Another day, another Disk Union. Let me tell you how utterly incredible this Japanese record store chain is. We went to so many of them while in Japan and they each had a feeling all their own. I would be spending my life in these stores if I lived in Japan. Maybe it's best I don't live there. I'd end up poor, but I would have a hell of a record collection.
The Shibuya location isn't quite as big and awe inspiring as its Shinjuku neighbor, but it is still a pretty gigantic shop. Many floors and each floor broken up into genre specific shopping. Although here, two floors are dedicated to used records. I wish we had the time to have spent some of it digging through there a bit, but on this day our objective was the fifth floor, specializing in heavy metal and (you guessed it) punk rock.
This was a great store and I'm guessing the two floors of used records seeped into the punk shop as well. There were no shortage of used records up there, especially in terms of 7"s. Also, like the Shinjuku shop, the sub genres of punk rock were split up in super specific sub genres, making it easier to dive into whole chunks of the store at one time. It's probably no surprised I was digging in the 'Melodic Pop Punk' section for quite some time.
I don't remember the specific records I picked up here, but I do remember that I probably bought more CDs at this store than some of the others. I also remember seeing some crazy 7"s for super cheap, ones that I already had but were way more difficult for me to find ten years ago. Simply put, it was another incredible record store in Tokyo. In case you haven't figured it out, Tokyo has a lot of them.
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