There Is No Cat - The New York Times on Undead Record Stores

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Tuesday, September 29, 2009

The New York Times on Undead Record Stores

I found out some interesting things in this New York Times article about record stores that keep going after they've gone out of business. I worked a couple of blocks from the old location of Midnight Records for a few months. They were gone by the time I was there, sadly. I wish I'd known the store was sort of still being run out of the owner's apartment when I was working there; my checkbook is probably just as happy, however, that I didn't. Good record stores are a dying breed. I was just in Frankfurt, Germany, for almost three weeks for work, and I found a couple of very good used stores, great for older stuff that I already knew about, like NDW bands and some of the indie bands from the 90s, but nothing that sold new music, particularly the indie rock I was looking for. I managed to pick up some music at the local big box store, but it's not the same; good bands, but all on major labels. I love the buried gems on small independent labels.

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"You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat."

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