I have a story for you to print about an "indie rock"
record store in Williamsburg Brooklyn. Sound Fix
Records. Not sure if your familiar with them. Well,
the owner called me and told me he wanted to hire me
as a consultant to help grow his website where he
sells CD's. I have been a customer there for years so
I trusted him and gave him a 1 hour consultation and
gave him an entire marketing plan to help his
business. I told him my fees and the cost and he said
he definately wanted to move forward and the next step
was a contract. He then made me come in for a 2nd
free consultation to meet with his web designer, a
"super genius" apple guy. He then made me repeat
everything to his designer and told me to make the
contract to have to him by Monday. He would just tell
me the exact amount of his spending. Anyway, come
Monday and I give him a call. He tells me he has
"hired" someone else and he had the right to interview
me. First of all, I gave him 2 free hours of my time
(I have 8 years professional internet marketing
experience) and an entire marketing plan under the
pretense that he commited to hire me. This man is a
crook. I would really like the community to know that
so they don't support such a crooked man. Please
email me with any questions. I would much appreciate
it if you can print this on Brooklyn Vegan. Don't go
to Sound Fix Records in Williamsburg!!!!!

Dude, that sucks for you. What a jerk that guy is! I won't be getting any of these albums from sound fix records now. thanks for the heads up. good luck with everything

thats pretty bad

at least we have an option.
most of the country has to shop at walmarts...
be greatful.

thats pretty bad

At least Walmart won't steal money out of your pocket!!!! Be careful of the grey haired man at Sound Fix!!!!

Is that the guy with the grey hair? I think he tried to hit on me one time. Kinda creepy! I just wanted to go get the LCD Soundsystem record for my boyfriend (who's no longer my boyfriend anyway) so I asked him if he had it. He went off on this long winded rant about how revolutionary they were, how cool they look, blah, blah, blah. I think he kept talking so that he could keep looking down my shirt. I totally caught him peeking. He had this deranged, wolf-like stare which reminded me of a Duran Duran song that I can't think of now. hahaha

Long story made short, he skeeves me out.

Oh yea, TV on the Radio... not crazy about thier album. Cat power's is much better in my opinion

sorry dear,
walmart is the worst fucking company in our country.
they steal from millions of people daily, with their mark downs that make it impossible for any one to compete...they won't even sell certain artists who refuse to 'edit' the content of their music. honestly...freedom of speech much? plus, you know how many local record stores, good honest people who know their music, have gone under because of places like this?!!! plus they build on sacred lands in mexico...and on environmental reserves...seriously. i understand you are upset, but come on!

I voted for Cookie Mountain...did i win?

I think people are forgetting that The Life Pursuit was released in early 2006.

yellow house wuz robbed

the rapture and m. ward albums are garbage

Right, Walmart is a big corporate chain and that's why we love independent music stores. I had a bad experience at Sound Fix too...The guy with the grey hair (the creepy one) kept coming up to me and pushing me to buy all these CD's I've never heard of. I went home and they all were horrible. He was so in my face and pushy I felt like I was in a used car dealership. I never went back to Sound Fix Records again...I'd rather buy my Cd's on Insound. Much better...If I want to go to a store I'll just go to Other Music where they have good taste

I agree... Yellow House should be up there... YOU FREAKS WHAT DID YOU DO!?!?!? WE CAN NEVER TURN BACCCCCK!!!!!!!!

*deep sting hurt and cries*

Who else is seeing GB @ Bowery tonight?

Me.

Jason

Rapture... disco punk... pieces of people...best sex music ever! Me and my boyfriend went at it for hours (good thing the CD was on repeat!). There's just something about that bassline that got me hot and bothered. I came for 10 minutes, it was so hot! So that's why I thought it was the best album of the year. But then again, you'd have to be in bed with me to really understand it. Dont get any crazy ideas now, you have no idea where on Bedford I live, perves!

Sushi gurl

PS the guys at sound fix are really lame. Had a similar story there. One of the guys there pretty much followed me around the store hoping that I would have a question for him, so that he could talk to me. the way that I was being watched I felt like a black man in a korean grocery... but the last time I checked I'm a white girl from Ohio. leave me alone!! My boyfriend thought it was really hilarious how these old geeky guys were trying to hit on me. maybe it was the gray haired wolf man you guys were talking about too. wouldn't it be funny if it was him. all women need to get a restraining order from these dudes, even the young cute ones there.

PPS walmart is the best store ever. I have a choice in my shopping... walmart in Long Island, or Walmart Upstate? awesome

How could the Rapture album even be close to contention. I seriously thought about hurtling this cd out of the window of my car after hearing the first few songs (and more specifically, that song where the chorus sings about a Ford Mustang--is that going to end up in a commerical?) Horrible.

How could the Rapture album even be close to contention. I seriously thought about hurtling this cd out of the window of my car after hearing the first few songs (and more specifically, that song where the chorus sings about a Ford Mustang--is that going to end up in a commerical?) Horrible.

1. Soundfix has a poor selection. They're like an indie Sam Goody's.

2. Wal-mart is no worse than any other company out there. just more successful.

3. Sunset Rubdown's debut = album of the year as of now (and, yes, they were both good shows)

man. sushi gurl. she must be really annoying at a bar.

I learned a long time ago, never buy a cd from a grey haired hipster. it's worth it to pay a few extra bucks at Virgin Megastore, then to have to worry about some Grey Haired indie wanna be peeping your girlfriend when you're paying the bill. Boycott this store!

I hear he likes Black Licorice and touching children too. TRUE STORY.

I'm a little child. Touch me Grey Haired Indie rock CD salesman!!! Touch Me!!!! Weeeee!!!!

BAN SOUND FIX IN WILLIAMSBURG

The Greatest, while a really nice record, isn't even close to Chan's best record, nor one of the best albums of the year.

my vote was for M. Ward & Midlake, but TVoTR isn't far behind.

and yeah, srsly, The Rapture?

this new record is weaker than Echoes even, and even that album was pretty damn hit or miss. don't even think it was in my top 25 for '03

Do you think the Grey Wolfman hits on Catpower on the street outside the Irving Plaza dressing room? Yes or no? Please respond..

I love Sound Fix and will continue to buy cds from them, just as I buy cds from earwax and kim's and other music. I just can't bring myself to care about someone's business life that isn't mine or anyone I know. Good luck with the career though.

Oh, and Hope, sorry about the break up.

Man, at least Soundfix has nice free shows. I don't shop there very often, but I would go there before buying from Virgin anytime.

Anyway, I second what Solace said about the Rapture, I am seriously thinking of selling that piece of shit back, maybe I'll go to SoundFix!

I shop at Sound Fix all the time, and the owner has always been totally nice and helpful to me. The new music selection's far superior to anything else in the neighborhood, and they put on free instores in the coffee shop out back. What are you all shills for WalMart now?

annoying at a bar, probably...

annoying in bed, if you mind getting your c*ck ridden for hours and to come all over my face and breasts, just to have it happen all over again... then yes, I'm seriously annoying in bed too!

see ya around, jerk!

walmart rules!

1. Awesome Color

2. Oakley Hall (either one)

3. Oneida

whoa.....whoa.

whoa.....whoa.

seriously? the rapture?

get your heads out of your asses

The Crane Wife, once it is released, FTW.

Hope, it's Hungry Like the Wolf...sounds like you're the prey ;)

My guess is the grey haired man was probably a Duran Duran roadie back in the day and is now tormented by the high probability of a Justin Timberlake/Duran Duran collaboration.

Those Oakley Hall albums are really good. IMo Gypsum Strings is better than Second Guessing but both are great.

Man Man - 6 Demon Bag is also a great album.

I also really like the Wooden Wand "Second Attention" and the Howlin' Rain album.

So you are mad because you made a bad business decision by not signing a contract up front. Not saying the guy is right by any stretch of the imgination, but you should cover yourself first.

Well if you had any credibility you wouldn't want to buy CD's from someone who has no respect for the indie community. I think this string has displayed that. And don't think the free shows aren't manipulating you to get in the door to buy something. Go in there 2 times and don't buy something and see how nice they are you.

i'm voting for:
The Sleepy Jackson
Saturna
The Blakes

the instore concerts are a nice touch. but saying that they have the best selection in williamsburg is a bit misleading, if technically true.

Sound Fix raped my mother and killed my brother. He then convinced me to buy the new Akron/Family album.

haha he said you wouldn't shop at soundfix if you had any credability....credability as what? a consumer? a blog commenter?

and sushi gurl, how can you make a post talking about "coming all over your face and breasts" but censor the word "cock" ?? kinda backwards

the Shogun Kunitoki disc is hands down the best CD of 2006 so far. haven't gotten the awesome color full length yet, and i have no excuse for that other than being lazy - but I am thinkin' it's probably up there on the list, too.

i copied the first comment - the one about sound fix - and sent it to them through their website. i asked them if the author's account was true, because if it was it made me reluctant to shop there. i told them a reply would be appreciated.

then i copied the 14th and 30th comments - the ones from sushi gurl - and sent them to my girlfriend. i told her i was buying that rapture album on the way home.

ok so that second one was a lie. we prefer to do it with the music off and make our own.

Five bucks says that sushi girl is in fact the grey-haired creepy man in Sound Fix.

Two words:

Forward. Russia.

Not even close.

i've been shopping at soundfix for a while and i find them to be nothing but helpful and friendly. they've never pressured me to buy an album i haven't wanted. you can't honestly tell me that you prefer earwax down the road, do you? when it comes to asshole clerks and bad selection, that place takes the cake.

Character assassination is pretty lame. Do your business. Keep it to yourself. If you have 8 years experience, then you have a network of fellow professionals. Tell them this story and advise them not to work with the guy. Public calling out like this is inappropriate and borders on slander.

After all, you have named this guys business without revealing yours. Not really fair, even if your story is true.

i think all this album of the year talk is just silly considering that "sam's town" isnt even out yet.

ok ok im kidding. but seriously, how about that thermals record. anyone?

new thermals is pretty sweet, as is sam's town (unmastered copy leaked today, natch)

Yes, I think posting your biz problems on a blog comments page is pretty lame...just like that Rapture CD.

mmmmmmmmmm........the rapture.........mmmmmmmm.....i like good bizness..........

Hey scottmichael if you post your lame off-topic character assasination business story on BV one more time I'm gonna send Buju Banton after your gay ass!

rapture. awesome color. good to see people still like crap. sushi girl, you watched the chappelle show last night and it makes me sad that you stole his punchline.

the one about the slut who shops at walmart.

i'm on ur lists killin ur d00dz.

¡Forward, Russia! is the most underappreciated album this year. So freaking good.

rapture. awesome color. good to see people still like crap. sushi girl, you watched the chappelle show last night and it makes me sad that you stole his punchline.

the one about the annoying slut who shops at walmart.

cookie mountain? more like hydrox snorefest.

hey sushi gurl, ive got a copy of that album too, wanna come over?

i think i'm going to go to sound fix and ask for a copy of 'werewolves of london'

I voted for The Knife record, but sadly - it's didn't make the cut.

As for Sound Fix... that place does kind of suck, grey-haired conman/sexual predator aside. That record store on North 6th is better... although I can't remember it's name right now.

i voted for the knife too.

mmmmmmm....wolfman like the knife...

s, most of the country can also shop on the internet.

Though i didn't vote, my vote would of gone to the knife as well.

"scottmichael" go away.

scottmicheal-

Yeah, pretty weak dude. So with 8 years experience, you responded to a potential client who wanted some consulting help (which basically means "Tell me some ideas you have about my business") by meeting him for two hours and telling him your ideas? Without a contract? And then, as another posted noted, spewing venom on a public message board?

Booo!

life pursuit is my favorite album of the year so far, but i have been much more into the tvotr record then i thought i'd be. is there any way you can post all of the mentions, bv? i know its hard, but i actually think this is an interesting poll!! thanks.

p.s. that sucks about sound fix. i still miss that store since moving from williamsburg. hmm.

so, bv, how does it feel that your comments section is now a message board full of turds?

The Rapture should have gone to a major label! Then maybe.... i would have voted for them! Independent labels are so 2005!

Dude, 8 years of professional experience should have taught you a little better. It sounds like you got a boner about the opportunity and blew your load before anything was in writing. Your portfolio of work should have been enough to get some sort of written agreement before you gave his whole fucking business a makeover. You screwed the pooch on this one. The grey haired Soundfix guy is guilty only of preying on the naive. He was also seen near Jonbenet's house on the day she was murdered.

If the Strokes album was released by a band with Wolf in its name, it would be getting far more props. It just ain't cool to like the album, but the shit has some seriously great songs on it. I really do not get TV on the Radio. I'm trying, but they are headed into the same section of my record collection as Broken Social Scene.

The Rapture should have gone to a major label! Then maybe.... i would have voted for them! Independent labels are so 2005!

how bout the new decemberists album? i know it hasnt been released yet but its leaked for like a 2-4 months now and mtvu's leaking it.

it is a-m-a-z-i-n-g

Not all the dudes who work at Sound Fix are creepy, and not all the people who work there are dudes. I have had some negative experiences there, but definitely more positive. If you don't want to shop there, it's your call. But as for the first fellow who posted? It's hard for me to believe that in eight years of marketing experience, you've never had someone ask you to make and explain a proposal, respond positively to it, and then reject it. I have worked in the music industry for several years, and I have to tell you - your post is one of the worst instances of unprofessional behavior I have witnessed. Because you were misled by a potential client who changed his mind (even if he was a jerk about it, that's his prerogative if you didn't have a signed agreement), you are now calling for a boycott? Wow, that's incredibly petty, and your attempts at getting pity from BV readers who don't know that what happened to you isn't unusual is lame. It also shows terrible judgement - don't you think the owner of Sound Fix has connections to record labels who might want to hire you someday? Don't you think he'll realize it was you that posted this?

I went to Soundfix and they FRAMED ME FOR MURDER! My album of the year (so far) is J Dilla Donuts.

Okay we are getting way ahead of ourselves here. The Rapture is on the list because white boys need their funk or something.
I honestly can't allow myself to like them when the singer luke's voice is so much like robert smith.

The best song on Cat Power's record is 'Love & Communication' but the album as a whole can't compete here.

TVOTR is tryuly amazing. I saw them when they where starting out and it was embarrasingly bad but now, fucking 4.A.D.!

As far as the Sound Fix thing, who would solicit a place with that wack name? embarrasing.

do yourselves a favor and stick to Kim's and Other Music where people actually know about music and don't need teenmarketing gurus.

I haven't been in love with many albums this year. The two that I've enjoyed the most have been TVOTR and The Church's Uninvited Like The Clouds. The latter is an unexpected delight, the former an album I knew would be great. Oh, and Takagi Masakatsu's Journal For People. A really nice minimal electronic album. I've enjoyed that quite a bit.

this is Brooklyn Vegan, so it kinda goes without saying.. though the title of this post should read, 'best Indie-rock album of the year so far.' (or Indie-rock-scene-affiliated). Surely there are other genres of music out there we appreciate, though do not adore quite as much as the good ol' indie rock, that weren't voted on in this poll..

throwing in my 2 cents, however, I'm not saying its the best album of 06', but Belle and Sebastian's The Life Pursuit might be the most under-rated and under-appreciated.

thank you matt.
the strokes album indeed rocked.
as does the midlake album and the upcoming cold war kids release!
biggest disappointment- new mars volta.

the best album this year is one probably none of you have heard. the diableros. thediableros.tv
no lie.

I have to agree with casual observer one. If you have that much experience in the internet marketing industry, then you would know that meeting with potential clients a) may take 2 hours of your time and b) potential client may, in the end, decide to reject your proposal.

I have found no record store to be perfect. Sound Fix can be good and it can be bad. I go there to buy music, not for a social experience. Plus, I would much rather support a neighborhood business than corporate conglomerate.

I think the blog post shows your unprofessionalism, and, most likely, indicates why you were not hired.

What is the name of your eight year internet marketing business anyway?

You should have the courage to post it if you're going to slander locally owned businesses.

Oh yes, and best album of the year...

J Dilla, Donuts

mister-

I've heard of the Diableros, they're good.

T.V. on the Radio, it's a delightful album of distortion galore! And what about those lyrics? They're freaking amazing.

The new TV on the Radio needs a few listens to actually hear the brillance. I wasn't too into it the first couple of listens, now i can't stop humming province.

The new TV on the Radio needs a few listens to actually hear the brillance. I wasn't too into it the first couple of listens, now i can't stop humming province.

my vote for best album:
Two Hour Cock Ride by Sushigurl

runner up:
Sweater Meat by SoundFix Owner James Bradley

honorable mention:
Cosby Sweater by Barry Jive and the Uptown Five

--

p.s. soundfix owner's exploits also referenced here by former employee: http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2006/05/upcoming_free_n_1.html

Gaz, if every song on Cat Power's new one was as good as "Love and Communication", it would be the best of the year.

But the best album this year is that Daft Punk bootleg from Coachella.

Let's Get Out of this Country. Anyone?

What about Thrice Named Abortion? Record Number 1 was hands down the best indie rock record of the year.

none of you blog-fags have mentioned Tapes N Tapes, has the backlash begun?

Man Man made a great record

Thermals record kills

everyone forget GHOSTFACE KILLAH

and of course noone is cool enough to mention THOM YORKE

no, its because us real blog-fags know that the tapes n tapes record really came out last year.

blogfag. new slang. I like it. herald it: the era of the blogfagg begins.

glad i could help

Speaking of ejaculation, this survey is premature by about four months. Yes, I know the year is over in just three months, but we should get an additional month to digest the releases that come out at the end of the year.

P.S. Morrissey hates us all because no one mentioned his latest album.

lol @ people who still buy records

espers II

genius.

My favorites so far:

Let's get out of this country
Silent shout
Post-war
The warning
The life pursuit

It seems I haven't listened too many times TVOTR, as some of you say...

Espers II as Bryce mentioned...definitely underrated!

no, its because us real blog-fags know that the tapes n tapes record really came out last year.

-------------------------------------------------

Can we please take a moment to appreciate this statement.

Thank You

"none of you blog-fags have mentioned Tapes N Tapes, has the backlash begun?"

and the backlash is already over.

milburn well well well
and the upper room other peoples problem

fuckin modern times

fuckin estudande o pagode

and fuckin rather ripped.

- BAND OF HORSES
- Black Angels: Passover
- CP: The Greatest
- TOTR: Cookie Mtn.
- GBear: Yellow House

There's no backlash from Tapes N' Tapes because no one really cared about them in the first place. Every track on the album is ripped off another indie band, yet because they obviously realize this themselves, it makes it boring rather than offensive.

i think we are all foolishly forgetting destroyer's rubies.
quit snitchin.

i think we are all foolishly forgetting destroyer's rubies.
quit snitchin.

the new cat power sounds like adult contemporary

I vote yellow

HOUSE BEYOTCH

honestly it's world better than sunset crapdown

How the hell could anyone say the new Liars record is even close to being tops of 2006? It's mostly feedback drivel with a couple of 'songs' thrown in for good measure.

Mew's album is tops. Also, the new Brother Kite album is AMAZING!

is anyone else puzzled about why all (ok: nearly all) the critics who are jizzing over Cookie Mountain were really sniffy about (the far superior imo) Desperate Youth...?

and this isn't really a boo-hoo story to rival the Sound Fix debacle, but Cat Power and M. Ward are playing one show each on their next visits to my town (London) - ON THE SAME NIGHT! aaaggghhh!

Noone cares about your crap career anyway.

Black Angels - Passover
Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out of This Country
The Knife - Silent Shout

Man Man - Six Demon Bag might have to be my pick, although Love and Other Planets (Adem) continues to be a fine listen as well.

BTW... aren't Walmart and Target the same store... except you dorks with the horned rimmed glasses complain less at one location than the other? Who still goes to a record store anymore?

dirty scenesters.

I guess grizzly bear isn't going to be at the top of any critics lists this year. Oh well, it's at the top of mine.

Before that came out my album of the year was the futureheads news and tributes which has yet to get a single mention from anyone here thus far out of like 100+ comments. I guess everyone is all like "it's not as good as there last one" and "who cares about them anymore."

TVOTR is overrated... I feel like it's the front runner for P-fork's album of the year.

Also, does anyone remember danielson's ships? That would be at the top of my list too. fo shizzel.

I have a stomach ache so i went to the bathroom and pooped something greenish. It was disgusting. I'd rather listen to that than Tapes 'n Tapes, and I'm serious about the green poo... i need to get that checked out.
Is it just me or do a lot of the aforementioned albums drag on with self-indulgent monotonous songs? (It totally could be me.)
I'm a big fan of the Guillemots record.
Sushi girl - make sure your man wears a condom. Safe sex is the only sex.
I have to poo again.
Out.

I would second the MEW comment, great album.

The last time I sent to Sound Fix, sushi gurl came all over my face. S/he was really freaky!

Shit, how can I forget the Black Angels' Passover record????? Criminally overlooked.

TVOTR may be the media/hipster darlings right now, but I can spout off 5 records that are better.

And Tapes n' Tapes?? Garbage. Absolute garbage. I wonder what people are thinking when they hear that: "Oh, do I look cool listening to Tapes n' Tapes?"

No. No, you don't.

Girl Talk tied for fourth??

I thought all those folks who fell for the hype would have wised up by now.

Hmm how about we retitle this list:

"Top 20 #1 Albums Of The Year"

With 20 spots and only 20 number 1's surely we could all get along... even that guy who still likes Tapes'n'tapes.

Jason

P.S. After seeing Grizzly Bear last night I am freaking ecstatic at the prospect of more recordings from these guys.... they played a new song and I taped the whole gig.... :D MP3's to come.

i commented previously on my love of the belle and sebastian record; but have to comment again to once again to defend sound fix. i agree with the posts of how unprofessional it was to bitch about not getting a job. losing a pitch is way unsketchier than a lot of the shit that goes on in the professional world.

and just to throw my 2 cents in, i find sound fix far less pretentious than any other indie retailer in nyc. they're selection is usually great and the staff's almost always been friendly to me, especially compared to most indie store clerks. so yea, that's all!

Love these . . .
Figurines - Skeleton;
Danielson - Ships;
Islands - Return to the Sea

surprised no one has mentioned Shearwater's Palo Santo as one of the best. Slept on record

that Mew record was 2005

To the SoundFix guy: Join the club with the rest of us who aced the job interviews and were told we 'basically' have the job but they just needed to follow protocol and interview other candidates so you go out and celebrate and buy new work clothes only to not hear from them for a week so you call them and they tell you they gave the job to someone else. Boo hoo.

To comment on the posts in regard to the company name of the aforementioned person involved in the sound fix debacle. How do you know Sound fix wasn't their first personal client other than working for other companies for the 8 years? It's amazing how people in the indie scene with all this cred and integrity don't care about fellow music fans getting preyed on by an indie rock merchant. Gos to show indie rockers are no better than hippies or Goth kids...

YO LA TENGO
I AM NOT AFRAID OF YOU AND I WILL BEAT YOUR ASS

AND ROB POLLARD
...COMPOUND EYE

To the SoundFix guy: Join the club with the rest of us who aced the job interviews and were told we 'basically' have the job but they just needed to follow protocol and interview other candidates so you go out and celebrate and buy new work clothes only to not hear from them for a week so you call them and they tell you they gave the job to someone else. Boo hoo.

Right but did you put together an entire marketing plan for the interview or just throw a suit on? Also, when you went on the interview you went under the pretense it was an interview. You were not told up front you were to be hired as a consultant.

This would make a good case on the judge judy or something.

And even then though, you would still lose, as it was your fault you never made it clear that you expected to be paid a consultation fee, regardless of whether or not he was going to hire you. shit happens...deal with it.

Yeah Jason, Grizzly Bear was amazing last night, one of the top shows of the year for me. I wonder why they don't get more love from bloggers...I guess it's better this way tho....

Off topic anonymous character assasination is NOT cool. Too bad BV doesn't delete scottmichaels' multiple posts which he so rudely posted on many different threads, all having nothing to do with the subject at hand. What if everyone used BV to rant against whoever supposedly did them wrong?

sushi gurl. call me. please.

yes, let's now hear from scottmichael's ex-girl/boy friends on his finer points...and be sure to use his real name and tell us exactly where he works!

the defensive tone aside, when you get a call that you are to be hired to consult for a "friend"/customer, you extend a little trust that people are good. Everyone is right Scott Michael is wrong. Most people are not good. And every lesson learned turns us all closer to the dark side. Don't forget to have your friends sign contracts when you lend them your copy of the awsome Rapture CD.

I like bashing on employers like the next socialist, but I really don't see how the consultant got screwed. The consultant crafted the marketing plan as a promotional tool. The promotion did not work. I give away services sometimes to get more business. Sometimes it works, sometimes is does not. Unless there was a clear understanding that the employer would employ the consultant, which normally (but not always) requires discussion and agreement about fees and product deliverables, I see no moral and legal obligation by the employer to hire you. He was tasting the waters and decided not to swim. If you didn't create your marketing plan you would have never gotten in the door in the first place to make your pitch.

Just another point of view.

Legal Beagle

Hey! Lay off the grey-haired hipsters...I'm a grey-haired hipster but I don't run a record store...

I love the Camera Obscura record, though...and Band of Horses ...

record of the year might be Elvis Perkins--once it's out

soundfix is the worst. go to eat records and support casey and not the slimey mr. hat loving james dude. also. yellow house and drumz not dead.

hell yea, i love eat records for both their selection of vinyl, and for the employees. casey's the man, and their food's great... for cd shopping, i still dig on the sound fix. but really, i wish there were stores like this in the caroll gardens/boerum hill/park slope area.

Which record store has the hottest female employees?

fuck that greedy whiny bitch scottmichael, sound fix has the best selection in the city.

scottmichael loves grey haired wolfman. grey haired wolfman no live scott michaels deliverables.

scottmichael loves grey haired wolfman. grey haired wolfman no love scott michaels deliverables.

Scoot Michael work real hard. Scott Michael get no love. Grey haired wolfman intitiated relationship by saying he was hiring Scott Michael and loved everything he said and to draw up contract with cost and deliverables. Wolfman make Michael meet the pretentious "super genius" and Wolfman made Michael repeat everything he liked so Genius can steal his ideas. Hipsters don't understand Michael. Michael is sad that hipsters don't get it until hipsters daddys stop paying their Eat records store credit card bill

these comments are like a big game of Who Farted?, except this time, everyone farted

Scott Michael love wolfman farts

whoever smelt it dealt it

TVOTR , the album is great , love the lyrics/coposition - the whole nine . But it gets pretty boring after a few spins .

My vote goes to
Band of HOrses - Everything all the time ..

"first song " is the most brilliant track i've heard in a while ..

"Yeah Jason, Grizzly Bear was amazing last night, one of the top shows of the year for me. I wonder why they don't get more love from bloggers...I guess it's better this way tho...."

they get plenty of love from bloggers! You crazy. and yes that show was ace. the album even better.

all the attention they get is deserved

sushi are you on myspace?

the guy claiming Sound Fix screwed him:

http://jongreen.com/

Gee, scottmichael, anonymous character assassination is so very professional and charming. How could he not want to hire you?

I've been visiting Sound Fix ever since they opened, and haven't had a single negative experience there. I don't know who you're talking about when you bring up this "gray-haired wolfman" shit, but the proprietor who is probably in his thirities on has never been anything other than courteous and helpful. Don't make it sound like he's some old lech.

And if you're going to create lots of aliases to abuse a store owner, you might want to remember to use them every time. (See the 12th or so comment down the line, where he pops up as another unhappy customer from Sound Fix but uses the same name). You moron.

Gee, scottmichael, anonymous character assassination is so very professional and charming. How could he not want to hire you?

I've been visiting Sound Fix ever since they opened, and haven't had a single negative experience there. I don't know who you're talking about when you bring up this "gray-haired wolfman" shit, but the proprietor who is probably in his thirties has never been anything other than courteous and helpful to me. Don't make it sound like he's some old lech.

And if you're going to create lots of aliases to abuse a store owner, you might want to remember to use them every time. (See the 12th or so comment down the line, where he pops up as another unhappy customer from Sound Fix but uses the same name). You moron.