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Grex > Music > #42: Schoolkids-Records-in-Exile RIP. |  |
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anderyn
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Schoolkids-Records-in-Exile RIP.
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Apr 25 16:30 UTC 2007 |
Schoolkids-in-Exile RIP.
This am, the radio (Martin Bandyke) had an interview with the owner of
Schoolkids. Not unexpectedly, but still sadly, the announcement was that it
will be closing in the next month or two. Steve Bergman said that it was
due to the fading profit margin, aka all those of us who are now buying our
music from the on-line legal music services.
This is sad, because Schoolkids was the first record store I'd ever gone to
in order to find the rare and obscure folk music I'd finally gotten the
courage to go out and discover, lo, twenty-five years ago now. It was, for
the longest time, my sine qua non of record stores.
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krj
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response 1 of 36:
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Apr 25 16:35 UTC 2007 |
((( Agora #48 <---> Music #42 )))
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krj
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response 2 of 36:
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Apr 25 17:45 UTC 2007 |
It was a little less than nine years ago that Twila announced the
closing of the original Schoolkids Records store on Liberty St.
(Music2, items #149 & #154
or, in link notation: item:music2,149 item:music2,154 )
When the original Schoolkids closed, it generated lots of Grex discussion.
I don't think this second, final, closing will draw much comment
at all.
The saddest comment I have right now is that there is hardly
anything in the store that I want, even at a deep-discount going-out-
of-business sale.
More later...
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slynne
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Apr 25 18:08 UTC 2007 |
I cant remember the last time I bought a CD in a store. I am sure it was
at Borders though because of my discount.
I have noticed too that every year, Borders as a chain devotes less
space to music. I think that the era of the cd is over and the era of
downloading music is in. Which is fine with me. I also expect that as
those electronic book readers get better, the bookstore might go the way
of the record store.
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keesan
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Apr 26 00:04 UTC 2007 |
We just got five CD decks working but never listen to CDs and never did. I
bought one CD (recorded by a friend who needed to pay her rent). They scratch
easily compared to records.
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mcnally
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response 5 of 36:
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Apr 26 02:52 UTC 2007 |
If treated properly, they're *much* easier to take care of than LPs.
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keesan
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response 6 of 36:
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Apr 26 14:12 UTC 2007 |
The library CDs are almost always badly scratched and parts of them not
playable. Scratched LPs are usually still playable.
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bru
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response 7 of 36:
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Apr 26 14:48 UTC 2007 |
proof once again that Sindi lives in a Sindi world.
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marcvh
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Apr 26 15:32 UTC 2007 |
LPs are harder to track though; if only we still used wax cylinders then
things would be even better.
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cross
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Apr 26 16:21 UTC 2007 |
Every time you play an LP, you are wearing it out. Eventually, it becomes
unplayable. Not so with a CD.
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