Final Vinyl
By Mitch Berg
The former owner of long-vanished “Let It Be Records” is going to be having a garage sale.
It reminds me; the worst thing about the digitization of all music is the disappearance of the record shop. Let It Be was not the best record store in town, but it was one of the last holdouts among the good ones.
Time to go load up on vinyl!
February 18th, 2009 at 3:31 pm
I was at CES last month and spent some time in the HiFi section to dream and drool. There are still a number of companies who make record players – and they are NOT cheap!
February 18th, 2009 at 10:43 pm
The only thing I won’t miss about record stores is the smell. Incense, sour carpets, spilled bong water, and the free-floating derision of the cashier, whose views of your musical interests you could actually smell.
February 19th, 2009 at 3:57 pm
My brother and I remember, quite fondly, Positively 4th Street, on 4th Street S.E. next to Ralph and Jerry’s (aka R&J’s). Hours? Whenever Roger felt like opening it. Sometimes 4 a.m.