Each week, the pop culture website Pop-A-Looza shares some posts from my vast 'n' captivating Boppin' (Like The Hip Folks Do) archives. The latest shared post is my look back at a record store that meant a great deal to me in the late '70s and early '80s, Main Street Records in Brockport, NY.
"Meant" a great deal to me? Please. Memories don't die, even as they fade with age. My fond recollections of Main Street Records have touched many posts on this blog, including stories about the Monkees, the Clash, the Romantics (and a subsequent video tied to that Romantics post), the Bobby Fuller Four, the Flamin' Groovies, the Byrds, the Barracudas, Lou Reed, and vinyl in general (though the radio show download included within that last one is long dead). The warmth provided by those memories is eternal, inherently sturdier than either flesh and blood or bricks and mortar. The sound plays on.
And I remember where the sound came from.
My friend Rich Firestone says that most music hounds like us had that one record store that was ours. Maybe you had yours, too. Mine was Main Street Records in Brockport, NY. It's the latest Boppin' Pop-A-Looza.
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