I have never heard of anyone saying they want to be buried with their turntable. What if they have great records where you are going and no way to play them?
POP QUIZ: What record store is this? More information: If you steal a record the cats go into action. Below, they are photographed breaking up a heist:
These cats were photographed in Bleecker Street Records, which was actually owned at this point (when the cats were there) by the owner of Generation Records, a few blocks away in Greenwich Village. After Bleecker Street was forced out by a landlord who I recall raised the rent ten-fold, maybe the cats took up residence in Generation, which remains open. Are they there now? As you guessed wrong, you have to try to get the boxes of records out from under the cat. That is where they store about 40 copies of The Beatles Butcher Cover.
I didn't notice any, actually. I was in GR back in September and the general "look" of the place is similar to these pix, which isn't surprising if they're physically close (probably in similar buildings) and owned by the same people. I'm on it.
But, most unfortunately, Tubb's Record Shop in Nashville no longer sells the kind of music they were famous for (at least hardly any of it)
The greatest record shop of the year may be waiting for you out in somebody's driveway some Saturday morning this Spring.
The smart garage sale owners put some crappy records out front to discourage the dealers from grabbing the lot. They want real music lovers like themselves to get the records
"Excuse me Ma'am....do you have any records?" "Yes! I keep the big ones in these tins. You wouldn't believe how well they fit! I had to throw away the covers, because the cats peed on them."
"How much are they?" I ask, not wanting to spend much time looking if they were too much. "Oh, I don't know. Maybe $3 apiece. I hear records are coming back....well, here they are!" "Oh, thanks. Oh, gee. I gotta run." The records were mint test pressings and acetates of all of the earliest Blue Note LPs, which originally came in blank covers.
I will know I need eye surgery when I can no longer spot a record store from 2 blocks away I can still smell some of them from a hundred yards. We had one in our town that smelled like piss and old beer. But I went in there once in a while if I needed a fix
I know I will be in trouble when my 'sniffer' nose can't smell em out when I'm in a second hand store. I've had more than one person tell me, 'if there here, he'll sniff em out'..... woof woof!
Once when I lost my glasses, I had to have my wife go through each bin and read me the titles. It was very strange that in the Duke Ellington bin, all she read off were Percy Faith titles. I think she wanted out of there real fast. These guys were all laughing at me, so I took their picture and will pay them a visit later.
That would be a first for me, just about all stores are fine. And it's probably still better than some record fair visitors' odeur, some smell like overage pet shop boys, brrr
Today, the rent is too damn high for someone to allow their store to smell like a bathroom in a bar where pitchers of beer had been spilled. Back then, if you owned the building in a run down part of town, it could smell however you let it smell.
