South Cak Record Store - A
Every time L and I head up to Greenville, SC to see her family I always come up with a brilliant excuse to make it over to a pretty darn good record store called
Earshot. They have two locations - one downtown, which touts an option most other small indie record stores dont offer - creating a burned disc out of the library of songs they have in their database. Pricey at $15 for an 11 song cd, but a novel idea. We tried it last trip and I actually only found one song I wanted to burn (after looking for 30 mintues). Not a huge selection, but that is only the Downtown store.
The other location is excellent, and has an expansive collection of vinyl, dvd, cd, magazine, comic, etc. You can find pretty much any independent label there, and their hip hop section is as good as the one found at Earwax here in ATL. Last time I found a super rare Little Brother live ep.
So this past weekend I went for one purpose - to find the
Ladyhawk record. Had it. Bought it. Also was trying to find the new
Six Organs Of Admittance and
Be Your Own Pet records. They didn't have the Six Organs but did have the other. I didnt like it at all though. Another completely rad aspect of this store is that you can take any record in the store and scan it into one of their machines and more than likely hear 3-4 tracks off that album and read reviews of it.
So yeah not up on the BYOP, I understand why T Moore signed em, but too riot grrrl.
Best part though - whilst wondering the store, (they put the records they think are good atop the others facing out towards the buyer) what do my eyes stumble upon - none other than that flashy artwork of the Still Flyin record.
Overall a great store and worth a trip if you are ever in town.
(this will probably only apply to Jim)...
Ladyhawk by the way, are f'n incredible. You heard it hear first. More on them later...