Stewart wrote:
> At 08:17 PM 5/31/2004 EDT, KeanuBear wrote:
>>> Here in San Francisco Amoeba is always full of people, and the 
>>> one time I went to the Amoeba in LA (which is huge!) it was 
>>> packed too.
> 
> There's such a thing as TOO big, and I think the San Francisco 
> Amoeba falls into that category.  I've been once, and it was so 
> large that I simply shut down.  I hate a store where you have to 
> pack a lunch to look at everything. I just went to the 
> deep-discount remainder bins by the cashiers, kept a running total 
> in my head until I hit a hundred bucks (which was at the start of 
> the Gs), and checked out.  I don't think I even looked at the rest 
> of the store.

Although a habitual Ameoba customer, I pretty much stick to the LP vinyl
area (3 Julie Driscoll's, Windbreakers' "At Home with Bobby & Tim" & a
nifty Ban Caruso comp w/non-lp Fortunate Sons song last trip) & filling
in specific collection holes (the Twinn Connexion comp last trip). Their
used cd section isn't better than the other Bay Area independents IMO,
though their soul/r&b section has yielded some gems.

  - mc