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| - Prior to an evening with Stolen Babies, Paradise Lost, Katatonia, and Devin Townsend at Mr. Smalls, I ducked into this treasure room of endangered media to squander some time and found that it mostly measured up to what I had heard and read.
A number of years ago, a close relative gifted me some CD's and vinyl for Christmas, and they acquired them from this storehouse of sonic pleasure known as Attic Record Store.
Upon skulking about the place, my only complaint about The Attic is that I felt some of their prices were a touch out of line. I saw used CD's that were not imports or out-of-print that were being sold at $17 and up. I almost bought Ian Gillan's Toolbox CD, which was just reissued and remastered two years ago, but passed on it since it was selling for more at The Attic than Amazon.com sells it for.
The Attic's labyrinthine organization takes a bit getting used to also. Some CD's are lined up vertically in at eye level and others are above your head stacked horizontally. Therein lies part of the joy of your quest, however. With the advent of the internet, many people don't even bother to purchase hard copies of music any longer, so if nothing else, The Attic is keeping alive that aspect of the hobby musichounds howl in glee over: hunting down that one platter of ear candy so elusive, they nearly gave up on it.
That is unless they find SOMETHING else they wanted while flipping through plastic cases and cardboard sleeves, something they never thought they'd see ever again, something they forgot was on their ever-expanding wantlist, taking in the musty, lusty aroma of old media all the while.
Thus is the way of The Collector. Thus is The Attic's esoteric mission: To provide acceptable grounds for The Chase...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XmfA3HQEy0
What Toys will YOU find inside?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSuyAq0OMgs
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