In 2009, the traditional practice of exchanging physical copies of records for money is a trade that might best be called quixotic. But New Yorkers are stubborn people, and the record store is not dead. Below, the top ten records that actually sold in the last week at a store near you.
Since opening the brick-walled Good Records four years ago, Jon Sklute has built a sizeable collection of used and hard-to-find LPs. Sklute, 32, moved to New York from Berkely, Calif. in 1995. He opened the store because, he says, “There’s nothing I love better than going through records and listening to music.” The store attracts plenty of village oddballs, as well as kids seeking to add to their hand-me-down classic rock collections. Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours goes out the door daily. “It’s kind of emblematic of a certain type of record that is selling a lot to younger kids,” he says. Prices run from one dollar to several hundred. Sklute’s favorite part of the job is buying entire collections and trying to trace their history. “It’s one thing if you’re going to buy from a shuttered store or distributor,” he says, “But when you buy a collection, all those records have meaning to someone.”
The Top 10 Records Sold at Good Records for the week ending October 9, 2009, with notes from Sklute:
Didn’t I
You Got Me
Energy Crisis
Satan’s Sadists
Rumours
Man Of The Ghetto
Soul Cookies
Na Teef Know De Road Of Teef
Confusion
Gone: The Promises Of Yesterday
Good Records is located at 218 E. 5th Street. New York, NY 10003. Its hours are Mondays through Saturdays 12pm-8pm, and Sundays 1pm-7pm.
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