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Record Store Buying: Do you try to impress the staff with your purchases?

I don't know what it is about record stores (and video stores of the past) but every time I enter one I am overcome by the need to pass gas. Spend most of my time trying to avoid being the identifiable source of origin after the fact. This results in a "crop duster" path of slow and steady through the rows, never lingering too long in one space, thus distributing the point of origin.

While that may have been TMI to the tenth power, it is my reality. Fair warning if you are ever in a record store with me.

With respect to my purchases, maybe I just go to weird stores but there is a split: either the cashier is a seriously medicinally altered pot-head who just nods while grooving to store music or they are a overly friendly sales motivated type who applauds all purchases with vigor to keep you coming back.
 
Frhodes said:
Who in the hell would I impress at Goodwill?
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:D

Actually, I brought up a stack of records to the counter at GW. The cashier had fond memories of a couple of my selections. It was a nice way to connect to a fellow human being.
 
Nothing cooler in this world than strutting up to the record store cashier "babe" flashing my new K-Tel finds. Life just doesn't get any better than that...


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andyecon said:
Hahah, sometimes I like to throw in something cheesy if I feel like my records look to hip. Luckily I like some really cheesy stuff.
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I see you're in Austin.
I went to Waterloo and End of an Ear this weekend that made me think of this thread.
 
zenallegro said:
Nothing cooler in this world than strutting up to the record store cashier "babe" flashing my new K-Tel finds. Life just doesn't get any better than that...


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Or the Ronco 50 hits on 2 LP collections with at least one Shaun Cassidy photo and song...
 
My selections and my appearance are 180 out from each other.

I often wish I could read the mind of the clerk. It would be entertaining.
 
Yeah, End of an Ear is my favorite shop, but we have a load of good places here. I never feel intimidated or anything (though End of an Ear employees are mostly in to metal or dark wave stuff, so not much for me to talk about with them).

Next time you're in town you should try Whetstone Audio (a hifi shop but also has vinyl for sale) and Friends of Sound (some really rare jazz passes through there, also tons of soul).

GPJeff said:
I see you're in Austin.
I went to Waterloo and End of an Ear this weekend that made me think of this thread.
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Seems like anything by CCR gets the 50+ year old gals behind the counter at my local thrift store really excited...


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When I check out of the store all the Babes what my phone number.:banana: I look like a hot sugar daddy spending more than they make in a month.:smoke:

Then thay ask me if I want help to the car, Sure Babe go get a hand truck:D
 
I like to chat

We have a new owner of a record store here in Kingston, NY. Renamed Rocket Number Nine,purchased by Doug Wygal. I talk to him and Dean. They are both knowledgeable and fun to talk to. Doug worked for Sony. He worked on an reissue of Duke Ellington's Indigo Lp. He sold me the mono and stereo versions. Has met Chad Kassum of Quallty Record Pressings and Accoustic Sounds. I am at the point where I have most of what I want in records (1500). It's the odd and rare stuff,or things I don't have. Doug had an early Roy Orbinson on Sun Records, a French pressing. Music he did before "Pretty Woman." It's mostly rockabilly. Really cool stuff. It was playing on the store system. It's fun in a real record store.

Last Jan. it was reported here that Tractor Supply had a new old stock AC DC Lp. For fun I stopped at the Delhi, NY. Store.Asked the checker if they had it. We had a good laugh. Bought one, should have bought both.

At Sal Army I usually don't talk to. There is one there I do talk to. I talk a lot because it hard to hide my enthuseasm about music,records and what I play them on.Love it all.

Eric:music:
 
Amoeba gives me free T-Shirts and gift certificats I generaly break the cashers sales record.

Yeah I guess I Impress:D
 
At my favorite shop, in Natick MA (you west-of-Boston guys know what I'm talking about), I hope the dear proprietress does NOT recognize what I'm up to.

But you can't really get anything past her. A pile of classical records, she goes right to the good ones and says, "These will cost little more."
 
I usually find my LP's at GW or Thrifts. GW is where I receive comments, but not for what I'm buying, but "You Have A Record Player?". Mostly the cashiers are young girls, asking me how an album sounds. If my wife would not kill me, I would be tempted to invite them over for a listen.
 
A few years back I was buying Warm Thoughts by Smokey Robinson at a local thrift,and the young girl behind the counter picked it up and said,"Wow,that guy is cute".
Jimmy
 
GPJeff said:
Here's the situation - you go in to a big city record store. The kind that the wait staff is not the "just for the paycheck" Best Buy type staff, rather genre specific knowledgeable by appearance - with an air of genre authority. Examples - trendy indie shops with the guys with a beard, punk the chicks with the pink or jet black hair or guys with mohawks, jazz well dressed guys with
convertible beamers, etc

Do you dare walk up to the counter with the generic/ pedestrian McDonalds type LP selection or do you did deeper for that rare band LP that you know you'll get a "ahhh cool choice" from the cashier?
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Wow. You really care about appearance a bit too much. It's normal to assess a situation with visual cues but you have to remain true to yourself.

I buy what strikes my fancy. Usually I have an idea of what I'm looking for but sometimes not.

I never try to impress the staff but many times I get comments on my selections. Most of the people working in the shops are interested in music and are open to many genres no matter what style they appear to be.
 
The guy to impress in Portland is Keith at Music Millennium. Sarcastic, pampas, some might say arrogant but he knows vinyl. Over the last few years I have gotten to know him and he is a great source of information. He once owned over 10,000 LP's and sold them when vinyl died out in the 90's. I think he is still a little bitter has he had many, many valuable LP's. He refused to tell me what he received for his collection. I know better than to poke the bear.

Impress Keith?

I just dropped $300 for two of the new Zep super deluxe box sets and a couple of other random LPs ... he didn't even bat an eye. I dropped $650 last year on my birthday - picked up the Stones box set; Keith yawned. So I asked him last Friday, what kind of customers make him happy. He pulled this LP out :

Any of you folks with Turquoise colored, Led Zeppelin I LP's better get them checked for value and then call your insurance agent.
 

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