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re: It’s Record Store Day, what are some of your favorite memories at your local record store?
Posted on 4/22/24 at 7:22 pm to Shockthamonkey
Posted on 4/22/24 at 7:22 pm to Shockthamonkey
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Bebop
I used to get concert tickets there. Always surfed the aisles when I went
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Posted on 4/22/24 at 7:39 pm to Kafka
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Leisure Landing
Had a friend who worked there in the 80s and Id go hang out and check out all the freaks who wondered in.
Posted on 4/22/24 at 7:52 pm to Zappas Stache
quote:Bill Mallory RIPquote:Had a friend who worked there in the 80s and Id go hang out and check out all the freaks who wondered in.
Leisure Landing
Posted on 4/22/24 at 7:57 pm to STigers
I miss being able to look through the bins and discovering interesting artists. Streaming content is just not the same.
Posted on 4/22/24 at 9:45 pm to VOR
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I miss being able to look through the bins and discovering interesting artists. Streaming content is just not the same.
You realize record stores still exist, right?
Posted on 4/22/24 at 11:00 pm to BigOrangeBri
Afghanistan record store, c. 1960
Posted on 4/23/24 at 6:11 am to STigers
I remember hanging out in Camelot with buddies to ogle the hot goth girl that worked there, going through the death metal tapes and laughing at all the names. We'd try and count how many fatal diseases had been taken before we reached the next section. I'd buy stuff there, listen and if it sucked, usually return it for exchange until this one smartass hipster - who was dating the hot goth girl - caught me trying to swap out a Sadus tape with the store manager who I had convinced after he played it, that there was something very wrong with the cassette. Hipster bastard assured him it was playing fine and that was just what the band sounded like.
Good times.
Good times.
Posted on 4/23/24 at 7:13 am to Zappas Stache
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Leisure Landing
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Id go hang out and check out all the freaks who wondered in.
Was probably me. Would ditch class all the time and head for LL, they had a great Import Section.
This post was edited on 4/23/24 at 7:15 am
Posted on 4/23/24 at 7:24 am to STigers
A friend of a friend worked at a record store. Pearl Jam’s second album Versus was a big fricking deal at the time.
We walked in after work and after the store closed. The CDs were still in the shipping box. They were going on sale the next day. This shop was small and not doing a midnight sale.
I can still smell the toxins when the box was cut open. We payed $25 I think for the CD. The guy kept 10 bucks and had to get there early to process the sales or some shite because he could not sell them earlier. I don’t think their system would let them run the item number.
We walked in after work and after the store closed. The CDs were still in the shipping box. They were going on sale the next day. This shop was small and not doing a midnight sale.
I can still smell the toxins when the box was cut open. We payed $25 I think for the CD. The guy kept 10 bucks and had to get there early to process the sales or some shite because he could not sell them earlier. I don’t think their system would let them run the item number.
Posted on 4/23/24 at 9:49 am to STigers
Record Rack - Houston, TX
Originally opening as the Jive Hive in 1945, the Record Rack (which was located on South Shepherd adjacent to the Alabama Theater, now a smoke shop) was synonymous with Numbers. Bruce Godwin bought the store in the early ‘80s and transformed the shop into a destination for alternative music and pretty much anything else you could think of. All of the cutting edge music and rare imports that Numbers played through the ‘80s and ‘90s got funneled through the Record Rack first, not too mention a great place to hangout and meet a lot of the bands that played at Numbers.
Originally opening as the Jive Hive in 1945, the Record Rack (which was located on South Shepherd adjacent to the Alabama Theater, now a smoke shop) was synonymous with Numbers. Bruce Godwin bought the store in the early ‘80s and transformed the shop into a destination for alternative music and pretty much anything else you could think of. All of the cutting edge music and rare imports that Numbers played through the ‘80s and ‘90s got funneled through the Record Rack first, not too mention a great place to hangout and meet a lot of the bands that played at Numbers.
Posted on 4/23/24 at 4:16 pm to Cdawg
Nice, that’s you in the black members only jacket right?
Posted on 4/25/24 at 6:02 am to LSU alum wannabe
My buddies and I in Woolworth's checking albums as part of our routine mall killing time walk around. We spotted the brand new Sticky Fingers album. The manager of the department said, "You want to hear it?" Of course we did and he opened one up and put it on the stereo.
Posted on 4/25/24 at 8:59 pm to STigers
Not a record store, but I bought my very first record at a Morgan & Lindsey dime store in Alexandria; a 45 of “Get Back” that I still have. Later, New Generation and Record Club of America. Glad to see so many vintage vinyl stores thriving again.
Posted on 4/25/24 at 9:29 pm to STigers
Camelot music at the mall. There was nothing like buying a brand new record and wearing it out.
Posted on 4/26/24 at 9:46 am to AUCom96
This
And this
Plus the cost of a CD at Musicland or whatever bullshite mall store being the equivalent of $50 in today's money just to hear the one song you liked. Record stores sucked arse. Once the used places started popping up it was a little better. I didn't shed a tear when my local chains closed.
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rather limited selections
And this
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Hipster bastard
Plus the cost of a CD at Musicland or whatever bullshite mall store being the equivalent of $50 in today's money just to hear the one song you liked. Record stores sucked arse. Once the used places started popping up it was a little better. I didn't shed a tear when my local chains closed.
Posted on 5/2/24 at 8:22 pm to TommyCheeseballs
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