This Saturday, April 19, is Record Store Day. What better way to cure iPod fatigue than to take a trip to your local indie record store and buy some stuff you can get your hands on? Although Rock Town Hall supports the mighty iTunes empire, eMusic, and the practice of occasionally downloading tunes posted on blogs run by fellow music lovers, nothing beats getting to fondle a new record, be it on beloved vinyl or even that cold fish of a format, CD. It’s YOUR music. This Saturday, support YOUR local record store. Chat up a clerk. Steal a glance at the one woman browsing the racks. Bring home a bundle of new music, and report back to us over the weekend with your new conquests!
Cameron Crowe: “The record store. Where true fandom begins. It’s the soul of discovery, and the place where you can always return for that mighty buzz. The posters. The imports. The magazines. The discerning clerks, paid in vinyl, professors of the groove. Long live that first step inside, when the music envelopes you and you can’t help it. You walk up to the counter and ask the question that begins the journey–“what is that you’re playing?” Long live the record store, and the guys and girls who turn the key, and unlock those dreams, every day.”
