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Re: Licorice Pizza and other Record Shops
DIR By: boyinblack80
Date: February 17, 2012, 11:22 pm
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hahahahaha that's cool!
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Re: Licorice Pizza and other Record Shops
DIR By: Chiprocks1
Date: February 17, 2012, 11:23 pm
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> I bought my first CD's there too back in.....
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At Licorice Pizza? I don't remember them carrying any CD's.
Maybe it was Sam Goody's that it morphed into?
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Re: Licorice Pizza and other Record Shops
DIR By: boyinblack80
Date: February 17, 2012, 11:27 pm
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I guess that's possible...I for sure got them at that "site" I
remember so clearly go in and looking through the racks, where
they were in the store.....I looked through CD's there tons of
times
what year do you think Licorice Pizza closed?
I can totally figure out when I bought the discs...just based on
the release dates.
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Re: Licorice Pizza and other Record Shops
DIR By: Chiprocks1
Date: February 17, 2012, 11:28 pm
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> lots of blank tapes so you could make copies of your
records....
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Lars Ulrich tried to sue Licorice Pizza as a 14 year old kid
because he thought blank tapes were EVIL.
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Re: Licorice Pizza and other Record Shops
DIR By: Chiprocks1
Date: February 17, 2012, 11:30 pm
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--- Quote from: boyinblack80 link ---
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> I guess that's possible...I for sure got them at that "site" I
remember so clearly go in and looking through the racks, where
they were in the store.....I looked through CD's there tons of
times
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> what year do you think Licorice Pizza closed?
>
> I can totally figure out when I bought the discs...just based
on the release dates.
>
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Well, personally I didn't see CD's on the racks until I started
going to Tower Records and that came after the Decline of
Western....I mean Licorice Pizza. Sam Goody's at the time was in
the thick of doing movie rentals and were pushing VHS....hard.
#Post#: 6103--------------------------------------------------
Re: Licorice Pizza and other Record Shops
DIR By: boyinblack80
Date: February 17, 2012, 11:44 pm
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I was thinking that when I wrote it...not Lars but how "blank
tapes and making copies" would somehow effect the record
companies.
greed is what ****ed them. They lied to the public and
basically said..."look CD's are only going to be MORE expensive
for a little while...they are actually cheaper to make than
records" (which they are) That was their exact words.....and
then they proceeded to charge twice as much for them...and even
took it as far as charging $16 bucks...$18 and MORE....so all of
a sudden you have records that used to cost 7-9 bucks costing
16.....then 18 and up and up...it was a joke and they never did
lower the prices.......they all got rich and people finally said
**** YOU this is a rip off...albums should be like $10...or we
can just get them free. I am not saying that's right...but look
at any riot that happens..you push people far
enough...eventually it's going to snap back in your face....they
go crazy and just start grabbing anything and everything...it's
not about what they really want....they just go nuts and take
anything and everything not bolted down.
if they want to play nice which they don't they could probably
even this out.
instead they now charge $75 for a double album on
vinyl....concert tickets are through the roof, band shirts are
like $45-60...with things like hoodies being something like
$100/
so they didn't change at all...they took a HUGE hit. But the
greed is still there and they are trying desperately to get back
to raking in the cash.
I don't see it happening.
the musicians suffer but you know...the labels did this....they
can try and blame the public. It was their fault.
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Re: Licorice Pizza and other Record Shops
DIR By: boyinblack80
Date: February 17, 2012, 11:51 pm
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I bought all those cd's there and that's where I saw the Stones
when they released their full catalog on CD's...I'd go back in
forth around the rows (remember they were basically the length
of the store...so you'd go waaaaaaay back to the far wall of the
shop and then have to turn around to come back down)...debating
what I was going to buy because I usually only had enough money
for maybe 1 album two tops...so the choice was always torture!
but they absolutely had CD's there....it would have been between
1982-1984.
they even had a Black Sabbath greatest hits record on CD there
I'd never seen on vinyl...it had a Bosch painting on the cover.
here's a link to the cover...I remember being in shock when I
saw it because one it was on CD and two I'd never even seen the
album before. I didn't get it because I had all the songs
already on LP...but the cover was extremely tempting
HTML http://www.black-sabbath.com/images/covers/greatesthits_nems.jpg
#Post#: 6105--------------------------------------------------
Re: Licorice Pizza and other Record Shops
DIR By: Chiprocks1
Date: February 17, 2012, 11:52 pm
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What they were charging when CD's first came on the scene was
the reason why I resisted it for so f ucking long. I was still
buying tapes because that was the "cheapest" format left at
around 8 bucks brand new. As I mention earlier in this thread,
when Tower Records did the midnight opening for Use Your
Illusions 1 and 2, I went with cassettes instead of the CD's
because they were way too expensive for my taste.
The music industry STILL doesn't get it and are overcharging on
everything. Mac brought up the fact that Sony jacked the price
up on Whitney Houston's box set a mere 12 hours after she died.
Now THAT'S f ucked up. I can't find the link. I thought it was
in the Whitney Houston thread. Mac, where is it?
#Post#: 6106--------------------------------------------------
Re: Licorice Pizza and other Record Shops
DIR By: boyinblack80
Date: February 17, 2012, 11:53 pm
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I tunes did the same thing with her catalog...they are leaches.
it's disgusting....and all about money
big shock.
#Post#: 6107--------------------------------------------------
Re: Licorice Pizza and other Record Shops
DIR By: Chiprocks1
Date: February 17, 2012, 11:54 pm
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That link is forbidden or broken.
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