Second-best thing about Other Musical: their totally idiosyncratic system of categorizing things. It was something I hadn’t heard, nine times out of ten.Ħ. Best thing about Other Music, in retrospect: whatever totally uncompromising thing they were playing on the sound system. You feel like it’s a community of upstarts.ĥ. The search functions and algorithms are good, as are music features there. The record store was one of the great mercantile institutions of the last century (along with the indie bookstore), the place where I spent the vast majority of my shopping time and money as a young person, and in the space where record shopping was in my life there is now a big hole.īandcamp is sort of the closest you can get to a record store without being the record store now and there are some things I really like about it, and I am willing to pay for music on Bandcamp, especially on those Fridays when it goes more into the pockets of the artists. I was still buying most of my music at Other Music in lower Manhattan-that was about three years after Tower Records, across the street, had closed.Ĥ. For example, when I started the column I was still primarily listening to music on compact disc.ģ. Music has changed a lot since I started writing the Swinging Modern Sounds column in 2009.Ģ.
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