Shiranui: Things I Hate About Local Stores

Shiranui 02.12.15	Anyone having similar issues?
betray 02.12.15	yea i get really pissed too my local store doesn't even have metalcore or deathcore sections like wtf get with the times
deathschool 02.12.15	If I went to a store that was this terrible once, I wouldn't go back. Simple
Funeralopolis 02.12.15	yea this shit pretty much plagues any album store I've been to
henryChinaski 02.12.15	I heard Tenacious D are also in the Heavy Metal section...
tempest-- 02.12.15	does your record store actually have a sectioned labelled "black" cos that's fucked up
Alastor 02.12.15	haha, cool list. I remember putting albums I liked in the Top10 shelf, back in the day.
Shiranui 02.12.15	Yes temp, hence the list. There's just few good metalcore for me, as i found some Unearth, this was gold.
Let 02.12.15	Eh in SD at least theres plenty of punk but no metal. Its whatev tho
TheGreatQ 02.12.15	I went to a place in Florida that claimed to have a section for every genre. They had Rock, Pop, Alternative, Hard Rock, Metal, Goth, Dance, Industrial, and Reggae/Ska. Rock was Metallica, and classic rock stuff. Pop was pop and some random pop punk bands. Alternative was mostly alternative, with some pop punk and hardcore. Hard rock was metalcore and Ac/Dc. Metal was more metalcore and some Judas Priest and 80s rock. Goth was literally made up entirely of Black Veil Brides, Evanescence, and Nine Inch Nails. Dance was anything electronic they had. Industrial was just a continuation of dance, like they literally just stuck an "Industrial" sign at a random point in the alphabetical assortment of dance. Reggae/ska was actually reggae and ska. Oh and I tried to buy a CD and he couldn't find it because he keeps all of the discs in unsorted bins scattered throughout the store.
TheGreatQ 02.12.15	Also, having a section called Black is horrible.
manosg 02.12.15	Having a "black" section makes me think that this store is somewhere in the US north and if you do pick up a record from there you're fucked. Also, it might be a section with all the metal, pop, etc. where only black people buy from like in the old US south again.
JWT155 02.12.15	How big is your town? If it's small the owner really doesn't have an incentive to supply less popular, more obscure bands/genres. These places are open to make money, and while it would be nice to find a place with a wide selection and variety, it's not worth them supplying such diversity if there's only 2 kids who stroll into their shop who are interested in Metal and their inventory sits on the shelf collecting dust.
Shiranui 02.12.15	I live in Germany. Alot of these things i listen to, don't really make it over to Europe. People here are pretty lazy about having to listen to something not hitting the charts. Stores just don't care what kinda music they are actually selling, either that, or they solely have the same old stuff in stores. And shipping costs are insane.
JWT155 02.12.15	Stores are only a function of their environment. If there was a strong metal listening community where you are I'm sure their inventory would reflect that. You could open the best Metal Record Shop in the world, and if it's located somewhere where few clients listen to Metal, chances are it will go under. I know it sucks not having a wide selection, but you can't blame them for not supplying lots of Metal if you're the only person strolling in looking for a 90's Gorguts album. And even if they stocked Metal, how would you know they would even have the taste to stock the Metal you like? To have a successful record store with a wide range of genres, that would mean purchasing thousands of records from thousands of bands ranging from heavy metal, black metal, melo death, death metal, nu metal, speed metal, hair metal, metalcore, grindcore, hardcore, post hardcore, ect. That's a lot of music and certainly wouldn't be cheap to provide, especially if they're providing this plethora of music for only 3 people to glance at.
TheBarber 02.12.15	2 is pretty fucked up tbh
TheBarber 02.12.15	gotta say I'm pretty lucky for record stores, in Paris there's about anything with usually a big enough "Independant" section (wich encompasses all genres from Converge, AC to Nick Cave as long as they're a bit more obscure than the also gigantic and spread out "pop rock" section), biggest gap usually comes from the Hip-Hop section with all the shitty local french rappers and compils; for metal it depends but usually there's Deathspell so you know they arent completely lost
Rik VII 02.12.15	I also live in Germany and yeah, the record stores suck.
betray 02.12.15	JWT pretty much nailed it
Alastor 02.12.15	opening a record store in general seems like a bad idea in 2015
DominionMM1 02.12.15	"Having a "black" section makes me think that this store is somewhere in the US north and if you do pick up a record from there you're fucked" huh?
DominionMM1 02.12.15	"opening a record store in general seems like a bad idea in 2015" actually they're doing ok. in fact we just had another one open up.
climactic 02.12.15	black
Shiranui 02.12.15	Of course it all goes along with the charges of getting these beauties in your stock and it def wasn't supposed to be read as a rant about music stores in general. Sure it depends on demand. While people here are just lackluster in terms of musical originality, i still feel like people are just too much unaware and/or indifferent on what's out there.
Phlegm 02.12.15	mine has no Drone section so im fkn pissed
cvlts 02.12.15	a section called Black? dafuq? anyways, i love my local record stores but i live in Seattle so we got a store for every taste imaginable.
manosg 02.12.15	@DominionMM1 Just a poorly worded joke meaning that such a section looked to me like the segregation policy in places like Georgia in the '40s.
VaderGator 02.12.15	I've realized that anything I'm actually looking for doesn't have its own name card and is just thrown at the end of the letter mixed with everything else so it makes it almost impossible to find anything unless it's something really popular.
DominionMM1 02.12.15	man you guys have some shitty record stores
TedSchmosby 02.12.15	i don't have any music stores in my town :C
ScuroFantasma 02.12.15	Black... Wow
SharkTooth 02.12.15	...where do you live?
Eggvander 02.13.15	I'm from Germany too. There are few good record stores and mostly in the really bigger cities like Cologne, Frankfurt, Berlin, Hamburg I would reckon. What even pisses me off more though is the quality of the radio stations. Whenever you turn it on you hear the charts and obnoxious moderators. I end up listening to the documentary/news/discussion programs because it's the only thing that's bearable. At least in America/Canada you can listen to stuff like Hendrix, Soundgarden, AIC or Tool and so forth on alternative stations in every city, hell they even play Rush over there and the mods are relaxed and down to earth, something absolutely unbelievable in Europe. People over here just don't have any taste in music as it seems. The only ones who actually do are like 60 year-old kraut and prog rockers or jazz enthusiasts. Where in Germany are you from? the little Pitbull thing in the end made me laugh, haha.
Phlegm 02.13.15	i really wanna go to one of those ambient music stores in Japan
Shiranui 02.13.15	From the area around Stuttgart. Radio's shit, too. Got you there. Choose between Meghan Trainor and Jump. God dammit.