The Record Shop

Everything I saw in here was garbage. Poor selection, poor condition, high prices, hundreds of bargain-​bin LP’s strategically stacked on the floor to make it difficult to shop.
I see no reason to ever stop in here.

One day I was on the Grog Shop website to see where I could buy a ticket for a show without having to pay an arm and a leg for fees. I saw this place listed and made a mental note to stop in when I was in that area. Fast forward a few months some friends of mine and I stopped in to check it out. It’s like FYE started selling used records and kept the high prices. I don’t think we were in the store for much longer than 10 minutes. I couldn’t find a thing I wanted or didn’t want to shell out an arm and a leg for. It baffles me how Ultrasound was down the street and went out of business but this place is around.

This place bites. They don’t have anything remotely noncommercial. Everything is expensive. The help is always completely uninterested in the consumer. It’s basically a mini Best Buy without the ambiance. And it’s been around since i was in high school! I don’t get it!
I have been record shopping since fourteen, and always managed to find at least one record or redeeming quality at every place i’ve been to. That numbers in the hundreds. Half of those places are gone. But this completely charmless, uninteresting dump has survived through all those years! I don’t know how. I have never seen them advertise, get featured in a free weekly, or even mentioned through word of mouth. I bought more stuff at Circuit City when it was still around, for chrissakes!
And yet, whenever i drive down the Camaro Causeway (Vine street in Eastlake), there it sits, bewildering me. How on earth is it there? Who actually shops there? I mean, most good record shops are going out of business due to ITunes, pirating, etc. How? Why?
And how about that name? Inventive.