Dumbest things ever overheard at a record store!

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  1. PaulKTF

    PaulKTF Senior Member

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    :laugh: Well, given where you were your answer was not exactly inappropriate! :)
     
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  2. Moshe

    Moshe "Silent in four languages."

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    1970s:
    Middle aged woman asks "What would you recommend for someone like me?"
     
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  3. PaulKTF

    PaulKTF Senior Member

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    "A paper bag for your head, and some breath mints".
     
  4. Moshe

    Moshe "Silent in four languages."

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    10 years ago:

    Led Zeppelin is playing and a middle aged woman asks me
    "Is this The Cars?"

    I was nice. I was just surprised.
     
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  5. snepts

    snepts Forum Resident

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    My answer was always - Time To Get Wild And Loose.
     
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  6. J.K. Baxter

    J.K. Baxter Forum Resident

    I sometimes liked to launch into "It's time to get ill...ill...ill", but that was big when I was a kid.
     
  7. What are they trying to sell?
     
  8. george nadara

    george nadara Forum Resident

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    Laughing, I own Spirit Finger by The Dylans, from 1994...

    [​IMG]
     
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  9. allbrosca

    allbrosca Dancing Madly Backwards

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    Worst one ever. Dates back to the 70s. Guess Who playing. Middle age lady asks whats playing and I answer the Guess Who. She reply's, Elvis Presley?
     
  10. mahanusafa02

    mahanusafa02 Forum Resident

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    Don't bother familiarizing yourself...
     
  11. RickH

    RickH Connoisseur of deep album cuts

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    Not heard at a record store but in 9th grade, (early 70's) I heard a school kid say that Uriah Heep's albums were higher in price (than other artists) at the store because they were so good.
     
  12. MarcS

    MarcS Forum Resident

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    Heard a guy last week holding up a copy of Younger than Yesterday telling his buddy that the Byrds went on to form Led Zeppelin.
     
  13. Me to young assistant in HMV: "Do you have Frank Zappa's new album?"
    Him: "Who is Frank Zappa?
     
  14. PaulKTF

    PaulKTF Senior Member

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    You're surprised that someone who's under like 50 doesn't know who Frank Zappa is? His heyday was in the 60's and 70's and even then he was a pretty niche artist.
     
  15. BluesOvertookMe

    BluesOvertookMe Forum Resident

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    Why would you want a record by Bob Weird? Can't you like any nice musicians?
     
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  16. The Killer

    The Killer Dung Heap Rooster

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    I heard someone ask if they've got that new "special project" Steve Hoffman's been working on.
     
  17. Moshe

    Moshe "Silent in four languages."

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    At Barnes and Noble in the 90s.

    I asked one of the associates "do you have the new OnoBox?"
    He said "We don't have that." Without even checking.
    I walk over to the box sets and there it is. I'm holding it in my hands and checking it out. The same guy walks by and sees me. I hold it up. He said "Oh. I didn't know"'.
     
  18. PaulKTF

    PaulKTF Senior Member

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    This is why you don't go to a book store for your music. :)
     
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  19. Kevin j

    Kevin j The 5th 99

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    me: "do you know every single arcane thing about music and musicians that I know?"
    clerk: "no, I don't."
    me: "what an outrage! I am outraged!!"
     
  20. PaulKTF

    PaulKTF Senior Member

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    Heh. Yeah, that's what some of the posts in this thread do read like.
     
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  21. Vinylfindco

    Vinylfindco The Pressing Matters

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    Stokowski played with Captain Kangaroo (oh wait a minute, that’s true!)
     
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  22. BadJack

    BadJack doorman who always high-fives children of divorce

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    Not music related, but it happened in a record store last week: "Sonny Chiba is the Asian Bruce Lee."
     
  23. Johnny Reb

    Johnny Reb RĂ©sident du forum

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    I was at a pretty small store in PA, and I heard a college-age kid turn to his friend and say - referring to Yes's Tales From Topographic Oceans - "I don't know if I should get this; I don't know if I'd play it, it only has four songs." To this day I have no idea what that meant, but he should have bought it because it's a great album!
     
  24. PaulKTF

    PaulKTF Senior Member

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    :laugh: That is priceless!
     
  25. sons of nothing

    sons of nothing Forum Resident

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    Can you recommend an album for my sister? My ma just bought her her first bra, and pops burned her overalls.


    I actually shot my soy latte outta my nose, right on a Star Wars soundtrack LP.
     
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