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| From | Mike Nicholson <mnick@nc.rr.com> |
| Subject | Re: Where's the killer Queen?/Record Store Clerks |
| Date | Sat, 13 May 2006 10:37:12 -0400 |
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> michael vg wrote:
> >And I can't say how much I hate most record store clerks.
This would be a great thread. I'll start it off by saying that I was
the rudest record store clerk in the known universe between June 1980
and February 1983 at the Record Exchange in Greensboro, NC. Teenage
jerk. If it wasn't new wave... I hated it. Even my co-workers were
driven nuts. Of course, they were a bunch of dope-smoking
jazz-hippies. When I'd go to lunch they'd take out my XTC cassette
and start playing some ECM chamber-jazz (Miroslav Vituous, anyone?).
Our stereo was hooked up to an outside speaker in a high traffic area
right on the edge of the campus of UNC-G. I used to take great glee
in blasting the Plasmatics' Butcher Baby at derelicts and burnouts
gathered on the little brick structure in front of the store. Lure
'em in with some Little Feat and then... "Butcher Baby... ungh!".
I recently realized that I derive no joy from record shopping
anymore. Thank goodness for online retailers, iTunes and eMusic.
Sheer Heart Attack is the ultimate Queen record.
M
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