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New and used CDs, cassettes, vinyl, and magazines.
In 10 or 15 years, maybe everyone except the elderly, the impoverished, and a few assorted Luddites will have all their recorded music on computers and tiny digital boxes. Then again, folks pronounced the album dead in the early '90s, and it's still going reasonably strong. You can still get vinyl editions of many hip-hop, dance, and indie-rock albums, the 12-inch single has never been improved on for DJ use, and it's not hard to find vintage jazz, rock, country, and blues on thick,... More »
The music industry nearly ended the tactile delights of audiophiles everywhere when it declared vinyl dead in the late 1980s. Most of us obliged the biz by tossing our vinyl and replacing it with more expensive, more realistic-sounding (or so they claimed) CDs. Today, vinyl accounts for a small fraction of all recordings sold, but the numbers are climbing steadily, thanks to stores like Let It Be. A quick thumbing through the "C"-section of used 45s tells a big part of why this store is... More »
According to local DJ/promoter/store employee Jack Trash, on any given day at Let It Be, you'll find "Joe Smith looking for Doors records, a clubber or raver looking for the newest Armand van Helden record, and an old vinyl junkie sleuthing for something obscure. We have the craziest mix of people looking for the craziest mix of music," he laughs. "Our strength is our staff. Both upstairs and downstairs we have influential people who have been part of various music scenes for years and... More »
It's 11:00 a.m. Do you know where your beloved musician is? Before resorting to the face-on-the-milk-carton approach, first swing by the music collector's mecca that is Minneapolis's Let It Be Records--he or she is probably digging through the bins. At the state's largest independently owned record store, one can expect to be assisted by staff who live and breathe their respective genres of interest, which include indie and import rock and pop, world, house, techno, drum 'n' bass,... More »
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