Landmark London record store goes into administration

[Kounelaki]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/au ... nistration

Sister Ray is my favourite record store.

[kook]

That's awful!

[withahip]

That's common. There won't be any record stores in 10 years. Not one.

Well, we still have Amoeba Records for now . .

http://www.amoeba.com/

[moondance]

There's nothing quite like holding a cd in your hands. It is sad. I don't really believe in free downloads because I believe that artists deserve to be compensated. I know I'm probably in the minority on that issue.

[withahip]

There's nothing quite like holding a cd in your hands. It is sad. I don't really believe in free downloads because I believe that artists deserve to be compensated. I know I'm probably in the minority on that issue.

No.

And I miss albums even more. When I take out my old collection I remember how great it is to have the artwork like that and placing the vinyl on the turntable. It isn't going back, and digital is a lot more conveinent, but playing an album was an event with my own ceremony of placing the vinyl and the needle and even the skips and pops becoming part of the songs.

I think this is called nostalgia. (Let's not forget the condescending dicks that often worked at the record shops and scoffed at purchases. Yes, the memories still hurt.)


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When I think back
On all the crap I learned in high school
It's a wonder
I can think at all
And though my lack of edu---cation
Hasn't hurt me none
I can read the writing on the wall

Kodachrome
They give us those nice bright colors
They give us the greens of summers
Makes you think all the world's a sunny day, Oh yeah
I got a Nikon camera
I love to take a photograph
So mama don't take my Kodachrome away

If you took all the girls I knew
When I was single
And brought them all together for one night
I know they'd never match
my sweet imagination
everything looks WORSE in black and white

Kodachrome
They give us those nice bright colors
They give us the greens of summers
Makes you think all the world's a sunny day, Oh yeah
I got a Nikon camera
I love to take a photograph
So mama don't take my Kodachrome away

[JackT]

No.

Actually the answer is "Yes" almost by definition. If a majority of music-consumers felt the way Moondance does, then the record stores would not be going out of business.

[withahip]

Actually the answer is "Yes" almost by definition. If a majority of music-consumers felt the way Moondance does, then the record stores would not be going out of business.

I meant the twelve of us on this board. But now that you mention it, as I look at my itunes and the number of songs from BF, I agree with both of you.

[blinkilite]

There's nothing quite like holding a cd in your hands. It is sad.

yes i miss this too. i miss the "browsing" in the store. CDs i would purchase because i saw it there, or i liked the album cover, or i didn't know a new album had been released by that band... or whatever. chances are i would buy at least one or two extra discs than what i came in the store for... everytime i went music shopping.

this doesn't exist with online music. you buy what you want and all the music ads are for top 40 musicians only, who i would most likely never buy anyway...

it sucks i miss record stores.

[Epsilon]

..like the one in the Pretty In Pink movie, where the Bunnymen were being
played in the background. Those were good days.

[JackT]

I miss buying carbon paper.

[Kounelaki]

I miss buying LPs, but not typewriter ribbons.

[withahip]

Remember this tragedy?

ATHENS, GA—Thirty-seven record-store clerks are missing and feared dead in the aftermath of a partial roof collapse during a Yo La Tengo concert Monday.

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Dazed record-store clerks stagger away from the scene of the roof collapse.

"We're trying our best to rescue these clerks, but, realistically, there's not a lot of hope," said emergency worker Len Guzman, standing outside the 40 Watt Club, where the tragedy occurred. "These people are simply not in the physical condition to survive this sort of trauma. It's just a twisted mass of black-frame glasses and ironic Girl Scouts T-shirts in there."

Also believed to be among the missing are seven freelance rock critics, five vinyl junkies, two 'zine publishers, an art-school dropout, and a college-radio DJ.

The collapse occurred approximately 30 minutes into the Hoboken, NJ, band's set, when a poorly installed rooftop heating-and-cooling unit came loose and crashed through the roof, bringing several massive steel beams down with it.

Andy Ringler, an assistant manager at Wuxtry Records, sustained head trauma when he ran back into the building to rescue a fellow clerk.

"I just had to help," said Ringler, listed in stable condition at a nearby hospital. "I saw all these people coming out bleeding and dazed. I gave up my vintage Galaxie 500 shirt just to help some guy bandage his arm. It was horrible."

Added Ringler: "I just pray they can somehow get this club rebuilt in time for next month's Dismemberment Plan/Death Cab For Cutie show. That's a fantastic double bill."

Joe Gaer was among the lucky record-store clerks who escaped unscathed.

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Some of the missing clerks from Monday's Yo La Tengo show.

"I was in the bathroom when it happened," said Gaer, a part-time cashier at School Kids Records. "There was this loud crashing sound, followed by even louder crashing, and then all these screams. If I hadn't left to take a leak during 'Moby Octopad'—to be honest, never one of my favorite songs on I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One—I'd probably be among the dead."

"It's just tragic," Gaer continued. "I heard they were going to play Daniel Johnston's 'Speeding Motorcycle.' They almost never do that one live."

Devastated by the disaster, Athens record-store owners are still holding out hope that their employees are still alive.

"All I can do is wait and pray they'll find them," said Bert's Discount Records owner Bert Halyard, who lost clerks Todd Fischer and Dan Harris in the collapse. "They were going to start an experimental/math-rock band together. Dan had a really nice Moog synthesizer and an original pressing of the first Squirrel Bait EP."

As of press time, police and emergency rescue workers were still sifting through the wreckage for copies of Magnet, heated debates over the definition of emo, and other signs of record-store-clerk life.

"I haven't seen this much senseless hipster carnage since the Great Sebadoh Fire Of '93," said rescue worker Larry Kolterman, finding a green-and-gold suede Puma sneaker in the rubble. "It's such a shame that all those bastions of indie-rock geekitude had to go in their prime. Their cries of 'sellout' have been forever silenced."

[In The Margins]

I miss the double fold-out albums. Those were great for rolling. Don't know what the kids of today use.

[Mr. Brian]

I miss buying carbon paper.

Yeah now some fancy machine does it with 0's and 1's!

[JackT]

In my day, you used a mimeograph machine and a typewriter, and you LIKED it, by gum.