Re: (idm) music commentary

From Howard Shih
Sent Mon, Mar 22nd 1999, 14:55

On Sat, 20 Mar 1999, Irene McC wrote:

> This is completely true - due to store policy, they are generally 
> forced to play Top 40-sellers in rotation and anything vaguely 
> obscure doesn't get a look-in.  Sometimes I walk in early in the 
> morning when the store is still empty and there'll be something 
> interesting coming over the PA, but generally speaking it's the 
> soundtrack from the Titanic or some such dross.

While we're on the subject of music played on record store PA's...
I had the immense pleasure of browsing through the used bins at the
Princeton Record Exchange while someone at the cash register was 'beeping'
along to Autechre's Tri Repeatae. 

Howie