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From | Marty Rudnick <mrudnick@marturo.com> |
Subject | Re: Rude Record Store Clerks |
Date | Sun, 14 May 2006 12:44:06 -0700 |
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...reminds me that Jack Black played a most excellent abusive record
store clerk in the movie High Fidelity.
Marty
Holmes Online wrote:
> From: "Mike Nicholson" <mnick@nc.rr.com>
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>> This would be a great thread.
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> Presto ipso facto bingo! Now it is.
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>> 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.
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> I think David Bash and Carl Cafarelli will back me up on this one:
> Alan, the owner of Desert Shore Records in Syracuse. Sneering,
> condescending, untrusting miscreant who would mock out his own
> customers for their selections. And god forbid you tried to SELL him a
> record - he's waft through the titles laughing out loud, bleating
> "this SUCKS!" or "what a FAG!"...after a couple of minutes of abuse
> he'd finally offer that person fifty cents for one record out of a
> stack of twenty...if that dose of humiliation wasn't enough and the
> customer would accept, he'd pay off in nickels and dimes and then
> SMASH the album to smithereens on the counter right in front of the
> customer.
>
> Not a sweeping generalization in life (and Mike is an exception as I
> have met him and he doesn't strike me as this type), but is there an
> equation that says the ruder the asshole you are, the bigger the loser
> you really are? I traveled the same paths as Alan and knew many people
> in common, and I think his persona and rude glee came from the fact
> that outside of that world he was incapable of human interaction. I
> didn't know a soul (and I knew a LOT of people in town) who could be
> considered a friend, and I never saw him anywhere else. I suspect he
> was as lonely and bitter a person as he appeared...so maybe he gets
> points for not being a phony. :)
>
> I did spend some time behind the counter at Gerber's and Record
> Theatre in Syracuse; the former employed some of the greatest people I
> ever met (despite the fact that the owner was a complete asshole) and
> the latter gave me the ability to broadcast whatever I was into to the
> subjects of Syracuse University including the stoner denizens of the
> "beach" on Marshall Street. Sweet life. Every payday I'd have to dip
> into my pocket and pay THEM because of what I bought that week.
> Wouldn't trade a moment of it.
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