All the vinyl you want:
http://store.acousticsounds.com/store.cfm
There are several other online stores.
-- Tom Fine
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Lennick" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2007 11:28 AM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Is The Record Shop Dead?
>I still see New Vinyl at The Bop Shop in Rochester. Not sure if Record Theater
> is still getting new stuff (lots of "Final Vinyl" signs over some bins) but the
> prices on some albums there don't reflect a desire to get out of it. What I
> never see anywhere is new classical vinyl (Speakers Corner, etc), which is
> reviewed regularly in Classic Record Collector. Is the sale of this stuff only
> in Britain?
>
> dl
>
> Aaron Levinson wrote:
>> Actually, at least here in these parts that institution still exists and
>> I am truly thankful that it does. No fewer than 5 within 5-7 miles of
>> each other. I know that sounds crazy but its true. I actually think that
>> a small footprint chain that sold nothing but vinyl
>> would do really well. Vinyl sales are up 30% in the last year and I see
>> no end in sight. If someone carried Dylan, Tool, Coltrane,
>> Outkast and a bunch of great music on wax I bet it would do really well.
>> Stroll in, buy a few albums, and get that elated, "I just bought
>> 'Introducing Roland Kirk' on a 180 gram pressing feeling". There is
>> still nothing like it. Viva Vinyl anyone?
>>
>> AA
>>
>>
>> phillip holmes wrote:
>>> The real record shop died a slow death in the '90s. What I mean by
>>> real is: 33, 45, and 78 rpm; all genres; record care supplies;
>>> ephemera; the selection of replacement styli; the stylus magnifier;
>>> the audition turntable and headphones; tobacco smoke _OR_ an old man
>>> chewing a cigar _OR_ the hourly help dealing pot out the back (but
>>> preferably all three); two pair of JBL L100 on the walls; cardboard
>>> stand-up Beatles; a ceramic nipper somewhere in the store; at least
>>> one crotchety old worker and one bipolar young worker; a jaded owner
>>> that USED to be in "the business"; the smell of paper aging (the not
>>> acid-free kind); and let's not forget the most important part of a
>>> real record shop--delusional and weird record collectors. Yes, it's
>>> dead.
>>> Phillip
>>>
>>> Roger and Allison Kulp wrote:
>>>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/shows/music_week/agenda_recordshops.shtml
>>>>
>
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