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< from a life in progress >Date: March 18, 2008
Todd,
I worked at a record store when I was a teen, in Dallas, TX. It was a huge place that had once been a supermarket called Warehouse Records - a chain, but this was one of their first stores. One of the great things about it was that they were very customer oriented - so we were encouraged to know the 'collection' well, to be able to guide customers where they needed to get. So, when I spent my down time digging and digging and digging through all the records, it wasn't really a total loss to my employers. Dragging the new releases around in a big shopping cart and filing them was one of the highlights. There was the usual people wandering in humming some snippet of a tune they'd just heard on the radio. As you might imagine, I was pretty good at that particular game. The stockroom in back was huge and each employee had a bin of things they planned to buy that you could kind of set aside. It was fun to snoop around and see what other people were planning on getting - and something of a proving ground about your own tastes and desires. There was also that there fine employee discount. I believe I spent my entire last paycheck at the store itself. That was when I bought my "100 Minutes of Kinks" cassette, which is still one of the best recordings I ever bought - I have transfers FROM THAT CASSETTE in my iPod now.
G
On Mar 14, 2008, at 7:55 PM, Todd Lewis wrote:
So where and when did you work in a record store? While I aspired, of course, as a young man to work in a record store I never got the chance to. I missed out.
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