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Top-selling records at local independent record stores

10. CORNELIUS Point (Matador)

9. ALIEN CRIME SYNDICATE Ozzy (Control Group)

8. NEIL HALSTEAD Sleeping on Roads (Beggars Group)

7. STROKES Is This It? (RCA)

6. WHITE STRIPES White Blood Cells (Sympathy for the Record Industry)

5. ROSIE THOMAS When We Were Small (Sub Pop)

4. JACK JOHNSON Bushfire Fairytales (Universal)

3. LOVAGE Music to Make Love to Your Old Lady By (75 Ark)

2. SHINS Oh, Inverted World (Sub Pop)

1. CHEMICAL BROTHERS Come With Us (Astralwerks)


Stores reporting: Easy Street CDs and Tapes, 4559 California S.W., 938-3279; Orpheum, 618 Broadway E., 322-6370; Sonic Boom, 3414 Fremont N., 547-BOOM and 2209 Market, 297-BOOM; Silver Platters, 9560 First N.E., 524-3472, 14603 N.E. 20th, 643-3472, and 16935 Southcenter Pkwy., 575-3472.