[kj] KJ spotting circa 1981

[sade1]

So while you were at the Sdgn. show Kim Dotcom was being pried from his safe-room by the U.S. International Police Force - Zealand Station... crazy night, clearly.
 
 RE: kids grown up in 2000s..  

     They're fuckin' buying Vinyl now! The same morons who flocked to cds like groupies to Eddie Money earlier on and caused the demise of Arons Records, Vinyl Fetish, Beats Non-Stop, The Wherehouse (they're 'used' selection on Sunset/LaBrea was bawmmmb!), Tower, etc.etera, et al, ad nauseam - and every other little great! music shop where the owners and workers could actually recommend records to you! My friends had their dealers; I had record stores.... I lost. 8'(

I'll bet anything that Hipsters are have zero brain-awareness of the Irony they're involved in.


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 From: Brendan Quinn <bq at soundgardener.co.nz>
To: 'A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)' <gathering at misera.net> 
Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2012 1:14 PM
Subject: Re: [kj] KJ spotting circa 1981
 
Wonder if in the future kids who grew up in the 2000s will be nostalgic
about how the splash page of the iTunes store used to be...or when you had
to use your fingers to order stuff from a screen, instead of your brain
implants..."hey man remember KEYBOARDS?!" 

("affirmative but illogical - beep beep")

On a positive note, I was surprised that at Soundgarden I was surrounded by
kids who obviously were familiar with their songs and knew how to use their
legs and lungs...the kids are...okay. Ish. 

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Sent: Monday, 23 January 2012 8:12 a.m.
To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)
Subject: [kj] KJ spotting circa 1981


Hey all...

Some of my fellow record-shop geeks might appreciate this. A few days ago, I
posted an entry on my blog about an old favorite shop of mine down in SoHo
here in NYC called Rocks in Your Head. It was this tiny, little basement
enclave in a desolate part of town that just felt like a veritable SHRINE to
everything that was cool. I can't tell you the amount of amazing records I
procured from this spot. It was also the first place I ever laid my hands on
a Killing Joke t-shirt (white with the cover of the ALMOST RED sleeve on
it). When I first started going there, they even had a little ice cream shop
in the back, so you could thumb through their vinyl, fine a few rare
treasures and then treat yourself to a milkshake. It was awesome.

Over the years, Rocks in Your Head had to diversify to stay afloat.  
They got rid of the ice cream shop in the back and started selling/ renting
DVDs. They still stocked vinyl, but also featured an impressive CD
collection. As the neighborhood started to gentrify, Rocks had a hard time
keeping up with its spiraling rent. Sadly, they were forced to close up shop
in 2006. They moved to Brooklyn for a very short while and then went out of
business. Very sad.

In any case, I wrote a little thing about it the other day, and then apropos
of nothing, did another little Google image search for it last night. Up
came some pictures of the place I'd never seen before. Turns out they came
from this MASSIVE archive of downtown NYC pics culled together by New York
University.

In any case, here's a shot of the interior of ROCKS IN YOUR HEAD circa 1981.
Gatherers might recognize something here.....

http://dlib.nyu.edu/washingtonsquare/2333.1/vq83bkjn/index.html

If you're curious, you can find out more about the archive in question
here....

http://vassifer.blogs.com/alexinnyc/2012/01/vanishing-downtown-photographic-
paydirt.html

Alex in NYC

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