holy crap, a store of music
I don’t mind admitting that I pretty much buy all my music on amazon.com these days (hey, I do buy music) and it’s been so long since I stepped inside a music store that I forgot how fun/wallet gouging it can be to just browse shelves and stumble upon music you didn’t even know you wanted.
- stinkweeds
I’m currently vacationing worlds away from my New Jersey homebase in the ‘ZONA! …I mean, Arizona. Phoenix, to be more precise. (I’m here for all fun and no work, unless you count eating as work…and it is partially work, but work of the awesome tasty kind, not the, “Oh god I hate my life please kill me,” kind.) My friend Alex brought Lee Anne and me to Stinkweeds, which he said is the only indie music store in the area, a very nice one at that (and happens to sit between a vintage clothing store and designer toy shop). We oogled their letterpressed business card, OH HOW WE OOGLED THE BEAUTY OF THE RECESSED TYPOGRAPHY.
- store!
Anyhoo, while browsing the store and thinking, “Gee, there isn’t anything that I want,” I ended up taking Les Ondes Silencieuses by Colleen, Pan Or Rama by Console and the latest Interpol into my squishy arms. I didn’t know what the Console album sounded like at all (not that I knew what the other ones sounded like either, but if I really like a particular artist I figure I will like everything that they’ve churned out) so the nice guy managing the store unwrapped it and popped it into the stereo for all of us to listen to. Bleepy bloops filled the air with melodious bleepy bloopage.
“I like this. …Um, I’m going to take this from you,” said Alex.
With each passing day I honestly feel more music-lazy than ever (as in, too lazy to seek stuff out myself or go to live shows), but…I really shouldn’t be so lazy. Yeah. Shouldn’t.
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Great picks. I have been feeling bad lately for my lack of purchasing real music whether on Amazon.com or in a real store. I used to go to the store once every few months and binge but I haven’t in years… I miss that. It is so much fun!
Thanks for getting me to listen to this Console album — I haven’t in a while. 🙂
Comment by Zach — 8/8/2007 @ 6:37 pm
hi robyn. stinkweeds! i haven’t been to the new location, but stinkweeds played a huge part in me getting OUT of mormon-land. oh, the days of ditching church going to stinkweeds listening to alllll the wonderful sounds. hope you had fun in my home state.
xo nathan
Comment by athan — 8/15/2007 @ 12:53 pm
WHOHOAR people comment, omg! I am slow.
Zach: It IS fun to binge! Kinda. Except all that money could be used to buy food and stuff as well…ohh, it’s hard to choose, I do like food.
I wish I had more Console stuff (just have Rocket in the Pocket besides Pan Or Ama). Hmmhuhmhm MUST BUY MOAR?
Nathan: The new location is in its own mini complex of hip-ish things—designer toy store, tattoo parlor, vintage clothing store, and indie music shop. All it needs is a bakery and IT WOULD BE SO PERFECT.
Your state is fun.
Comment by roboppy — 8/18/2007 @ 7:29 pm
Random … I was searching on Colleen and came across this post. I used to work at Stinkweeds about 10 years ago. Not in this store, but one over in Mesa.
Comment by darren — 8/25/2007 @ 5:38 pm