Aron's going out of business!!!
MicOne
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Wow, I'm not so shocked about this since reading the other threads. This store has been one of the biggies since it opened in the early 70's and they are CLOSING by the 1st. of the year. An inside source just told me that they had a meeting yesterday to let everyone know they are bringing in no new product and liquidating over the next few weeks. Amoeba's in LA had put a huge crimp in their biz and so have all the trends in the music business.
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Thought it was odd. this really sucks I liked that store a whole lot, found heat quite a bit in there, not to mention women
VHS or Beta?
Aron's has been butt recently...that's too bad. We need a TSL West over here!
Laserdisc F00
Same with New Coke
What's the word on the
place hasn't been about shit since the late 80's early 90's and the staff their can eat steaming pile of dung for all i care. hurry up and make a taco bell outta that shit already.
so you're saying you have no feelings either way about this?
I don't care what record store it is, its always sad for me to see/hear a store closing. I pulled many joints from Aron's over the years and even tho recently its been
For the homies (aka Aron's)...
Last time I bought from there they flooded the bins with a large private issue folk collection. I got some great stuff. Everything was 99 cents and $1.99. This was about 4 months ago. The guy at the counter bugged out when he saw me buy like 70 records and was like " this is some pretty good stuff ". He gripped.
Manny Aron was a legend in the LA record scene in the 70's. They would fill the bins with hundreds of records every night and when they would open in the morning all the heads would be in a line. This would happen every day of the week! all records were 33 cents, 66 cents and 99 cents. Leon would go every day in the 70's. Come out with stacks. You could make a living of that place alone back in those days.
The parking lot sales in the 80's and early 90's were epic too. Private issue was disposable. 23 cents was the price. You will still find records around LA today with that famous 23 cent parking lot sale price tag on it. Roy Porter... shit like that.
I started going there when it was on Melrose about 82 or 83 but I was buying Discharge records.
In recent years it has gotten so so bad. We all know how Amoeba took half the employes, 2/3rds of the business and 90% of the trade in's.
Now the people who work there no nothing about rare records.
I am not one to really go to record stores but Adam showed me and told me about all of the great stuff he had gotten there in the past year or two when he was working down the block at E. That CJ collection was epic modern soul come up. They just flooded the bins with that shit for weeks. $2.99 Glenn Jones and shit like that.
I guess Manny Aron sold the business or retired to Oregon or something several years ago.
You guys can hate on the shithole that the place has become in recent years but seriosuly that is a store of lore.
R.I.P. for real.
ap
Yeah, I got some pretty cool 80's soul pieces outta there the couple of times I went within the last year or so. All of it was really reasonably priced too. Anthony, what is the CJ collection?
damn ap thanks for the history lesson. wish i could have been there back then.
which leon do you mean ? the only leon seller i know is like 30 or something.
Even though the store went to shit, It was MY store for such a long time, I hate to see it go. Ameoba sucks cause you cant listen to anything.
But really, its no suprise looking at how that place was run.
R.I.P.
The CJ collection was this amazing collection of early 80's modern soul records that some guy sold to several stores throughout LA. It got its name cause each record had a small orange sticker in the top corner with the initials "CJ" on it.
One day after work I stopped in and saw a couple modern titles I knew (Lew Kirton, etc.) surrounded by a bunch of soul stuff I wasn't famliar with. I must've spent the next 2 hours grabbing anything with the CJ sticker and taking it to the listening station. After a while I decided I had overstayed my listening station visit so I called AP and asked him, little doud to big doud, to help me.
Everything in the collection was between.99 and 4.99. I spent over $150 in the store that day, came back the next and dropped an additional $75 or so. In the next few weeks I saw more "CJ" albums at Atomic, Record City and Amoeba. Shit was absolutely bonkers
Anthony is not lying about that being the start of my modern osul collection. I found a ton of stuff that day that I took home and loved, it made me want to learn more about 80's soul and heped spawn an avatar empire
Word, sounds good.
Also that is fucked up that Arons is closing. Now the train/bus ride isn't gonna be worth it as much as it used to be. So is everything gonna get reduced pricing or what?
I hate driving and parking in Hollywood, so I only hit a few spots there, Aron's not being one of them. Oh well, hopefully they'll have a clearance.
Aron's started it all for me and is the place where I bought my first record (magic mikes theme). I did a good amount of my record homework at Arons and have met a couple friends from there as well.
With that said...Anyone go to the liquidation blowout today???
INSANITY!!!!
RIP ARONS
I wish I were in LA now!
SG