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What do you do when your favorite record shop closes?

Posted about 4 years ago
Get sad, buy cds at 50% off, wonder where you are going to get all the latest releases by walking a couple of blocks.Future Legend, in Hell's Kitchen NYC, is closing after 4 years. It's sad. The shop owners are great people and have been very influential in my listening habits over the years. I have bought hundreds of albums there and now I don't know where to go! The closest cd store is Virgin and I just can't bring myself to do it.So this is just a little homage to a great place that will be truly missed.Here's a song from one of the bands introduced to me by Greta at Future Legend.I hope you all find a little record store where you belong.
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Comments (10)

  1. dachmo
    dachmo says So what do you think will be taking it's place?: 1) A Bank 2) A Shoe Store 3) A Thai Restaurant
    Permalink posted 02/07/2008
  2. brendanhalpin
    brendanhalpin says Well, I suppose 'tis better to have loved a record store and lost... I had a love affair with 3rd Street Jazz and Rock in Philadelphia when I lived there and was distraught when I went back last summer and it was gone. And Hi-Fi, my local used store, closed years ago and was replaced by a dentist's office. Maybe this is the reason I've found it so easy to go digital...
    Permalink posted 02/07/2008
  3. contrabandwidth
    contrabandwidth says Other Music - SoHo.
    Permalink posted 02/07/2008
  4. contrabandwidth
    contrabandwidth says What do I know? I'm a BoBo from PoPo. I should not speak of locations of which I am not sho.
    Permalink posted 02/07/2008
  5. dachmo
    dachmo says **Contra** - Technically OM is in NoHo which is NE of SoHo and directly above NoLIta and a world away from Hell's Kitchen (as NYC goes).
    Permalink posted 02/07/2008
  6. contrabandwidth
    contrabandwidth says screwy postings getting screwed up again...
    Permalink posted 02/07/2008
  7. dachmo
    dachmo says F'n MOG!
    Permalink posted 02/07/2008
  8. jnif
    jnif says dachmo - you sure know Hell's Kitchen (or as I like to call it "Little Thailand") well. It's too small to be a bank, although knowing this city... brendan - I agree, it's better to have known it than not. I have to say I am shocked at how few indie shops are left, not just record stores. Growing up in Phoenix, I realize how spoiled I was with all the great record stores, most of which are still there, and I do go back and stock up on stuff that I can't find here. contra - I am very familiar with all the record shops in NYC and I do make the trek downtown to visit them occasionally since you can't find everything you're looking for in one record store. Another I do miss, that has been long gone, is Sound and Fury which used to be on Orchard St & Houston. Before Future Legend came along that was one I would frequent often. I do like visiting Kim's on St. Marks Pl. for their great used selection. I never walk out of there with fewer than 5 cds. It is SO far. Ah well, I'll get out of the neighborhood more!
    Permalink posted 02/07/2008
  9. yrralmallik
    yrralmallik says (;AWESOME SONG;) Enjoyed the listen ever so much.Your Mog Bro.~ (;Yrral Mallik;)
    Permalink posted 02/11/2008
  10. gsmattingly
    gsmattingly says It certainly is no fun having the small independent music stores disappear. Where I live in the suburbs, no indie. However I can travel into San Francisco or Berkeley and find a number of satisfactory stores. Is Amoeba an Indie? That's what it calls excellent and it has a most excellent selection. Rasputin Music is also very nice. Amazingly enough there is a small town nearby which has a small vinyl store, Hooked On Vinyl. Interesting little place.
    Permalink posted 02/14/2008

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