bergun
Well-Known Member
Was at our local B&N store looking for a couple of hardcover books on album cover art, but found a book by the title of "Record Store Days" for $19.00. Overall, a pretty good book covering the past, present and future of the few true and still operating record stores around the country and what made them special.
After reading a few pages, I knew I had to add this to my must read list since most of it rang true with me. As a teen growing up in Seattle in the mid/late 70s, I remembered how I enjoyed hanging out in Tower Records by the Seattle Center, the few mom & pop shops in the CD area, the downtown Music World and Peaches Records in the University District, browsing the bins and listening to whatever was being played at the time AND basically being around people like me, which led me to a life long love affair with music and stereo equipment.
Currently, I work/live in Anchorage, AK and the only record store in town, if you what to call it that, closed down a few years ago leaving no where to go for a vinyl fix, so I now head back home to Seattle about 3 times a year, just to shop at the various record shops that are still open AND again, to be around people like me!! I know that every time I enter “Jive Time Records” I feel a few years younger and its like reliving some of my best times in life… Which sounds pretty sorry, but I hope most of you out there will understand what I really mean by that statement.
This is something a lot of people will not understand in today’s world, but there was something special about the record stores back in the day that no big box store like Best Buys, WalMart or Target can ever fill.
BTW, I have family in NYC and even to this day, when I pass by the old Tower Records building on Broadway, it just doesn’t seem right without them there… I even missed the one that was uptown, close to Central Park!!
I just hope that our few remaining independent record shops will remain open since I’m about 4 years away from retiring from my second career and moving back to Seattle, just to send more time doing the things that “I” enjoy in life, like spending the evening hours in a dust filled record shop, with people like me (AGAIN!!), looking for that “must have” lp with the near perfect vinyl and cover art!!
After reading a few pages, I knew I had to add this to my must read list since most of it rang true with me. As a teen growing up in Seattle in the mid/late 70s, I remembered how I enjoyed hanging out in Tower Records by the Seattle Center, the few mom & pop shops in the CD area, the downtown Music World and Peaches Records in the University District, browsing the bins and listening to whatever was being played at the time AND basically being around people like me, which led me to a life long love affair with music and stereo equipment.
Currently, I work/live in Anchorage, AK and the only record store in town, if you what to call it that, closed down a few years ago leaving no where to go for a vinyl fix, so I now head back home to Seattle about 3 times a year, just to shop at the various record shops that are still open AND again, to be around people like me!! I know that every time I enter “Jive Time Records” I feel a few years younger and its like reliving some of my best times in life… Which sounds pretty sorry, but I hope most of you out there will understand what I really mean by that statement.
This is something a lot of people will not understand in today’s world, but there was something special about the record stores back in the day that no big box store like Best Buys, WalMart or Target can ever fill.
BTW, I have family in NYC and even to this day, when I pass by the old Tower Records building on Broadway, it just doesn’t seem right without them there… I even missed the one that was uptown, close to Central Park!!
I just hope that our few remaining independent record shops will remain open since I’m about 4 years away from retiring from my second career and moving back to Seattle, just to send more time doing the things that “I” enjoy in life, like spending the evening hours in a dust filled record shop, with people like me (AGAIN!!), looking for that “must have” lp with the near perfect vinyl and cover art!!
