Even though I do it all the time, there is something slightly disturbing and boring about finding the album you want on Amazon, clicking 'order CD' once on your mouse, and then some guy from the mail sticks it through your door 48 hours later, or even clicking 'download' and you're playing the entire album 90 seconds later. So I agree with everyone on this, but the fact is great specialist record stores are very hard to find and most of them have closed down, so it's really nostalgia thinking back to those great days when going out to the record store with enough money to buy a few albums was incredibly exciting as you never really knew what you would be coming home with. I don't really count places like the Virgin Store and Tower Records as record shops, there's a whole bunch of great 'classical/jazz' record stores around because most classical music lovers still prefer to buy records and CD's and not downloads, the classical/jazz sections at the Barnes and Noble stores in New York City, especially the ones on 5th Ave and on 82nd/Broadway, man I could spend all day in there just browsing, and often have done!
How could I have forgotten about Canterbury Records? I started going there in the late 70s. How they've survived with all the changes in Pasadena is beyond me. Keep Rockin'.
