Portraits of forty closed record stores

Barry Blackwood · Post by **Barry Blackwood** » 15 Apr 2011 11:31 am

Just to reinforce Bill Kellum's earlier post, I would add ...
http://www.sacbee.com/2011/04/15/355117 ... s-the.html
http://www.recordstoreday.com/Home
There may be some hope yet, Andy!

Joachim Kettner · Post by **Joachim Kettner** » 15 Apr 2011 1:05 pm

If anybody goes out looking for records tomorrow, look for a "Clover" album called "49er". If it's under 30 dollars, would you please buy it for me. I was searching for it for so long. I will send you the money incl. postage.

Leslie Ehrlich · Post by **Leslie Ehrlich** » 15 Apr 2011 1:27 pm

chas smith wrote: I just spent $1.29 for a download from iTunes that's a .m4a file that I'll convert to a .mp3 that I'll convert to a .aiff to burn to a cd that will never sound as good as the vinyl record...

Vinyl records only sound good if there is no damage to the grooves. Scratches, dirt, and dust wreak havoc on the audio quality.

I like wave files the best. If a song is digitally recorded and then saved as a wave file, it sounds far superior to any vinyl record or magnetic tape. The only problem with wave files is that they take up a lot of disk space.

Most downloadable music files are of inferior quality because they have to be saved in a format (e.g. mp3) that uses less disk space. An mp3 file uses one tenth the space of a wave file.

Barry Blackwood · Post by **Barry Blackwood** » 17 Apr 2011 6:19 am

Bump with this article.
http://www.sacbee.com/2011/04/16/355788 ... store.html

Greg Simmons · Post by **Greg Simmons** » 17 Apr 2011 3:11 pm

Andy Volk wrote: Those were the kinds of interpersonal moments that made record stores so damn great.

You got it Andy; I was pretty much a record store denizen from about the age of 10:) ...I can remember going into SU Records here on the University Campus for my regular visit and the guys had a stack of vinyl for me (knowing my tastes) that was always pretty bang on...and always got a great deal too

Besides, how could your hometown skyline fit on a CD cover

http://www.flickr.com/photos/35278233@N ... /lightbox/

Dan Beller-McKenna · Post by **Dan Beller-McKenna** » 18 Apr 2011 2:04 am

Mads records, Ardmore, PA. Closed a few years back. Barely enough room to turn around in there, but some of the sales clerks were encyclopedias of popular music.

Fortunate to have Bull Moose, a(n apparently)thriving CD?used LP store in Portsmouth NH (and elsewhere in New England).
Dan