Record Stores...

[4NDR01D]

Birdman Records in Ottawa, Rotate This in Toronto.

[Brazoo]

I've been visiting Ft. Lauderdale since I was a kid, I use to love Peaches!

In Toronto the classic Sam the Record Man is long gone, but there a several fantastic independent CD/Record left. Like Soundscapes, Rotate This! and Sonic Boom.

[Hotfoot]

We used to have Turtles, Peaches and other record stores. (Remember the Peach Crate to store your records in?) Almost bought a local store in the early 80's. I miss the classic album art. A 12" x 12" piece of work that you could hold and look at. Now the little 4" CD art just doesn't feel the same. Neither does looking at it on the computer.

I did buy a vinyl to mp3 player and am attempting to convert my old albums and 45's that I never did buy CD's of. Already fed 500 CD's into the computer. Now I need a monster ipod to carry it all. My 8GB Nano is full!

[mazinz]

I totally miss them. We had ERL records, Music Shack(2 locations), Worlds Records, Flipped out Records, Rhino Records and Essential Sounds around here. 7"'s, LP's, t-shirts and every kind of music. Most importantly you could talk and hang with people that actually knew something about music.

Rhino records is still around (in New Paltz, not Albany one) just in a much smaller location down the road (a side street across from Jacks' Rhythm's, by the way the owner of Jack's just
passed away)

I remember a record world in middletown or it was in the dutchess mall across the river. If I knew the knowledge of then then music I was getitng into I could have had a field day at whichever one was in the dutchess mall

the hammer really came down for me when Trash in Danbury Connecticut shut down in 2008

I loved going into records stores because you never really knew what you could find. I miss talking with the people that ran them (or at least the ones that had true knowledge of music, like Malcom from Trash who was literally an encyclopida of music). I miss talking with the people who were shopping and finding all sorts of non music items at them as well

DAMN THE KIDS AND THEIR BLASTED INTERNET AND MP3s.

By the same merit it was part of the statment above that killed the video store too