I wondered what happened to Collector's Records I used to stop there every year when I went though Dallas on the way to visit my daughter and family. Jack ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dismuke" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Friday, June 29, 2007 3:10 AM Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Is The Record Shop Dead? > --- phillip holmes <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> Did you know I was thinking of Collectors' Records? > ....... Did you ever meet John Stainze >> there? > > I would probably recognize him if I saw him - I never > really knew people's names there. Except for the > older gentleman in the back with the 78 whose name I > usually can remember but forget at the moment. He > passed away before the store closed. > > >> Am I supposed to cry because the Virgin >> Megastore left Dallas? > > I wasn't even aware it left. I went to the Grapevine > Mills location once - and yawned. > > >> However, I was >> sad when Tower >> died. They were the last CD Store to carry a deep >> catalog and they even >> sold records, making it a record shop. Tower was a >> chain of real record >> shops. > > I went to the one in New York City on Broadway not too > far from Greenwich Village a couple of years ago. It > was one of the only times in my life as an adult I > actually had to make a choice between which brand new > CDs of 1920s and 1930s reissues I wanted to buy as I > had already picked out about $200 worth of stuff. > They even had British releases of reissues that I was > not even aware existed. THAT store would have been > wonderful to have had in Fort Worth/Dallas. > > On the other hand, when I was in Atlanta several years > ago I went out of my way to visit the Tower Records > there and found absolutely nothing of interest. > > > >> Perhaps people are just too stupid or have no taste. > > > Or they are victims of a popular culture that > introduces them to nothing but garbage. They don't > know anything better - because for so many years, > unless one was fortunate enough to have cultured > family members or other influences, it was almost > impossible for kids with limited spending money to > access other music. All that was there was AM/FM type > drivel. Thankfully, the Internet today gives kids who > are willing to explore new genres the opportunity to > do so. And, of course, there are always plenty of > those who pick their taste in music on the same basis > that they pick their taste in clothing - they are > mindless sheep who are trying ape their peers who are, > in turn, mindless sheep trying to ape everyone else. > > >> The selection at >> Target, Wal-Mart, and the like, remind me of that >> little rack of >> cassette tapes they have at every mega truck stop. >> "Tammy Wynette and >> "old possum face's" greatest duets" and the complete >> works of ZZ Top. > > > There actually are people out there whose tastes and > approach to life never advances beyond that of "If > Wal-mart don't got it, you don't need it." > > Don't get me wrong - I love Wal-mart when it comes to > buying things such as basic groceries and garden > hoses. I was about to say that cheap mass market stuff > has its place but not in the world of music. But then > I forgot - I LOVE the wonderful "dime store" dance > band music sold in the day's Wal-mart equivelents back > in the late 1920s and early 1930s. So there is nothing > inherently bad about mass market tastes, per se. It > all comes back to the pop culture. Taste and style > went out the window after World War II and fell into > the sewer in the 1960s and has yet to dry off, let > alone recover. > >> >> So where is the store in Ft Worth? I go there to >> buy >> surplus/used/military/aviation tubes and parts for >> radio and hi-fi >> restorations. > > > It is on University directly across from the TCU > campus. I THINK it is called "Record Town" - but I > may be mistaken. Regardless, you cannot miss it as it > has a big 1950s vintage sign showing a record with an > RCA Victor label. > >