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| From | shawn campbell <thursdayinjune@yahoo.com> |
| Subject | Re: audities record store (non)workers |
| Date | Wed, 2 Jun 2004 13:11:35 -0700 (PDT) |
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While in college I always wanted a record store job,
but never seemed able to get one because I didn't have
"prior retail experience." Then my senior year, a
fairly cool punk/indie shop opened (all the other
places I had applied were chains, the curse of
attending college in the suburbs). Rather than the
standard application, they had a five-page music quiz,
which I took and aced.
A few days later, I got a call from Mr. Punk Rock (one
of the managers). He told me I had gotten an
extremely impressive score on the test, and said they
were interested in talking to me about an assistant
manager position. He then asked me a fateful
question:
"Just curious - what are you listening to RIGHT NOW?"
Well, I was listening to 'Green' by R.E.M., and I told
him so.
"REALLY?" he asked, with complete incredulity. "You
don't LIKE it, do you?"
When I told him that in fact I did like it, that I
felt it represented a good transition from indie to
major, he said to me, "I'm gonna have to get back to
you" and quickly hung up. It was the last I ever
heard from him.
For those of you in the Chicago area, the store was
Record Swap in downtown Naperville.
So you see, I have never worked in a record store, but
it's still a pretty good story. Oh, and I still like
'Green.'
--Shawn
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