{"id":502,"date":"2004-04-08T10:21:12","date_gmt":"2004-04-08T14:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/2004\/04\/08\/whats-a-record-store-anyway\/"},"modified":"2004-04-08T10:21:12","modified_gmt":"2004-04-08T14:21:12","slug":"whats-a-record-store-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/2004\/04\/08\/whats-a-record-store-anyway\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s a record store, anyway?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a759'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With 20 minutes to kill, I stumbled into HMV on Oxford Street. And now I realise the real reason why I haven&#8217;t been to a record shop for ages. <\/br><br \/>\nThe truth is: My ability to work my way through a record shop (or an entertainment\/ media emporium as I&#8217;m sure they see themselves) have been eroded by the net, just like my skills at mental arithmetic have been whittled away by using a calculator.<br \/>\nWithout stars, reader reviews, audio samples and &#8216;people who bought this also bought&#8217;&#8230;I&#8217;m completely lost. I stand at the front of the store, rather like a pensioner waiting for someone to help them cross the road.<\/br><br \/>\nIf my trip hadn&#8217;t been cut short, I would either have bought a load of the cheap back catalogue stuff that&#8217;s filling up the front of the shop and I feel I ought to own (more Bowie\/ Clash\/ Pet Sounds which I&#8217;ve never got round to buying&#8230;and have lived perfectly well without all these years. But at least I&#8217;d know what I was buying.<\/br><br \/>\nOr I would have bravely ventured into the new music area, where I would have been buying on the basis of &#8216;what have I vaguely heard of?&#8217; and&#8217;what&#8217;s got the coolest cover?&#8217;. Unfortunately, I have bought too much shit, too many times to go down that route.<br \/>\nOh, and I&#8217;m obviously devastated to find that most of what I think of as quite new and cool is either in the charts, or reduced at the front of the store.<\/br><br \/>\nDo they offer a personal shopper service, me wonders?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/i><\/p>\n<p>\nTampoco nos pasemos con el titular, porque a veces s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With 20 minutes to kill, I stumbled into HMV on Oxford Street. And now I realise the real reason why I haven&#8217;t been to a record shop for ages. The truth is: My ability to work my way through a record shop (or an entertainment\/ media emporium as I&#8217;m sure they see themselves) have been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":240,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1458],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ionstories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/240"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}