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  • As I wolfed down my mediocre breakfast at Blueberry Hill, I felt inspired to scour the Vegas landscape for a brick-and-mortar record store. Surely, somewhere in this town had to be a gem in the rough - something that the Best Buys and Wal-Marts of the city hadn't yet driven out of business. Lo and behold, it turns out this place was a mere 0.8 miles from where I sat. I looked at some of the user photos and instantly knew this was a place I needed to be. I felt like I was home as I stepped foot inside. The interior looks similar to Tower Records. There were endless aisles of CDs taking up the bulk of the space, but the surrounding aisles were full of vinyl, Blu-rays/DVDs, toys, posters, t-shirts, books... the merchandise was limitless. I got that overwhelming feeling that only Amoeba can provide - the sense that there's a ton of awesome shit I'd go nuts over in here, and I don't have time to peruse it all. I noticed they have some other locations, then it dawned on me that I went to their AZ locations a couple times as a kid. One trip in particular introduced me to Sepultura since "Chaos A.D." had just been released. At another, I found an ultra-rare CD I'd been trying to find for years; I bought it there for under $10. I spent as much time as I could browsing their "Metal" section, amazed at some of the obscure offerings that rivaled my usual searches at Amoeba. Of course, of the 3 or 4 things I could think to buy they had none of them, but the tangible feeling of flipping through row after row of music you don't see stocked anywhere anymore made me regress back to being 15 again. I finally found something I wanted ("Until the Light Takes Us", a doc on the Euro black metal scene in the '90s). Sure, I could've gotten this particular Blu-ray for cheaper on Amazon, but I'd much rather spend the extra few bucks to give a worthy store like this my business. I love being able to walk into a store like this and lose myself for hours in their stock, but the sad fact is that this place, like so many others, won't last forever. I'm glad they've hung in this long, though, and I can guarantee I'll return every time I'm back in town. Support local record stores or resign yourself to a lifetime of anonymous purchases online or wading through cookie-cutter crap at Best Buy. I know my preference.
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