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Old 04-12-2014, 10:35 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Hours would go by there, and I learned a lot just hanging around. It's still there --- probably only selling CDs now --- but I just don't buy albums in a shop any more. I hope he's still doing well though. Hope he's still alive: he was about ten years older than me I think, so he probably is.
Don't be so sure. CD's aren't really selling all that well anymore, but vinyl's making a comeback (relatively speaking of course). There's a hole-in-the-wall metal shop where I live that's selling less and less CD's and becoming more of a vinyl shop. If your shop's going through similar woes they may be going that way too.


Oh yeah, and my hole-in-the-wall place is Skinnie's Records in Norfolk, VA. The dude who runs it, Skinnie I assume, has been there for god knows how long and probably looks exactly like he did in 1986: long hair, grungy band shirt with sleeves cut off, and a general air of beerness.


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