RIP Ear X-Tacy

[blackleatherbookshelf]

Wow, this is depressing. Ear-x-tacy may have been the finest Independent record Store to not be in a Coastal State. Maybe even the finest in the US, Period. I used to go there weekly when I lived in Louisville, and often made special trips there when I lived in Nashville.

http://www.npr.org/2011/11/22/142456999/economy-mutes-a-longtime-louisville-record-shop

http://www.louisville.com/content/x-it-ear-x-tacy-news

Comments

[master-dave.livejournal.com]

http://www.louisville.com/content/what-silenced-ear-x-tacy-news:

"...this is not necessarily a good music town. It isn’t THE music place.  There are very few venues for it.  It’s not like Nashville or New York or California, where every coffeehouse has a place for a singer to sit down and play all the time.  If every coffeehouse [catered to] artists, then you would have a music and artist town. ..."

"Since 2003, nearly a quarter of all existing record stores have gone under.  Notably, the iTunes Music Store (now simply known as the iTunes Store) opened in 2003."

Remember, though:  Apple is an important part of Big Money.  I use Macintosh and PoweMac computers, of course, but I am well aware of Apple's shortcomings, which worsen every year.  I will not buy Apple, anymore, but I will not buy crap, either.  I will keep what I have.

[master-dave.livejournal.com]

Village Music died, in Mill Valley, a few years ago.  The cause was Big Money,again:  Out-of-control rents killed it!  (And the Baskin-Robbins ice cream shop, which had been there even longer, just a few months ago!)  :-(