i miss record stores. the old-school kind, where the employees had music encyclopedia brains and would recommend and play new albums for you behind the counter before you forked over your $7.99 for an album or $12.99 for a cd. stores like yesterday and today records in rockville and melody records in dupont circle (and lest we not forget the summer hours spend at listening stations in the tower records in piccadilly circus and virgin records on oxford street).
now everything is online and streaming and digitally downloading and the joy of browsing and listening and physically discovering and opening an album sleeve and listening to it in its entirety, side a & b, while reading the lyrics, is almost completely extinct.
these days i find new music on kcrw (the best radio station here in the states) and rely on word of mouth and my brother's ever expanding eclectic playlists. below are some of my favorite albums from the past year - regrettably found only in my itunes library - not on the shelves of my outdated cd collection.
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| luisa maita - lero lero |
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| tallest man on earth - the wild hunt |
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| fiction plane - sparks |
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| rem - collapse into now |
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| the national - high violet |
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| ray lamontagne - god willin' & the creek don't rise |
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