10 Things We'll Miss About Record Stores

moxham123 · Post by **moxham123** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 12:04 am

From FOX Entertainment News

This week has brought with it three more harbingers of record store doom.

First, Prince announced yesterday he’s releasing his new trilogy of albums LOtUSFLOW3R, MPLSoUND and Elixer exclusively at Target stores.

Second, U2 is using a week-long stint on "The Late Show With David Letterman" to promote their new CD, "No Line On The Horizon," because there's no real other way to get the album out there in people's faces for an extended period of time.

And third, Virgin is closing all of its remaining New York record stores by this spring (which you read here today on FOX411), leaving the country's largest city with a smattering of mom-and-pop indie shops, and little else.

So stick a fork in the record store (an admitted misnomer, but never did call them CD stores). It is done.

PHOTO ESSAY: The Top 10 Things We'll Miss About Record Stores.

10. "Talking to the guy who worked there about when the new AC/DC album, or whoever, was coming in. And him being as excited as I was."

9. "Listening to music on headphones." It's weird how cool that feature was when it started. No more headphones at Tower, the chain is kaput.

8. "People watching." John Cusack and Jack Black did some seriosu people watching in "High Fiedlity," about the goings-on at a Chicago record store.

7. "Coming across that old obscure album that you listened to obsessively." Like this offering from The Velvet Underground.

6. "I miss listening to the music playing in the store. A couple of times I wound up buying the music I heard on the speakers." Virgin played their music LOUD.

5. "I will miss the leisure of browsing the endless aisles � more than the music it was the free time just to explore." Or to scope out babes, like Cusack in "High Fiedlity."

4. "Going through the bargain bins."

3. "Amusing oneself by trying to find the most obscure designated section -- Cuban Jazz, Afrobeat, Darkwave."

2. "Buying records just for the cover." Could there be any better reason to buy this one?

1. "Playing with the zipper on the Sticky Fingers album." The original Andy Warhol-designed Rolling Stones album cover had an actual zipper stitched in. You can't play with a zipper on iTunes. You just can't.

f.sciarrillo · Post by **f.sciarrillo** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 4:57 am

What is a record store ?

Mikey Wax · Post by **Mikey Wax** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 12:49 pm

I used to love the blue stickers they had at the Wall. You could do anything to a CD and get it replaced.

I just hated the fact that record stores never really carried any music I wanted to buy.

JackANSI · Post by **JackANSI** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 3:39 pm

Mikey Wax wrote:I used to love the blue stickers they had at the Wall. You could do anything to a CD and get it replaced.

I just hated the fact that record stores never really carried any music I wanted to buy.

Yeah they kinda shot themselves in the foot when all they carry is the same thing that is for free on the radio...

KyleMayket · Post by **KyleMayket** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 10:29 pm

Mikey Wax wrote:I used to love the blue stickers they had at the Wall. You could do anything to a CD and get it replaced.

I just hated the fact that record stores never really carried any music I wanted to buy.

I was on a Sunny Day Real Estate kick back in 2003, and I went to FYE and looked for them, and go fig, they didn't have any (the had the little name placard that goes behind the CD for them, but no CD's). One of the clerks came up to me and asked if they could help, and I said yes and told them what I was looking for. He went behind the desk, got this big book and opened it up for me and asked what SDRE discs I wanted, I said "all of them" and he ordered them for me. when they came in like 3-4 days later, they all came with a $10 coupon for the cd, and various other "% off" coupons, so I ended up paying like $1.30 per CD. It was sweet!

DirtySanchez · Post by **DirtySanchez** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 2:56 pm

KyleMayket wrote:
Mikey Wax wrote:I used to love the blue stickers they had at the Wall. You could do anything to a CD and get it replaced.

I just hated the fact that record stores never really carried any music I wanted to buy.
I was on a Sunny Day Real Estate kick back in 2003, and I went to FYE and looked for them, and go fig, they didn't have any (the had the little name placard that goes behind the CD for them, but no CD's). One of the clerks came up to me and asked if they could help, and I said yes and told them what I was looking for. He went behind the desk, got this big book and opened it up for me and asked what SDRE discs I wanted, I said "all of them" and he ordered them for me. when they came in like 3-4 days later, they all came with a $10 coupon for the cd, and various other "% off" coupons, so I ended up paying like $1.30 per CD. It was sweet!

Posting to say Sunny Day Real Estate is soooo good!

Makes me remember emo before it became a bastardized fashion statement for retarded goth kids who listen to crap music that really has nothing to do with emo.

KyleMayket · Post by **KyleMayket** » Fri Mar 06, 2009 12:41 am

DirtySanchez wrote:
KyleMayket wrote:
Mikey Wax wrote:I used to love the blue stickers they had at the Wall. You could do anything to a CD and get it replaced.

I just hated the fact that record stores never really carried any music I wanted to buy.
I was on a Sunny Day Real Estate kick back in 2003, and I went to FYE and looked for them, and go fig, they didn't have any (the had the little name placard that goes behind the CD for them, but no CD's). One of the clerks came up to me and asked if they could help, and I said yes and told them what I was looking for. He went behind the desk, got this big book and opened it up for me and asked what SDRE discs I wanted, I said "all of them" and he ordered them for me. when they came in like 3-4 days later, they all came with a $10 coupon for the cd, and various other "% off" coupons, so I ended up paying like $1.30 per CD. It was sweet!
Posting to say Sunny Day Real Estate is soooo good!

Makes me remember emo before it became a bastardized fashion statement for retarded goth kids who listen to crap music that really has nothing to do with emo.

good post Brian, SDRE and The Get Up Kids should actively be hunting down everyone who is responsible for this current "Emo".

Plastered Bastards · Post by **Plastered Bastards** » Fri Mar 06, 2009 1:36 am

I still go to record stores all the time.
We got a bunch of them down here.
and EMO sux

KyleMayket · Post by **KyleMayket** » Fri Mar 06, 2009 11:57 am

Plastered Bastards wrote:I still go to record stores all the time.
We got a bunch of them down here.
and EMO sux

This current "Emo" sucks, but back when it started it was good, especially SDRE and The Get Up Kids, as I said before, this new brand of emo is something totally different.

metalchurch · Post by **metalchurch** » Fri Mar 06, 2009 12:58 pm

What does Emo mean?

whitedevilone · Post by **whitedevilone** » Fri Mar 06, 2009 1:43 pm

metalchurch wrote:What does Emo mean?

Mostly it's whinny,skinny dudes wearing their sister's jeans.

Oh yeah they play emotional rock.Whatever the hell that is.

DirtySanchez · Post by **DirtySanchez** » Fri Mar 06, 2009 2:10 pm

whitedevilone wrote:
metalchurch wrote:What does Emo mean?
Mostly it's whinny,skinny dudes wearing their sister's jeans. Oh yeah they play emotional rock.Whatever the hell that is.

Thats what I hate about what is called emo Now. Here is a little from WIKI:

This article is about the style of music. For other uses, see Emo (disambiguation).
Emo
Stylistic origins
Early
Hardcore punk
Indie rock

Late
Post-hardcore
Melodic hardcore
Pop punk
Cultural origins
Mid 1980s, Washington, D.C.
Typical instruments
Vocals - lead and rhythm guitars - bass - drums
Mainstream popularity Underground in the 1980s and 1990s, high mainstream popularity in the 2000s
Fusion genres
Screamo
Regional scenes
Midwestern emo
Other topics
List of emo groups - Timeline of alternative rock
Sister project Look up emo in
Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Emo (pronounced /ˈiːmoʊ/) is a genre of music that originated from hardcore punk [1] and later adopted pop punk influences when it became mainstream in the United States.

It has since come to describe several variations of music with common roots and associated fashion and stereotypes.

In the mid-1980s, the term emo described a subgenre of hardcore punk which stemmed from the Washington, D.C. hardcore scene. In later years, the term emocore, short for "emotional hardcore",[2][3] was also used to describe the emotional performances of bands in the Washington, D.C. "Revolution Summer" movement and some of the offshoot regional scenes such as Rites of Spring, Embrace, One Last Wish, Beefeater, Gray Matter, Fire Party, and later, Moss Icon.

In the mid-1990s, the term emo began to refer to the indie scene that followed the influences of Fugazi, which itself was an offshoot of the first wave of emo. Bands including Sunny Day Real Estate, Far and Texas Is the Reason had a more indie rock style of emo, more melodic and less chaotic. The so-called "indie emo" scene survived until the late 1990s, when many of the bands either disbanded or shifted to mainstream styles. As the remaining indie emo bands entered the mainstream, newer bands began to emulate the mainstream style.

Today popular bands like Fall Out Boy, My Chemical Romance,[4] Panic at the Disco,[5] and Paramore[6] are rock bands that are identified as being in or evolved from the emo music genre.
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I like all of the stuff from the 80's-90's. This new shit is nothing but a fashion trend.

KyleMayket · Post by **KyleMayket** » Fri Mar 06, 2009 2:43 pm

true dat!

Plastered Bastards · Post by **Plastered Bastards** » Fri Mar 06, 2009 10:05 pm

Emo: pronounced EMO means in english: GAY!!!!!!!!

DrumAndDestroy · Post by **DrumAndDestroy** » Sat Mar 07, 2009 6:50 am

Plastered Bastards wrote:Emo: pronounced EMO means in english: GAY!!!!!!!!

amen clete

DirtySanchez · Post by **DirtySanchez** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 1:02 pm

You guys don't like fugazi? That's gay.

DrumAndDestroy · Post by **DrumAndDestroy** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 4:18 pm

DirtySanchez wrote:You guys don't like fugazi? That's gay.

ehhh...they're okay. are they still a band?

DirtySanchez · Post by **DirtySanchez** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 4:29 pm

DrumAndDestroy wrote:
DirtySanchez wrote:You guys don't like fugazi? That's gay.
ehhh...they're okay. are they still a band?

Not really. Wiki says "on hiatus since 2002"

Plastered Bastards · Post by **Plastered Bastards** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 8:42 pm

Fugazi= Gay
Should have never broke up Minor Threat

DirtySanchez · Post by **DirtySanchez** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 8:46 pm

Plastered Bastards wrote:Fugazi= Gay
Should have never broke up Minor Threat

hahaha! I agree Minor Threat > Fugazi.