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[vicarz]

I love you man, good luck, but no way.
Many people are excited about an alternative music store opening up. Good luck on that. If the world was filled with old fuckers like me it might work, but as it is everyone gets their music online. The place is starting to fill a void that no longer exists.

Change in the weather. I'm hoping we have that big, black, thunerstorm. Torrents of rain pelting the earth. I want to see rolling darkness, lightning across the sky. I want to see mahem, cats and dogs - living together, goats roaming the streets.

Did You Know…?
1864 Rebecca Lee Crumpler becomes the first black woman to receive an M.D. degree. She graduated from the New England Female Medical College.
1866 Lucy Hobbs becomes the first woman to graduate from dental school, the Ohio College of Dental Surgery.
1869 Arabella Mansfield is granted admission to practice law in Iowa, making her the first woman lawyer. A year later, Ada H. Kepley, of Illinois, graduates from the Union College of Law in Chicago. She is the first woman lawyer to graduate from a law school.
1885 Sarah E. Goode becomes the first African-American woman to receive a patent, for a bed that folded up into a cabinet. Goode, who owned a furniture store in Chicago, intended the bed to be used in apartments.Hint - it wasn't
1887 Susanna Medora Salter becomes the first woman elected mayor of an American town, in Argonia, Kansas.
On October 24, 1901, Annie Edison Taylor, a schoolteacher from Michigan, becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
1934 Lettie Pate Whitehead becomes the first American woman to serve as a director of a major corporation, The Coca-Cola Company.

See, the problem is if you don't give a shit to start with, hearing about the first x to do y - when y is something that has already been done by the ruling majority, is useless. To make it even more useless, they often assume that it was "just an affirmative action hire anyway, another unqualified min/fem..." The only first there was the niagra falls one - the rest had been accomplished by others so many times the achievement was useless.

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[anarcha.livejournal.com]

"hearing about the first x to do y - when y is something that has already been done by the ruling majority, is useless"

Couldn't agree more. It's condescending to focus on these achievements, and by recognizing them in this way, you perpetuate stereotypes.

[strumpetsrus.livejournal.com]

Many people are excited about an alternative music store opening up. Good luck on that. If the world was filled with old fuckers like me it might work, but as it is everyone gets their music online. The place is starting to fill a void that no longer exists

Yep, you hit the nail on the head. They either download or go to the chain stores that can offer these huge deal. THe only way my ex stays in business is because he carries the uncensored versions of CD's, other CD's that you will never find in one of those stores, Vinyl, Tapes, 8-tracks, 45's.

IT may last for a little while everyone marvels over it but if it lasts 6 months, I will be impressed. My ex's stors has been around for 21 years, and it's a struggle for him.

[shadow27.livejournal.com]

They either download or go to the chain stores that can offer these huge deal.

The thing is no local stores - chain or otherwise - offer what he is offering; CD Cellar & Crooked Beat come closest. The only one that did was Tower out in BuFu Fairfax (West Ox) and he was the guy who did all the ordering! Heck iTunes doesn't even carry half the stuff I look for.

I understand the trial and travails of running a niche record store (I managed one for three years) and know that on a good day it will be a stretch. But I'm hoping it works out. And who knows since there are more DJs in the DC area per capita than any other town I've ever lived in, he might just make it. ;)

[djkangal.livejournal.com]

If Ryan were opening a store in Your Nation's Capital, I might agree with you. But I think a store like Strangeland in the suburbs can work, simply because people are righteously sick of having no alternative but the Mall or Tower Records for bird in hand. This isn't to say it will be a massive cash cow, simply that it will work. After all, CD Cellar seems to be going great, and there's a few store like it around NoVA that have been around for a while. Just because the demand for discs has decreased doesn't mean it's disappeared entirely. And online vendors like iTunes have a LOOOONG way to go, licensing wise, before they can eclipse the "rare and hard to find" niche of the marketplace that Ryan hopes to fill.

[vicar.livejournal.com]

Not sure how big that market is. Brass ones for trying to make it. Yeah, DC is a town where everyone is a DJ. I think it's like restaurants that only serve foodservers!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_blackjack_/]

I don't think it's useless to point out that x was the first p to do y at a time when p were not generally permitted to do y. The point is to make people aware of the attempts to ENFORCE inequality, and to make it clear that the inequality was artificial.