Whammed
by Will
I’ve been on a CD-buying spree. Yes, I still buy them. I don’t trust LimeWire since my iMac’s hard drive crashed, and my cheapo .mp3 player can’t accept songs from the iTunes store. So I’m kicking it 1998 style. Anyway, I strutted into Earwax on Bedford Avenue Sunday morning — partly because I was hungry for still more music, and partly because it’s one of the only stores that opens in Hipster Williamsburg before noon. It’s a decently hip record store, I guess. I can’t totally tell. There’s no Billy Joel in the store window and there are posters for things like “Vampyros lesbos” so it FELT cool. And I like the name Earwax.
I get a bit self-conscious about what I order in places like that. I asked for the new Calexico CD, and felt proud for knowing of Calexico and that they had a CD (never mind that I had heard of them from a web production company’s blog). Nice start to the order. Then I followed up with asking for the new Yeah Yeah Yeahs. A little predictable for Williamsburg, but solid.
Then I suddenly remember how I’d loved Stickerbook‘s cover of Careless Whisper the night before at The Shark Show and I blurted out “oh, how about Wham’s Make It Big?” It was answered with quick beat of silence and then a simultaneous “no” from the two guys behind the counter.
It’s a good album.
Comments
If you go into a hipster music store and as for Wham! you might be a gay redneck
earwax is a terrible record store. please go to sound fix on bedford and north 10th (it might be 11th) instead. the earwax people are aholes, their selection stinks and their prices are outrageous. only after sound fix opened did they go down to regular pricing. my sister wanted some radiohead lp, and i saw it there, and they wanted 40 bucks for it and told me it was super rare etc…. i ended up getting the exact thing at tower for 9.99. liars.
Crystal, I can see what you’re saying — not that I’ve ever done price comparisons. To be fair, I normally go to Sound Fix because it’s closer to my house — but on this past Sunday at noon, they didn’t seem even close to opening. But yeah, I’ve gone there and it has a friendlier vibe, to be sure.