Sleet wrote:I think a lot of music will be sold in broader media/electronics stores in the future. Dedicated music stores simply can't survive.
Conventional ones, anyway. We have a well-respected record shop downtown that specializes in vinyl records and it gets good business.
Don't say that! dedicated music stores have survived until now anyway!
and besides, the more a shop is known, the better buisness it gets, I remember a place where I lived that sold CD's, DVD's< records, Games for ALL systems (I mean ALL), game systems, obsure stuff, posters, etc.
This is its facebook page
Radio Blue Heart wrote:There are two record shops in my town and they are only 2 blocks away from each other. One of them, called 641 RPM, specializes almost exclusively in vinyl records with a few CDs and DVDs. The other, called Fat Cats music, movies and books, is a rare locally owned shop that still rents movies. They have a huge section of vinyl records, CDs and movies for sale and a huge section of movies to rent on DVD and VHS. It is very rare to find a shop like that in the wake of the corporate video stores and killed most local shops, and in the age of Red Box and Croc Box and the like video rental vending machines. But their knack is carrying movies that the corporate entities would never carry. Obscure films, foreign films, independent films or films that are just outrageous or over the top.
Well I'm glad there are some still in business, havin 2 is pretty lucky!... and now I know how you know of and watch all those odd movies you mention on the silver screen topic...
Kateleo007 wrote:We have zero record stores around here. They all died when itunes became popular in 2008? I'm guessing.
*mourns the loss of the record stores*
Mickey the Luxray wrote:Because I live in Hipster Central we still have a few record and CD stores around. I got my Human After All CD from a music store that was so down-low that it was literally underground. They had a pretty extensive stock though, so I guess the locals know it's there and like it.
Speaking of local stores, who has small-time franchises or mom-n-pop stores that they love? 'Round here we have a little drive-in burger chain that operates and looks the same as it did in 1956. They have something like six locations around the city, and make the best cheeseburgers in the county, IMO. They're about the same size as Mickey D's cheeseburgers but have about ten times the flavor. I usually get 2 to 3...
... I'd like to visit that store.. that sounds cool!
Well, there was a place relatively near where I used to live (~45 minutes away) called
5th Street Bagelry, Great place, great people, awesome bagels of ALL kinds, AMAZING bagel sandwiches, free wifi, and comfy couches! (warm fire in the winter too!)
JeffCvt wrote:There is a place I love to go to called J&J Bagels. I usually go in on Sunday and get a scrapple egg and cheese on poppy seed bagel. I practically don't have to even tell them my order they know me well enough.
(Also, if you don't know what scrapple is and you don't have a strong stomach, don't look it up.
)
*looks it up* *retches*
Goforit wrote:There's a handful of record shops in Calgary, they're all doing fairly well. I think I've been to five? All for vinyl records, of course. Some sell CDs but I don't think the CDs sell very well, they always seem to have the same ones lying around. One of the stores, Heritage Music, also specializes in posters. Which is awesome. I have a giant Yellow Submarine poster from there. X3
They have pretty good fries. Then there's Marv's Soda Shop and Diner in Black Diamond, which is an awesome 50s style diner, complete with functional jukebox and rollerblading waitresses. He's apparently not doing so well, especially after the floods... I haven't been there in awhile, though, so I couldn't say. It would be a shame if he went out of business.
FIVE??? Day-ung, you're EXTREMLY lucky dude!, and yeah I know what you mean with the posters and stuff, I love goin not just for CD's to these places, but to look at the metal signs, posters, weird stuff/statutes/etc, and whatever else they have! It's CRAZY what you can find!!!
Best french fries i've ever had are at a place called
Gordon Biersch, Garlic Parmesan fries. Awesome stuff (great burgers, steaks, and tasty beer too (<-I've been told))
To me it's so hard think how live the Chistmas in summer season, there are too differences (hot vs cold, for first), and it's like it would be put into the background.
The cornmeal is much better 
And I was right talking of that TV show, of what I got to see from it.
