Comments on: Heartbreak No. 6: Everyone In The Music Business Losing Their Freakin’ Jobs

By: Michaelangelo Matos

Michaelangelo Matos — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 12:27:52 +0000

@staciaann: Of course! BTW, I wonder if you or anyone else who works in retail who might want to pipe in could say anything about this: I've had trouble finding a couple things lately because one-stops aren't carrying as much as they used to. Is this true? Any insight is welcome.

By: staciaann

staciaann — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 12:11:14 +0000

I work at the Electric Fetus in Minneapolis. We just shrunk our record department by an entire row and moved the imports/accessories in. We're making more money selling candles and lotion than music. It's really sad. We are still getting a lot of special orders, which is great, but it is sad when we're unable to fill a customer's desire right then and there. Especially when it's one we used to carry all the time.

I guess one positive is that we're starting to focus part of the biz on vinyl. Sales are way up there, and we're trying to get in things that not every big box retailer will have (although Best Buy's decision to carry vinyl at all still pisses me off).

Thanks for coming to the Fetus when you're in Minneapolis. We love you! Hoping for 40 more years...

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 04:57:13 +0000

Amoeba Records didn’t have that Franco compilation either. That one’s hard to come by!

By: Jess Harvell

Jess Harvell — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 01:52:33 +0000

i haven’t been home much recently, but whenever i’m there, i’m too…sad to visit the record store i worked at back in ‘04. the last time it had shrunk to about 1/4 the size. hell, by now it may be gone completely.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 10:26:52 +0000

@Antiheroine: Same with books, and book publishing. Oh, and newspapers and magazines, as everyone knows. The Internet is killing everybody. I'm not sure how much carnage it's going to take.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 10:19:19 +0000

[rockcritics.com]

for your consideration.

By: Antiheroine

Antiheroine — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 09:18:32 +0000

While I'm only a casual music listener/music blog reader, I'm a rabid film fan, and I see the exact same thing going on with movies. Small independent video stores are going out of business, film critics are disappearing by the dozens, and every other day someone cries the death of indie film. It's like we're in the middle of a larger art crisis in our culture, and, frankly, it sucks. It makes me sad we don't collectively value these things more.

Meanwhile, the Creed reunion tour is ready to roll!

By: TimGunn

TimGunn — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 08:58:45 +0000

Oh man, the music crit industry, too? It’s everywhere.

By: Audif Jackson Winters III

Audif Jackson Winters III — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 08:49:32 +0000

Great post. Even though you depressed the hell out of me.

By: whittlz

whittlz — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 07:16:23 +0000

sigh