So What’s with T Shirts from Defunct Record Stores?
See if you can find the following among the stickers on the cases…
Mike Watt’s Firehose Basesball Card, Arcwelder, Minor Threat, Butthole Surfers, Meat Puppets, Porcupine, Period Bomb, DK’s (ripped), Circle Jerks, Cell Block, Doggy Style, The Silverteens, Urge Overkill, a home made Stiff Little Fingers sticker, Surly Brewing (3 or 4? I L-U-VVVVV Furious), Treehouse Records, Extreme Noise Records, and (several) Twin Town guitars stickers…
You can buy Cerveza Muscular’s CD at the following Twin Cities record stores:
Barely Brothers, HiFi Hair & Records (as well as John Kass’ White Bear Lake Store), Treehouse Records, Extreme Noise, No Name Records, Down in The Valley, Electric Fetus, Roadrunner Records and Dave Foley’s Record Store (the only CD in stock at his vinyl hole in the wall on 38th & Grand).
If you look closely in two of the videos I am wearing T Shirts from record stores. If I had a chance I could list another ten or twenty record stores that I’ve frequented that are no more. I do not have shirts, for example, for the following record stores no longer in existence: The Wax Museum (Tom Tevaggia? Thanks for the posters), OarFolkJokeOpus (Terry, Peter and the great selections), Positively Fourth Street, Platters (Thanks to Kevin Cole for Meat Puppets comps for First Avenue, unsolicited when I went in to buy) or Pipe Dreams (Keith Cipowski, what was the name of the competing record store on College Avenue?). The place in Oshkosh where I got the best record deal ever, like seeing Husker Du and Bad Brains at Duffy’s for $2.00, snatching Richard Hell and the Voidoids Blank Generation for a coincidental $2.00. In the two videos, I am wearing shirts from Garage D’or (Terry Katzman) and Atomic Records (Rich Menning). Sad bitter tale that both are no longer in the game, damn shame. Gotta wear one of my many Roadrunner Records shirts, represent one of the stores still open (thanks, Beggs, Davin and Keith).
