Every Day Should Be Record Store Day
Last year, a couple months before the first Record Store Day, my favorite Atlanta record store closed. (Yes, I'm still grieving.) It happened again this year: Ella Guru closed in March. But there's also good news for record store shoppers. Reactionary Records reopened in East Atlanta (at 465a Flat Shoals Avenue, across from the EARL). As a service to Atlanta visitors, here are the remaining independent retailers of CD's and vinyl in the ATL area:Audio Alternative website
Book Nook review
Circle Sky myspace
Criminal Records website
Decatur CD website
Fantasyland review
Feed Your Head myspace
Full Moon Records review
Low Yo-Yo Stuff myspace
Moods Music website
Reactionary Records myspace
Records Galore review
Secur Music website
Stickfigure website
Sweet Melissa website
Wax N Facts myspace
Wuxtry website
Check out this documentary about Rough Trade, founded on the idea that (in Geoff Travis' words) "a record shop could be a lot more than just a place where you bought records". The film is about the birth of independent labels, and about the contradictions between idealism and commerce. I love the part when Mayo Thompson muses that Rough Trade's ambitions to balance the two may have been a case of "drinking too much of your own piss".
Labels: ATL record stores
