RTP-area local music and culture

[Dave Tilley <dave AT hoedown.org>]

Online music stores like iTunes are missing an incredible opportunity... While
hunting for "tracks" to download, you can bother a real, live, ungroomed
record-store employee via video-chat. That way you can get great advice about
the kewl new band you didn't know about, or the clerk can laugh at your taste
in music when they inspect your shopping cart or look at your purchase
history... Of course, this will soon be passe and online record store clerks
will be laid off in favor of "virtual record store clerks" made possible by AI
software...

-dave



Quoting grady <grady AT ibiblio.org>:

> But I think it's interesting that S'kids has had this rep for
> standoffishness going all the way back to '91  or probably even well
> earlier (I played "Nasty Little Chick" on the radio the other day, in
> tribute). Because when I start listing off Schoolkids employees in my
> head, I think of people like John Williams, Jay Murrie, Sarah Corbitt,
> Heather McEntire, Maria Albani . . .
>
> Yes, some of them are assholes, but they're *engaging* assholes.
>