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Grex > Music2 > #149: Schoolkids closing! Eeep! Alert! |  |
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mziemba
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response 56 of 64:
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Sep 19 12:13 UTC 1998 |
Discount Records is a Sam Goody store, a.k.a. Musicland. Those are both chain
stores.
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anderyn
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response 57 of 64:
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Sep 19 14:45 UTC 1998 |
Interestingly, though, Discount Records isn't as ... icky as the Sam Goody's
or Musicland's that I've been to. Maybe because it's smaller, not in a mall,
and has had to compete with both Skids and Borders and other stores in
the area -- the prices aren't as high, and the staff have always been
genuinely helpful to me. Even going so far as to recommend new artists that
I really liked and would never have heard.
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krj
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response 58 of 64:
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Sep 25 02:17 UTC 1998 |
I've started a new Schoolkids item for the new Agora conference.
Fall Agora #25 / Music #154.
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eeyore
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response 59 of 64:
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Oct 15 14:42 UTC 1998 |
re: 55 Not all of Metallica is easy to find. (Scott's favorite
band....sigh)
So is Schoolkids all shut down now?
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krj
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response 60 of 64:
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Oct 15 16:39 UTC 1998 |
Steve Bergman's Schoolkids, according to the ads in the Ann Arbor News,
continues limited operations in Oz's Music on Packard.
Jim Leonard's new SKR stores are being cleaned and repainted; there seemed
to be quite a bit of activity when I was downtown this past weekend.
(This is in the old Schoolkids storefronts.)
More updates in the new item #154 in Music.
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mcnally
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response 61 of 64:
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Dec 4 22:50 UTC 1998 |
perhaps as an homage to the old Schoolkids', SKR is having a 20% off
sale, tonight until 9pm only..
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cloud
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response 62 of 64:
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Dec 6 05:00 UTC 1998 |
shoot, and I was out that way just yesterday too.
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krj
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response 63 of 64:
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Dec 7 14:48 UTC 1998 |
No, it was the annual December Midnight Madness sale. Many stores
on Main Street and in the State & Liberty area were open until 11
or midnight; there were a couple of brass bands wandering around
playing carols; and the streets and sidewalks were packed.
Leslie was stuck at a rehearsal; with her visiting family
I stopped in at SKR after I took them to the Ark.
I didn't find anything of interest; I feel like my CD buying software
has crashed and is waiting for a reboot. :/
Leslie's mom picked up a couple of items, but the SKR folk bins were
not as useful to her as the old Schoolkids ones would have been, I think.
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steve
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response 64 of 64:
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Dec 27 19:07 UTC 1998 |
I pretty much remember the opening of Schoolkids; I spent a long
time there over the years, looking at the cut-out bins and such. I
didn't go there for any one specific type of music, but let myself
discover new things as I heard them played in the store, and read
the little reviews they made for certain disks.
I have no doubt that Border's did a lot of damnage to them, but
equally true I think is that we consumers played a large role. In
the era of mega-stores people look for the cheapest possible source
of commodities regardless of anything else. The people here in this
conference are the fringe I'll bet, with their tastes and desires to
support that which is local.
Schoolkids. RIP.
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