Gone but not Forgotten Record Stores

Tricky Kid · **Joined:** 23 Sep 2007 **Posts:** 8298

JohnG wrote:

Spiderboy wrote:

Still another one bites the dust:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/14/nyreg ... ettes.html

There is a bit of OCD in every collector and this guy is more a collector than a seller. Fat people can't fit in the store?

I've shopped there a couple of times over the years, and frankly the place was more a fire hazard than a retail store. It's no exaggeration to say that larger people wouldn't get much further than the entrance.

Stumpy Joe · **Joined:** 29 Apr 2014 **Posts:** 1543

No kidding--I take it the NYC fire marshal can be bought off?

Geff R. · 27 Sep 2006

The ORIGINAL Easy Street in downtown Bellevue, WA (not Kim's later imitations) was probably my fav b&m as a teen.

Seth · 12 Jul 2006

That place was basically a dump. I went there a few times years ago and bought a couple of CDs, but I ignored it after that. Even when other stores started to close I didn't go there. It was crammed full of CDs that nobody would want. Pretty much in no order.

Geff R. · 27 Sep 2006

Seth, if you're responding to me, the store I'm talking about was pre-cd LP only. There have been 3 completely different Easy Streets. This one was in the 70's.

Seth · 12 Jul 2006

Geff R. wrote:

Seth, if you're responding to me, the store I'm talking about was pre-cd LP only. There have been 3 completely different Easy Streets. This one was in the 70's.

Sorry for the confusion - I was talking about the store in the NY Times article and photo a few posts above.

Dental Floss Tycoon · 16 Oct 2007

Loved Third Street Jazz in Philly. Long gone. Used to save save my shekels and hit that place twice a year. Nothing but jazz vinyl. They never made a successful transition to CDs and went out of business. I'd hit that then head to Tower Records on South Street. Back then, Tower had a separate store across the street with nothing but classical music - and that store was HUGE!

Geff R. · 27 Sep 2006

Wow, we had a Tower Books down the street from the Flagship Tower Records, but never a classical only! One of our smaller Towers did devote the entire 2nd floor to Classical.

Larry · **Joined:** 10 Feb 2008 **Posts:** 5116

There was a Tower Outlet Store a block down from the main Tower on 4th St. in NYC. I'd often get good buys there. And right across the street from that was Tower Video where I probably spent as much money if not more on videotapes and DVDs as I did on music in the main store.. That store's entire second floor was books.

JohnG · 03 Aug 2006

http://m.noisey.vice.com/read/humans-of ... pact-discs

Interesting article online today called Humans Of The CD Store, who still shops at stores? Noisey went to an Australian CD store to find out.

alantig · 20 Sep 2006

JohnG wrote:

Interesting article online today called Humans Of The CD Store, who still shops at stores?

Geff R. · 27 Sep 2006

I had to sleep at a store I was managing right out of a college for almost a week due to snow........

Charles · 19 Dec 2007

Yet another................ :sigh:

Other Music is closing in June
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/other-musi ... g-in-june/

Tricky Kid · **Joined:** 23 Sep 2007 **Posts:** 8298

JohnG wrote:

http://m.noisey.vice.com/read/humans-of ... pact-discs

Interesting article online today called Humans Of The CD Store, who still shops at stores? Noisey went to an Australian CD store to find out.

Do you buy many CDs?
Yeah, I’ve got about 300 CDs at home.

That’s so many!

:lol:

ralph · 11 May 2009

Charles wrote:

Yet another................ :sigh:

Other Music is closing in June
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/other-musi ... g-in-june/

As is Rebel Rebel.

Rick A · 23 Jul 2006

Tricky Kid wrote:

JohnG wrote:

http://m.noisey.vice.com/read/humans-of ... pact-discs

Interesting article online today called Humans Of The CD Store, who still shops at stores? Noisey went to an Australian CD store to find out.

Do you buy many CDs?
Yeah, I’ve got about 300 CDs at home.

That’s so many!

:lol:

I got a big chucke, I exceed that just between the letter "A thu C". :ohyes:

Rick A.

RobertSwanderson · 01 Jan 2007

Jerry's Records NOT closing!

Quote:

With the news of the Other Music Record Shop in the East Village of New York City closing in June, I'm reminded of a conversation I had in the hallway of Jerry's Records in Squirrel Hill on Saturday.

"Scotty!," Jerry Weber yelled to me from his crowded perch at the register. "Tell the people, put it on your web site: We're not closing!"

"Jerry," I said. "We don't usually run news of stores NOT closing. What would I do: run a headline: 'Jerry's NOT closing'?"

"Yeah!," he said. "Since that story ran, I've had no less than a hundred calls asking if we're closing."

That story was the April 26 news that Jerry's was selling its collection of nearly 700,000 singles to a German buyer. He made it clear in the story that the singles were not a hot commodity here among people who don't have jukeboxes (which is a lot) and that he wanted to make more room for vinyl in the store, but that was not the message people took away from it.

A weeks before that, on Record Store Day, Jerry's gave away nearly 50,000 records (a drop in the bucket) to clear stock from the Bargain Basement, which he does plan to close by the end of the year.

That aside, the simple message from Jerry Weber is: Stay calm, vinyl junkies, the world is not ending.

Jimbo · 19 Jul 2006

I haven't shopped at Other Music since Tower went under. I'll have to check it out and see if I can pick up some bargains.

Seth · 12 Jul 2006

I am really bummed about Other Music. I live nearby, and I was there weekly for at least the last 10 years.

Jimbo, if they have good deals leave some for us!

Seth · 12 Jul 2006

ralph wrote:

Charles wrote:

Yet another................ :sigh:

Other Music is closing in June
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/other-musi ... g-in-june/

As is Rebel Rebel.

Wait - I heard about Other Music, but where did you hear Rebel Rebel is closing??

I often stop in there on Saturdays when I go to pick up my shirts at the laundry.

I have to say that the owner of Rebel Rebel is a great guy, as are most of the employees of Other Music. Can't say that about all record store people....

ralph · 11 May 2009

Seth wrote:

Wait - I heard about Other Music, but where did you hear Rebel Rebel is closing??

I often stop in there on Saturdays when I go to pick up my shirts at the laundry.

I have to say that the owner of Rebel Rebel is a great guy, as are most of the employees of Other Music. Can't say that about all record store people....

A buddy of mine has been friends with the owner for decades.

Dr. Chris Evil · 26 Jul 2006

Jimbo wrote:

To be honest, I thought Sounds shut down already. Haven't shopped there in a couple years. Bought many a promo LP there back in the 80s, and more than a few CDs in the decades since.

Vin Diesel worked behind the counter at Sounds before he became a movie star.

He probably doesn't remember most people he's met over the years, but he'd take one look at you and go "Oh yeah! I definitely remember you!"

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