R.I.P Remix Records

[b0ld]

So I went in town today to browse around and decided to do my regular trip to the record shops.... And to my surprise I go to check out remix and its closed and empty. I later found out by someone at another shop that told me that it closed down on thursday....

R.I.P Remix, you'll be greatly missed :(



UPDATE!!!:
REMIX RECORDS IS BACK!!!!!!!!!
check it out REMIX Records - Vancouver

[MissMarz]

it never stood a chance

[mekim]

why didn't it stand a chance?

i bought all my records there. jim ordered in anything i wanted & got it in quickly.

plus, records were a decent price unlike everyone else in town.

[project.one]

No doubt.

Good store, sad to hear its gone!

[Phrenetic]

Originally Posted by MissMarz

it never stood a chance

that was mean

[FireWire]

RIP. I liked that store...

[Bevvy Swift]

it was okay. good prices, but the guy owner didnt really make an effort to bond with his customers imo.. i went there once and didnt like the vibe. the vibe is half of record shopping. he could have done better

[ppcock]

Originally Posted by Bevvy Swift

it was okay. good prices, but the guy owner didnt really make an effort to bond with his customers imo.. i went there once and didnt like the vibe. the vibe is half of record shopping. he could have done better

I disagree, Jim was an awesome guy. He also ordered me every record. Service was great and the prices were outstanding.
Now it looks like im going to be switching to serato.

Almost every record store that has tried to go up after boom town or beat street has had to close down after a year or two. I think with mp3s and serato on the way it only made it harder for them to maintain business. I use to love virgin records especially for finding mainstream tracks on vinyl for cheep. This got me really excited about Remix when I heard it opened and it was the same guy who ordered. However with mp3s selling mainstream tracks for $2 each... it didn't make any sense for me to goto Remix anymore :(
The service was great and the shop was really well kept. Im sorry to see it go.

[mekim]

Originally Posted by Bevvy Swift

it was okay. good prices, but the guy owner didnt really make an effort to bond with his customers imo.. i went there once and didnt like the vibe. the vibe is half of record shopping. he could have done better

i think that more had to do with jim being kind of awkward.

[Wood]

Originally Posted by mekim

plus, records were a decent price unlike everyone else in town.

that could be the reason right there

they ain't priced that way cause we're gouging you, it's because records are expensive & even more expensive to ship... you of all people should know that mike

[mekim]

Originally Posted by Wood

that could be the reason right there

they ain't priced that way cause we're gouging you, it's because records are expensive & even more expensive to ship... you of all people should know that mike

i know why they have to be the prices they are -- to an extent. i've just started buying mp3's because of the cost & jim had the only store in town that i found the records to still be @ decent price. honestly, sherwood, some of your double pack prices starting getting out of control, that's one of the main reasons i stopped picking up vinyl @ boomtown. $32.99 + tax for a double pack is outrageous (especially when a friend ordered the same double pack from a store in T.O. & payed $26.99). and, as you know, i pretty intimate with how the pricing gets set.

[dabbler]

main problem i had was the lack of knowledge for dnb, and the ordering system. I liked getting tunes there that no one else is getting in, and paying less. but everytime i asked "when does the next box arrive", or "is my order in the box coming" he didn't know. which after working 8 years in record shops, i found to be very strange. you always know roughly when. you order the records, and pay for express/2day/ground shipping, and that's how long it should take. and when the box is shipped, almost every distro in existence will send you a fax/email with an invoice.
but it's true, even with cheap prices, he didn't stand a chance. lack of stock, lack of knowledge to cover all styles of electronic music. poor organization on the new in stock section (all lumped together) etc etc

[Akeel]

^
yeah i went there twice, seemed like a nice guy but buying 2 year old breaks aint my bag.

[HADES]

It really does suck that Remix went out of buisness Jim always went the extra mile to get me the wax I asked for, unfortunately now with his buisness gone under I've found that the best place to get wax is Junorecords.co.uk takes 4 -10 days for your arrivals to get to your location and costs the same,roughly $20.00 a vinyl.

[mattymids]

why not support somewhere like boomtown im sure they have the same records and if i rememebr correctly even if a vinyl is 16.99 it comes out to less than 20 buckeroos
for hades

[Wood]

Originally Posted by mekim

i know why they have to be the prices they are -- to an extent. i've just started buying mp3's because of the cost & jim had the only store in town that i found the records to still be @ decent price. honestly, sherwood, some of your double pack prices starting getting out of control, that's one of the main reasons i stopped picking up vinyl @ boomtown. $32.99 + tax for a double pack is outrageous (especially when a friend ordered the same double pack from a store in T.O. & payed $26.99). and, as you know, i pretty intimate with how the pricing gets set.

dude, i'm sure i don't have to explain the concept of INFLATION to you. i'm not thrilled about having to sell double packs for that price but it's that or not get them in at all (never mind the fact that at 32.99 it's still cheaper than 2 singles). everybody likes to save a buck, but you'll notice that we're still in business, & remix isn't. we do what we have to do to pay the bills. take a peek at international shipping rates and you'll figure out pretty quickly why shops here have to charge more than shops in toronto (and at 6 bucks cheaper it's still more expensive after shipping yo). a lot has changed since you were last in the biz my friend, so don't be too quick to judge. Remix's pricing was great for the consumer but in the end all it's done is hurt the already ailing vinyl market here, because a lot of their customers won't go back to paying regular price. and i doubt they even made a penny from it either, having only been open for just over a year.

anyways, it dosen't really phaze me... take a peek at the list as long as my arm of flash-in-the-pan record shops we've outlasted & tell me who knows what they're doing.

btw, you stopped buying vinyl from us because our double packs went up a couple bucks, even though the singles have stayed the same price for years? weak dude - weak.

[MissMarz]

Originally Posted by Phrenetic

that was mean

Truth hurts.

I shopped there a couple times. (when i still played vinyl that is)
good prices, not the greatest in selection, and vibe def not there. No joking around with this guy. No matter how many times i tried. Plus his location was totally hidden, no one knew about it. And his prices (although great for us) were too low to keep rent. Besides, digital is totally taking over. Why anyone would just now open a record store makes no sense to me. He should open a dl site instead. Make more money that way. I'm not surprised at all. It was a good run while it lasted.

[Wood]

^ i always understood that there was some link with Virgin that allowed him to get the imports for really cheap. but yeah, even if that was the case there's no way you could make rent on Granville st. with an inventory that small. it is too bad in a way because it was good for us having another shop near the west end... but i'm not surprised either that it didn't work out.

[HADES]

$20 for wax isn't a hard thing to throw down, unfortunately the music I spin is harder to ship over here, I think i'm just going to screw it all get the promo cd's and then get it pressed into wax..Muhahaha

[ebbomega]

I still see Vinyls sticking around well into the next 10 years. Digital naysayers have been screaming the vinyl is on the way out for a damn near decade now. But yet at every club in town you'll still see a pair of tech 12s.

I have many of my own reasons to stick with vinyl. #1 being I just get a jazz every time someone who's new to clubs/raves/djing and sees someone spinning records and thinks "Huh. Didn't know they still made those."

[Toxxin Ephekt]

Originally Posted by Wood

dude, i'm sure i don't have to explain the concept of INFLATION to you. i'm not thrilled about having to sell double packs for that price but it's that or not get them in at all (never mind the fact that at 32.99 it's still cheaper than 2 singles). everybody likes to save a buck, but you'll notice that we're still in business, & remix isn't. we do what we have to do to pay the bills. take a peek at international shipping rates and you'll figure out pretty quickly why shops here have to charge more than shops in toronto (and at 6 bucks cheaper it's still more expensive after shipping yo). a lot has changed since you were last in the biz my friend, so don't be too quick to judge. Remix's pricing was great for the consumer but in the end all it's done is hurt the already ailing vinyl market here, because a lot of their customers won't go back to paying regular price. and i doubt they even made a penny from it either, having only been open for just over a year.

anyways, it dosen't really phaze me... take a peek at the list as long as my arm of flash-in-the-pan record shops we've outlasted & tell me who knows what they're doing.

btw, you stopped buying vinyl from us because our double packs went up a couple bucks, even though the singles have stayed the same price for years? weak dude - weak.

Long Live BoomTown!!

[ffa]

this just in:

the owner of Remix just posted on MySpace and also notified the Remix mailing list that he has found a new location and will be re-opening soon. Details to come. (new location = cheaper rent, so he can keep the low prices... ). Or so I read :-)


-f.

[b0ld]

Originally Posted by ffa

this just in:

the owner of Remix just posted on MySpace and also notified the Remix mailing list that he has found a new location and will be re-opening soon. Details to come.

-f.

weird..... guess he may have refocus'd his business decisions and all and realized the mistakes and is giving a shot again. Or probably teaming up with a business partner..... In any case if this information is infact true I am a happy camper. At least I know a shop is always available and around town to browse and buy when I'm in the city...

[ffa]

/\ rent on Granville was too high, and he was not going to raise his prices (it was against his whole philosophy of opening that store in the first place...). So I believe that since there is still demand for cheap records, he has found a new place with less overhead so he can continue to supply the demand.

As for Jim being unfriendly: it is, as Mike said, his awkwardness more than him not being friendly. He is actually a very nice guy. He is just a little odd... a wierd music geek I suppose.

And I have to agree with some posters: if you want the latest records in specialty micro-genres, this was not the place to go. On the other hand, if you want the latest records in the more popular categories, Remix always had them in stock.

I found it great for the more trendy genres (elecro, minimal) and also for the Indie stuff and also re-presses, and special orders.

Remix used to get consistent shipments like any other store, once a week. But recently, due to financial troubles, the orders were getting less consistent.

For me, I still love vinyl. Sure I discovered MP3s like 10 years ago, and used to burn them and play, etc... but I love the feel and sound of vinyl, and let's face it, I am a music COLLECTOR more so than I am a DJ.... so I love collecting music, and the best way to collect is vinyl. And I don't play those records that are not worth keeping, so I don't have that problem that some people have (i.e. constantly buying random filler records so they keep up with the Joneses and not being able to afford such records on vinyl). I do admit that I have bought stuff in my collection that I now look at and go "why the heck did I buy this", but the majority of my records are tracks I want to keep. And that reflects in the music that I play when I DJ as well...

Anyhow....

-f.