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funny enough, same goes for all the employees at on deck, every one of us had worked in other stores before, matty (3 stores), me (3) jesse (2) stephan (2) lol 
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on deck was my favourite store for many reasons, i'm sad to see it go - bumming smokes off skippy and shooting the shit outside with him, matty and jesse was great.
Jay and crew were always holding records for me and skip took care of all my obscure special orders. :(
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With 7 condo towers going up in the next 3 years Tinsletown is going to be busy soon. Why? Humans are lazy.
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 I guess crackheads and meth junkies don't shop much do they?
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For my new electronica records, I usually shop Beat Street, Boom Town, Active Pass, Scratch and Zulu. Also, in reply to the comment about not needing record stores made earlier in this thread: it is sad that people think that way. Record stores are more than just a store. They are a gathering place for poeple in the scene, where people go get new records and run into their peers, chat, shoot the shit, catch up, etc... sure you can shop online (which I do a lot of, as well as going to stores) and you can also chat on forums like this (which I do as well), but nothing replaces that human face-to-face and community interaction. Without the record stores, there will be no places for the promoters to leave flyers to get the word out about events. Yes, the online argument can be made here too, as promoters can and do promote online, but if we end up doing everything online, then why not just put on our VR glasses and have an online rave? Who needs to get together physically. I personally think there is no replacement for the 'experience' that physical shopping provides. You set aside some time, get excited, go out to the store, browse, physically touch the good, see other poeple, enjoy a day getting outside the house, and spend some money along the way helping local businesses. I am totally against this whole "let's stay at home, download MP3s, burn them onto CDs and then geek out with our online buddies all day not leaving the house, and go spin CDs at a party". Again, don't get me wrong, I was one of the first people with a 4x CD burner back in 1997, downloading MP3s and playing them, and I have been geeking out online for far too long :-) But doing so, as the only means of getting music and connecting with others loses the touch and the community feel that the electronica scene has been about. Everyone should be out there, supporting the local stores and the local scene in addition to getting their music online, MP3 or otherwise. And yes, I think store owners need to lower their prices a bit too. I admit, when records where less than $14 a pop, I used to visit local stores a hell of a lot more than I do now... But now, I can buy stuff off Juno for a lot cheaper than locally... It is catch 22 I guess. The less stuff people buy locally, the more the local store owners have to increase the price, and the more they increase their prices, the less people will shop. I know a lot of people don't have the $$s to burn on new vinyl... so perhaps local owners need to try and create more incentive for people to go and shop there by having competitive pricing, as well as better selection, which is another thing I feel like most local stores lack, and if you have ever visited Ameoba in San Fran, you will know what I am talking about. Beat Street does a pretty good job at having a decent selection of everything (and I know Dana and those guys are total Amoeba fans, and hopefully one day, they will turn Beat Street into a Vancouver version *corsses fingers*). And if a record store does not want to carry all genres, that is fine, just have more than 1 copy of that new release, and increase the back catalogue. Yes, I hear all the owners complain about the amount of money required to stock product. I used to be in charge of odering for a game store, I know! and I used to work at A&B Sound as well, and I know that unless you load the shelves with product, you are not going to get the same level of customer satisfaction (this is where A&B is going the wrong way at the moment, in that they used to be stocked to the tits, and now they are only carrying the newer/safer to sell stuff and the shelves are looking pretty empty otherwise, which spells doom). I also found, even in the past, that unless you are "connected" you would only get the left overs. I remember back in the day, going to Bassix on new record day, and all the good stuff was already spoken for by the "big" DJs, and us little guys got nothing. And lastly, one less record store may not be such a bad thing. I remember when On Deck opened, a lot of people were wondering why we need another record store, with Bassix and Boomtown already providing the local scene with what it needs. When I got into the whole electronica scene, Odyssey Imports was the only "DJ" record store... now we have Boomtown and Active Pass and Beat Street, so we are still doing pretty well compared back in the day :-) Let's just hope we don't end up with zero. peace, -f. Last edited by ffa; Sep 24, 05 at 12:27 AM.
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