Course, in the next-gen Best Buy stores around here it is the DVDs that have the frontage.

I still prefer buying music in a store to buying it online, when that's possible, so I buy most of my music that way. I learn about all my music at home, here or by other internet/reference means, so although the folks at Rasputin and Amoeba never drop recommendations on me, I'm never looking for them anyway. I do pick up Amoeba's "Music We Like" packets whenever they come out, just to flip through and see if something catches my eye. I'm not sure what Satchmo's talking about when he says that stores should "do what Amoeba does", but if he's talking about having a fantastic used selection, I can definitely support the notion. I buy almost exclusively used music, only new stuff if it's at a used-level price. I almost always avoid paying over $10 for a single disc.

I'm always surprised at record stores outside the bay area. I always figured that there were "superstores" like Amoeba and Rasputin everywhere, or at least in other major cities (NY, Chicago, etc.). However, although I've definitely been to good record stores in those places (and several that offer things I would never find at Rasputin or Amoeba), outside of the LA Amoeba I have yet to find a store with the sheer quantity of good, low-priced music at the places I go to around here. Not sure why that is.

1. Yes
2. The size of the Amoeba stores are unusual. The Jazzmart in Chicago
3. You should have seen the original DMG store. Lady Satchmo's closet might have been twice or three times as big. Not sure if you went to the "new" store....



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The Chicago stores

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For me it's all about getting what I want. If a store can continually get me what I want, I'll continue to shop there, and if that shop is privately owned, even better. It's pretty simple.

If I lived anywhere near a decent music store - living in the middle of nowhere in the middle of conservativeland it's not an easy thing to find - I would buy more stuff locally.

It apparently is/was Record Store Day on April 19th.


http://www.recordstoreday.com/Home

Missed it...was getting my geek on at the Shadowmoor prerelease. Not sure where I would have gone anyway - certainly not Best Buy or Borders, now the two closest places to my house. The used CD shop in downtown Everett shut its doors a month or so ago rather unexpectedly, leaving a big empty building on a prominent corner downtown. If they sold their discs for $1 less I'd have given them a ton more business. All the same, I was sad to see it go.

So basically, just another typical day for Grasshoppa Seerix?

Actually ended up at Amoeba last night (through a friend's knowledge that they had created such a holiday), picked up some classics. A good first Independant Record Store day, I guess.

Yeah basically