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Right now, it's kind of fun in a sad way that so many local record stores are closing. We dropped by the Aron's Records closing sale and picked up Outkast's ATLiens on CD for $2 and The Ventures' Swamp Rock on vinyl for $3 (we seem to have been in a Southern mood at the time). As of Thursday night, they still had a number of vinyl albums by the late, great Wilson Pickett.
It's not going to be fun in a few weeks, though, to have a more and more limited selection of music shopping venues. If the trend continues, the claim of Record Surplus to be "the last record store" may very well come true.
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I stopped going to Aron's years ago for one reason: They refused to sort their used records according to group, requiring one to look through their entire collection for what you wanted. No thanks.
We shouldn't bemoan the loss of Rhino either. Once they moved locations, they had a very scant collection and had lost all of the "vibe" the old store had.
Amoeba deserves all of its success. It is truly an awesome place. ...and we've still got Record Surplus on the Westside...