19 August 2000
Submitted by eve on Sun, 08/20/2000 - 5:54pm. Um...
"And somewhere around here is Tower Records... let's see if we can ask where it is."
--A 40-something man talking to his family who was huddled around a map, standing at the corner of Telegraph and Channing in Berkeley
Now this is far more amusing if you know Berkeley, and know that the guy was standing in front of Rasputin Music, a fully decent record store as he spoke. He was also one block away from Amoeba, one of the most awesome record stores around that has fair prices too. Tower records is a huge chain store, who sells primarily the CDs on MTV's TRL top 10, at $20 a pop.
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Posted by Anne Onymous on Sun, 11/12/2000 - 10:05pm.
Archived comment by Midulin:
Now see, your comments are humourous, although I am sure they're true today. I lived in NoCal for about a year when I was, um... younger (1986) and Tower was a great place to get some of the best vinyl (yes, albums, LPs, *records*) around. Having come from Michigan, it was a totally amazing experience to walk in to a record store and find more than one hardcore punk album. In fact, it was amazing to find a store that HAD a hardcore punk *section*. Wow.
I later moved back to Michigan (California being a good decision but at the wrong time... much too young to be on my own) to find the same mediocre selection of bands at the local record stores. "Bauhaus?? Isn't that a German design movement?" Uh huh. Never mind.
Michigan is still sorely lacking serious music stores. I remember going to Chicago and finding Armageddon Records, on Broadway, I think, and just being in complete awe. A music store devoted strictly to *gothic*. Amazing.
Still, I couldn't see a store like that flying in the white-bread suburbian wasteland of SE Michigan... oh, how I miss good music...
Thank the gods for Broadband and MP3.com...
Midulin
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