\u201cI went down to the sa\u00adcred store, where I\u2019d heard the mu\u00adsic years be\u00adfore\u2026.\u201d as one of the lines reads in Don McLean\u2019s \u201cAmer\u00adi\u00adcan Pie.\u201d<\/p>\n
To many young peo\u00adple, the \u201csa\u00adcred store\u201d has to be ex\u00adplained, but to most peo\u00adple who grew up in the 20th cen\u00adtury, it was a com\u00admon place, the neigh\u00adbor\u00adhood record store, where peo\u00adple went to hear mu\u00adsic, buy mu\u00adsic and talk about mu\u00adsic. <\/p>\n
It was part store and part com\u00admu\u00adnity, where the clerks played the mu\u00adsic that their cus\u00adtom\u00aders liked and where you could trans\u00adlate the ex\u00adpe\u00adri\u00adence of what was heard on the ra\u00addio into what you could bring home and play for your fam\u00adily and friends. <\/p>\n
It was where you could find the lat\u00adest com\u00adpact disc, but was more the home of the record al\u00adbums and 45rpm sin\u00adgles, which ac\u00adtu\u00adally held two songs. And as 33 1\/\u200b3 was re\u00adport\u00adedly killed by the com\u00adpact disc and the com\u00adpact disc is be\u00ading run out of the mar\u00adket by dig\u00adi\u00adtally down\u00adloaded mu\u00adsic, the \u201cstacks of wax,\u201d the vi\u00adnyl records, never re\u00adally went away.<\/p>\n
But for Dale Noelt\u00ading of Cran\u00adberry, who was shop\u00adping re\u00adcently at the Pitts\u00adburgh Record Show in Brid\u00adgeville, \u201cvi\u00adnyl still lives and it has been re\u00adsus\u00adci\u00adtated by new art\u00adists. They have given it life be\u00adcause they want the best sound qual\u00adity pos\u00adsi\u00adble and only vi\u00adnyl can give you that. But it is not to say that tech\u00adnol\u00adogy, which we thought was one of the rea\u00adsons vi\u00adnyl be\u00adcame a back\u00adwa\u00adter, is a bad thing.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI went down to the sa\u00adcred store, where I\u2019d heard the mu\u00adsic years be\u00adfore\u2026.\u201d as one of the lines reads in Don McLean\u2019s \u201cAmer\u00adi\u00adcan Pie.\u201d
\nTo many young peo\u00adple, the \u201csa\u00adcred store\u201d has to be ex\u00adplained, but to most peo\u00adple who grew up in the 20th cen\u00adtury, it was a com\u00admon place, the neigh\u00adbor\u00adhood record store, where peo\u00adple went to hear mu\u00adsic, buy mu\u00adsic and talk about mu\u00adsic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":2153,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,15,187],"tags":[],"coauthors":[46],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/06\/SS_20151201lrINFocus121910-9.jpg?fit=2600%2C1789&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2152"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2156,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2152\/revisions\/2156"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2152"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}