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Part 298: Why I Couldn’t Give You A Quote Over the Phone
RECORD STORE TALES Part 298: Why I Couldn’t Give You A Quote Over the Phone We advertised that we paid cash or credit for used CDs. A lot of customers used to call with the titles of their CDs, to...
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Part 301: A Nice Pair
RECORD STORE TALES Part 301: A Nice Pair I was working the afternoon shift, and another guy named Dave was working the morning. I arrived at work at about 1:30 in the afternoon, with a big box of used...
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#329: Selling My CDs (RSTs Mk II: Getting More Tale)
RECORD STORE TALES Mk II: Getting More Tale #329: Selling My CDs We all end up with CDs that we no longer want or need. I very rarely sell my CDs anymore. I’d rather donate them to a new home, where...
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#401: SIGHTING! Rasputin & the Hobbit
RECORD STORE TALES MkII: Getting More Tale #401: SIGHTING! Rasputin & the Hobbit A few weeks ago, Mrs. LeBrain was feeling generous and treated me to a rare breakfast at McDonalds. We don’t go...
View Article#552: Alive!
GETTING MORE TALE #552: Alive! In the spring of 1996, we opened up the big store that I managed. It was our biggest store to date. There were a lot of good times at that location, and hundreds of...
View Article#573: Pawning Sh*t
GETTING MORE TALE #573: Pawning Shit You’ve met new contributor Aaron, and as he begins his story, you’ll get to know him a little better. But how did he enter Record Store Tales? It’s a funny story,...
View Article#697: Kiss My Ass
GETTING MORE TALE #697: Kiss My Ass Spring, 1994. An unemployed 21 year old student not-yet-named LeBrain was having a particularly lazy summer. In a year I would graduate. I didn’t have a lot of...
View Article#866: Untitled ’94
GETTING MORE TALE #866: Untitled ’94 I didn’t go to the cottage at all in 1994. I was busy with school, then in the summer met a girl, and finally got a job at the Record Store. That was all the...
View Article#902.5: Spoogecakes 2 – Electric Boogaloo
Today’s chapter of Record Store Tales is a direct sequel to Part 35.5: Spoogecakes! RECORD STORE TALES #902.5: Spoogecakes 2 – Electric Boogaloo LeBrain HQ has eyes and ears everywhere! We are...
View Article#967: Dilemmas of Buying
RECORD STORE TALES #967: Dilemmas of Buying Mixing friends with work is always a tough balancing act. When you work retail, it’s even harder. The friends come to you, and they’d like to do business...
View Article#1094: Sanchez
RECORD STORE TALES #1094: Sanchez “There was one customer in Cambridge who hated selling to me, he always asked where “the regular guy” was. He asked my name and I told him it was Sanchez. When T-Rev...
View Article#1115: The Winds of Change
RECORD STORE TALES #1115: The Winds of Change My time in music retail was relatively long, considering how taxing on the soul it can be buying used music from the public on the wrong side of town. I...
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