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| From | Benjamin Lukoff <blukoff@alvord.com> |
| Subject | Re: Soul was: The B-52's Funplex |
| Date | Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:24:18 -0800 (PST) |
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On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, Stewart Mason wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <Scotthomewood@cs.com>
> > I wonder if
> > Soundscan matters now that the Internet fills the music needs of so
> > many.
>
> Well, Amazon, among other online retailers, files Soundscan figures.
>
> I forget how spoiled for choice I am here in Boston when it comes to
> record stores. My wife and I walked to Harvard Square last weekend,
> and as we were walking through the square, I happened upon a really
> quite good record store that I had forgotten about. Not that I had
> forgotten its name, or couldn't remember where exactly it was, I had
> forgotten that this store EXISTED! When I can just plain forget the
> very existence of a perfectly good record store because you always go
> to one of the other four in the neighborhood (including Stereo Jack's,
> an outstanding place specializing in jazz and blues vinyl, and Twisted
> Village, my go-to place for psych and experimental music), I clearly
> am not fully appreciative of what I have.
>
Meanwhile, Bud's Jazz Records in Seattle's Pioneer Square has bitten the
dust. How Cellophane Square on the Ave. manages to survive is beyond me...
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