Does anyone here work in a record store?

Does anyone here work in a record store?

>What's it like?
>What is your day-to-day?
>How was the interview process?
>Any hilarious customer stories?

Worked at Amieba for a couple of months. AMA

What was the percentage of hipsters to average joes?

I work at a record store.
Day to day is some what mind numbing. Just a lot of organizing. I enjoy it because my life centers around music. It's an easy but boring job that I get paid pennies to do.

Also music-fans are some of the craziest people I've ever met. Half of my customers come in drunk.

Yeah hipsters all day. Would get uptight when I didn't know where the band was.
It's categorized by genre
Hipsters: it shouldn't be categorized. Weed and sweaty onion armpit smell most of the time.

Amoeba Hollywood?

Also, would people try and get all prestigious because of what they're buying?

I used to work in one, and the best part of my day would be silently judging obvious Sup Forums teenagers buying a bunch of basic essentials chart records and quietly chuckling while they leave because they stumbled over their words.

Yeah Hollywood. when I did cashier service, they wanted you to validate them for buying vinyl or would start talking about how good this album is.

does it actually bother you if people go in and dont buy? I always get really paranoid that the people in the store are judging me when i do that
only really applies to small stores

You must be autistic to think this shitty board has that much of an impact on people buying music.

Not at all, some people are actually just there to talk about music or see what they are gonna pirate later.

how old are you? every single record store near me is exclusively stagfed by old guys who wear led zep shirts

Did people ever ask you for recommendations? Were you ever one of the ones interviewing an artist for what's in my bag?

You'd be surprised. Probably at least once a day I sold some combination of Death Grips, Kanye, Grimes etc etc to a pale skinny kid with awkward mannerisms.

Not at all. As long as they leave with a positive impression they're likely to tell their friends, that's what brings footfall.

I'm 22 now, a friend's dad got me the job.

I got turned down for Rasputins. They asked if I was good at math and I was a little bit too honest.

Not that user but I'm from the Bay Area where we've got record stores galore. Seems to be a solid mix of white guys in their mid 20s to late 30s. All the people over 50 working in these stores have been black in my experience, at least at the counter.

I never got to do that, but I did meet bad brains, dungen, saw mac demarco from afar.

>Not that user but I'm from the Bay Area where we've got record stores galore. Seems to be a solid mix of white guys in their mid 20s to late 30s.

Yes.

I'm from Los Angeles and I went to San Francisco over spring break. Every record store was a white dude who smelled like cigarettes.

For recommendations just psych rock or stuff I was listening to lately. I got asked about jazz most of the time. cause no one would go to that section. I think they where even gonna close that section off at one point cause no one went there.

Also, frankly, in my experience even in the bigger stores that might be half a block the internet's still a better place to find new music. I still go to Rasputins and Amoebas when I get the chance because I wanna support the music industry and I like having an actual collection, but if push comes to shove I can stand to see this part of the industry fall.

I never find shit im looking for at local record stores here in Austin. Especially if its anything electronic.

fuck you, if you give off this vibe i won't be returning

i'm not so sure. cratedigging is totally different and in my opinion a more engaging experience. if i go physically cratedigging in a store with a listening station i *always* get back home with a more interesting selection than if i just flicked through youtube for an hour

it's a niche that will never go away. retail spaces might downsize, sure, but there will always be a community that demands that experience. the future is in intimate, local, specialised stores that can curate their stock accordingly for these people

Emphasis on "silently". I was always accommodating and brotherly to customers, and worked my way up to manager that way.

And I still had time to shitpost on Sup Forums behind the counter.

If you are in the Hollywood area, TheRecordParlour has events where you pay $20 and you can take as much records as you want. I found Sgt peppers mono last time and have seen people leave with luggage bags worth of vinyl.

that doesnt sound sustainable at all. are they regular?

>an asukafag could have sold you records in the past
brb destroying my entire collection

Different fag here.
Just looked it up out of interest.
Sounds very cool and nice.

really? I can usually find something i want at End of an Ear. Between them, Waterloo, Breakaway and a fuckload of smaller shops around the area its been pretty easy for me to find whatever im looking for, so idk man. Austin has like a LOT of decent record shops

Where did you work for a few months?

anyone work at a record store in seattle?

bop street is the best record store in Washington IMO

Used to work in Fopp in Edinburgh from age 15 to 20. Was the time of my life.

Lots of bizarre customers though. A guy on heroin, a woman who peed on the stairs, a couple of flashers, a guy who insisted on being called Catdog and wore a catdog T shirt every day...

Was fun being able to talk to people about music I care a lot about, with customers and the other staff guys. Really a dream job when you're a teenager

I've had the opposite happen at Amoeba Hollywood as a customer where the person ringing me up will lead off with a "been meaning to listen to this" or "never heard of this, but have you listened to (some p4k droll)"
I usually just mumble and say "yes" and "thanks" and then leave, though.

You must be an autistic person to think it doesn't

best record store in washington is The Business up in Anacortes

Very sustainable and they sell vintage audio equipment.

AmoebaYeah depends who the customers are. Some are cringey hipster and some are very cool people interested into music.

Bop Street has a great selection but they sell everything for 20bucks more than what it should be.

Very cool indeed, get there early if you are planning to go.

I live up in Lynden so I go to the stores in Bellingham. All we have there is Avalon, where I go to buy bootlegs and a bit rarer pressings, and Everyday Music which is a pretty decent sized store that has a better selection of wider known albums.

Pic related is Avalon. They have hand written descriptions on new albums telling you what they sound like and shit, it's actually pretty cool.

How would one come into owning and operating a record store? Would it even be worth it if you're not living in a big city or college town?

Do you know that one midget that works there? Sorta looks like a tiny hipster Julian Casablancas? Caught that fucker staring at my gf several times I've gone there.