Music, through its various forms, will never cease to vanish. From cassettes, to records, to mix tapes, to records, to cds, and to today’s digital downloads, music has evolved in the way that we obtain it. No matter how many decades and centuries have past, people still continue to collect even the oldest forms of music and visit places like record shops. Through the age of digital media, record stores continue to live and people still collect vinyls instead of downloading music online. Visiting record shops in this day and age hasn’t become a particularly popular activity. In the past, record shops have been considered to be the best place to visit in order to get music, yet in today’s society, one can simply download or stream any song they
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With so many people in a record shop there had to be some interesting stories I pondered. Also having a store called “Mad Platter”, homage to the Mad Hatter from Alice in Wonderland, I figured that there were probably a few strange and hilarious customers. Aaron began to lead me through the aisles of records and he turned and asked me “ What are some bands you like?” I thought about it and replied “ Vampire Weekend and My Chemical Romance, I suppose. Why?” “Here, look at this.” He said while he handed me the two large records. I stared down at the records in my hands, I felt that the record wasn’t just a record but indeed was a large artwork. It was so beautifully detailed with the skeletons of the marching band parading around in the record cover for My Chemical Romance’s Black Parade album while the Vampire Weekend Album was equally as beautifully. Each record was like a poster, something that would look beautiful around the house and meant to be show cased, yet I felt so compelled to simply hold it in my hands and never stop gazing at the beautiful …show more content…
I remember feeling as if I found a missing part of me, cliché I know, but that’s the only way I could put it. I remember seeing the huge artwork and just feeling so much closer to the record. Being able to see and hold a record in my hand was so much better than any cd, because it was so much larger in comparison and felt like it was so much more. Come here, and listen.” He said when he placed the record into the turntable.
“When you listen to it and hold it in your hands, it makes it intimate and personal. You feel that it’s yours and everything else doesn’t matter in that moment.” Maybe this intimacy was the reason that people could never give up records, and how record stores continued to thrive. Aaron continued to guide me around the store and show me that record stores were exactly like library but for music lovers. Before I left I wanted to answer the one question that started this entire adventure, why record stores were still relevant to
With so many people in a record shop there had to be some interesting stories I pondered. Also having a store called “Mad Platter”, homage to the Mad Hatter from Alice in Wonderland, I figured that there were probably a few strange and hilarious customers. Aaron began to lead me through the aisles of records and he turned and asked me “ What are some bands you like?” I thought about it and replied “ Vampire Weekend and My Chemical Romance, I suppose. Why?” “Here, look at this.” He said while he handed me the two large records. I stared down at the records in my hands, I felt that the record wasn’t just a record but indeed was a large artwork. It was so beautifully detailed with the skeletons of the marching band parading around in the record cover for My Chemical Romance’s Black Parade album while the Vampire Weekend Album was equally as beautifully. Each record was like a poster, something that would look beautiful around the house and meant to be show cased, yet I felt so compelled to simply hold it in my hands and never stop gazing at the beautiful …show more content…
I remember feeling as if I found a missing part of me, cliché I know, but that’s the only way I could put it. I remember seeing the huge artwork and just feeling so much closer to the record. Being able to see and hold a record in my hand was so much better than any cd, because it was so much larger in comparison and felt like it was so much more. Come here, and listen.” He said when he placed the record into the turntable.
“When you listen to it and hold it in your hands, it makes it intimate and personal. You feel that it’s yours and everything else doesn’t matter in that moment.” Maybe this intimacy was the reason that people could never give up records, and how record stores continued to thrive. Aaron continued to guide me around the store and show me that record stores were exactly like library but for music lovers. Before I left I wanted to answer the one question that started this entire adventure, why record stores were still relevant to