It looked like the Library of Congress with a cash register near the door. But to be honest, some of the best record stores I go into are in Scandinavia, Hamburg and Frankfurt in Germany, and believe it or not, the most insane record store I’ve ever been to in my life was in Moscow. Seattle’s university district has some great record stores there’s some places around University of Wisconsin - Madison. D.C.’s always had great record stores, because you’ve got a lot of great musicians there and a lot of really smart people who want good records. We go there and Red Onion, because we know the guys there, and I never leave empty-handed. There’s great record stores in Washington, D.C., where I come from - Crooked Beat, which me and Ian MacKaye go to every time we’re in D.C. You can just ask about something, and some guy will take you over and he’ll know every record in the bin. On the West Coast, the two Amoebas are fantastic, because they’re just massive, and the buyers in the different departments are really knowledgeable and love music.
And maybe we’ll get one or two more plants and there won’t be such a glut of people waiting. And so maybe a few years from now, maybe we find a steady pattern of sales where the industry will adjust.
And so, I think, capitalism is a wonderful thing, and it finds its way. Germany, France - they’re pressing vinyl like mad, for American labels, because we can’t meet the demand. And now people are shopping out vinyl to the Czech Republic because you can’t get it done here. At a place like Rainbow, here in Los Angeles, you gotta get in line. And right now, since vinyl kinda sorta went away in the ’80s because of CDs, there’s not many pressing plants. Do you think the vinyl resurgence is negatively affecting music distribution from the top down?īasically, we’re talking about supply and demand. As vinyl demand increases, there’s been a backlog at pressing plants, and smaller labels or bands - who may have always dealt in vinyl - are increasingly being pushed out.
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