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Grex > Music2 > #154: Schoolkids II, and Music Retailing |  |
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lumen
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response 150 of 247:
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Oct 20 23:14 UTC 1999 |
I figure it's yet another disadvantage of socialist policy in the
economy.
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krj
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response 151 of 247:
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Jan 4 15:29 UTC 2000 |
While doing Christmas shopping downtown, I stopped in on the new
Harmony House store. Maybe they hadn't finished stocking it yet.
But it didn't even meet the standards I expect from a Harmony House
store, in terms of stock, and it's hard to see how it's going to survive
near the corner of State and Liberty, with at least 7 other CD shops
within one block distance.
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mcnally
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response 152 of 247:
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Jan 4 16:08 UTC 2000 |
If my experience with other Harmony House stores is any indication,
they'll expect to make up for their small selection by charging extra
for the things they do stock..
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orinoco
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response 153 of 247:
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Jan 4 19:43 UTC 2000 |
I thought the row of computers with music site bookmarks was a nice touch,
but that was about all HH had to reccomend it when I stopped in a few days
ago.
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krj
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response 154 of 247:
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Jan 29 18:43 UTC 2000 |
If I remember the ad correctly, SKR is doing a stores-wide sale, 20% off
most everything in all three or four stores, for this weekend.
Has anyone investigated SKR's new store "Dubplate Pressure," which replaces
the old Schoolkids Annex? The new store seems oriented entirely towards
club DJs, I think. I don't seem to speak the language there.
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bruin
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response 155 of 247:
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Jan 29 23:24 UTC 2000 |
And I had a Dickens of a time figuring out what the "Dubplate Pressure" logo
read.
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carson
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response 156 of 247:
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Jan 31 19:21 UTC 2000 |
re #154: (?!)
(Dubplate Pressure is/was a vinyl store that is/was located
beneath some running store [Tortoise & Hare?] on Liberty.
same building as Dinersty, as I recall. I *hope* it's not an
SKR acquisition.)
(my experience from shopping there two years back: definitely
more for club DJs, with occasional hip-hop tracks. LOTS of
DJ competition videos. the guys running the place seemed to
be in it for the music rather than for the money.)
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scott
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response 157 of 247:
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Jan 31 21:46 UTC 2000 |
It seems to be part of the SKR family now. There was an article a month or
two ago about it; the idea was to keep the same guy but lighten the admin load
on him.
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orinoco
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response 158 of 247:
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Jan 31 22:22 UTC 2000 |
I've never been in, because they seem to favor vinyl and I don't have a
turntable.
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krj
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response 159 of 247:
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Feb 2 10:00 UTC 2000 |
A response unlikely to interest anyone except Twila and maybe David Bratman:
Cruising the Usenet folk music newsgroups, I came upon the news that
ADA Music has been sold. ADA is one of the two largest distributors of
folk music in the UK, and since about 1990 they had been my primary
source for British Isles and European folk music.
I'd heard from a friend that the proprietor had been sick. The fill
rate on my orders had been declining -- it used to be that any folk CDs
which ADA couldn't get, you had to mail order direct from the band.
And ADA only managed to get out one catalog flyer in all of 1999.
The last straw was that ADA was not available via the Internet,
at all. In the early 1990s I didn't mind getting up at 0500 to telephone
England -- I enjoyed chatting with the owner and gossiping about various
albums and artists -- but by the late 1990s it was getting hard to get up
so early just to order CDs, and then the owner started trying to
discourage small-order phone calls because it was taking up too much
of his time.
More of my business was shifting to companies with an Internet presence.
The new ADA already has a small web page up. I hope it's just a teaser;
I'm not finding much of interest on it. Sigh sigh sigh.
I will miss those early morning phone chats.
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krj
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response 160 of 247:
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Apr 15 21:59 UTC 2000 |
Dubplate Pressure, the techno/DJ operation which was acquired by SKR,
has closed. (resp:154, resp:156 above.) The techno stuff has been
moved into the main SKR store and it's 50% off. The storefront is being
cleaned out; I don't know if SKR has future plans for it.
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carson
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response 161 of 247:
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Apr 16 01:53 UTC 2000 |
(damn. and two weeks before I return to A2, too...)
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carla
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response 162 of 247:
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Apr 16 17:53 UTC 2000 |
haha skr will never be the same and they will dissapear.
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gnat
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response 163 of 247:
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Apr 17 00:49 UTC 2000 |
That store has closed ALREADY?? Damn... I knew one of the guys
who helped run the place - he's a music director at WCBN - and he
was so excited when it opened up. He must be really upset now.
Too bad.
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carla
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response 164 of 247:
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Apr 17 19:10 UTC 2000 |
Mike Perini>
???
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gnat
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response 165 of 247:
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Apr 20 04:42 UTC 2000 |
Carlos Souffrant, a.k.a. "the Dark Lord of House."
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carla
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response 166 of 247:
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Apr 20 05:42 UTC 2000 |
Oh ok. Mike worked for wcbn too, I think he still may.
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gnat
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response 167 of 247:
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Apr 20 18:08 UTC 2000 |
Yeah, he does. Though he's not a music director.
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carla
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response 168 of 247:
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Apr 20 20:09 UTC 2000 |
Maybe so, but since I did in fact work with him at Schoolkids, you can see
from whence my confusion derived...
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gnat
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response 169 of 247:
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Apr 21 07:06 UTC 2000 |
Well yeah, you could hardly be expected to know the incredibly
elaborate and baroque power structure at WCBN... :)
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carla
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response 170 of 247:
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Apr 21 07:51 UTC 2000 |
Well, I also have a friend that used to be the receptionist there, but theres
no way that you would know that either. Heh.
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gnat
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response 171 of 247:
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Apr 21 18:45 UTC 2000 |
There's a receptionist at WCBN?
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carla
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response 172 of 247:
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Apr 21 21:08 UTC 2000 |
Maybe it was U of M
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mcnally
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response 173 of 247:
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Apr 22 17:19 UTC 2000 |
perhaps there *is* someone with the title "receptionist", but under the
incredibly elaborate and baroque power structure perhaps their duties are
something else entirely..
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orinoco
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response 174 of 247:
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Apr 22 18:15 UTC 2000 |
I would have thought WCBN would have more of a psychedelic power structure.
Or indie, perhaps. Certainly not baroque.
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