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dcat
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response 96 of 106:
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Jul 18 16:00 UTC 2003 |
Last I was in East Lansing, I asked in the Wazoo on GR if they were related
to the Ann Arbor store of the same name; the man working the register
hesitated a moment but said they were not.
I'd noticed a couple days ago that Record Exchange seemed to have shut down;
although the sign said it was well within their operating hours and there were
people inside, there was a "CLOSED" sign on the door. They'd cut back hours
and (I think) people recently; my guess is they're another casualty of the
disgustingly high rents in town.
I haven't bought new cds in years; almost everything I listen to I can get
at Encore or Wazoo! for half what they'd cost new.
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orinoco
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response 97 of 106:
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Jul 18 22:48 UTC 2003 |
Record Exchange never did anything for me. I'd shop there for convenience's
sake when I lived on Hill, but I never liked it much.
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otaking
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response 98 of 106:
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Aug 3 22:00 UTC 2003 |
I'll miss Record Exchange. On occasion, I'd find some really cool stuff in
their $1 areas. I once found 3 Christine Lavin CDs there, as well as some CDs
by D'Cuckoo, Throbbing Gristle and The Arrogant Worms. I also picked up
several soundtracks there.
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dbratman
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response 99 of 106:
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Aug 5 06:28 UTC 2003 |
Any store with 3 Christine Lavin CDs - heck, any store with one
Christine Lavin CD - is a good store.
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goose
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response 100 of 106:
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Oct 16 00:11 UTC 2003 |
same goes for Throbbing Gristle
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krj
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response 101 of 106:
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Oct 29 21:30 UTC 2003 |
Detroit retailer Harmony House, which almost closed a year or so ago and
then revived with just its classical store and its flagship store both
on Woodward, appears done. I have a web chat board rumor that what
is left of the operation has been sold to somebody called Trans World.
In Google's cache, I found the Harmony House web page from Sept 27
which announces the Classical store is closing, giving no details.
The Harmony House web page isn't responding any more.
As I mentioned when HH first started to liquidate: the classical
CD shop in Royal Oak was world class, a really good resource.
I regret a little that we never visited it during its one year
reprieve.
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dbratman
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response 102 of 106:
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Oct 30 17:54 UTC 2003 |
I was never at this Royal Oak store, but I've only seen one really
world-class classical CD shop in the entire history of classical CDs,
i.e. one which measured up to the best LP stores in the LP era. It's
Classical Millennium in Portland, Oregon, and it was still alive and
thriving when I last visited, a year ago.
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trustnon
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response 103 of 106:
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May 22 17:56 UTC 2004 |
I've pretty much given up on buying cd's now, most of the money goes to the
RIAA, so i just buy vinyl now, i've found it to be relatively cheaper than
cd's and u get better quality, now i have a large collection of vinyl, the
best part about it is that ure alloud to remix it as a dj.
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krj
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response 104 of 106:
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Nov 23 05:45 UTC 2004 |
The Borders store in downtown Ann Arbor just whacked the square-footage
devoted to CD by maybe 30-40%. Classical music got chopped by about
50%; the classical music room is now shared with jazz and a few
other things.
The stock was not pruned by that amount, as the shelving has been
replaced with new racks which store CDs all the way down to the
floor. This may use space more efficiently, but it means
that browsers have to drop down to their knees a lot. Some of
us are getting to an age where we don't really want to do that
just for shopping fun.
My initial reaction is that the CD area is a really unpleasant
space to be in now; I expect the time I
spend in idle CD browsing at Borders to cut way back.
But then, Borders and I have been falling out for a while.
Borders has been doing an increasingly poor job of stocking
the CDs I want, even when they are USA-distributed discs on
labels that Borders has historically stocked, and as a result
very little of my CD spending goes into Ann Arbor shops any more.
I think everything I have bought in the last three months came
from Internet mail order, or from a trip to Tower Records in
Manhattan.
In party, Richard reminded me that this was roughly what Virgin
Megastores did when they axed the classical room and cut the
world music section to expand DVD space.
((There's another piece to be written about the impending death
of the USA world music scene, but that's for another item.))
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tpryan
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response 105 of 106:
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Nov 28 18:25 UTC 2004 |
I fell out of Borders a long time ago.
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krj
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response 106 of 106:
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Jan 12 03:10 UTC 2005 |
Underground Sounds, the small CD shop on Liberty in Ann Arbor,
has moved above ground. I haven't checked their stock in about
18 months; they seemed to be aiming for a younger customer than me.
Still, this is the first sign of growth in downtown CD retailing
in quite a few years.
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