Comments on: Notes On The Post-Holiday Retail Landscape http://idolator.com/5119582/notes-on-the-post-holiday-retail-landscape Music News, Reviews, and Gossip on Idolator.com Sat, 11 Feb 2012 05:56:57 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: T'Challa http://idolator.com/5119582/notes-on-the-post-holiday-retail-landscape/comment-page-1#comment-804332 T'Challa Tue, 30 Dec 2008 05:58:52 +0000 505e512a7541c36a6c1f1a1daadf8d72#comment-804332 <p>I was pleasantly surprised with a gift certificate to FreakBeat Records, in Sherman Oaks, CA. It's one of the very precious few well-stocked indie record stores in the metro L.A. area, especially in this post-Amoeba world.</p> <p>Anyone in the area would do well to check them out:</p> <p><a href="http://www.freakbeatrecords.com/">[www.freakbeatrecords.com]</a></p> <p>The .99 vinyl section is awesome, btw.</p> <p>Happy holidays, y'all!</p> I was pleasantly surprised with a gift certificate to FreakBeat Records, in Sherman Oaks, CA. It’s one of the very precious few well-stocked indie record stores in the metro L.A. area, especially in this post-Amoeba world.

Anyone in the area would do well to check them out:

[www.freakbeatrecords.com]

The .99 vinyl section is awesome, btw.

Happy holidays, y’all!

]]> By: Luke N Atmaguchi http://idolator.com/5119582/notes-on-the-post-holiday-retail-landscape/comment-page-1#comment-804322 Luke N Atmaguchi Tue, 30 Dec 2008 03:10:03 +0000 505e512a7541c36a6c1f1a1daadf8d72#comment-804322 <p>$10 Starbucks gift card towards [not!] supra-ironic Sonic Youth celeb-celected compilation. Ready response to "I got you something" blind-siding.</p> $10 Starbucks gift card towards [not!] supra-ironic Sonic Youth celeb-celected compilation. Ready response to “I got you something” blind-siding.

]]> By: Anonymous http://idolator.com/5119582/notes-on-the-post-holiday-retail-landscape/comment-page-1#comment-804342 Anonymous Mon, 29 Dec 2008 11:52:20 +0000 505e512a7541c36a6c1f1a1daadf8d72#comment-804342 <p>Because I was unable to go home for Christmas due to a massive snow storm in Seattle, I treated myself to a musical shopping spree.</p> <p>I supported my local indie retailer since Seattle has great record stores!</p> <p>Spent two hours looking around to come out with 8 CDs, 2 magazine and 1 DVD.</p> <p>Purchases included:<br> Deerhunter - Microcastle/Weird Era Continued<br> Tapes N Tapes - Walk it Off<br> Black Kids - Party Traumatic<br> Helio Sequence - Love and Distance<br> Friendly Fires - Friendly Fires<br> Elbow - Asleep in the (I had this, but not an actual copy of the CD)<br> Fugazi - 13 Songs (Used)<br> Cooper Temple Clause - Kick Up The Fire and Let the Flames Break Loose (Used, lost my old copy)</p> <p>Three Days - Jane's Addiction DVD.</p> <p>This months issue of Spin and Q.</p> <p>Merry Christmas to me!</p> Because I was unable to go home for Christmas due to a massive snow storm in Seattle, I treated myself to a musical shopping spree.

I supported my local indie retailer since Seattle has great record stores!

Spent two hours looking around to come out with 8 CDs, 2 magazine and 1 DVD.

Purchases included:
Deerhunter – Microcastle/Weird Era Continued
Tapes N Tapes – Walk it Off
Black Kids – Party Traumatic
Helio Sequence – Love and Distance
Friendly Fires – Friendly Fires
Elbow – Asleep in the (I had this, but not an actual copy of the CD)
Fugazi – 13 Songs (Used)
Cooper Temple Clause – Kick Up The Fire and Let the Flames Break Loose (Used, lost my old copy)

Three Days – Jane’s Addiction DVD.

This months issue of Spin and Q.

Merry Christmas to me!

]]> By: natepatrin http://idolator.com/5119582/notes-on-the-post-holiday-retail-landscape/comment-page-1#comment-804352 natepatrin Mon, 29 Dec 2008 10:35:44 +0000 505e512a7541c36a6c1f1a1daadf8d72#comment-804352 <p>I wasn't on either end of any actual music gifting, unless you count the stuff I bought for myself accompanying Matos on his aforementioned Electric Fetus trip -- including a $6.99 super-bargain-price copy of The Time's <i>Ice Cream Castle</i>. I did ask for and get a handful of music-related books, though, including that <i>Hang the DJ</i> book of lists that was mentioned here a couple months ago.</p> I wasn’t on either end of any actual music gifting, unless you count the stuff I bought for myself accompanying Matos on his aforementioned Electric Fetus trip — including a $6.99 super-bargain-price copy of The Time’s Ice Cream Castle. I did ask for and get a handful of music-related books, though, including that Hang the DJ book of lists that was mentioned here a couple months ago.

]]> By: Christopher R. Weingarten http://idolator.com/5119582/notes-on-the-post-holiday-retail-landscape/comment-page-1#comment-804362 Christopher R. Weingarten Mon, 29 Dec 2008 10:27:19 +0000 505e512a7541c36a6c1f1a1daadf8d72#comment-804362 <p>I got six OOP rap records that were sitting in the record store of my hometown since their release dates in 1988-1994. Some of them had no shrinkwrap because they were taken out of the LONGBOX 20 years ago O_O</p> I got six OOP rap records that were sitting in the record store of my hometown since their release dates in 1988-1994. Some of them had no shrinkwrap because they were taken out of the LONGBOX 20 years ago O_O

]]> By: Ned Raggett http://idolator.com/5119582/notes-on-the-post-holiday-retail-landscape/comment-page-1#comment-804372 Ned Raggett Mon, 29 Dec 2008 09:54:21 +0000 505e512a7541c36a6c1f1a1daadf8d72#comment-804372 <p>I thought the New Order reissues were themselves being reissued. (That's why I haven't bought them yet myself.)</p> I thought the New Order reissues were themselves being reissued. (That’s why I haven’t bought them yet myself.)

]]> By: Anonymous http://idolator.com/5119582/notes-on-the-post-holiday-retail-landscape/comment-page-1#comment-804382 Anonymous Mon, 29 Dec 2008 09:26:26 +0000 505e512a7541c36a6c1f1a1daadf8d72#comment-804382 <P>Something I noticed recently that really shocked me - and I think I was already vaguely aware of it on a phepheral level: the local FYE has a used CD section that's just slightly smaller than the new CD section. Which is crazy somehow. Because just about anything you could want that's relatively mainstream that came out three months back or earlier can be had for $7.99 or less. And yet that store is never, ever jammed. Even at Christmans. Which makes me kinda sad, and I don't even like FYE that much.</P> Something I noticed recently that really shocked me – and I think I was already vaguely aware of it on a phepheral level: the local FYE has a used CD section that’s just slightly smaller than the new CD section. Which is crazy somehow. Because just about anything you could want that’s relatively mainstream that came out three months back or earlier can be had for $7.99 or less. And yet that store is never, ever jammed. Even at Christmans. Which makes me kinda sad, and I don’t even like FYE that much.

]]> By: highlifer http://idolator.com/5119582/notes-on-the-post-holiday-retail-landscape/comment-page-1#comment-804392 highlifer Mon, 29 Dec 2008 09:11:28 +0000 505e512a7541c36a6c1f1a1daadf8d72#comment-804392 <P>I got my husband a Hunter S. Thompson Gonzo boxset (not really music but it is on CD.)</P> <P>He will make his annual Dead cd, a compilation of songs by those who died in 2008. It's a popular number (people start asking 'are you doing the dead cd again' about this time every year.) You can't start too early, cause you'll miss Eartha Kitt.</P> I got my husband a Hunter S. Thompson Gonzo boxset (not really music but it is on CD.)

He will make his annual Dead cd, a compilation of songs by those who died in 2008. It’s a popular number (people start asking ‘are you doing the dead cd again’ about this time every year.) You can’t start too early, cause you’ll miss Eartha Kitt.

]]> By: the rich girls are weeping http://idolator.com/5119582/notes-on-the-post-holiday-retail-landscape/comment-page-1#comment-804402 the rich girls are weeping Mon, 29 Dec 2008 09:07:32 +0000 505e512a7541c36a6c1f1a1daadf8d72#comment-804402 <p>@<a href="#c9716455">Chris Molanphy</a>: In hindsight, I kind of wish I'd asked for the New Order reissues.</p> @Chris Molanphy: In hindsight, I kind of wish I’d asked for the New Order reissues.

]]> By: SAShepherd http://idolator.com/5119582/notes-on-the-post-holiday-retail-landscape/comment-page-1#comment-804412 SAShepherd Mon, 29 Dec 2008 08:33:50 +0000 505e512a7541c36a6c1f1a1daadf8d72#comment-804412 <P>Christmas isn't a huge gift-giving holiday for us, but I did get some checks which I will be using shortly to get an iPod touch. So that's, uh, music-related, right?</P> <P>I've asked for music in the past (the in-laws like to give something in the physical realm beyond just a check), but typically I find it easier just to take money and buy music where I want to, when I want to, than to ask one of my family to do the whole "walk into [name of store] and ask if they have [not obscure but not Billboard 200 album] and then pay $20+ after tax" thing.</P> Christmas isn’t a huge gift-giving holiday for us, but I did get some checks which I will be using shortly to get an iPod touch. So that’s, uh, music-related, right?

I’ve asked for music in the past (the in-laws like to give something in the physical realm beyond just a check), but typically I find it easier just to take money and buy music where I want to, when I want to, than to ask one of my family to do the whole “walk into [name of store] and ask if they have [not obscure but not Billboard 200 album] and then pay $20+ after tax” thing.

]]>