Record Shops RIP
Posted by: Not For Me on 20 June 2004
After visiting London yesterday, I found yet more of my regular shopping haunts have closed down.
There has been a spate of closures in the last few months:
Rhythm Records & the dance shop downstairs from it in Camden.
Tower Records in Picadilly Circus & the other ones elsewhere.
Koobla and XSF in Berwick Street.
Are people not buying music anymore? Is downloading to blame?
Is the music scene awaiting a new kick up the arse again? (please don't offer me Keane or that flavour of the week from the NME!)
Anyone else wishing to note the passing of decent shops?
DS
OTD - Meat Beat Manifesto - Echo in Space (Dub)
[This message was edited by David Slater on Sun 20 June 2004 at 15:08.]
[This message was edited by David Slater on Sun 20 June 2004 at 15:09.]
There has been a spate of closures in the last few months:
Rhythm Records & the dance shop downstairs from it in Camden.
Tower Records in Picadilly Circus & the other ones elsewhere.
Koobla and XSF in Berwick Street.
Are people not buying music anymore? Is downloading to blame?
Is the music scene awaiting a new kick up the arse again? (please don't offer me Keane or that flavour of the week from the NME!)
Anyone else wishing to note the passing of decent shops?
DS
OTD - Meat Beat Manifesto - Echo in Space (Dub)
[This message was edited by David Slater on Sun 20 June 2004 at 15:08.]
[This message was edited by David Slater on Sun 20 June 2004 at 15:09.]
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Who is watching all these things?
U.S. south-central update
Nothing left to watch where I live (Mobile); both Satori and Noyz Pollution have stopped carrying vinyl.
Travelling west, New Orleans has slipped badly too. Underground Sounds and The Mushroom both appear to be gone. The mighty Jim Russell Records is still there, but prices are so outrageous that I couldn't bear to buy anything on a recent visit (no one else seemed to be either -- store was empty).
I haven't been in Houston record shops recently, but a quick web search suggests that Black Dog and The Vinyl Edge are still with us.
A recent visit to Austin shows it down to one major shop -- Waterloo. Sound Exchange, 33 degrees, and the others are all gone.
Oh well, dying breed and all that.
Just to make you jealous, here's a little store over in Hollywood, CA called Amoeba. My girlfriend calls it "the Mistress." 
"Before you play two notes learn how to play one note - and don't play one note unless you've got a reason to play it." - Mark Hollis (1998)
"Before you play two notes learn how to play one note - and don't play one note unless you've got a reason to play it." - Mark Hollis (1998)
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Our nearest equivalent is Beanos in Croydon - a bit sad isn't it!_
I don't know about Beanos. I've always wanted to go to the UK and do some hardcore vinyl shopping. Now that we've got that little cowboy for our president, I'm afraid to set foot out of the U.S. I might get egged or something. I guess I could tell people I'm Candian or something?
"Before you play two notes learn how to play one note - and don't play one note unless you've got a reason to play it." - Mark Hollis (1998)
Closures update:
In Brighton at the weekend.
Dancetrader : Completely closed down, shutters up, lease for sale.
Blink (was Bangin' Tunes and something else before that) : Last day on 27/11/04, onwer selling off stock, looking very unhappy
Where will it all end ?
DS
OTD - Voigt & Voigt - Kontact
*** All the views expressed within this e-mail are the sole responsibility of DS, or the other person in his head ***
In Brighton at the weekend.
Dancetrader : Completely closed down, shutters up, lease for sale.
Blink (was Bangin' Tunes and something else before that) : Last day on 27/11/04, onwer selling off stock, looking very unhappy
Where will it all end ?
DS
OTD - Voigt & Voigt - Kontact
*** All the views expressed within this e-mail are the sole responsibility of DS, or the other person in his head ***