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1. ToddinWestwood
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   Sorry to the guy working at Easy Street Friday night. Wife and I went in after dinner to look for some new music. There was some loud music with some really screachy lyrics on the sound system. We were paying for our cds and noticed it was Nirvana. I made the comment "I had not listened to Nirvana since 1993" and it came out kinda condescending before I realized how bad it was, we were walking up Cali. Ave. Sorry, foot in mouth syndrome get me sometimes too.

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2. Bonnie
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   LOL Todd! You were giving your age away too. :)

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3. ToddinWestwood
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   No, I was giving my age away when I walked in an didnt know any of the "new music" that was there. Hell, the only section I felt comfortable in was the jazz.

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4. EasyAdam
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   No worries...please come back & visit us anytime!!!

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5. luckymom30
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   Do you remeber vinyl records, and 8 track tapes, I do so I guess that tells you my age.

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6. JoB
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   luckymom30...

   i don't just remember them..
   i bought them:)

   i saved babysitting money to buy my first 45.. Johnny Angel.. and had to play it at a girlfriend's house as mom wouldn't let me use the record player for that junk:(

   i saved and used birthday money to buy my own record player before buying more 45s :)))

   i gotta admit.. even i think MP3s are progress...

   and am as lost at sea in Easy Street Records as ToddinWestwood... though probably more reconciled to the fact by now ;->

   ToddinWestwood..

   we all say such thoughtless things.. things we would retract if we could. I admire you for making your apology public.. and EasyAdam for his grace in accepting that apology.

   EasyAdam...

   just a thought.. but how about a section for new music that might appeal to those of us who grew up with classic rock and roll?

   I know it's out there, but unless it's world music which hubby follows, depend upon kids and grandkids to find it for me. It would be fun to surprise them with my newfound knowledge... and expand my musical tastes.

   i'll bet you would find a new group of grateful baby boomer patrons surrounding that bin.. and some of their kids too :)))

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7. ToddinWestwood
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   Remember records???? I have maybe between 1000 and 1500 33rpm, maybe 250 45s.
   I dj around a bit. Surf, garage, 50-60's stripper music, soul, truck driving country and some rockabilly.
   I have shopped at Easystreet since it was just a big wall of cassette tapes and a few records. Will keep going there. Thanks.

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8. miws
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   CD's are still cool and high-tech to me, and they've been around for nearly 30 years now!

   Mike

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9. ellenater
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   My first record was Blondie, "The Tide is High". I miss records but am too low on space. I miss having to get up and turn it over. I miss the low hiss and the scratch of the needle when the record is over. sniff. long live records. Digital music sucks!

   Todd, I can't believe you never listened to Nirvana after '93!

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10. ToddinWestwood
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    I was into alot of other punk/garage/surf stuff. The local grunge scene was more of an annoyance.

    The only Seattle "sub-Pop" acts I really got into was TAD and Screaming Trees.

    Most of the time it was Bad Brains, Ramones, The Mummies, Man...Or Astroman, the Makers, The Phantom Surfers, The Lazy Cowgirls...ect..ect...ect.

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11. Johnson
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    gosh, todd, you really hurt me... I couldn't even get to sleep that night because I was crying so much.

    (BTW, you don't think too much of yourself, do you, to think anyone but you would remember that exchange)

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12. ToddinWestwood
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    Maybe so, but I felt like a dick, so I thought I would get it off my chest. Kinda like clearing the karmic air.

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13. GenHillOne
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    Maybe you felt that way, Todd, but who's the real Johnson on this thread now?
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    I'm going to give Easy Street the benefit of the doubt and hope that #4 is the only legit employee post.
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    and 50-60s stripper music is...?

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14. ellenater
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    I was in the Portland music scene at the time. It was unacceptable to like Nirvana publicly at the time. What a shame. I LOVED the Screaming Trees. Good times...

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15. The Velvet Bulldog
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    I worked with Van Conner of The Screaming Trees while going to school in Ellensburg. This was before they got widely known and he and some of his brothers and sisters worked at The Liberty Theater there. At the time, there wasn't much to do in Ellensburg EXCEPT form bands--so it was pretty cool to spend weekends listening to your friends play "Grunge" in its infancy.

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16. Leroniusmonkfish
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    I owe all of my current and past musical tastes to the original owner of Easy Street...when Kim opened up shop on Bel-Red road he introduced me to music I still love to this day...The Jam, Chameleons, XTC, The Police, Joy Division, Echo & The Bunnymen, New Order, U2 etc...he used to import lp's, 45's, etc. for me and would let me take them home for a listen and return them if I didn't care for em...I have thousands of lp's and probably hundreds of 45's in my collection thanks to him!

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17. ToddinWestwood
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    scroll down the page to hear samples:

    http://www.amazon.com/Las-Vegas-Grind-Pt-1/dp/B0000058SO

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