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| From | "Gene Good" <javagene@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: Moby Disc gone...End of an era for used record stores (LA area) |
| Date | Thu, 08 Jan 2004 19:24:25 +0000 |
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Djangos are in bankruptcy?When did this happen?
>From: David Pearlman <dap@arlingtonmass.com>
>Reply-To: audities@smoe.org
>To: audities@smoe.org
>Subject: Moby Disc gone...End of an era for used record stores (LA area)
>Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 14:15:56 -0500
>
>This may mean something to some of you who live in the LA area. Moby Disc
>was for years one of the best used record stores in the San Fernandy
>Valley.
>It was better in days or yore (especially when there was only one store, on
>Victory Blvd), but still worth a look. A few years they got bought out by
>the Django's chain, who had delusions of becoming a national used music
>player.
>They still exist, but are now in bankruptcy.
>
>Anyway...
>
>Just got back from a visit to the folks out in LA...Last Friday night, I
>drove
>over to the local Moby Disc (across from Topanga Plaza in Canoga Park)
>and...
>it was replaced by a phone store...Hmmm...Went back home and called the
>Sherman
>Oaks store. Nope, number disconnected. Seems the entire chain went belly up
>sometime
>in November. (Last time I was there was back in September I think). Sigh.
>
>Seems there are no good used record stores left in "The Valley". My other
>favorite
>in the Valley, Record Trader, mysteriously closed a couple of years ago.
>(They
>always seemed quite busy, so I never figured that one out)...
>
>Are there any good used stores left in the Valley I don't know about?
>
>To make myself feel better, I drove over the hill into the city to visit
>Record Surplus and
>Rhino. (I don't much like Amoeba...Too big, too much crap to sift through.
>I LOVE used
>record stores and have spent too many years of my life in 'em, but I find
>Amoeba overwhelming.
>I kinda liked the Berkeley store when it first opened (was there the first
>day there were
>open!), but now...not so much.)
>
>dap
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