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[Hype Hype Hooray] John Cusak Record Guilt or Why We Should Buy Vinyl, I Guess

Every [two weeks?] Jamie Hale takes a long, hard look at the music industry and the blog scene that feeds it. Here, he releases those findings and makes snarky, sarcastic remarks. Admittedly, both Jamie and Knox Road are a part of this scene. So sue us.

All this talk about Record Store Day has […]

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[Abby’s Road] Shopgirl Evolution

Once upon a time I worked in a record shop. It was way back in the day when cassettes (and cassingles…heeehee!) were purchased with as much fervor as the compact disc. To compensate the gigantic wage that a retail shopgirl could pocket in the early-nineties, I worked at an indie bookstore as well. […]

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[Abby's Road] Collections live on, and that's okay

I’m truly disappointed.

Ne’er did a sentence scar as deep as that one. I can still hear the words coming out my father’s mouth when I did something particularly stupid as a teenager. Disappointment: one of the miseries of life. Be it a result of the loss of a favorite t-shirt or when […]