Leo
Well-known member
yikes that's really sad.
i hope rough trade won't be next. i reckon that only a 1/4 of people who wander in there buy anything.
other is a great store. good guys who run it too, not the stereotypical snobby clerks. can't count the number of artists and genres they've turned me on to. if memory serves, i believe they even stocked some woebot cds over the years.
there's almost no place to go record shopping in manhattan anymore, especially for new releases. a-1 is good but all used vinyl, turntable lab is tiny and expensive, downtown music gallery had to move to a crappy basement in chinatown and not sure they'll last much longer, and academy has a small stock of just used stuff.
rough trade in brooklyn has a live performance space to help pay the bills. some record labels use it as a showcase spot, so i believe they might even help subsidize the space in some way. still a bunch of used vinyl stores in brooklyn, but overall the NY record store scene is terrible.