Beat Street RIP

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Annoying lack of detail here. Somehow I think it's more complicated than this (not least Beat Street's long history of selling boots). For at least a year the bins have been half-empty.

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 10:45 (seventeen years ago) link

However, I never saw a record store like it. I bought a new vinyl copy of Purple Rain there, with the original poster inside, for $7.99.

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 10:46 (seventeen years ago) link

(In 2003)

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 10:52 (seventeen years ago) link

It was kind of depressing to walk in there towards the end.

I will miss that new-ish reggae room with massive sound system.

― Confounded (Confounded), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 11:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Still record stores like it though...namely Rock-n-Soul. Is Music Factory on Fulton still open?

― dan selzer (dan selzer), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 15:28 (seventeen years ago) link

last time i was in music factory the vinyl has been relegated to the upstairs and sat on a 30 foot by 5 foot table stacked the wrong way in a giant cube. impossible to look through, mostly puff daddy type stuff anyway, and they still were charging $4-$5 a pop.

I will miss that new-ish reggae room with massive sound system.

yeah, i remember that Beat Street soundsystem with the hanging speakers.

― obi strip (sanskrit), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 16:15 (seventeen years ago) link

if they closed shop in october (according to the article), why this long until the article? weird.

― Tyrone Slothrop (Tyrone Slothrop), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 17:11 (seventeen years ago) link

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