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Are there any record shops in T.O anymore that carry Techno/Minimal (pg. 2)
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| Skipper |
| Vintage closed awhile back, unfortunately. |
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| Jben |
| booo-urns!! the pick stores has shrunk since I started partying, there used to be like 8 good stores in the city |
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| SasH21 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Skipper
Vintage closed awhile back, unfortunately. |
Oh that sucks, last time I was there in March:( |
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| basilisk |
| What record stores are left in the city aside from Play De? |
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| El Kay Dee |
buy online and if u want to stick to vinyl, use either Serato or M-audio's Torq
majority of the minimal out there is available on BP (and its gooood) |
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| basilisk |
| As much as I might be inclined to wax nostalgic about the days of physical record stores, they really didn't serve my needs very well. How was a physical record store supposed to be superior? Selection, affordability, and knowledge--by some accounts. But I could always find what I was looking for online, and not here in Toronto... and the records in shops were always more expensive. Not only that, but does anyone remember walking into The Pit and asking Paul for a stack of stuff to sift through? He was always sizing people up and trying to foist off utter crap on his customers (as far as I remember anyhow). I really enjoyed browsing at Metropolis many years ago, but sometime around 2001 the owner became reluctant to stock new releases until the older ones had sold. I never found anything worth purchasing at 2theBeat, and there was some measure of awkwardness about asking them anything (a good way to lose a customer is to grimace when they ask about something, as if to say "cripes, I don't know why you'd want anything like that.") Most of the places I went to back in the day (Fresh, Traxx, etc.) left their records lying around in bins for grubby suburban kids to mark up... nothing beats spending $18 on a piece of wax coated in the finger grease and dead skin of countless strangers. No, as much as I would like to remember the days of bin-sifting with a forlorn fondness, I think most of the physical record shops have closed for deserving reasons. Was it that they weren't able to compete, or were they simply unwilling to compete? I can think of all sorts of ways that the real-world shops in T.O. could have maintained my business (which grew to well over $5,000 in the early years of building my collection) but then again, I am an atypical customer with unusual or non-standard tastes and preferences. I was ordering online because no one was even stocking the music I wanted to buy... and so it goes; buying habits evolve as technology opens new doors. The image of the knowledgeable record store clerk as your window to a wide world of music fades into memory, drowned out by the staccato rhythm of mouse clicks and keystrokes. |
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| El Kay Dee |
| quote: | Originally posted by basilisk
As much as I might be inclined to wax nostalgic about the days of physical record stores, they really didn't serve my needs very well. How was a physical record store supposed to be superior? Selection, affordability, and knowledge--by some accounts. But I could always find what I was looking for online, and not here in Toronto... and the records in shops were always more expensive. Not only that, but does anyone remember walking into The Pit and asking Paul for a stack of stuff to sift through? He was always sizing people up and trying to foist off utter crap on his customers (as far as I remember anyhow). I really enjoyed browsing at Metropolis many years ago, but sometime around 2001 the owner became reluctant to stock new releases until the older ones had sold. I never found anything worth purchasing at 2theBeat, and there was some measure of awkwardness about asking them anything (a good way to lose a customer is to grimace when they ask about something, as if to say "cripes, I don't know why you'd want anything like that.") Most of the places I went to back in the day (Fresh, Traxx, etc.) left their records lying around in bins for grubby suburban kids to mark up... nothing beats spending $18 on a piece of wax coated in the finger grease and dead skin of countless strangers. No, as much as I would like to remember the days of bin-sifting with a forlorn fondness, I think most of the physical record shops have closed for deserving reasons. Was it that they weren't able to compete, or were they simply unwilling to compete? I can think of all sorts of ways that the real-world shops in T.O. could have maintained my business (which grew to well over $5,000 in the early years of building my collection) but then again, I am an atypical customer with unusual or non-standard tastes and preferences. I was ordering online because no one was even stocking the music I wanted to buy... and so it goes; buying habits evolve as technology opens new doors. The image of the knowledgeable record store clerk as your window to a wide world of music fades into memory, drowned out by the staccato rhythm of mouse clicks and keystrokes. |
this is probably the best post ive ever read in regards to mp3 vs vinyl |
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| Dr. DAS |
| quote: | Originally posted by El Kay Dee
this is probably the best post ive ever read in regards to mp3 vs vinyl |
Doesn't address the difference in sound quality from vinyl VS mp3/AIFF/etc. |
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| Jem_hadar |
| quote: | Originally posted by El Kay Dee
this is probably the best post ive ever read in regards to mp3 vs vinyl |
Is he referring to buying mp3s online vs. vinyls in store, or actually about buying vinyls online vs. being them in store??? :conf: |
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| El Kay Dee |
| quote: | Originally posted by Dr. DAS
Doesn't address the difference in sound quality from vinyl VS mp3/AIFF/etc. |
oh yea lets address that...dust clicks on vinyl vs. no dust clicks on digital....
tough one... |
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| basilisk |
| Something must have been lost in the translation :) I moved from buying vinyl records in Toronto to buying vinyl records online through mail order sites like Throb (NY), Chaos Unlimited (UK), Chaosexistence (US), Platenkoning (NE), and Saikosounds (HK). I moved on to ordering CDs around 2003 or so, and now supplement my physical media collection with lossless files (typically burnt as custom compilations to CD). At no point have I ever considered spending money on MP3s :D |
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