Record stores that don't rotate stock
JLR
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Same old records for 2 years. No man, nobody is gonna buy them. Bring some new shit from the back of the store. Please. I feel bad for leaving empty handed every single time. Next time I'm gonna buy "The Bangles" just to make me feel less guilty. I love you, but I can't go on like this.
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Hence John Denver and Heart for days....... and no sales
One time I was talking to the manager of a local used store and I asked him...'What's the most valuable thing you have in your store?"
He was thinking about it for a few seconds and said "I guess that Beatle Butcher Cover"
I said...."Nah, the most valuable thing you have in your store is SPACE"
He looked at me kind of funny and asked what I meant.
I went over to the rack, picked up 7 copies of the first Boston LP and explained "If you can't sell ONE of these you're certainly not gonna sell 7, and that's wasted space where 6 different LP's that you might actually be able to sell could be"
He was dumbfounded, clueless as to what I was getting at, and said "Well they're gonna have to be 6 pretty good albums to be worth as much as that Butcher Cover"
Doh!!
if the record hasnt sold in the last 30 years, at least offer some type of price break, the record sure as hell isnt going anywhere, it hasnt in the last few decades.
my favorite kind of store...
It's not that I was expecting to find East of Underground there, I just want my Nat Adderley on Galaxy, you know? And record stores and "spots" don't grow on trees around these parts. Basically, I will bitch about this deep problem of mine ALL THE FUCK I WANT, and you could not stop me
I don't think anybody in this thread is having a problem finding records
But stores like this are worthy of discussion/jokes
Dude did not understand basic business principles.
I never went back.
What is dude paying rent for, anyways?
Why doesn't he just walk around with his butcher cover on a sandwich board a la
I wrote a long ass reply to this ranting about my old boss who was equally as dense and then realized no one would care so I deleted it. If nothing else I learned a lot about business from him.
The worst thing about having so many copies of the same record is that anyone who comes across it not knowing the music will assume it's wack. Otherwise there wouldn't be 7 copies sitting there.
Not exactly, it was over on Belmont. The name was 007 and it was connected to The Red Light (a vintage clothing shop). The owner got all the records from his father, who is an antique dealer, but has a ton of records. I went to his house once, but the guy was so scared of getting ripped off that he would only let me buy records he was certain were dollarbincommon. The funny thing is, the father had a store very similar to 007, called Crackers. Asprin was the first to discover it and came up with some gems. I got a few nice records there too. Of course, all the heat was ridiculously underpriced.