Millerton, NY

Vinyl Fanboy

Tomorrow is Record Store Day. Here is a story in the New York Times and here is a map of some of the stores that are still here and some that have gone away during the last 5 years.  Any fule kno that the picture is of the Hollywood Amoeba Records.

Roxy Music moment

Here's a couple of fun things from the best Roxy Music website, These Vintage Years.

A long interview with Bryan Ferry in the Sunday Telegraph magazine, Seven.

The coming attraction for the movie "Flashbacks of a Fool" which features the song "If There Is Something." "Virginia Plain" is also on the movie soundtrack along with a couple of David Bowie tracks.

Roxy Music, Hammersmith Odeon late 1970s

photo: Adrian Bryan-Brown

Vinyl Fanboy

Here are two neat links. One, courtesy of the New York Times, to a story about one of the finest record stores in the United States.

Our Towns
In Princeton, an Offline Haven for Music Shoppers Thrives
By PETER APPLEBOME
Published: April 10, 2008
A holdout record store is still selling vinyl, offering the visceral experience of poring through album bins in person.

and the other, kindly exposed at Hidden Track:

Hard Rock Park, located in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Very silly.

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