Amoeba's

For starters, there is a wonderful video archive of more than 200 live sets played in Amoeba's shops by everyone from Os Mutantes to Steve Earle, and Andy Bell to Dizzee Rascal.

Click to download: Amoeba Music online 2010

Atwood likes to tell the Amoeba's Tale as an illustration of the "magic moment" at which planet earth now finds itself.

Margaret Atwood interview: 'Go three days without water and you don't have any human rights. Why? Because you're dead' Robert McCrum 2010

Daniel Tures remembers what Amoeba's Michel Jackson stock looked like before Jackson's death last June.

Michael Jackson Stacks Paper From The Grave 2010

After being ejected from Amoeba's parking lot where this posted interview began, Harper and this writer moved on to a chi-chi vegetarian restaurant on Sunset and Vine and continued our discussion of all things Simon.

Mike Ragogna: That "St. Judy's Comet" Kid: A Dinner Conversation With Harper Simon 2010

After being ejected from Amoeba's parking lot where this posted interview began, Harper and this writer moved on to a chi-chi vegetarian restaurant on Sunset and Vine and continued our discussion of all things Simon.

Mike Ragogna: That "St. Judy's Comet" Kid: A Dinner Conversation With Harper Simon 2010

They can be found cheaper online than at the links, at the two Amoeba's in the Bay Area or probably through iTunes.

Finland Station at the San Francisco Symphony sfmike 2008

My California friend drove us into San Francisco for a quick day of activities we spent a couple of hours at Amoeba's, the best used CD/DVD/vinyl store in the country, then dashed down to fisherman's wharf for food, then we saw a fun musical, Jersey Boys.

On Vacation jimvanpelt 2007

Angeles, things changed: "We put everything out and every single copy of everything good just sold within the hour," says Daniel Tures, Amoeba's manager.

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Michael Jackson section, someone would have pointed you to a small selection of Jackson music that was dwarfed by Amoeba's hipper inventory: world music, hip-hop, jazz.

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Angeles, things changed: "We put everything out and every single copy of everything good just sold within the hour," says Daniel Tures, Amoeba's manager.

NPR Topics: News 2010