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| From | Benjamin Lukoff <lukoff@gmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: audacious record stores |
| Date | Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:31:26 -0700 |
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On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Stewart Mason <craigtorso@verizon.net>wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "rickbilous" <rickbilous@yahoo.ca>
>
>> on a side note I just got back from my first trip to New York, and while I
>> love the city and its residents, the record store shopping was absolutely
>> atrocious. Considering the number of people that live there, there weren't
>> very many stores ( I went to about 15), and the selection in them was lame -
>> I went to Greenwich Village (Bleeker Street) and the East Village (St Mark's
>> Place) - am I missing something? A lot of the music stores that were in the
>> phone book had since gone out of business. Is this happening in other
>> cities? I honestly felt like I wasted a day that I could have been
>> sightseeing instead (or waiting in line to see Letterman).I know in Calgary,
>> quite a few stores have closed down recently(in the small chance you will be
>> coming to Calgary, check out RECORDLAND - still the single best record store
>> I have ever been to ( I know I have to check out Amoeba in the future). In
>> my opinion, the best city to go music shopping is without question SEATTLE
>> there has to be about 10 great stores in the Emerald City. New Yorkers, I
>> know you love your city, and I love it too, but the music stores stink!
>>
>
> Seattle is definitely a great record store town, but I have to give it up
> for Boston. Even besides the justifably legendary Newbury Comics (I would
> put even a
>
Seattle's a great record-store town? I guess I've been lucky all my 34 years
and never knew it?
Granted, Bop Street is awesome, Golden Oldies keeps chugging along, and
Sonic Boom and Easy Street are OK, but Second Time Around is a shadow of its
former self, I can't understand how Al's is still in business (though I
still drop by and will miss them if they shut down), Cellophane Square just
closed (http://www.flickr.com/photos/lukobe/3706400000/), the Landing closed
a few years ago...
Then again, maybe the fact that Satisfaction Records just moved from the
Ave. to Roosevelt Way, just a block north of me on the old hi-fi row, should
be looked on as something positive. But really, I don't know — maybe I've
just been spoiled?
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