So This Really Is The End....

I hate it that physical record stores have essentially disappeared. My record store job (Sound Warehouse!) paid for my undergrad degree. I have nothing but fond memories of that job and the years of selling music and talking to customers and employees about new and old bands. Met countless musicians, in store band promotions, free tickets to unknown bands, got in trouble for playing albums with explicit lyrics, watched CDs push vinyl out, and trends ebb and flow. I even met my wife in the store while working an evening shift! I love the convenience of streaming and on-line shopping, but it doesn’t come close to what we used to have in actual physical stores. 

 Our ET overlords are working towards a society where no one is allowed to leave their house. Groceries delivered, things delivered (by drones, of course), work at home, digital currency to make sure you're doing nothing naughty.

Were slowly converting from an animal paradigm to an insect paradigm. Ask anyone living in China.

Sorry you’re losing your local establishment. I still miss our local dive bar, which closed during the pandemic shutdowns. It had an incredible kitchen, a great shaded back patio, and low prices.

Two examples of the inevitability of change.

I hope you enjoy Qobuz as much as I do. It’s really wonderful to have immediate access to such a huge library.

Thanks all and sorry about the ambiguous title, never really gave it much thought. In this day and age, I’d make the assumption that many long standing businesses are closing everywhere so we’re all likely to be affected in some way. The closing of Mole’s Records now leaves a hole in my weekly routine, I guess I’ll spend more time at the gym.

I already put all my albums, thousand in lossless files, beginning decade ago...

It is impossible to store thousand of cd and thousand of books in a small house for two... I did not have even a dedicated acoustic room anymore .... Then i understand the shock of this closure because it is human interaction which is lost...

But anyway the time is already here where A.I. will create  my future  homemade acoustic room and device...And headphone designed with deepest acoustic knowledge coupled to the Choueri Dac BACCH filter will render speakers in a living room useless...No need for audio reviewers save for anecdotal reading... Then no material albums, no speakers and a headphone creating any acoustic soundfield at will in 3-D... At 72 years old probably i will not be able to afford it soon when it will come, but if you are younger you will live with it because it will become affordable...

The greatest revolution right now is A.I. not the economic crisis or the war or pandemic...

But with A. I. it will also increase the lost of human interactive relations... As the tv make it so, and the computer, and now the A. I.

I am not a luddite but human relations are possible only on social sane real public space... There is no more private space versus public space anymore...

Then loosing a fifty years store is loosing something we can call a warming human space...