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| From | "Sager, Greg" <greg.sager@bankofamerica.com> |
| Subject | Re: championship = reckless/emporium? |
| Date | Tue, 01 Jun 2004 19:28:37 -0500 |
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Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 15:04:19 -0700 (PDT)
From: kcronin <fiatluxury@yahoo.com>
To: audities@smoe.org
Subject: championship = reckless/emporium?
Message-ID: <20040601220419.33528.qmail@web50705.mail.yahoo.com>
I thought it was Reckless that they were trying to
emulate? Especially what with the JackBlack-esque
arrogance levels typically to be found in the
wickerpark/bucktown location (though truthfully i
haven't been to the other Reckless in years anyway.)
Yeah, I'd agree that that Reckless best parallels *High Fidelity*'s
Championship Vinyl, especially since in the movie Championship Vinyl is
located at the corner of Milwaukee and Honore -- the same neighborhood
(Wicker Park), in fact the same block, as that particular Reckless store.
I'm never quite certain, though, if the hipster elitism of the staff at that
Reckless is more a reflection of the store itself or of the fact that it's
in Wicker Park (aka the "Guyville" of Liz Phair fame, the midwest's premier
citadel of artsy snootiness).
I
think Record Emporium blows, personally, but maybe
that's because I haven't talked to the folks in it
and/or owner like you did, DB.
I echo both the complaints about Record Emporium's selection and merchandise
quality and the plaudits that David Bash gave the place for the guys who
work there. About three years ago I was hunting for *Big Money Item* by the
Greenberry Woods on gemm.com. Much to my surprise, Record Emporium had a
copy. So I took the el over to the store and picked up the CD. At the
counter, I told the owner (Mike Felten) why I was there, and he and I had a
nice five-minute chat about online services and their impact upon
bricks-and-mortar music stores.
They definitely pass what I will now henceforth call, in David's honor, "the
Partridge Family Test": When you bring a strange and/or uncool item to the
counter of a music store, does the clerk sneer at you or does your purchase
elicit his/her curiosity and a friendly conversation -- or at the very least
a neutral nonchalance?
laurie's planet of sound forever! (or at least until i
decide once and for all that they aren't carrying
enough new pop for my taste, which happens
occasionally, when they are between knowledgable
popsters on the staff.)
I suspect that Kelly and Mike and I are not the only members of the Chicago
pop mafia who consider Laurie's Planet of Sound to be "our" music store. And
I don't worry about the Partridge Family Test there; on Sunday I brought a
used Meat Loaf LP up to the counter under what might've been seen in
music-geek circles as an inauspicious moment for such a purchase (Louvin
Brothers on the store P.A., clerk wearing a Cranes t-shirt), and the clerk
never even blinked.
Gregory Sager
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