“If I sold what I liked, I’d be out of business.”
Oct 14th, 2005 | By Joe Taylor Jr. | Category: Selling CDs
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A great profile of what it takes to keep an independent record store running these days. When you’re looking at the stores in your own town, are you noticing that what’s selling isn’t exactly what “the scene” is doing? Sales of customer favorites can subsidize the rest of the shop in an 80/20 relationship, as some of these stores have done.
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