I rifle all your pockets for forgotten change

There's a record store in town where I used to go in high school all the time to get all my jangly alternative rock records and whatnot. I remember going there one time and buying the soundtrack to The Magic Christian instead of Stump's A Fierce Pancake and many years later I would look back on that like it was a mistake! Because I really wanted that Stump record, oh man. I found it eventually on GEMM. Real cheap too!

ANYWAY.

When I moved back here, I ended up working on the other end of the block from the record store, so just like when I used to work across the street from Sephora, this was a Sexy Shopping Danger. I liked to go in there and spend money.

ANYWAY.

The building is being torn down (condos!!!) and the store is going out of business.

This makes me sad!

I mean it's not like I went there for the 15 years I was not living in Minneapolis or anything, and it's not even in the same building I used to go to, but I have memories. And now, the store has discounts.

I went in today and spent more money on records than I have in a zillion zillion years. I mean I don't even know if I've spent this much at one time ever. (I think I have.) But there were so many great things in there I waaaaaanted and figured oh hey, I don't have to spend top dollar on them or anything and I am helping to fund the store owner's retirement and yay.

What I didn't know was that Ze Records was BACK, and that it reissued a bunch of Cristina stuff last year. No idea! I even have Sleep It Off on a real actual record and have had it for a long time unlike all them HIPSTERS. But this other stuff, I don't think I've ever even seen it.

So that was exciting.

Then I go to the Ze site to get the art and discover that they will be reissuing the LIO CATALOG! and I got extra excited.

Maybe this will turn into Kenneth Anger/Fantoma II, but I have faith. They did a good job on these Cristina reissues, I have to say.

So there's sad music news and glad music news.

The store is also silent-auctioning off its memorabilia on the walls and stuff, so I put in a bid on a poster. Not even an old poster or anything, and in fact I already have a poster for this album, but I've admired it since I've been back and I figured it'd be nice to have a little something something from the store that doesn't go WAY back to ages ago, like I don't think I really deserve that.

They also had this awesome Reprise record label clock up behind the counter, but I think that's gone already. Oh well.

I need to take pictures of the building before it gets torn down because it has some cool original signage and paintage and, you know, that'll be toast soon enough.

Posted by Kim at June 3, 2005 12:56 AM | Boo! | Musics | Yay!