The Vinyl Record Shops of Yesterday

Back in the seventies and eighties I used to collected records. Going down to the record shop once a week and buying a few albums was an enjoyable pastime. Gone are those day's unfortunately, back then I could ta talk to the store clerks about the latest albums that would complement my collects. Record shop got to know my tastes and genre of music that I liked the most. Getting an album that was highly recommended was a wonderful thing in those days. I learned to discover recording as I would in a book in a library or private book store. The excitement was taking to album and playing it for the first time and then playing the album for a second or third time until it grew on me. Letting other people see my record collection was a way in defining my tastes in music within my home. The idea of the concept albums was a time of music generous in that time. There was the picture disc albums and vinyl of transparent colors. The Hi Fi end of recording was just coming into existence. The sound was warm and alive, not so with digital recording, also with downloadable music there is always the case of using credit cards. At one time cash was valued and used, you took so much as with you and that was the extent of what you bought. Consumerism of today has run amuck with credit instead of hard earned cash. The mom and pop stores of yesterday have been overrun by an industry that only takes credit.

I wish for the return of a simple music purchase system such as the around the corner record shop. I've heard that vinyl may take a comeback but when will this be? I sure miss those days badly, things just were a lot more sensible then; there was a beauty of buying good music. In this world of an industrialized music sales so is the way of good quality music. Of course there is some good music on today, but to back they wouldn't publish the recordings in vinyl once again. Bring back the record stores like Sam's or some of the smaller stores. Please everyone needs to discover the benefits of collecting good vinyl music once again.