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| From | Michael Coxe <audities@sonic.net> |
| Subject | Re: record shops will not vanish |
| Date | Tue, 01 Jun 2004 08:04:20 -0700 |
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Stewart wrote:
> At 08:17 PM 5/31/2004 EDT, KeanuBear 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.
Although a habitual Ameoba customer, I pretty much stick to the LP vinyl
area (3 Julie Driscoll's, Windbreakers' "At Home with Bobby & Tim" & a
nifty Ban Caruso comp w/non-lp Fortunate Sons song last trip) & filling
in specific collection holes (the Twinn Connexion comp last trip). Their
used cd section isn't better than the other Bay Area independents IMO,
though their soul/r&b section has yielded some gems.
- mc
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