Blogcritics Comments on Goodnight, Rhino Westwood

Comment by Johno

Fri, 6 Jan 2006 20:20:11 EST

Mark, sadly not true anymore... SBs moved to a strip mall down Route 1 to save on rent. I'll continue this offline.

Comment by Mark Saleski

Fri, 6 Jan 2006 15:18:31 EST

ah yea, stout billy's! let's unjack then: right around the corner from stout billy's is one of the best record stores in new england: Bull Moose Music.

Comment by Johno

Fri, 6 Jan 2006 15:15:46 EST

Mark - Stout Billy's in Portsmouth. The owner advised or helped start Redhook, Smuttynose, Ipswich, and a slew of others, and Sam Adams is rumored to be using a recipe or two of his. Sorry for the threadjacking.

Comment by Sister Ray

Fri, 6 Jan 2006 14:59:21 EST

Indy CD and Vinyl in the Broad Ripple section of Indianapolis has a good selection - I've bought several CDs there - but I could have found all my purchases on Amazon.com. I just happened to decide to stop at the CD store while I was out. You mentioned music magazines...Creem was holy writ for me in my late teens through college. Before that, it was Hit Parader, which is where I first heard of the Velvet Underground. Now you can find fan sites for everyone you'd ever heard of on the Internet.

Comment by Mark Saleski

Fri, 6 Jan 2006 13:40:35 EST

homebrewing shop I can get to jasper's in nashua?

Comment by SFC SKI

Fri, 6 Jan 2006 13:38:22 EST

All sad but too true, Al, especially this "Geez, I used to hang out in record stores, poring happily for hours through the new releases and crazy used bargains. But no more, though. I'm listening to more - and more different - music than ever before. I'm just not hanging around record stores." I am always amazed and surprised to find music stores where the clerks actually know about good music, but I see them all slowly falling away, and it is sad, but it does not stop me from primarily downloading tunes , legally whenever possible. I can only hope that as CD's become less used, music publishers large and small will offer up their entire back catalogs online, no more "Lost Bands" that live on only in my very old cassettes and mix tapes. I can only hope.

Comment by Johno

Fri, 6 Jan 2006 13:34:57 EST

*cue stentorian voice* NOOOOOOOOOOOO! AAAAAAAAAAAAGH! Al, you're right of course. Although I can cavil and quibble about the severity and timing of the coming of the Great Record Store Disappearance From Every Shore, I agree with you that people who want physical music media are going to become like model train collectors or home brewers, people with a quirky and obsessive habit that most people just don't understand or care about. What this means, however, is that although there will be fewer and fewer record shops around, there will always be a FEW. Hell, there's a Lionel shop down the street from my house, the only one for fitty miles around. (Then again, I'm also driving an hour north tomorrow, all the way into New Hampshire, to go to the only really good homebrewing shop I can get to, so maybe the record store situation might be as dire as that.) I did, however, think that Rhino was going to be one of the survivors. Goodbye, Rhino! Goodbye, Electric Fetus! Goodbye, Music Millennium! Goodbye, Newbury Comics! Goodbye, Hear Music! Goodbye, Bull Moose! Goodbye, Criminal Records! Goodbye, Wax Stax! Goodbye, Outside Music! See you all on the b-side.