A Brief by Doug Draper
To paraphrase Dan Aykroyd in his introduction on the first Blues Brothers album called ‘Briefcase Full Of Blues,’ I suggest you buy as much of your music at record stores while you can.
At a time when people are cherry picking more music and books online, too many of the real, organic record and book stores – especially the classic independent ones, with a more diverse and eclectic collection of titles that you can actually walk in to – are falling by the wayside.
It is a drag and I am sure many of us will regret it someday, if these wonderful places for music and book-loving pieces are all gone, because there is really nothing like the experience of walking into a real record or book store, and discovering a great title you weren’t necessarily aware of when you woke up that morning. I can’t count the number of times I walked in to a record store with one title in mind, only to hear something new and great featured on the store’s sound system, or some other customer or music lover in the store turned me on to a record by a new artist. Jimi Hendrix, Santana, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Buffalo’s Ani DiFranco, just to name a few that I heard or at least heard about for the very first time in a record store, before I ever heard them on the radio.
It would be tragic if these stores go away and all we have left is Amazon and company. Do your part to not let that happen by supporting what we have left of these stores, with doors open right here in our communities on both sides of the Niagara River.
Support Record Store Day this Saturday, April 19th by going out to a record/CD store in your community and picking up a title or two. Don’t be one of the people who always end up saying; ‘Gee, too bad that stores gone. Maybe I should have gone out to it a little more often.
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we still have OUR BOOK STORE selling brand new books at discounted prices – including local authors in the Fitch Street plaza – this independent is Still hanging in thanks to the dedicated staff with over twenty years and a growing customer base.
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