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Grex > Music2 > #154: Schoolkids II, and Music Retailing |  |
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krj
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response 244 of 247:
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Feb 4 01:15 UTC 2001 |
Another CD shop obituary... I hopped over to Windsor today and found
that Dr. Disc will be closing on February 11. The sign in the window
invited customers to stop in and pay their respects; viewing hours
end at 6 pm. My visit was cut drastically short; I had planned
on the store having its usual late evening hours.
Dr. Disc was part of a southern Ontario chain of indie-oriented stores,
and I didn't ask if the whole chain was going out of business, or
just the Windsor store. I'd only been there a few times over the years;
their folk stocks were always disappointing, but they did carry a
lot of Canadian rock bands which I might have heard on the CBC-FM
late night shows. Today, the stock has already been well
picked over -- the store was about half empty -- and the sale discounts
weren't too deep, so I wouldn't recommend a trip there for anything
except sentimental reasons.
Perhaps the relatively new (?) HMV store in the Devonshire Mall
pushed Dr. Disc over the edge; the HMV store had a lot of goodies
in it.
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krj
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response 245 of 247:
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Feb 4 21:47 UTC 2001 |
((( Due to a disk space crunch in the /bbs partition, cfadm has moved
late 1990s Agoras to a different partition. For reasons I don't
fully understand, this may eventually cause problems with items
linked from those Agoras when they are moved back to /bbs at some
future date.
This item is linked from a 1998 Agora. It seemed safest just
to cut off discussion here and start a new item on the topic.
I don't think there are any other active music conference items
with similar links; let me know if you think I missed any. )))
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response 246 of 247:
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Jul 15 21:22 UTC 2001 |
Stuff's been moved back - this item should be safe to discuss in again.
(Doesn't look like anything got lost; let me know if you notice anything.)
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krj
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response 247 of 247:
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Jul 16 17:39 UTC 2001 |
Looks fine. But current discussion on music retail issues has moved
on to item:music,293 and it might as well continue there.
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