Long Live the Record Store
Thursday April 3, 2008
I didn't know much when I was six years old, but I knew enough to know how lucky I was to live next door to a tiny, dusty record shop attached to our neighbor's garage.
Although that record store and many others like it have long since given way to digital downloads and big chain retail stores, there are still plenty of these small, independent stores whose owners and employees not only know but really care about music.
It is for all of those that Record Store Day is being celebrated on Saturday, April 19. It's also an occasion that has caused me to realize how much that little record store next door shaped my future.
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For me it was Dirty Jack’s Record Rack on the east side of Milwaukee. Great memories and I still have most of the albums I bought there.
Love that store name {;>) Thanks for posting.
nowdays very low no music shop in the world.bcz we can get lot new updated mp3 songs from net ————————————–
mahe
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Good Vibrations in Seekonk, MA was a huge influence but it is long gone, gobbled up by a corporate chain back in the ’80s…..which is also gone.
Luke’s Record Exchange in Pawtucket, RI was the local store. I used to ride my bike over after school almost everyday. It’s still there but it’s a shell of it’s former self but I do stop in from time to time.
2 Guys Music in Warwick, RI was my stop twice a week from the mid-’90s through it’s sad closing in 2002.
These 3 stores shaped my life as a music lover and a record store junkie. I think of them everytime I enter an FYE or a Best Buy and can’t find anything to buy!
Steve
Heavy Metal Addiction
Hey rockandrollguru……as much as things change…they still stay the same. I own a used record and CD shop now that just happens to be next-door to where Dirty Jack’s Record Rack used to be….all those years ago. And if you don’t play those records anymore….i’d love to buy them!