Re: Music snobs....
Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2015 9:53 pm
The fucker who manages Backstreet Records in Fredericton, NB, is just the worst. (Eric, if you're reading this, I mean it so endearingly, I swear.) He runs this tiny little record store that's like... 10x10, I swear to God, and never gets any new sealed vinyl in, and always has some dreadful sound collage shit on in the store. Like fucking Geir Jenssen, Cho Oyu 8201m* for fuck's sake. That's gonna a) encourage people to mill around and b) encourage people to buy albums. Sheesh.
You'll ask him sincerely about a record and he likes to give you fuckboi responses. Sample, "How's this new Volcano Choir album?" "It's literally the best rock record ever recorded." Okay, erm, thanks. He hates on all my music around the clock. Once I mentioned Thrice and he rolled his eyes. Thankfully, this has benefited me on more than one occassion, as he puts out anything he doesn't think is worthwhile music in a pile of free CDs. This is how I got my copies of the first Weatherbox EP and two Dashboard albums, one of which was the relatively difficult to find, OOP and expensive Drowning EP. He literally goes to the Best Buy up the hill, buys CDs there, and resells them in his shop. All the CDs are, like, twenty bucks. There's literally not one CD album in there you couldn't order for half the price on the band's online shop.
This having been said, he's a really good guy, and I think about half my vinyls (let's all cringe at the fact that I actually prefer calling them "vinyls") came from his store. There's just something about shitty little holes in the wall full of $3 lesser-known Paul Simon LPs, manned by bearded misanthropes who'd as soon see you fall down the fifty stairs you had to climb on the way in as spending money in their establishment.
Yes, let's hear it for music snobs.
*This is actually a great album that I throw absolutely no shade at.
You'll ask him sincerely about a record and he likes to give you fuckboi responses. Sample, "How's this new Volcano Choir album?" "It's literally the best rock record ever recorded." Okay, erm, thanks. He hates on all my music around the clock. Once I mentioned Thrice and he rolled his eyes. Thankfully, this has benefited me on more than one occassion, as he puts out anything he doesn't think is worthwhile music in a pile of free CDs. This is how I got my copies of the first Weatherbox EP and two Dashboard albums, one of which was the relatively difficult to find, OOP and expensive Drowning EP. He literally goes to the Best Buy up the hill, buys CDs there, and resells them in his shop. All the CDs are, like, twenty bucks. There's literally not one CD album in there you couldn't order for half the price on the band's online shop.
This having been said, he's a really good guy, and I think about half my vinyls (let's all cringe at the fact that I actually prefer calling them "vinyls") came from his store. There's just something about shitty little holes in the wall full of $3 lesser-known Paul Simon LPs, manned by bearded misanthropes who'd as soon see you fall down the fifty stairs you had to climb on the way in as spending money in their establishment.
Yes, let's hear it for music snobs.
*This is actually a great album that I throw absolutely no shade at.
W-wait, no. I take that back, I fucking hate a lot of Hispanic folkloric music. 
That and narcocorridos.