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| From | "Jaimie Vernon" <bullseyecanada@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: record shops will not vanish |
| Date | Mon, 31 May 2004 23:54:13 -0400 |
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At Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 23:48:10 Stewart wrote:
>At 08:17 PM 5/31/2004 EDT, KeanuBear@aol.com wrote:
> >Here in San Francisco Amoeba is always full of people, and the one time I
> >went to the Amoeba in LA (which is huge!) it was packed too.
>
>There's such a thing as TOO big, and I think the San Francisco Amoeba falls
>into that category. I've been once, and it was so large that I simply shut
>down. I hate a store where you have to pack a lunch to look at everything.
> I just went to the deep-discount remainder bins by the cashiers, kept a
>running total in my head until I hit a hundred bucks (which was at the
>start of the Gs), and checked out. I don't think I even looked at the rest
>of the store.
Oh, how times have changed, eh?
I used to look forward to spending an entire day at Peter Dunn's Vinyl
Museum on Lakeshore Blvd. in Toronto and wouldn't even get halfway through
the alphabet looking at all the LPs in stock. The Yonge Street store (just
north of Sam The Record Man) was also a 'pack a meal' excursion as well
where they had nearly 10,000 7" singles at one time.
Sigh!
Spend my Saturdays at Open City on The Danforth now (near Greenwood). Ian
Wallis, the owner, takes care of his customers and even knows what he does
and doesn't have to save folks time if they haven't the energy to dig
through his two floors of material.
Jaimie Vernon,
President, Bullseye Records
http://www.bullseyecanada.com
Author, Canadian Pop Music Encyclopedia
http://www.canoe.ca/JamMusicPopEncycloPages
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