Championship Vinyl...

[Robbo_the_Hood]

...Robbo speaking.

Today was my last day as a book store clerk. No longer will my fate be decided on some faceless corporation run by a bunch of faceless Yankees from Ann Arbor. With the focus of the book store going back to books thus letting the music department dwindle, and their unwillingness to promote me, it was time to get another job. So...

Starting tomorrow, I will be working at what is considered the second-coolest record store in town. It's a CD Wharehouse, all of which in this area are independantly owned. The store where I will be working is in competition with Grimey's record store, owned and opperated by one Mike Grimes who is legendary and quite discriminatory when it comes to his music taste. Grimey's is considered the coolest record store, but I think that's only because of its reputation.

The plan now is for me to take over this CD Wharehouse in about three to six months. Robbo will be running his own record store.

[JK]

Good luck. May the Schwartz Be With You.:D

[Mighty Wingman]

...Or you could just throw the whole Country A-K rack out on the street and go work for a Virgin mega-store.

[Zens7s]

No longer will my fate be decided on some faceless corporation run by a bunch of faceless Yankees from Ann Arbor.

Karma owns Borders? COOL!

Starting tomorrow, I will be working at what is considered the second-coolest record store in town. It's a CD Wharehouse,

The plan now is for me to take over this CD Wharehouse in about three to six months. Robbo will be running his own record store. Is it the one you took me to over by Vanderbilt? Where I bought my Love is Hell vinyl? If so that was a cool store. How exciting! Congrats!

Well, if it is any consolation, since you have been gone I rearranged my collection by the name of the artists first band.

[ozchick]

The plan now is for me to take over this CD Wharehouse in about three to six months. Robbo will be running his own record store.

And after that?

Same thing you do every day... try to take over the world! :D

[Robbo_the_Hood]

Karma owns Borders? COOL!

Is it the one you took me to over by Vanderbilt? Where I bought my Love is Hell vinyl? If so that was a cool store. How exciting! Congrats! That's the one. Although, I just bought a 1960's Motorola phonograph, and I've yet to find another vinyl copy of Love is Hell, which is the first thing I looked for upon entering the store today.

Well, if it is any consolation, since you have been gone I rearranged my collection by the name of the artists first band.That's a great idea. Why didn't I think of that?

There's no way your daughter likes that song!...Oh, is she in a coma?

[Zens7s]

That's the one. Although, I just bought a 1960's Motorola phonograph, and I've yet to find another vinyl copy of Love is Hell, which is the first thing I looked for upon entering the store today.

It is an unusual size also. It is in one of those record album frames and hangs in my office.

Speaking of Ryan...did you get the new disc yet?

[Robbo_the_Hood]

Of course, and it gets better every time I listen to it. The only thing is that song "Let it Ride" on the second disc is so biographical it scares me. I hate when people say, "Oh, that's my song," but it just fits me almost exactly.

[Zens7s]

Of course, and it gets better every time I listen to it. The only thing is that song "Let it Ride" on the second disc is so biographical it scares me. I hate when people say, "Oh, that's my song," but it just fits me almost exactly.

You know what is strange...the first time I listened to it I IMMEDIATELY thought of you. Especially the lines "Tennessee's a brother to my sister Carolina where they're gonna bury me. And I ain't ready to go."

[jjcourtright]

Kick ass. I've often wondered why I chose the lumber/hardware part of retail rather than doing something that I love in a record store. Next life, I guess.

[Robbo_the_Hood]

You know what is strange...the first time I listened to it I IMMEDIATELY thought of you. Especially the lines "Tennessee's a brother to my sister Carolina where they're gonna bury me. And I ain't ready to go."It's funny, because what struck me first was the line "27 years of nothin' but failures/and promises I couldn't keep." There was a hearty laugh over that line, but when he belted out the line you just mentioned, it got really erie.

[Zens7s]

There was another one I thought of when I heard it. From "When Will You Come Back Home" on Disc one:

I leave Carolina every night in my dreams
Like the girls that try to love me that I only leave

[Robbo_the_Hood]

Yeah, that's the first thing that got my attention, but I didn't want to say anything out loud.

But yeah, it's a very personal album for me.

[FanGirl]

A photo of Robbo from the near future:

http://www.kinoweb.de/film2000/HighFidelity/pix/hf3.jpg

[Robbo_the_Hood]

There's something wrong if that's going to be me in the future. He's not smoking.

[freetoaster]

I am...,
and that Sex Pistols 45 you have on EMI is now myne.

I can still remember the line from the book the film was adapted from, "smoking roll-ups made out of dog-ends"

[FanGirl]

You can't see his other hand. He could have a smoke in it.

[Robbo_the_Hood]

Eh, I see no trails of smoke.

[FanGirl]

It's that clear smoke that assassins use to smoke when the are working.

[Robbo_the_Hood]

It's that clear smoke that assassins use to smoke when the are working.
:rolleyes:

[Asteban]

I was at a friend's birthday party on Saturday, and I was looking through his dad's old vinyls. He had a lot of good records. Ted Nugent, Lynard Skynard, a Billy Idol.... then I saw the most amazing thing ever. I almost cried because it was so beautiful. Led Zeppelin IV. Perfect condition..... I wanted to run up the stairs and give the man all the money I had, but I was assured that he wouldn't sell it.

[ILovePapaSmurf]

I own Manilow on Vinyl. I am way cooler than you!

[Asteban]

Do we need to get into this... because I don't want to have to explain how much better Zeppelin is again.

[JK]

I'd have to go with Doctor Dennis Leary's remedy for Manilow...

[ILovePapaSmurf]

Please Asteban, old school Manilow Vinyls are worth loads.

[FanGirl]

I am listening to The Song Remains the Same on vinyl right now.

[slizzelizzel]

What is this 'vinyl' all of you old fossils keep talking about? Is is like those 'tape' things that some of you were talking about in a different thread?

[psychofiend]

What is this 'vinyl' all of you old fossils keep talking about? Is is like those 'tape' things that some of you were talking about in a different thread?
Vinyl isn't dead it's just hibernating. I own 2 vinyls of my own. Michael Jackson's "Thriller" and Steve Miller Band.

[Zens7s]

Yes, but do you own the Star Wars Christmas Album like I do.

Ha! I am so cool I can't even hang out with myself.

[Denyse]

I own Partridge Family/David Cassidy albums on Vinyl, as well as Donnie Osmond and Bobby Sherman. Yes, I am both old and severly UNcool.

[Gotherella]

Actualsize has the best records at our house. The pride of the collection: the single of DK's Nazi Punks F*** Off, complete with armband.

[actualsize]

Actualsize has the best records at our house.

Other 45rpm (those are the ones with the BIG holes in them slizz) favorites I have, though not really rare or vaulable (I think-correct me if I'm wrong.)

(1) The Police - De-Do-Do-Do De-Dah-Dah-Dah but one side is in Japanese, the other is in Espanol.

(2) Screamin' Jay Hawkins - I put a Spell on You. Bought this after I saw Jim Jarmusch's Stranger than Paradise. Only seen it once - is it as good as I remember? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

(3) The Waitresses - I know what boys like. Now stay with me here. It's a 45 see, and if you play it at 33 rpm instead, it sounds like a guy singing. Straight (pun intended) out of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. Imagine...
I know what boys like
I know what guys want
I know what boys like
boys like me, etc.

4) And I reordered Alpha Team's Speed Racer remix on ebay. Should be here this week!!!:D

[RobinHoodDaffy]

Screamin' Jay Hawkins - I put a Spell on You

I am always suprised that I don't get many people making stupid jokes about that song to me. (my name being J.J. Hawkins, after all)

Aside from that, I loves my records, I loves 'em. Hell, just in Cher and Tom Jones alone I have about twenty. Then you add in my original press Beatles and my collection of classical music and it is quite nice if'n I do say so my self. I have a theory that music sounds best on the format that was in Vogue at the time of the recording so to me Beatles=record, Beck=CD. Now Rap seems to fuck that up as the Cypress Hill Stoned Raiders record I have is much better than it was on disk.

[Asteban]

Worth loads? Yeah I'd give someone a mound of steaming shit for a Manilow vinyl.

[jjcourtright]

(1) The Police - De-Do-Do-Do De-Dah-Dah-Dah but one side is in Japanese, the other is in Espanol. I assume that the song sounds the same in all languages, right? De-Do-Do-Do...

[actualsize]

I assume that the song sounds the same in all languages, right? De-Do-Do-Do...
Yeah. Due to an odd freak of linguistics, De-Do-Do-Do De-Dah-dah-dah has the same meaning in all the major languages. Go figure.

[Robbo_the_Hood]

*Written during the course of my shift*

This truly is the greatest job ever. I am the only one in my store right now, and I'm listening to the Old 97's on my ipod. Cued up next is the Autolux album, Future Perfect, who I am writing an article on for Verbicide magazine.

People come into my store to sell their old CD's, hopeful that they will get a good pay day, as if my buying their old albums is validation of their music taste. We recently have had a rash of Eve 6, and other aweful late 90's crap. Apparently it took that long to realize that Third Eye Blind sucks.

These people wait anxiously as I make the two piles of CDs that we're taking and CDs we're rejecting, the reject pile usually being much higher due to our volume, we don't think it will sell, or conditioning. Some of these people must drop all of their discs in gravel, step on them, and then try to sell them to me. After I offer them what is considerably the best resale deal in town for a few CDs, sometimes people get indignant because I'm not taking the entire box of junk. They could go down the street and get rid of the whole box for less than what I am offering.

I found out my first couple of days that you never tell the customer that you're rejecting CDs because of conditioning. Apparently people take that as an affront to their character. But when the disc looks like it was used in a cutlery infomercial, I'm not offering money to take something that no one wants. Maybe these people are using their Fastball CDs as coasters.

My store is right off of the Vanderbilt campus, and with the kidses home for the summer, business is a little slow. I've had three people ask if we're hiring today. Kids want to work here because it's cool. One little 19-year-old said, "Oh, I love this store. I grew up here."

The cast of characters that frequent the store is pretty interesting, from the inie-rock kids, to the dumpster diving pan-handlers. We have one guy that only speaks in song lyrics. "Baby what a big surprise!" he blared. I've figured out that he wants us to help him find an album with that song (Chicago, obviously), then he keeps doing it with different songs ad naseum. Yesterday he asked me if we had "Bad Company." I thought I'd mess with him and I replied, "The band or the song?"

He wasn't prepared for the question, and I could see the gears turning. "The song," he said.

My co-worker spoke up: "We don't know who sings that." He has to deal with him all the time, and gets frustrated when the lyric man comes into the store.

"Y'all got that song, uh, that song . . . GET OFF OF MY BIKE! GET INTO MY CAR! GET OFF OF MY BIKE! Y'all got that song." He wins. He beat me. I couldn't stop laughing no matter how hard I tried.

I'm not complaining at all. This isn't supposed to be a Clerks-light post. I really enjoy this job. And I do recognize the irony of playing my ipod on the overhead at a record store.

[Robbo_the_Hood]

It's the Saturday Morning Jazz Hour, here at the CD Warehouse. Right now, we're listening to the Miles Davis translation of Porgy and Bess, and in a little while we'll be throwing on Mysterioso by Thelonious Monk and his assembled quartet.

So, sit backand enjoy the beautiful morning, because it's summer time and the livin' is easy.

[Efexeye]

Robbo, man, I couldn't be happier that you found what sounds like your dream job. Good for you, man!

[Robbo_the_Hood]

Thanks a lot. I can't believe I lucked out woking here after some of the crap I've done in my day and the aweful people for whom I've had to work. It's nice to be in a place where I'm not constantly worrying that Big Brother is watching over me, and that I don't have a standardized order of procedure when reacting with a customer. Not every discrepancy needs to be cross-referenced with a manual.

Now all I need is a good paying writing gig, and the Vikings to win the Super Bowl, and I can die happy.

[Matthew]

So, sit backand enjoy the beautiful morning, because it's summer time and the livin' is easy.

Lucky you! I would love to work at a record store someday.

Now is your momma as good looking as your daddy is rich?

[Robbo_the_Hood]

Lucky you! I would love to work at a record store someday.Trust me, it's much better to work in an independent record store than one of those Tower/Sam Goody chains. For one, you can cater to the audience you want to and you get paid significantly more. Now is your momma as good looking as your daddy is rich?Well, if Dad was rich, I wouldn't be working at a record store...You talkin' about my momma?

[Matthew]

er, um, err, The pics I saw on the internet she seemes okay....


You quoted Gershwin, I took it a step further.

[psychofiend]

Matthews posts are all funny because every statement he makes ends up ending with for me to poop on. So if he made a post that announced he has cancer it would be "I have cancer.... for me to poop on!"

[Robbo_the_Hood]

Matthews posts are all funny because every statement he makes ends up ending with for me to poop on. So if he made a post that announced he has cancer it would be "I have cancer.... for me to poop on!"Don't you take my thread off-topic! :mad:

It may be Monday morning, but we got something extra cool for ya. Chet Baker's all lined up with the Jazz Moods series. And after that, we've got some classic 60's soul from miss Candi Stanton, and a version of "In the Ghetto" more poingant than fat Elvis.

That'll bring us into the lunch-time Indie-Rock Block, so we've got some Velvet Teen and Autolux's Future Perfect scheduled.

No need to have a case of the Monday's, because Dr. Robbo is opperating. And right now, you're in the best of hands.

[Robbo_the_Hood]

You quoted Gershwin, I took it a step further.I actually thought it was pretty clever, and I was honestly glad that no one thought I was quoting Sublime.

[Gotherella]

It may be Monday morning, but we got something extra cool for ya. Chet Baker's all lined up with the Jass Moods series. And after that, we've got some classic 60's soul from miss Candi Stanton, and a version of "In the Ghetto" more poingant than fat Elvis.

That'll bring us into the lunch-time Indie-Rock Block, so we've got some Velvet Teen and Autolux's Future Perfect scheduled.

No need to have a case of the Monday's, because Dr. Robbo is opperating. And right now, you're in the best of hands.

So, how do we pipe in your audio for the site, DJ Robbo?

[Robbo_the_Hood]

You know, that's something I ought to look into.

[jjcourtright]

Yesterday he asked me if we had "Bad Company." I thought I'd mess with him and I replied, "The band or the song?"
That was enough to make my day.

[Robbo_the_Hood]

Here's why my job is cool:
Local jazz musician brings his mom into the store, and we get to talking of all sorts of music while he gets things so his mother can listen to them. He mentions how he is into good bass parts and I ask him, "Did you ever see that movie, Standing in the Shadows of Motown?"

"No . . . but I was in it."

:eek: How fuckin' COOL is that!? I feel like Luke when old Ben revealed who he is.

I'll be back tomorrow with my Saturday Morning Jazz program.

[Robbo_the_Hood]

Saturday morning once again, and that means it's Dr. Robbo's Jazz Show. We're going to switch some things up later in the day. Since I'm in a down-home kind of mood, a little later we'll be listening to both discs of Night Train to Nashville, a collection of Nashville based R&B from 1945 all the way to 1974. Pay attention to the live version of "What I'd Say" by the astounding Etta James, and the Clifford Curry track, "She Shot a Hole in My Soul," as those are some personal favorites.

But first up, for all my cats out in Poopshoot'ville, we're going to start the morning off right. I present to you, Charles Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus.

[Robbo_the_Hood]

Gosh, it's been much faster than the six months I predicted, but this morning of June 20, 2005, Robbo starts running his own record store. I'm nervous, excited, and a little bit gassy.

Anyway, wish me luck, and stuff.

Yay...?

[psychofiend]

Gosh, it's been much faster than the six months I predicted, but this morning of June 20, 2005, Robbo starts running his own record store. I'm nervous, excited, and a little bit gassy.

Anyway, wish me luck, and stuff.

Yay...?
I think it would be bitchin to run a record store. Surrounded by music and people interested in music (why else would they be there). I wouldn't be one of those pompass (spelling????) assholes who tells the people their taste in music sucks. I would just help people find the music that makes them happy.

[Matthew]

Gosh, it's been much faster than the six months I predicted, but this morning of June 20, 2005, Robbo starts running his own record store. I'm nervous, excited, and a little bit gassy.

Anyway, wish me luck, and stuff.

Yay...?

DO NOT pass gas infront of any customers. Well, maybe the new age people and Phish fans. They are used to smelling like shit.

[Efexeye]

DO NOT pass gas infront of any customers. Well, maybe the new age people and Phish fans. They are used to smelling like shit.

Hey, I'm a Phish fan, and I shower every day...I exfoliate, too!

[karmattack]

Gosh, it's been much faster than the six months I predicted, but this morning of June 20, 2005, Robbo starts running his own record store. I'm nervous, excited, and a little bit gassy.

Anyway, wish me luck, and stuff.

Yay...?

Dude, congrats! You'll be conducting a retrospective of your life entirely communicated through top 5 lists in no time!


"Get your patchoulli stink outta my store!"

[jjcourtright]

Gosh, it's been much faster than the six months I predicted, but this morning of June 20, 2005, Robbo starts running his own record store. I'm nervous, excited, and a little bit gassy.

Anyway, wish me luck, and stuff.

Yay...?I thought you were already running the show?
[shrugs]
I guess I need to pay a little bit more attention to the details.

[Matt1]

Gosh, it's been much faster than the six months I predicted, but this morning of June 20, 2005, Robbo starts running his own record store. I'm nervous, excited, and a little bit gassy.

Anyway, wish me luck, and stuff.

Yay...?
Good luck and congratulations, man.

[ILovePapaSmurf]

Gosh, it's been much faster than the six months I predicted, but this morning of June 20, 2005, Robbo starts running his own record store. I'm nervous, excited, and a little bit gassy.

Anyway, wish me luck, and stuff.

Yay...?
Congrats Robbo and good luck! :)

By the way, do you have any job openings? ;)

[By-tor]

Gosh, it's been much faster than the six months I predicted, but this morning of June 20, 2005, Robbo starts running his own record store. I'm nervous, excited, and a little bit gassy.

Anyway, wish me luck, and stuff.

Yay...?
Good luck. My dad and his partner opened up a family business 26 yrs. ago. The dads have retired(slowly) in the last couple of years. Now it's just the sons running the print shop. Being the owner has it's ups and downs. My advice(and I know you ain't asking), screen the shit out of your potential employees. Again, good luck and may small business rule.

[Robbo_the_Hood]

By the way, do you have any job openings? ;)Actually, I do have an opening for a full time employee.

[ozchick]

Just wanted to add my congrats too Robbo. Have fun :)

[Robbo_the_Hood]

Just wanted to add my congrats too Robbo. Have fun :)Thank you very much, and thanks to everyone else. If any of you are in the Nashville area, feel free to stop in for the Friends of Robbo discount.

[actualsize]

Gosh, it's been much faster than the six months I predicted, but this morning of June 20, 2005, Robbo starts running his own record store. I'm nervous, excited, and a little bit gassy.

Anyway, wish me luck, and stuff.

Yay...?Lucky!>>>>

[acid_soda]

hey, ROBBO, tell me if you see this CD...
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000001Y47.01._SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg
I'm looking for the damn thing everywhere...

[psychofiend]

Who is Primus? I have never heard of them.

[Dave]

please tell me you are kidding

[By-tor]

please tell me you are kidding

If not(and I think he is), he needs to be "hit upside the head with an aluminum baseball bat".

[Efexeye]

Hey Robbo, you should get your new employer to buy you one of these (http://audioturntable.com/).

[ILovePapaSmurf]

Actually, I do have an opening for a full time employee.
Where do I apply? ;)

[DarthMaulRat]

Where do I apply? ;)

I was about to say it really sounds like you need a job, but then I remembered we're in different time zones, and I'm the one online with no job to go to or work to do at noon on a Tuesday.

[ILovePapaSmurf]

I'm currently on the look out for a new job that pays over 10 bucks and hour and is a full time position. I have to keep my options open, which is why I asked. ;)

[jjcourtright]

If not(and I think he is), he needs to be "hit upside the head with an aluminum baseball bat".I believe you meant to say that he needs to be "kissed upside the cranium with an aluminum baseball bat"...not to be picky or anything.

[slizzelizzel]

I need a job. I need one badly. I'll fly out to Vegas and live in the bathroom of your record shop. When can I start?

[FanGirl]

*whisphers to slizzel* Nash-Vegas is Nashville.

[jjcourtright]

...which means that you don't even have to buy a plane ticket, you can drive.

[Denyse]

I need a job. I need one badly.

So come out here. You can fix my car and be my man servant. I'll even pay you poorly.

Speaking of cars, isn't there something you should be doing?

[slizzelizzel]

Fangirl-thanx, I'm dumb!

Denyse- I'd love to, but I'm going on 3 separate trips this summer, so going to Cali would make me cancel all of 'em.

And as for my car- yeah, there's a bunch of stuff I should be doing to it, but I have enough money to get one piece of the interior trim, so it's just gonna sit in the garage for another year, I guess. :(

[acid_soda]

play the LOTTERY!:D

[FanGirl]

The lottery is a tax on people who can't do math. :)

[Sheriff]

I like the math on this one...

Lottery (http://edition.cnn.com/2005/US/06/14/lotto.winner.ap/index.html)

I think the lottery can be explained best by the fact that you infinetly increase your chances with one purchase and almost not affect that chance with the next 100.

[Robbo_the_Hood]

Since we have an active nostalgia thread, and I'm all about good times Dr. Robbo prescribes a CD I purchased when I was in the tenth grade. The CD was so good, I was affraid to like it because I knew there was no way my brainwashed via Buffett friends could comprehend it. Recently I found it at my store because some sucker just didn't get it's greatness. My people of the Poopshoot, I give you Portishead's 1994 release, Dummy.

[Robbo_the_Hood]

Todays Saturday Morning Jazz program has been pre-empted by NPR's What Do You Know? I haven't had a day off in six weeks, and I'm too lazy to connect my ipod.

[Robbo_the_Hood]

Ressurecting an old thread, today has been one of those days I dream of when working at a used record store. A guy brought in a collection of Jazz that I feel guilty for buying from him. You could see the pain in his face as he piled the collection on my counter, like he was losing memories of his childhood. As I checked the condition of each piece, he wandered into our Jazz section, because he couldn't bear the agony of his final moments of his music, to see if he was adding to our stock, or already reminiscing.

Amongst the collection:
Louis Armstrong-Satch Plays Fats
Frank Sinatra-Live at the Sands
Count Basie & Joe Williams-Basie Swings, Williams Sings
Chet Baker-Baker's Holiday

and the best of the collection
Billie Holiday-Lady in Satin. I almost cried the first time I ever heard this record. It's her final album, and she claims its her personal favorite. She would die 17 months after this recording. Her voice has obviously been ravaged by her lifestyle, but she evokes so much emotion when she sings. With her voice not being what it was, and the orchestra being unbearable at times, there are different opinions on this album.

Billie Holiday makes me wish I were black.

So, what'd you guys do today?

[Zens7s]

So, what'd you guys do today?Today I had a 30 min. discussion with my boss on how much Disturbed sucks, and how one of my employees does not know who Journey is. I prepared for a negotiation meeting with IBM, and listened to some Jacksonville City Nights while doing so.

On Vinyl related topics, when Wingman and I were out and about in Austin I finally bought Springsteens 1975-1985 on vinyl, thus completing my Bruce vinyl collection (of the standard LP's that is). I also got a copy of Coltrane's "Blue Train" on vinyl still wrapped in plastic. He got to have me geek out about it a bit.

[BAMSS04]

Today I had a 30 min. discussion with my boss on how much Disturbed sucks

Take it back!

[Zens7s]

Take it back!
Can't do it. Almost everything they do sounds the same. There are a few songs I totally love...the rest is why ITunes pick and choose was invented.

[Robbo_the_Hood]

No, you should take it back that you had a whole conversation that lasted thirty minutes on the suckatude of Disturbed? 30 minutes? How old was this person that they couldn't understand the basic equation Disturbed=suck? Were you telling the equation wrong?

[Zens7s]

No, you should take it back that you had a whole conversation that lasted thirty minutes on the suckatude of Disturbed? 30 minutes? How old was this person that they couldn't understand the basic equation Disturbed=suck? Were you telling the equation wrong?
He is in his fifties. It wasn't entirely about Disturbed. It was Distrubed as the basis for discussions about other bands that are better than Disturbed...but they were used as a basis for comparison throughout the 30 min. period.

We also discussed that his 18 year old daughter went to a show the other night where two people were having sex right next to her. He couldn't remember what show she was at, but he noted that he was confident it was not Hilary Duff.

[BAMSS04]

Can't do it. Almost everything they do sounds the same. There are a few songs I totally love...the rest is why ITunes pick and choose was invented.

I never have understood why people are bothered by them sounding the same? Its a great sound! Clean, and they throw down. Plus , I don't know if you picked up the latest by them "10,000 fists". If you have then you know that they need to stick to what they do. They did some crazy wierd shit on that album, and it sucked. Except track 8 that was pretty sweet.

I understand that people want their bands to do new stuff but if you fell in love with them for the sound they had, why do you blame them for giving it to you again. They are consistant. ( I am not saying just you I have heard this a lot)

Metallica is an example of a band who does this?

Other than that, they are very talented.

[freetoaster]

today has been one of those days I dream of when working at a used record store. A guy brought in a collection of Jazz that I feel guilty for buying from him. You could see the pain in his face as he piled the collection on my counter, like he was losing memories of his childhood. ..

Amongst the collection:
Louis Armstrong-Satch Plays Fats
Frank Sinatra-Live at the Sands
Count Basie & Joe Williams-Basie Swings, Williams Sings
Chet Baker-Baker's Holiday

and the best of the collection
Billie Holiday-Lady in Satin. ...

Robbo, just out of curiosity, did he splain-why he was parting with such things? Considering suicide? Dying of cancer? Homeless soon?

[Zens7s]

I never have understood why people are bothered by them sounding the same? Its a great sound! Clean, and they throw down. Plus , I don't know if you picked up the latest by them "10,000 fists". If you have then you know that they need to stick to what they do. They did some crazy wierd shit on that album, and it sucked. Except track 8 that was pretty sweet.

I understand that people want their bands to do new stuff but if you fell in love with them for the sound they had, why do you blame them for giving it to you again. They are consistant. ( I am not saying just you I have heard this a lot)

Metallica is an example of a band who does this?

Other than that, they are very talented.
The new album is the basis for my opinion about their general suckitude. It's just flat out crap.

You are missing my "sound the same" argument. It is one thing if a band makes a sound and style their own. It's entirely different when the album makes it almost impossible to remember one track from the next. I am the last person to complain when a band delivers consistency. There is a difference between being consistently good, and plagiarizing your own work over and over.

The first album had its moments. The second one too. But all in all there isn't much that differentiates them from the rest of the crowd that is derivative of Pantera. Meh.

Even you admit that last album wasn't good. They have only put out three albums total. It isn't exactly a seminal body of work to back up creative excellence.

[TLS]

there isn't much that differentiates them from the rest of the crowd that is derivative of Pantera.
What the hell is this? You place blame on Pantera. No, no no, you pick another band like Metallica to be responsible of the derivatating. ;)

[Zens7s]

What the hell is this? You place blame on Pantera. No, no no, you pick another band like Metallica to be responsible of the derivatating. ;)
Being derivitive of something doesn't place blame on the original band that did it correctly.

That is like saying every crappy grunge band that followed placed blame on Nirvana.

[Razorback]

Zens is right.... Disturbed sucks. However, when compared with the suckytude of Green Day, then Disturbed is genius.

[TLS]

You missed the ;) I was joking around, taking a slam at Metallica and Disturbed in one shot.

Disturbed is more of a pop metal band. Pantera is more of the angry driven type of metal. I just don't see the connection, but you're entitled to your opinion just as I'm entitled to mine.



Rb-Yes, but GreenDay is still fun to sing to. :)

[Razorback]

Rb-Yes, but GreenDay is still fun to sing to. :)

I must have missed that part of their songs....

[Zens7s]

You missed the ;) I was joking around, taking a slam at Metallica and Disturbed in one shot.

Disturbed is more of a pop metal band. Pantera is more of the angry driven type of metal. I just don't see the connection, but you're entitled to your opinion just as I'm entitled to mine.



Rb-Yes, but GreenDay is still fun to sing to. :)
I don't think that Metallica and Pantera are the same style either. However, Distrubed to me sounds much more "angry driven type of metal" than pop metal ala Metallica.

[BAMSS04]

The new album is the basis for my opinion about their general suckitude. It's just flat out crap.

You are missing my "sound the same" argument. It is one thing if a band makes a sound and style their own. It's entirely different when the album makes it almost impossible to remember one track from the next. I am the last person to complain when a band delivers consistency. There is a difference between being consistently good, and plagiarizing your own work over and over.

The first album had its moments. The second one too. But all in all there isn't much that differentiates them from the rest of the crowd that is derivative of Pantera. Meh.

Even you admit that last album wasn't good. They have only put out three albums total. It isn't exactly a seminal body of work to back up creative excellence.


I'll give you that a lot of the new album is CRAAAP!!
Still, Tracks 1, 2, 5, 8, and 10 make it worth buying IMO.
Track 8 is a great example of a "newer" sound for them that gives me hope for them on the next album.

Yeah, Disturbed is a Speed Rock that has a distinct sound, but I like that sound. I guess its all a matter of taste. I enjoy the way they sound. I can understand where your coming from but still think they are a well put together band.

[Razorback]

I don't think that Metallica and Pantera are the same style either. However, Distrubed to me sounds much more "angry driven type of metal" than pop metal ala Metallica.

Since when was Metallica pop metal? This is still Earth, right? I didn't fall into the nutjob dimension again, did I?

[Mighty Wingman]

Since when was Metallica pop metal? This is still Earth, right? I didn't fall into the nutjob dimension again, did I?
Since about the time "Nothing else matters" came out, or how about "Until it sleeps " with the riff they ripped off from Salt-n-Pepa.

It's true , if you play "Push it" and "Until it sleeps" at the same time, it's the same friggin song, except for the lyrics.

[JamesW]

Since when was Metallica pop metal? This is still Earth, right? I didn't fall into the nutjob dimension again, did I?

Since they were on "Jane Pauley". :)

[freetoaster]

At least when these ladies did in 1988 it was original.
http://www.musikmarkt-wiesbaden.de/images/SALT%20N%20PEPPA%20push%20it.JPG

Metallica sucks corporate-schlong.

[By-tor]

Ain't a damn thing pop metal about "Some Kind Of Monster".

[ILovePapaSmurf]

At least when these ladies did in 1988 it was original.
http://www.musikmarkt-wiesbaden.de/images/SALT%20N%20PEPPA%20push%20it.JPG

Metallica sucks corporate-schlong.

God how much the 80s ruined fashion and hair. They looked so classy on the VH-1 Hip Hop Honors recently. Salt-N-Pepa was my favorite rap group growing up. Loved them.

[Razorback]

Since about the time "Nothing else matters" came out, or how about "Until it sleeps " with the riff they ripped off from Salt-n-Pepa.

Pop metal is something entirely different. Get your genres right.

[By-tor]

Winger, Poison, Warrant, Creed, etc., etc. ...shit-fire I sure played alot of pop metal.

[freetoaster]

Ain't a damn thing pop metal about "Some Kind Of Monster".

No? How about their just a load of sell-out FUCK-TOOLS then?

The only thing that could make these jack-offs interesting, is if one of them overdosed on their coke habbit, after having their scrodem chewed off during a sex-act with a hydrocephalic rodent on LSD.

[By-tor]

I didn't say shit about being sell-outs. The freakin movie alone was a sell-out. But it was damn interesting to watch Lars and James go at each other's throat.

[freetoaster]

I didn't mean to take it out on you, I'm just still pissed off about my Napster.

freggin Lars and his frag-nastin cushy life-style...I bet he sleeps in silk jamies with a satin teddy-bear and eats chocolate strawberries out of his boyfriend's butt-hole...

[By-tor]

It's cool. But man, you gots some issues. Those last 2 posts were a little more descriptive than I needed. :D

[Mighty Wingman]

I totally understand how he feels. I was a big metallicker fan back in the day.
I was a little skater punk trying to get everyone to listen to them. And people would tell me "Turn that shit off Dude, it's giving me a headache. "And then came the whiny little love songs, the sell out , and the haircuts, and for while I was just indifferent. The hatred came when they virtually destroyed Napster.

I wish no one would ever buy their albums again. Ever.

And since someone mentioned Metallickers I have to link this. (http://moviepoopshoot.com/forums/showpost.php?p=69498&postcount=24)

[psychofiend]

I totally understand how he feels. I was a big metallicker fan back in the day.
I was a little skater punk trying to get everyone to listen to them. And people would tell me "Turn that shit off Dude, it's giving me a headache. "And then came the whiny little love songs, the sell out , and the haircuts, and for while I was just indifferent. The hatred came when they virtually destroyed Napster.

I wish no one would ever buy their albums again. Ever.

And since someone mentioned Metallickers I have to link this. (http://moviepoopshoot.com/forums/showpost.php?p=69498&postcount=24)
I'm not a very big fan of Metallica at all. I think they are worthless sell-outs with music that is very much the same with every record with the exception of one really good album. And Justice for all is amazing.
http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00002605V.08.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

[Mighty Wingman]

Puppets and Lightning were the Shiznizzle, dude. But I can't even listen to those anymore.

[By-tor]

Just turn on "Hit the Lights" or "The Four Horsemen". It will all come back to you.

[Robbo_the_Hood]

I totally understand how he feels. I was a big metallicker fan back in the day.
I was a little skater punk trying to get everyone to listen to them. And people would tell me "Turn that shit off Dude, it's giving me a headache. "And then came the whiny little love songs, the sell out , and the haircuts, and for while I was just indifferent. The hatred came when they virtually destroyed Napster.
I understand completely. I just can't listen to anything Metallica anymore with any kind of fondness.

[By-tor]

I'm a musician, and for me it all boils down to the music. I could give a flyin' rats ass about these guys' personal agenda. Now if they fucked with one of my family or friends, that would be a different story.

[Robbo_the_Hood]

One of my friends did have his name put on that list when Metallica sued Napster and it's users. That's neither here nor there. After I did some growing up, I realized Metallica is kind of boring.

[By-tor]

Is anyone here old enough to remember when the first album(yes, a LP) was released. Shit, people, it was the newest, fastest, most interesting music out at the time. Kinda like when Appetite For Destruction came out. Something that finally rocked. If any of you had to put up with that freaking disco crap back then, then Metallica was the messiah. I know punk was just starting to hit big, but it never did anything for me. I'm not saying I love everything that the Mighty Met have ever done. But by god, I'm not throwin it all away for some questionable moves on their part. \m/ :D \m/ I LOVE YOU ALL!!!

[TLS]

I'm not saying I love everything that the Mighty Met have ever done. But by god, I'm not throwin it all away for some questionable moves on their part. \m/ :D \m/ I LOVE YOU ALL!!!
It's like going down on your guy only to find out that he just got done screwing the whore down the street. You dump him, and you dump him now! You don't go back to him. You don't want to bring back that awful feeling associated with being used and the unpleasant taste he left in your mouth.

Ok, maybe it's not exactly like that, but the metaphor was fun and I couldn't let it go to waste.

[Zens7s]

It's like going down on your guy only to find out that he just got done screwing the whore down the street. You dump him, and you dump him now! You don't go back to him. You don't want to bring back that awful feeling associated with being used and the unpleasant taste he left in your mouth.

Ok, maybe it's not exactly like that, but the metaphor was fun and I couldn't let it go to waste.
So apparently you were listening in on my day yesterday. This is sort of weird...are you actually my assistant and you have been listening to my phone calls again?

Dun Dun Dunnnnnnn.

[TLS]

No, the Zens I know is sentimental. ;)

That is weird that you would be talking about the same metaphor I just used. I was trying really hard to make up something original. Dammit, back to the drawing board.

[Zens7s]

No, the Zens I know is sentimental. ;)

That is weird that you would be talking about the same metaphor I just used. I was trying really hard to make up something original. Dammit, back to the drawing board.
I wasn't really talking about it as much as yelling about it. I found out yesterday that the total jerk I just left was cheating on me with someone else while I was pregnant.

I proceeded to call FanGirl this morning and provide her with the last and final installment to this messed up saga. Then I pronounced him dead to me. Dead I say!

[TLS]

What a dick! I'm glad you got out of it.
Just think, now you have a great reason to keep you from ever going back.

Now would be a good time to write a Dear John letter.

[Zens7s]

What a dick! I'm glad you got out of it.
Just think, now you have a great reason to keep you from ever going back.

Now would be a good time to write a Dear John letter.

Well, the Dear John letter I was speaking of last week was written to him. It was a pre-emptive strike!

[TLS]

You can go back and edit or redo it. Make it more colorful, you know, for fun. :)

[Zens7s]

You can go back and edit or redo it. Make it more colorful, you know, for fun. :)
Good point. See, you are an inspriation!

There is no point in sending a Dear John that isn't at least a little glammed up! Sparkles, fancy fonts...why go for Arial size 12 when you can do Bodoni Book size 26 in red and flashing!

The end result is a nasty-o-gram that may give him a seizure. Cool!

[Razorback]

Everyone is a potential cheater.

Love is a raindrop falling towards earth.

The only guarantee is that there is no guarantee.

Then, when we meet someone who blows our mind because they would never live up to the cheater potential, who enters the relationship as an ocean of love, and does so with a lifetime warranty.... we cheat on them, toss their love into a freefall of death, and then remind them that love has no guarantees.

[TLS]

So poetic, yet so sad.
It's a never ending cycle. We live to destroy. With the destruction of a relationship comes the begining of a new and so on.

[Dave]

Everyone is a potential cheater.


Bullshit. If you want to cheat on someone, then you don't really want to be with that person in the first place, and you need to leave that relationship. If you don't think you can be monogamous, then stay out of long term relationships.

[Razorback]

Bullshit. If you want to cheat on someone, then you don't really want to be with that person in the first place, and you need to leave that relationship. If you don't think you can be monogamous, then stay out of long term relationships.

You seem to not understand what was said.

[Zens7s]

I will admit, I was suprised by this one. For all his qualities that weren't perfect, there were not any signs of this one. The other girl seems equally mystified, but she shouldn't have been. From what she says he gave her signs that we all would have figured out.

I haven't ever cheated on someone, and I hope that the potiential to cheat in me is very small...if there at all. I always wondered what it feels like when you know about yourself that you have the potiential to do that to anyone at anytime.

I wonder if it makes a person sad that they recognize this capacity in themselves...that dissatisfaction.

[TLS]

Cheating is a choice. Having the freewill of choosing to do so or not makes everyone a potential cheater.

[Razorback]

Cheating is a choice. Having the freewill of choosing to do so or not makes everyone a potential cheater.

Exactly. Everyone is a potential cheater. Not everyone cheats.

[freetoaster]

The end result is a nasty-o-gram that may give him a seizure. Cool!

I know I'm way behind here, but aawww-gaawwdd... I can't resist.

I just saw Sponge-Bob make a nasty-patty last week. Rancid-krabby-meat dipped in the toilet, pulled across the floor for pubes etc. added with all things un-godly and disgusting. It grossed me out! Look Patrick, it's a nasty-patty. Who should we get to eat it?"

Too bad you can't feed him a nasty-patty.

[Dave]

I will admit, I was suprised by this one. For all his qualities that weren't perfect, there were not any signs of this one. The other girl seems equally mystified, but she shouldn't have been. From what she says he gave her signs that we all would have figured out.

I haven't ever cheated on someone, and I hope that the potiential to cheat in me is very small...if there at all. I always wondered what it feels like when you know about yourself that you have the potiential to do that to anyone at anytime.

I wonder if it makes a person sad that they recognize this capacity in themselves...that dissatisfaction.


So you have talked to the "other woman"?

[By-tor]

"I hate Metallica" metaphor leads to an enlightening discussion on cheating. I love this freakin' place.

[Zens7s]

So you have talked to the "other woman"?
Yes, she called me today. It took quite a bit of guts, I don't think I would have done it. Honestly, I feel sorry for her. She is very young and naive. I think her heart got broken on this one.

[Mighty Wingman]

So, to sum up : Robbo manages a record store. Metallica is a buncha slutty ho's and we want nothing to do with them anymore.

The End .

[By-tor]

Bastard...:p

[Mighty Wingman]

Hey, you send them your own dear John letter.

[By-tor]

Slutty ho's don't deserve Dear John letters.

[Razorback]

So, to sum up : Robbo manages a record store. Metallica is a buncha slutty ho's and we want nothing to do with them anymore.

The End .

And anyone who thinks Metallica is pop metal is categorically retarded. You forget that one.

[ILovePapaSmurf]

I wasn't really talking about it as much as yelling about it. I found out yesterday that the total jerk I just left was cheating on me with someone else while I was pregnant.

I proceeded to call FanGirl this morning and provide her with the last and final installment to this messed up saga. Then I pronounced him dead to me. Dead I say!

Where does this dude live and what car does he drive? I think he is in need of a new paint job soon…

[Mighty Wingman]

And anyone who thinks Metallica is pop metal is categorically retarded. You forget that one.
I didn't say they were popmeat. I said they're a bunch of greedy-bitch-poser sellouts. And anyone with decent taste in music, Mr. Kelly Clarkson, knows that everything after Justice was complete shit. ;)

Hah ! I win!

[By-tor]

And anyone with decent taste in music I guess you're out of the mix then. :p

[Mighty Wingman]

Go put on your kiss album, crack a window and lock the door so your parents don't catch you.

[By-tor]

C'mon dude it's KISS. Damn kids.

[Mighty Wingman]

You know, if you play a KISS album backwards, they say you can hear the muffler of a 76' Pinto.

Which, as it turns out, sounds better than when you play it forward.

[By-tor]

Them's fightin words, man. But funny shit, none the less. Calling Dr. Love. :D

[Razorback]

I didn't say they were popmeat. I said they're a bunch of greedy-bitch-poser sellouts.

Oh, that is true. At least the sellout part. They sell out arenas.... EVERY NIGHT! ;)

And anyone with decent taste in music, knows Kelly Clarkson rules

I agree.

[jjcourtright]

I heard Working Man on the radio this morning. I used to love Rush, but now, like Metallica, it is a struggle to listen to their music (excepting a few songs from each). I thought that it was because of what Metallica has become...but after realizing the same dislike is true of Rush, I came to the conclusion that they are just music from a different, no longer relavent time of my life.

[By-tor]

I heard Working Man on the radio this morning. I used to love Rush, but now, like Metallica, it is a struggle to listen to their music (excepting a few songs from each). I thought that it was because of what Metallica has become...but after realizing the same dislike is true of Rush, I came to the conclusion that they are just music from a different, no longer relavent time of my life.Geddy Lee is GOD!!! I guess being a musician, I can't relate to any music that I grew up worshipping as being irrelevent. I saw Rush just last year, and yes I understand what you're saying. But for me some music is timeless. Especially certain bands. I grew up latching onto certain bands, and then burning their music into my soul. KISS, first, then Rush, Iron Maiden, Metallica, then G'n'R, Alice In Chains etc..etc. I can hear any of those bands' tunes and it doesn't make me cringe in the least. There just isn't anything that could turn me off of a band that I like. Well, I take that back. When Kiss put out that god-awful disco crap I lost alot of interest. God, what a dissapointment.:mad:

[Robbo_the_Hood]

When Kiss put out that god-awful disco crapSo, you hate all of their songs?

[Razorback]

Rush has always sucked. Maybe not on their instruments, but on vocals and melody. Everyone who is anyone knows this.

[Robbo_the_Hood]

A good drummer does not make a good band. Look at Blink 182.

[jjcourtright]

Geddy Lee is GOD!!! I guess being a musician, I can't relate to any music that I grew up worshipping as being irrelevent. I saw Rush just last year, and yes I understand what you're saying. But for me some music is timeless. Especially certain bands. I grew up latching onto certain bands, and then burning their music into my soul. KISS, first, then Rush, Iron Maiden, Metallica, then G'n'R, Alice In Chains etc..etc. I can hear any of those bands' tunes and it doesn't make me cringe in the least. There just isn't anything that could turn me off of a band that I like. Well, I take that back. When Kiss put out that god-awful disco crap I lost alot of interest. God, what a dissapointment.:mad:Can somebody please explain to me the appeal of Iron Maiden? Like RB said, Geddy's singing is pretty bad, but tolerable. Iron Maiden's singer makes me contemplate suicide.

[Razorback]

A good drummer does not make a good band. Look at Blink 182.

No, but a bad drummer makes a band suck. I have worked with many drummers and good ones only make you better. Great ones make you play better. Shitty ones make you wish you had stayed home.

The drummer is the foundation of the band. The entire song depends on him.

[Robbo_the_Hood]

Oh, I was just comparing Rush and Blink 182, considering they were bad bands made decent by exceptional percussion.

[Razorback]

Oh, I was just comparing Rush and Blink 182, considering they were bad bands made decent by exceptional percussion.

Ahhhh.

Ok, then.

[By-tor]

Can somebody please explain to me the appeal of Iron Maiden? Like RB said, Geddy's singing is pretty bad, but tolerable. Iron Maiden's singer makes me contemplate suicide.For me, it's always been the "music", not the singer. Geddy's only appeal vocally was that it was totally different from everything else at the time. For Maiden, it was also the bass player. Steve Harris played some of the coolest riffs. Like I said, being a bass player I'm obviously drawn to bands that showcase the bass. The Chili Peppers are a perfect example. Flea is one of the best out there right now. That band has four "leads" in nearly every song. I think any of you that have been in bands for any period of time would agree with what I'm trying to get across(not very well obviously).

[By-tor]

A good drummer does not make a good band. Look at Blink 182.Saw them a few months ago. Travis' drumming live doesn't do the albums justice. He added so much more to every song that they strayed from being a punk-pop band into just a straight ahead rock band. Closest thing to Peart than anything I've seen.

[freetoaster]

I hate to be downer, but Rush was easily one of the most boreing groups I have ever seen perform live. I think I almost fell asleep, and couldn't wait to get out of the show. The whole show was utterly, flawlessly, devoid of life. They did have some very large video screens though. The Looney-Tunes I watched before a Yes concert were more fun than those poor bastards.

I think it was the tour for Grace Under Pressure. It was more like, Less Slack More Pain for your buck. UUUggghhhhh.....Aerosmith, before they went to rehab, would have been more exciting. At least Steven Tyler might have fallen off the stage, after forgetting the lyrics to Big Ten Inch.

[By-tor]

I hate to be downer, but Rush was easily one of the most boreing groups I have ever seen perform live. I think I almost fell asleep, and couldn't wait to get out of the show. The whole show was utterly, flawlessly, devoid of life. No downer, just the truth. Before Exit Stage Left they were a totally different band stage presence-wise. After that Geddy was splitting time between the bass and keys so much that the show suffered. The Hemispheres tour was awesome though. Great energy, light show, video, and the band in young top form. Sadly age has a way of limiting your energy and stamina. I have a fever in my neck for 2 days after i play nowadays. Calf muscles cramp in the middle of a deep sleep. Jeez, I hate getting old.

[jjcourtright]

I've fallen asleep during a show before...Godsmack. I went to see Cold, but figured I would stick around for Staind and Godsmack. Godsmack was nothing short of monotonous.

[By-tor]

When I saw Godsmack the last time, Sully(singer) did a double drum solo with the drummer. It was pretty cool.

[Robbo_the_Hood]

So, last weekend I was in the town of Spartanburg, South Carolina. I did most of my growing up there, but I don't claim it to be my hometown. I've spent years running from that city, due in part to not wanting to have moved there in the first place, but mainly because a person's identity is still dictated by who they were in high school.

Also, everyone in that town is an idiot, if for nothing else than staying in that town. While there are *cough* elected officials, the town is really run by a textile barron who is busy closing down all the textile mills, while claiming record profits. If there were a real life version of C. Montgomery Burns, this guy would be him.

Spartanburg can also claim the most churches per capita than any other city in the Union. As Garrison Kiellor said of Spartanburg, "If you don't agree with your church's doctrine, you go down the street and start a new one."

I hate Spartanburg. The town is too small, the citizens are all backwards thinking dolts who put "In God We Trust" on their lisence plates because with all the goddamn steeples it still isn't apparant that everyone in that town is all Jeebus. And therefore, pollitical discourse is "Howcome you hate America?"

Or perhaps I've just villified this town over the years because I've been running away from it all this time.

So of course, during my last trip to visit Sparkle City (that's what the locals ironically call it) I had a revelation. See, I've always had this fear that my ultimate destiny would be settling down in Spartanburg. And for that, and all the talk of, "Have you thought of the seminary," and "Lord's Plan," that town is the last place I want to end up. None the less, I had an epiphany.

In all of Spartanburg South Carolina, there are only two establishments that could be classified as Record Stores; one in the mall, and the other in the mall across town that no one goes to. The closest record store is in the neighboring town of Greenville, a thirty minute drive away. In order to find good albums, one would have to make an all day trip because you don't go to Greenville for just records.

Life would have been so much more tolerable in Spartanburg had good music not been impossible to find. So, I'm seriously considering saving my money and working towards starting a record store in Spartanburg, South Carolina. I've thought about buying this one from the owner, but I don't want a franchised store. I'd start one here, but the market in Nashville is supersaturated with music stores. My best childhood friend and his fiancee think it would be an outstanding idea, because they can totally see how life would have been different were we able to find better music. A well placed, well advertised record store would do tremendous business there...

Or it would be a total bust. My aunt (who has a fifteen year old son who looks to me for music because I'm the coolest person in the world to him) provided a valid argument:
"What do you consider a record store? Isn't Best Buy a record store?"

After repeatedly punching my aunt in the face, I finally got what she meant. Most people, in that town and in general don't care where they get their top-forty ad nauseum single they just heard on the radio. This is the same town that tore down a high school to build a Wal-Mart. So, it would have to be more than just a record store.

I would have to take a second job or get a higher paying job to save the money, and my credit is merely average so I'm a little ways off from doing it should I decide to. And maybe this is just a fleeting idea that I'll be over by next week. But right now, I'm seriously considering the idea of moving back to a town I hate, where I am the same guy I was ten years ago, to give them something I absolutely love and something they've never had; a genuine bona fide record store.

*bangs head on desk*

[By-tor]

A well placed, well advertised record store would do tremendous business there...

Or it would be a total bust. And that's where the crap shoot comes in. We've printed business cards and whatnot for 100's of brand new businesses over the years. Some make it 4 months, some 14 years and going.

That said. I wish you nothing but the best if this is what you decide to do. One question. Can you handle going back to that town, really? There's a part you I'm sure that would like nothing better than going back and becoming a successful businessman there. A kind of a FU to the establishment you obviously depise. Just make sure that ain't the biggest reason for going back. I think you are smarter than that, though. Hell, I'll shut the fuck up, and say good luck with the decision. Don't have regrets one way, or the other. :)

[Razorback]

I feel ya... but in the end, what you consider "real music" doesn't necessarily equate to "better music" just because it is unique, or small, or independent, or has a "deeper meaning."

Though, I love that little music store a mile from my house. They always have what I am looking for, unlike Best Buy. I can walk in and say "Hey, I am looking for Jon Urben's 'A Victory in Struggle' on 8-track" and those sick bastards will pull it out from the basement.

[Robbo_the_Hood]

There's a part you I'm sure that would like nothing better than going back and becoming a successful businessman there. A kind of a FU to the establishment you obviously depise. Just make sure that ain't the biggest reason for going back. I think you are smarter than that, though. That's actually one of the big reasons I don't want to do it. I don't want anything to do with the establishment there.

[Robbo_the_Hood]

I feel ya... but in the end, what you consider "real music" doesn't necessarily equate to "better music" just because it is unique, or small, or independent, or has a "deeper meaning."

Though, I love that little music store a mile from my house. They always have what I am looking for, unlike Best Buy. I can walk in and say "Hey, I am looking for Jon Urben's 'A Victory in Struggle' on 8-track" and those sick bastards will pull it out from the basement.I totally get you, and it's not about what I consider better music. It's that social aspect of going into an actual record store, not just Best Buy.

EDIT: Also, my friend's wedding in May will weigh heavily on my decision. Considering I'm not going to my high school reunion, this is going to be the closest thing I'll have to it. Then I'll really get to test that whole high school identity thing.

[By-tor]

That's actually one of the big reasons I don't want to do it. I don't want anything to do with the establishment there.I hear that. But you open that door the first day, and you are officially a businessman in that town. Loved to be a fly on the wall when the Chamber of Commerce guys came around for a visit. ;)

[Zens7s]

Just some food for thought...[and also because I know how hard you have fought to stay away from Spartenburg.]

What will happen to your heart if you do give them something so important to you, your ultimate dream, and it goes bust precisely for all the reasons you hate the town already?

If the majority of that population is as fundamentalist as you say, it will be hard to find a market segment to target. Even the kids that would be the ones you are trying to reach are usually pretty heavily controlled by their parents...and their parents money.

Because this is a dream that I think you could actually put in motion, I would hate to see you waste your big chance on a place that has too many barriers to entry.

There are towns all across America that need, and want, cool little record stores. The difference is that they do not have a pervasive belief against much of what you have to offer. They also don't come with the emotional baggage of one's own hometown. Maybe you should start looking at towns besides Spartenburg, just as research. College towns, towns with a large influx of people with disposable income (ie-a town that is booming with jobs and has a decent cost of living), medium sized towns that are just now getting the Starbucks and all that.

Here we do have some cool stores like you want to start. There is one by TCU that is owned by an older man and his wife and it's successful and the kind of place that I can see you wanting to run. However, they have banked on one key aspect...location to a large segment of their target market.

[Robbo_the_Hood]

For all it's misgivings, it was really nice to be in a town where everyone isn't trying to fuck everyone else; just convert them to their version of Jeebusism.

[TLS]

medium sized towns that are just now getting the Starbucks and all that.
I live in that town.

Robbo, we could really use a music store around here. There's only a crappy chain one in the mall and some of the big retail stores like Walmart and Target sell some music, not much though (and I would never buy it from them anyways.) There is another store that is known for being cool around here, and only sells used cd's. Unfortuatley they are selling the store and name. I hear that Red (the owner) is trying to retire early. He rents the location and it's a good spot. I'd offer to buy it, but my man Josh's dream is to have a skateboard shop, not a music one. So I'm currently looking into buying a commercial building across the street from Reds to start the skateshop.

Also, the closest Best Buy is 30 mintues away.

[Robbo_the_Hood]

Again, this is nothing I'm going to do tomorrow. I've neither the funds nor the credit, but this is in the three to five year plan at the moment.

[jjcourtright]

It seems like starting your own business is tough enough without the extra baggage of hometown demons.

But if I were you I wouldn't listen to me as I still live in my hometown.

[Zens7s]

It seems like starting your own business is tough enough without the extra baggage of hometown demons.

But if I were you I wouldn't listen to me as I still live in my hometown.
I was 8 years old...running with a dime in my hand...to the bus stop to pick up a paper for my old man...

[jjcourtright]

Damn you for knowing me too well. Although I was thinking about the sat him up...behind the wheel...said son take a good look around... part.

[Robbo_the_Hood]

And so phase one begins.

In three weeks I will start a corporatey, sit-downy, wear a blazer to the officey, type job that will allow me to save money.

I feel like such a sell-out.
:(

[jjcourtright]

Wow, even I'm not that sell-outy. I still wear jeans and t-shirts to work.


If it makes the dream happen, though...

[Dave]

My work-clothes for today include shorts, tennis shoes and a Salty Dog T-shirt.

[jjcourtright]

Damn. I would love to wear shorts, but there's the problem of spilling kerosene or benzene or heptane or choloroform on my legs.

[FanGirl]

So you threw all the records out on the street and got a job at Virgin?

[Mighty Wingman]

I feel like such a sell-out.
:(
If the tie-clip fits...

[TLS]

Hope your new job doesn't suck.

Does your new job at least have something to do with music?

[Robbo_the_Hood]

It is Robbo's last day running a record store, and we are now open for business.

[JK]

Good luck with that, man.

[ozchick]

Go off like a frog in a sock today Robbo!

[PftLBritt]

In honor of Robbo's last day as a counter jockey, I'm also running the register at Big Planet Comics. Here's to you, short timer!!

[JK]

...I will start a corporatey, sit-downy, wear a blazer to the officey, type job that will allow me to save money...


It could be worse... you could have my job.

[Robbo_the_Hood]

It’s a bittersweet day. While it’s my last day on the best job I’ve ever had, this is post number 3000. It’s an ending and a milestone. So I’m sad with a feeling of accomplishment.

This job was almost everything I could ever want. I wish the store were a little cooler, in a section of town that is a little more affluent. Despite this store having a reputation of being a “ghetto store” where junkies came to sell their stolen merchandize, I took this establishment and made it a tiny part of the community. Of two brands that are in competition, one can always tell the superior, or higher selling brand when it is referenced in the inferior’s advertisements (ex. Pepsi will reference Coke, but Coke won’t acknowledge any other drink on the market). My proudest achievement is an establishment that does similar business to ours in our shopping center that, which has corporate funding, references “the whiny kids in the music store down the street,” on signs throughout their store.

And now I’ve reached 3000 posts. Thank you everyone for making this place as great as it is. You all have been there as I worked shit jobs, complaining about the Blockbuster days, and my frustrations at the bookstore.

It’s off to the corporate world.

The store is now closed.
---------------

I stood stone-like at midnight suspended in my masquerade
I combed my hair till it was just right and commanded the night brigade
I was open to pain and crossed by the rain and I walked on a crooked crutch
I strolled all alone through a fallout zone and came out with my soul untouched
I hid in the clouded wrath of the crowd but when they said "Sit down" I stood
up.
Ooh-ooh growin' up

The flag of piracy flew from my mast, my sails were set wing to wing
I had a jukebox graduate for first mate, she couldn't sail but she sure could
sing,
I pushed B-52 and bombed 'em with the blues with my gear set stubborn on
standing
I broke all the rules, strafed my old high school, never once gave thought to
landing,
I hid in the clouded wrath of the crowd but when they said "Come down" I threw
up
Ooh-ooh growin' up

I took month-long vacations in the stratosphere and you know it's really hard to
hold your breath.
I swear I lost everything I ever loved or feared, I was the cosmic kid in full
costume dress
Well, my feet they finally took root in the earth but I got me a nice little
place in the stars
And I swear I found the key to the universe in the engine of an old parked car
I hid in the mother breast of the crowd but when they said "Pull down" I pulled
up
Ooh-ooh growin' up

[Razorback]

And now I’ve reached 3000 posts.

Not yet.