want the latest Michael Buble LP, Piccadilly Records is more likely to have Elliot Smith LPs on the shelves alongside Can reissues and great new comps from underground labels.
Split across loads of genres and styles, Piccadilly really is a very good record shop and once you get past the Oh So Coolery of it, you'll be fine.
Essentially, Piccadilly Records suffers from the same thing that most record shops do, and that's a sense of boredom when faced with a request deemed 'obvious'. To slate 'Piccadilly' for that would be churlish.
Away from records/CDs, there's a decent range of label T-shirts and record bags behind the counter.
It's a big ol' shop and worth spending your wages in if you're neither a hardened crate digger or mainstream pop fan. It sits exactly in the middle of those two.