IDOLS FOR IDLES

Funkadelic playsets. A rare Cramps flyer. An oversize bus-shelter Hüsker Dü poster. These are the sorts of things that appear in every record store around the world, but what separates the good from the great is the excellent curation and stock.

Go into any record store and everyone knows the expensive shit is on the wall or behind the register or in that special crate on the checkout counter. So as CREEM walked through the incredible Academy Records Annex in Brooklyn, waiting for the guys in IDLES to pick out LPs that influenced their recent banger TANGK, we wholly and honestly expected a stack of whopper price tags considering the wildly eclectic nature of their music.