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Grex > Music2 > #291: Music retail again: SKR Uptown (Classical) & Downtown to close |  |
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krj
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response 188 of 194:
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Jul 18 15:55 UTC 2002 |
I'll utilize this item again to distribute some news to the classical
music conference.
WWJ-AM reported this morning that the Harmony House retail chain is
shutting down. Some stores will close next week, others will close
in the fall. Someone with more time and initiative than I have
at the moment might wish to contact the Royal Oak classical store and
find out details about the going-out-of-business sale; it's likely
to be the last great classical going-out-of-business sale ever to be
seen around Michigan.
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krj
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response 189 of 194:
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Aug 23 03:34 UTC 2002 |
Today's Free Press web site reports that Harmony House has raised the
discount at their remaining stores, including the Royal Oak
classical store, to 40%. They'd like to get rid of all
the merchandise by the end of September.
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dbratman
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response 190 of 194:
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Nov 29 07:56 UTC 2002 |
Excuse me, but I am feeling slightly dazed at the moment. I have seen
the past of classical music retailing. It still exists somewhere, and
the where is Portland, Oregon. On East Burnside Street is a store
called Classical Millennium.
Those of you with long memories, which I'd guess is everyone here, will
remember the great specialty classical stores of the later LP era, with
hundreds or thousands of selections, separated by white plastic cards
into tiny distinct categories, one for each minor composer (no "L
miscellaneous"), a dozen or more for major composers, divided by genre
and even individual work.
I hadn't seen a store with that kind of selection, and that kind of
care in laying it out, since before the end of the LP era. I have
now. Wow. And several customers around on a quiet Sunday afternoon
last week. I left with 6 items, several of which I'd never actually
seen before, and did I ever have to prune to get down that low.
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coyote
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response 191 of 194:
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Dec 22 06:48 UTC 2002 |
wow... <trying not to salivate>
too bad I don't have any plans in the foreseeable future to head to
portland...
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krj
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response 192 of 194:
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Oct 29 21:24 UTC 2003 |
(classical conference only)
Harmony House had a rally, but it looks like it's over. I have a hot
rumor that what's left of Harmony House has been sold to Trans World,
whoever they are. Harmony House's web page is gone, and the Google
cache version says that the Classical store on Woodward is to close.
That google cache page has a Sept. 27 date on it.
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md
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response 193 of 194:
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Oct 30 03:47 UTC 2003 |
Yeah, it's gone. The few remaining CDs have been moved to the Harmony
House down the street. Don't know how much longer that one will last.
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dbratman
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response 194 of 194:
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Oct 30 17:22 UTC 2003 |
"what's left ... has been sold to Trans World, whoever they are."
Didn't they use to be an airline? <g>
I wish someone would invent a way to browse online stores' inventory
that was as easy as flicking through the CDs in a rack - or, better
yet, the LPs, because those you could turn over and read the liner
notes. If that could be done, I wouldn't miss the death of retail
stores so much. But every system I've seen online is hideously clumsy
and awkward.
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