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| From | Career Records <eldeluxe@mcn.net> |
| Subject | Re: audities-digest V3 #673 (14 msgs) |
| Date | Thu, 15 Dec 2005 19:02:30 -0700 |
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So are you guys saying Media Play used to be Musicland? I used to work for Discount
Records, which I believe was bought up by Musicland or one of those other awful chains.
Disro was still an old school retail place when I started in '73. I think they had only
recently ended the tie requirement.
That little shop had more stuff, and I mean really good stuff; deep catalog, than any
other store I later worked at. Or even most any shop you can imagine. It was about 33%
classical and the rest was a wide range of rock, folk, jazz, "ethnic" and the rest. To
work there you had to know all the music. I did the library orders, so I saw what
crazed librarians did with their time. I saw the writing on the wall when some young
accountant time walked around and said "what do you need all these catalog lps for,
when you could just have the greatest hits?"
All the other shops I worked at were more hit oriented, but they always gave me a free
hand to load in real records. It's just that all the owners were dopes, so all those
chains crashed.
I dig it when I get to the city and can hit the shops. I can't say I'm that impressed
with most of them. These days Seattle is sort of dominated by Sonic Boom and Easy
Street. In my mind they are almost exactly the same. Only the used bins offer any
excitement. Rubato's was ok, but they were tiny. Again great used stuff. Jive Time was
ok, but a lot more dregs to dig through. Prices weren't bad.
I don't know, nowhere was it "exciting" to look around, and no one was all that
friendly. It probably doesn't help that I have a better collection than most of these
shops could ever manage. It's not like any of those clerks even care about playing
something that might grab my attention!!
We got your Bored'ers and B+N here. Useless. We also have a Hastings, which is in all
the Montana cities. The people working there could be selling shoes for all I can tell.
The local indie isn't much better. I try, really try to buy stuff from them, but it is
also very expensive and really limited stock. Phew...
Thank Clapton, I have a private line to Mod Lang, so I get most all my needs taken care
of from my dining room table. I just miss the days of digging through singles and find
albums I'd never seen before...
No, I have to dig through my own library to find stuff I didn't know I had, or had
forgotten! Still some surprises there.
Good thing there aren't many great new records I need :>)
Robert Sutliff wrote:
> Well, I live in Columbus also (OK - Powell, actually). I bought $90 worth of
> stuff from Media Play today. I've got to say I never really cared to shop
> there though. Every time I'd check out I would be badgered by the clerk to
> join their frequent customer club or have magazine subscriptions pushed at
> me.
>
> As an alternative I'd suggest Borders or the several good record stores near
> Ohio State.
>
> Bobby Sutliff
> (who's worked at the Wal Friggin Mart Distribution Center for 8 years)
>
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