New York City Record Stores (Part One)

As our participation in consumer culture is rather contradictory, New York is a place where both small businesses and Home Depots thrive (even within the same block) . One day we line up for the iPhone, the next we attend a poetry reading sponsored by East Village hippies. We're both nostalgic and cold -- loyally unfaithful. The record store is no exception. New Yorkers download MP3s and rip each other's iTunes libraries while also occasionally dropping a hundred bucks at a record store on the way home from work. If, this week, you're in a nostalgic, rather than criminally greedy mood, here are six record stores that will welcome your business even if they suspect they'll never see you again.

[via gridskipper.com]

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