{"id":6422,"date":"2015-04-18T11:07:38","date_gmt":"2015-04-18T18:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=6422"},"modified":"2015-04-20T14:13:56","modified_gmt":"2015-04-20T21:13:56","slug":"go-go-ameoba-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2015\/04\/18\/go-go-ameoba-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Go Go, Amoeba, Go!"},"content":{"rendered":"

from CNN<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Still spinnin’: America’s classic record stores<\/h1>\n

By\u00a0Brandon Griggs<\/a><\/p>\n

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(CNN)<\/strong>Like phone booths and typewriters, record stores are a vanishing breed — another victim of the digital age.<\/p>\n

Camelot Music. Virgin Megastores. Wherehouse Music. Tower Records. All of them gone.<\/p>\n

Corporate America has largely abandoned brick-and-mortar music retailing to a scattering of independent stores, many of them in scruffy urban neighborhoods. And that’s not necessarily a bad thing.<\/p>\n

Yes, it’s harder in the Spotify era to find a place to go buy physical music. But many of the remaining record stores are succeeding — even thriving — by catering to a passionate core of customers and collectors.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, hundreds of music retailers will hold events to commemorate\u00a0Record Store Day<\/a>, an annual celebration of, well, your neighborhood record store. Many stores\u00a0will host live performances<\/a>, drawings, book signings, special sales of rare or autographed vinyl and other happenings. Some will even serve beer.<\/p>\n

[ click to continue reading at CNN<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from CNN Still spinnin’: America’s classic record stores By\u00a0Brandon Griggs (CNN)Like phone booths and typewriters, record stores are a vanishing breed — another victim of the digital age. Camelot Music. Virgin Megastores. Wherehouse Music. Tower Records. All of them gone. Corporate America has largely abandoned brick-and-mortar music retailing to a scattering of independent stores, many […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}