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Post by lonelysummer on Mar 25, 2024 22:08:36 GMT
I still hit the used music stores regularly. Let's see, what have I bought recently? "A Beautiful Time" by Willie Nelson (2022 vinyl); two volumes of Monkees "Missing Links"; Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison ($3 on CD cause my cassette broke and it has extra songs that aren't on the vinyl); Gunhill Road (one hit wonder from 1973); Bob Dylan "Another Budokan" (2023 release on vinyl); a Cliff Richard comp; a Rick Nelson comp. That's another thing I miss about random record shop shopping. You walk in, and you have no idea what you'll walk out with. The last several times I've bought CDs, I've gone to a box store for a specific title, or went on Amazon for a specific title. It's probably been a good 5-6 years since I went into a record store, and leisurely shopping, and left with some new stuff for the collection. The trip to The Sound Garden I mentioned a few years ago was with my then three year old, so it's not like I had more than a couple mins to give the store a good look around. I buy a lot of music these days from a chain called Half Price Books. When I am looking for something specific, I start with my friends' store House of Records, or Silver Platters in Seattle. Those Monkees cd's I found in a thrift store for $2. The same CD's used to go for $10 or more. There ARE some benefits to being a dinosaur.
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Post by Kapitan on Mar 25, 2024 22:36:10 GMT
That's another thing I miss about random record shop shopping. You walk in, and you have no idea what you'll walk out with. The last several times I've bought CDs, I've gone to a box store for a specific title, or went on Amazon for a specific title. It's probably been a good 5-6 years since I went into a record store, and leisurely shopping, and left with some new stuff for the collection. The trip to The Sound Garden I mentioned a few years ago was with my then three year old, so it's not like I had more than a couple mins to give the store a good look around. I buy a lot of music these days from a chain called Half Price Books. When I am looking for something specific, I start with my friends' store House of Records, or Silver Platters in Seattle. Those Monkees cd's I found in a thrift store for $2. The same CD's used to go for $10 or more. There ARE some benefits to being a dinosaur. I hate to think about how much money I've given Half Price Books! The one I visit doesn't have a lot of music, but I do buy a ton of their books. Weekends when I was just out of college, often I used to go to Half Price Books for books, then Cheapo for CDs, and then a fast food place on the way home. I thought I was being thrifty by getting used stuff and cheap food, but those bills would get steep...
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