buying local
April 25, 2010
Saturday was Dr. Disc day, the long-awaited opening of Windsor’s Dr. Disc Records in their palatial new quarters at 471 Ouellette Street. Peter and I are avid record collectors, and as our collection is currently in a period of rapid expansion in preparation for an exciting! new! project (which I PROMISE I will write a little bit about this week), and because we just plain love this store and have ever since our youthful days spent happily shopping at their (sadly departed) flagship location in London, we headed downtown to celebrate the reopening by showing them some good old fashioned loving. And by “loving”, I mean “cash on the barrel head, hon”.
Shiny!
The store’s been open for less than a day and already someone has discarded a Tim Hortons coffee cup on an empty bit of shelf. A sort of christening, I suppose. (No, we did not buy either of those records you see above there).
This new location is two floors, with all of the used vinyl upstairs. There was a whole second room up there that was mostly empty but for some (empty) record bins, so I foresee lots of exciting expansion there. Here’s hoping this means all of those milk crates of overflow vinyl will soon be up off the floor and more readily accessible to those music lovers like us who are pushing geriatric, because y’all, I just can’t crouch for an hour sifting through those crates like I used to.
What we bought:
1. Half Man Half Biscuit Dickie Davies Eyes (an extended single, which normally we don’t collect, but we make exceptions for bands whose work is hard to find)
2. The The Soul Mining
3. Sleater-Kinney Dig Me Out
4. Tom Waits Mule Variations
5. Lene Lovich Stateless (Peter said “don’t know much about her but she looks like a weirdo so let’s get it”, a strategy that has worked out for us in the past)
6. Iron Butterfly Ball
7. Jerry Jeff Walker Mr. Bojangles
8. Marianne Faithfull Rich Kid Blues
9. Alanis Morissette Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie
10. The Shins Wincing the Night Away (containing the song that was recently stuck in my head for a month or more, making buying this possibly a bad idea)
11. Dwight Yoakam Hillbilly Deluxe (yes, I like this. Shut up).
Posted by jodi on April 25, 2010 at 9.37pm
