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Crap! My favorite record store is going belly up!

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AK'er Watt just sent the bad news to me.

It's the only record store I've ever seen with a slot dedicated to T Bone Burnett LPs.

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Sorry for your loss. It looks like you still have until April 1 to do some last minute shopping. Good luck.
 
When I lived there for a year or two in the early 00s, I sure did my part to keep it afloat. Lots of good memories.

I'll have to go down to say farewell.
 
Yeah, record stores and book stores, how can we keep them? When Amazon came out with the "Price Check Day" a couple of months ago, I knew that the end was in sight for most of them.
 
Aww big bummer! It's sad loosing a institution like that.

I went to one of my local shops over the weekend and grabbed a handful. I was pleasantly surprised and hopeful when I saw two women in their late 20s stocking up on vinyl.
 
It's your fault. You know who you are!

Current manager Greg Ellis says the fate of Sundance Records has much to do with a new generation of clientele, unaware of the way music used to be.

“The freshmen in college right now, they were six years old in 1999 when Napster emerged,” Ellis said. “Their entire life where they’ve been aware of music, the idea of paying for music has just been alien to them.”
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“We’ve been married 35 years now, and Sundance doesn’t happen unless Nancy is part of it, bottom line,” Bobby said. “She got behind me and pushed for everything we did. She’s just as important as I am when it comes to this store.”

But the two have spent the past couple of years pondering Sundance’s future. And as CD sales continue to plummet — Ellis calls CDs “in their waning days and an archaic form like cassettes or eight tracks” — the fate of Sundance has become much like the independent music stores that perished before it.
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Looks like a trip up from Boerne is in order. I visit the usual record stores in Austin every time I go (which is often) but haven't heard of Sundance before. I guess I better go before it is too late. :sigh:
 
gguillot said:
Looks like a trip up from Boerne is in order. I visit the usual record stores in Austin every time I go (which is often) but haven't heard of Sundance before. I guess I better go before it is too late. :sigh:
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Maybe we should organize an AKpedition?
 
I hate to say it, but much - probably most - of the growth in vinyl sales is directly attributable to the younger demographic.

Poncho-wearing skeletons & Joni Mitchell quoting grey-hairs don't exactly scream "Hipster Friendly Hang Out"...
 
Naptown Rob said:
I hate to say it, but much - probably most - of the growth in vinyl sales is directly attributable to the younger demographic.

Poncho-wearing skeletons & Joni Mitchell quoting grey-hairs don't exactly scream "Hipster Friendly Hang Out"...
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This particular shop has done a lot to diversify and cater to the kids who go to the university across the street. From selling A LOT of hip-hop CDs and mixtapes to dedicating a significant amount of floorspace to disc golf and piercing paraphernalia.

There's a difference between the store and the portrait of it you've drawn from the article.
 
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This particular shop has done a lot to diversify and cater to the kids who go to the university across the street. From selling A LOT of hip-hop CDs and mixtapes to dedicating a significant amount of floorspace to disc golf and piercing paraphernalia.

There's a difference between the store and the portrait of it you've drawn from the article.
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Very good - never having been there, that was the impression based on what I saw & read...
 
Naptown Rob said:
Very good - never having been there, that was the impression based on what I saw & read...
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I should say, though, that I can't remember ever seeing a file-based listening station in the store. (Granted, I don't live there any more; I just teach occasionally at the university now.) Maybe that's one of the areas that the store could have pursued--one of the big independents up the road in Austin seems to be thriving (as ever), and I've noticed that they have an online store for music files as well as the brick-and-mortar place.

Not to suggest that the kids from the university only listen to mp3s, or that the grey-hair Joni quoters only listen to records. I guess the complexity of who listens to what and how best to sell it to them is part of the problem for places like Sundance.

Still, I lament.
 
I hate hate hate to hear this. If I didn't have all the music I'll ever need for the rest of my life and 10 more I'd feel as if my hobby were being taken away. In the last 2 years (since coming here) I've amassed enough gear and media to make sure that, hobby or not, I'm always going to be in there. I'm a music lifer and lover...that's what I was known by before they took my title down. I will never change. I will continue to explore new forms of media while never forgetting where I came from in our hobby.
 
Sorry to read this, pm. :sigh: If it gets TOO bad down there, you can always come visit us in Seattle, & find my record store, Jive Time, in Fremont. I was just there today, & one of the owners turned me onto a couple freebies, LOL, so I know I'm in there too much now. :D ;)
 
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Dropped by today. This was about all they had left (other than a first pressing of Jefferson Airplane's "Takes Off" with the naughty lyric for $1000).

All the vinyl is going to Houston after they close to stock a new record store next to the Continental Club.
 
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