Some vintage shots of HMV. We didn't have them in Chicago. I visited them on my trips to Manhattan. Good, although Tower, Virgin, and the many independents in NYC were more to my taste. We did have 4 Towers and a Virgin Megastore in Chicago.
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Penneys, Sears, Kresge and Osco Drug all carried records.
I remember going through the music at Penneys as a teenager and seeing an LP of "Empty Sky" (well before the domestic US release) and an 8-track of "Lady Samantha". I didn't learn what they really were until years later! I had never seen them even at Tower, whose Watt Avenue flagship store was right across the street.
I bought them again on UK CD's.
Just like strange rain...
... Penneys, Sears, Kresge and Osco Drug all carried records.
Is the independent Magic Bus still there? Last time I was in Nola, they had moved from the bus into an actual store.
I ran Record Bar stores in Oklahoma City, Norman,OK, Odessa,TX and Arlington,TX over an 8 year period in the 80's. I always made sure we had the best selection of imports in town. We carried every "Japanese virgin vinyl" title the importers could get for us. It was a great company to work for. Whenever artists were in town for concerts, they always came by the store. Looking back, running record stores was more fun (overall) than working for record labels - just not as profitable.
I worked in Tower Records in Boston 1987-88 , which was considered at the time the biggest record store in the US (or was it the world?)....I worked on the "Rock"(2nd) floor- the first floor was videos (and Laserdiscs- still have the Criterion edition of Blade Runner with the sticker on it), and the third floor was classical music... saw a few locals there like Peter Wolf and a few who signed records like Carly Simon; also, Michael Palin (John Cleese, being the diva that he is, pulled out at the last minute) promoting "a fish called Wanda"....and some visiting artists that "abused" their record label advances by buying EVERYTHING they could on CDs, like the guys from Wet Wet Wet who bought a RIDICULOUS amount of CDs one day...but my favorite place to go was "Newbury Comics" next door...they also went to hell in a handbasket...
Didn't know this about you Kap - very cool
The more you discover about the Kap'n the cooler he gets...he has many layers...he's a Marpow type of poster...sometimes he ruffles some feathers on here...but if you like candid...he does that concept very well..he's very authentic
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