By: MrFrost
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.
Posted on 02/07/2008
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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!
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(;AWESOME SONG;) Enjoyed the listen ever so much.Your Mog Bro.~ (;Yrral Mallik;)
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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.