Re: [ARSCLIST] Is The Record Shop Dead?

[Don Cox <doncox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 29/06/07, Dismuke wrote:


> 
>> Perhaps people are just too stupid or have no taste.
> 
> 
> Or they are victims of a popular culture that
> introduces them to nothing but garbage.  They don't
> know anything better - because for so many years,
> unless one was fortunate enough to have cultured
> family members or other influences, it was almost
> impossible for kids with limited spending money to
> access other music.  All that was there was AM/FM type
> drivel. 

Fortunately in Britain we had the late John Peel to broaden everyone's
tastes. 

And there is still a big variety of music played on the BBC, although
Peel is irreplaceable.


> Thankfully, the Internet today gives kids who
> are willing to explore new genres the opportunity to
> do so.   And, of course, there are always plenty of
> those who pick their taste in music on the same basis
> that they pick their taste in clothing - they are
> mindless sheep who are trying ape their peers who are,
> in turn, mindless sheep trying to ape everyone else.  
> 
> 
>>  The selection at 
>> Target, Wal-Mart, and the like, remind me of that
>> little rack of 
>> cassette tapes they have at every mega truck stop. 
>> "Tammy Wynette and 
>> "old possum face's" greatest duets" and the complete
>> works of ZZ Top.
> 
> 
> There actually are people out there whose tastes and
> approach to life never advances beyond that of "If
> Wal-mart don't got it, you don't need it."
> 
> Don't get me wrong - I love Wal-mart when it comes to
> buying things such as basic groceries and garden
> hoses. I was about to say that cheap mass market stuff
> has its place but not in the world of music.  But then
> I forgot - I LOVE the wonderful "dime store" dance
> band music sold in the day's Wal-mart equivelents back
> in the late 1920s and early 1930s. So there is nothing
> inherently bad about mass market tastes, per se.  It
> all comes back to the pop culture.  Taste and style
> went out the window after World War II and fell into
> the sewer in the 1960s and has yet to dry off, let
> alone recover. 
> 
>> 
>> So where is the store in Ft Worth?  I go there to
>> buy 
>> surplus/used/military/aviation tubes and parts for
>> radio and hi-fi 
>> restorations.
> 
> 
> It is on University directly across from the TCU
> campus.  I THINK it is called "Record Town" - but I
> may be mistaken.  Regardless, you cannot miss it as it
> has a big 1950s vintage sign showing a record with an
> RCA Victor label. 
Regards
-- 
Don Cox
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