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Vent: the guy at the record shop in Portland refused to sell me a Nirvana CD because I was "part of the problem"
I was at Music Millennium on Burnside about 6 years ago and I picked up a used copy of Nevermind for $8. The clerk, guy named Dale, looked at it, looked at me, and said he couldn't sell it to me because buying it would keep the "corporate machine" alive. I just stood there holding my $8 while he rang up the guy behind me for a $60 Grateful Dead bootleg. The thing that stuck with me is how fast a canceled band turns into a rule for who gets to buy the thing they made. Where's the line between boycotting something and just gatekeeping the people who still want it?
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daniel1408d ago
That line about "canceled band turns into a rule" is exactly it. I ran into the same thing at a shop in Seattle when I tried to buy a used copy of In Utero, and the guy gave me a lecture while his own store was packed with $40 reissues. If the store doesn't want your money, buy the disc online or hit a different shop, because the clerk's guilt is not your problem to carry.
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