TejasRichard
Babies taste of chicken..
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Record stores on "life-support"
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If you want to order online and still support a truly great brick-and-mortar store, check out http://waterloorecords.com/
Westy56
A symphony of paradox
I'm guessing your younger than me, or we have the exact opposite taste in music. Not that there's anything wrong with it.
It took me two painful sessions over two days to find one decent LP at Charlie's. I looked at every album in stock.
Steve
sxty8goats
Super Member
Wish I could do the same. The store that sells new vinyl here, Newbury Comics, doesn't carry used. And the used shops don't carry new. I shop both but I don't have any real reason to not buy online for new.
Naptown Rob
Ponographer
I think the author's premise badly misinterprets (or is ignorant of) both some histroy & some current conditions. First - one can easily say that what the author is calling "record stores" hit the skids first - well before the bookstores. In a big way. Witness the deaths of Tower, & the other superstores. They were Borders before Borders was Borders.
Digital delivery, in large part, was their Amazon.com (although ironically Amazon was also part of their Amazon).
Yes, industry revenue is down by huge wads, but not in the format that is the mainstay of what you & I are thinking of when we say "record store". Vinyl is the only physical format with actual growth.
But having said that, vinyl's paltry 1% market share doesn't bode well for any retailer. It's a very niche market.
Personally I like having a record store in town. It's a proper vinyl shop run by an appropriately eccentric fellow. For me it adds to the vibrancy downtown.
Do what you can to support your local shop.
+1.
My favorite record store:
I buy records every time I go there. I am due for shopping tomorrow. :yes:
scubaguy10
Well-Known Member
In Dayton, Ohio, we have seen stores slowly disappear for years. The best was Gem City Records in the Oregon District. It was well liked and popular, but got sold to a company who decided that record stores were bad business and closed down all that they owned. You have to wonder why they owned them in the first place. Then there was a guy, Gary, who owned Omega Records, a store in a bad section of town that had existed for 20 years or so. He was a good guy with a great selection of jazz and rock vinyl, even if a lot of it was in marginal (or worse) shape.
Anyway,Gem City closed down a year ago, and Gary's place was in the hood where business was tough. So he cut a deal to move to Gem City's old location, in a very high visibility area in a bar district. (The Oregon district is Dayton's 2 block long version of Beale Street). The store was moved, with about 15,000 records in stock.
Two weeks later Gary drops dead of a heart attack. A real shame, because this guy was interested in music, and the community, and was a really good guy. His son and daughter have vowed to keep the place going, and I hope they make it. If you're ever in my town, stop by, and then we can have a drink in one of the bars down the street.
Anyway,Gem City closed down a year ago, and Gary's place was in the hood where business was tough. So he cut a deal to move to Gem City's old location, in a very high visibility area in a bar district. (The Oregon district is Dayton's 2 block long version of Beale Street). The store was moved, with about 15,000 records in stock.
Two weeks later Gary drops dead of a heart attack. A real shame, because this guy was interested in music, and the community, and was a really good guy. His son and daughter have vowed to keep the place going, and I hope they make it. If you're ever in my town, stop by, and then we can have a drink in one of the bars down the street.
Mark W.
Nut house of the Universe
yes your local record store will to take paypal it's you that doesn't have a paypal debt card. I DO. Anywhere that takes Mastercard or Visa will take paypal from me.
Portland has 18 Record stores
The Willamette Valley part of Oregon has almost 30 Record stores.
Record stores appear to be doing just fine around here.
Portland has 18 Record stores
The Willamette Valley part of Oregon has almost 30 Record stores.
Record stores appear to be doing just fine around here.
patchboston
Active Member
An acquaintance I know, who works at newberry comics, once told me they can order any new record that their distributor has on file. This seems neat, but I'm always disappointed by what they carry in store
On the other hand, the only independent record stores on Cape are either over priced or thinking of vinyl as an afterthought.oh! there is one cool shop called 'stack of wax', located in provincetown (heads up if you're ever out this way). amazing selection of used goods!
sxty8goats
Super Member
An acquaintance I know, who works at newberry comics, once told me they can order any new record that their distributor has on file. This seems neat, but I'm always disappointed by what they carry in store
oh! there is one cool shop called 'stack of wax', located in provincetown (heads up if you're ever out this way). amazing selection of used goods!
I actually shop more on the North Shore. In a Gloucester there is a great shop called Mystery Train Records. Large store, well lit and they have a couple listening stations. On of the few stores I've found that do. Prices are normally @$5 per LP +/- .50$. If they dealt in new vinyl, they would be the only place I shop.
Not much around me (Brockton/Randolph) and I don't stop in the city much so MTR is where I go.
Edriz
AK Member
Wonderful, just what I need, another vinyl source. :tears: