It’s Record Store Day! You won’t catch me within miles of any record stores today – though I encourage you to support your favorites. I’ll content myself with going on un-Record Store Day. That still gives me 364 days to choose from. I don’t think I could handle the crowds and the heat, and whatever festive noise and live events they’ll have cranked up. Factor in weather like today’s and you’ve got a recipe for overstuffed mayhem.
My favorite record shop on the planet, of course, is Princeton Record Exchange. I’d been walking around with a great big hole in my heart since Tower Records closed its cut-out store, behind its former location at 4th & Broadway in NYC. PREX puts Tower in the shade. It’s the same Aladdin’s Cave, only more so. The inventory vacillates, depending on what libraries have been purchased recently, but there is always way, way more than in your average record shop (if you can even find any record shops these days).
And you can’t beat the prices. You can walk in there with $20 dollars in your pocket and come out feeling like a rich man, if it weren’t for the dozens of discs you’ll have to pass up, since you only have $20.
I emailed Classical Discoveries’ Marvin Rosen earlier this week and caught him at the Exchange. Then, I think there is usually a five-in-ten chance that I will catch Marvin at the Exchange. I was so envious. After doing my income tax this week, I won’t be able to set foot in that place, probably, until October.
Remember, I’ll be accepting gift certificates for my birthday.
More about PREX here – but if you go, don’t buy anything I’d want!
PHOTO: You know Marvin’s in here somewhere
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