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| From | <nonstoppop@cox.net> |
| Subject | Re: record shops will not vanish |
| Date | Tue, 1 Jun 2004 19:37:55 -0400 |
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I stand chagrined. There's another record store that's now gone that was extremely helpful in my formative years with alternative music, and I can't believe I forgot it: the Music Man, in Norfolk, VA. I've lost track of how many tapes I bought there, including "Flogging A Dead Horse," the Sex Pistols collection that taught me that, for better or worse, there was more to the band than just "Never Mind The Bollocks." I also bought a few CDs there, though it was on its way downhill by the time CDs became a viable medium, i.e. when Capitol began releasing Beatles stuff on disc. Still, I bought the first Lilac Time there, the Beatles' "White Album," and the Jesus and Mary Chain's "Barbed Wire Kisses." And God knows how many t-shirts I bought there: the Waterboys, Jellyfish, the Pistols, the Wonder Stuff, the Smiths, and who knows how many other bands. I'd get paid at McDonald's, and I was off to the Music Man to spend my paycheck. I can't believe I forgot it earlier...particularly given that, although I didn't know her at the time, my wife worked there for awhile, as did David Middleton from the Waxing Poetics and Pam Shelby, who I believe is otherwise known as Purple Pam Shelby.
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