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| From | "Stewart Mason" <craigtorso@verizon.net> |
| Subject | Re: Rude Record Store Clerks |
| Date | Sun, 14 May 2006 23:42:59 -0400 |
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I'm trying to think of any really spectacularly rude record store
clerks I've ever dealt with, and I don't think I've ever run across
anyone who was just spectacularly awful. I've seen plenty of bad
behavior in record stores, of course (I once saw the owner of a store
threaten to fire the entire staff because someone had priced a copy of
Marshall Crenshaw's debut single -- which I was buying -- at $1.95,
not knowing how rare it was), but I prefer to think of record store
clerks in terms of the guys at Bow Wow Records in Albuquerque, who
were a non-stop source of information, bad jokes and gossip. Special
props should be given to the guy who would let me pile a stack of LPs
between 12 and 24 inches high on the counter, flick through to cull
out the three or four particularly rare/expensive items, and then
quote me a price of twenty or thirty bucks for the rest.
S
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