Posted by Anne Onymous on Sun, 11/12/2000 - 10:05pm.
Archived comment by Midulin:
Now see, your comments are humourous, although I am sure they're true today. I lived in NoCal for about a year when I was, um... younger (1986) and Tower was a great place to get some of the best vinyl (yes, albums, LPs, *records*) around. Having come from Michigan, it was a totally amazing experience to walk in to a record store and find more than one hardcore punk album. In fact, it was amazing to find a store that HAD a hardcore punk *section*. Wow. I later moved back to Michigan (California being a good decision but at the wrong time... much too young to be on my own) to find the same mediocre selection of bands at the local record stores. "Bauhaus?? Isn't that a German design movement?" Uh huh. Never mind. Michigan is still sorely lacking serious music stores. I remember going to Chicago and finding Armageddon Records, on Broadway, I think, and just being in complete awe. A music store devoted strictly to *gothic*. Amazing. Still, I couldn't see a store like that flying in the white-bread suburbian wasteland of SE Michigan... oh, how I miss good music... Thank the gods for Broadband and MP3.com... Midulin
Now see, your comments are humourous, although I am sure they're true today. I lived in NoCal for about a year when I was, um... younger (1986) and Tower was a great place to get some of the best vinyl (yes, albums, LPs, *records*) around. Having come from Michigan, it was a totally amazing experience to walk in to a record store and find more than one hardcore punk album. In fact, it was amazing to find a store that HAD a hardcore punk *section*. Wow.
I later moved back to Michigan (California being a good decision but at the wrong time... much too young to be on my own) to find the same mediocre selection of bands at the local record stores. "Bauhaus?? Isn't that a German design movement?" Uh huh. Never mind.
Michigan is still sorely lacking serious music stores. I remember going to Chicago and finding Armageddon Records, on Broadway, I think, and just being in complete awe. A music store devoted strictly to *gothic*. Amazing.
Still, I couldn't see a store like that flying in the white-bread suburbian wasteland of SE Michigan... oh, how I miss good music...
Thank the gods for Broadband and MP3.com...
Midulin