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krj
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Schoolkids II, and Music Retailing
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Sep 25 02:15 UTC 1998 |
Here's the latest news from Schoolkids Records.
For the final two days of the downtown store, "old stock" is 50%
off. The "old stock" is pretty well picked over. "New stock,"
which is generally spring 1998 and later releases, holds at 25% off.
Friday is the final day for the downtown store. I just came back
from my last trip there, with a bag of nine CDs for $60.
A new flyer announces that Schoolkids is going to move operations
to Oz's Music, on Packard. The old stock sale will continue for 40%
off; new stock will be at 25% off.
"See you there!
Stay tuned for more developments!" says the flyer.
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krj
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response 1 of 247:
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Sep 25 02:18 UTC 1998 |
(This continues the previous items on Schoolkids Records, which
were summer Agora #151 / Music #149.)
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remmers
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response 2 of 247:
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Sep 25 11:18 UTC 1998 |
View hidden response.
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toking
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response 3 of 247:
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Sep 25 11:26 UTC 1998 |
re #2: that didn't seem to do the trick :)
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remmers
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response 4 of 247:
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Sep 26 00:38 UTC 1998 |
(Nope. I wonder what the right way to do it is.)
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tpryan
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response 5 of 247:
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Sep 26 02:45 UTC 1998 |
Was there buying my lastest stack of CDs and a t-shirt, too
, when there was less than 30 minutes left to go. Saw Steve Bergman
and wished him luck on future endeavers. He seems happy that instead
of dumping the store and getting out, he got to give customers a
great sale and was pleased that all where their to say thank you for
the years he was there. He's got the big task tonight of packing the
remainder of the stock into a Ryder truck and be out by late tonight.
Also saw Matt Watroba (host of WDET's "Folks Like Us") helping out
by clearing out those CD holders from the cash register area, and
talking to costomers--he also signed the last of his CDs to be sold
at the store for a customer.
Is Hootie & the Blowfish forgoten already. a number of their
CDs where still in the racks. Meanwhile, two Squirel Nut Zippers
CDs went into customers hands (only 25% discount) while I was in
front of that rack.
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krj
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response 6 of 247:
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Sep 26 03:44 UTC 1998 |
remmers: !clickable or !clickify will bring up some old conference
text to coach one through making Backtalk links.
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senna
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response 7 of 247:
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Sep 26 10:13 UTC 1998 |
Hootie is one of those cheeserock acts that tends to fade fairly quickly after
the people have gotten tired of their music. They're not prettyboy cheese
rock, but they're still kinda... poppish.
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remmers
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response 8 of 247:
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Sep 26 13:27 UTC 1998 |
(Re resp:6 - Thanks, I'll try that the next time I've got a terminal
connection to Grex. Unfortunately, one can't run shell commands when
connected via Backtalk, and I can't seem to find documentation on
clickifying in the web-based Backtalk help...)
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valerie
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response 9 of 247:
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Sep 27 18:10 UTC 1998 |
This response has been erased.
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remmers
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response 10 of 247:
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Sep 28 12:34 UTC 1998 |
(Thank you.)
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krj
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response 11 of 247:
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Sep 30 21:03 UTC 1998 |
So after I whine about how the demise of Schoolkids means no more
local imports, Tower Records in East Lansing gets in a copy of the new Runrig
2-CD anthology from Scotland, and a small stack of Canadian folk-pop
imports. This seems to be for a special World Music promotion.
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krj
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response 12 of 247:
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Oct 9 15:31 UTC 1998 |
Last week, the new flyers in the old Schoolkids store were from
SKR Classical, announcing that the new SKR operations should be
open by the end of October.
Has anyone been to visit Schoolkids-at-Oz-Music?
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danr
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response 13 of 247:
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Oct 9 20:32 UTC 1998 |
What do all you music mavens think of Jim Leonard? I think he's a pompous ass
myself.
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scott
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response 14 of 247:
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Oct 9 22:17 UTC 1998 |
Well, don't ask me what I think of OZ music...
Actually, I don't have that bad an opinion of Oz. He was the
guy-who-ran-the-cool-store when I was a broke kid in High School. But now
there is a new guy-who-runs-tho-cool-store.
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mcnally
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response 15 of 247:
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Oct 9 22:22 UTC 1998 |
re #13: but pompous asses are one of Ann Arbor's great renewable resources!
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mary
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response 16 of 247:
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Oct 10 02:45 UTC 1998 |
Hey, I like him as far as I know him. He pretty much knows exactly what
I'm looking for in a recording (crisp, clean, hold the romantic
flourishes) and that probably saves me a lot of disappointing purchases.
And this despite the fact his personal likes are quite different from
mine.
He likes to talk but his talks are generally interesting. Did you
know he is also our neighbor?
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danr
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response 17 of 247:
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Oct 10 18:16 UTC 1998 |
Yes, I know he lives near here. In fact, he almost ran me over one time in his
SUV. He didn't want to stop, but being the pedestrian I asserted my
right-of-way. This is Ann Arbor, after all. :)
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scott
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response 18 of 247:
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Oct 11 13:25 UTC 1998 |
Drives an SUV? OK, so we know he's morally deficient....
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cloud
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response 19 of 247:
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Oct 12 00:44 UTC 1998 |
<Giggle>
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krj
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response 20 of 247:
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Oct 29 20:01 UTC 1998 |
The opening of the Jim Leonard store was promised for late October.
Has anyone seen a firm date? (Will there be a sale? :) )
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scg
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response 21 of 247:
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Oct 30 04:47 UTC 1998 |
I walked by tonight. The sign on the window says it's opening October 30
(which is tomorrow), with a dance party sometime in the evening (I forget what
time). Looking in the window the store didn't look nearly ready to open, but
there were several people in there looking as if they were hard at work on
getting it ready.
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krj
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response 22 of 247:
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Nov 1 20:11 UTC 1998 |
Saturday's Ann Arbor News had dueling record store ads, on page 2 of
the Entertainment section. Steve Bergman's Schoolkids Records-in-Exile
has now set up shop in the basement of Elmo's T-shirts on Main Street.
And immediately above that ad was the ad for Jim Leonard's SKR store.
I poked my head briefly in the SKR Liberty St. store on Saturday night.
It doesn't really seem like they are ready yet, the store still seems
pretty empty.
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krj
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response 23 of 247:
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Nov 9 00:58 UTC 1998 |
Eeep! Schoolkids-in-exile is in the Elmo's on State Street; I didn't
even know there *was* an Elmo's on State Street, thus my confusion
in resp:22 .
The new SKR store seemed a little better today -- undoubtedly that's
because it was the only shop in Ann Arbor or East Lansing which
had the new Sanna Kurki-Suonio album. It still seemed rather devoid
of customers, though, compared to Borders.
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