Up Early In The Morning, Dressed In Black

I'm in mourning. Well, this didn't just happen. I've been in mourning for a few years now. Who died, you ask? The local record store died. When I was a kid, I had so many choices of where to buy the that new Skid Row tape. I could go to the mall and go to Musicland or The Record Factory. Or maybe I'll go down the street a little bit to the Wherehouse. Or I could go across the street to Tower Records. Shit, for a short time, there was a Rainbow Records put in just down the street from me. I walked there often, and I even remember buying Quiet Riot's Metal Health tape there. Years later there was a great store called CD Warehouse, which was the first place to go to find used cd's. Not only that, they would let you listen to the CD first to see whether or not you wanted to buy it. And they also paid a pretty good price for your CD's if you wanted to sell them. Now, I gotta drive out of my way to go to Rasputins. Yeah, it's a great store. It's also the only tROO record store we've got left around these parts. As a guy, I guess I should love Best Buy and all it stands for. But, come on! Everything is paint by numbers. It's a corporate bullshit store. Target and Walmart sell cd's too (And if you want the new AC/DC album, you can only go to Walmart to get it). But you're not going to get anything out of the ordinary. You're not gonna find that gem you may have been looking for for years. That's what an old school record store can do for you. Or maybe it's just me. Maybe i need to get with the times and realize that CD's are for old 31 year old men like me. Everythings digital. Now, i have an Ipod and I actually enjoy it. I like that I can sit in my underwear in the morning and download the new Amon Amarth. But I'm telling you, it's just not the same. I've spent a good amount of my life in random record stores. Slider and myself would go together all the time, looking for random 7 inches or odd CD's that you probably couldn't find elsewhere. For a music nerd like myself, there's just nothing like it. But even when i do go into one now, it's not the same as it used to be. Something's missing. I guess it's just because the times have changed. Maybe i just long for the days of being a kid and buying a cd from of a band I had only heard of, going home and putting it on and realizing that I had a new favorite band that week. Maybe that feeling is dead and gone. Must be why I'm in mourning.