record store...

i can't even begin to imagine what it must've been like to walk into a store like this at a time when music was only available as a live experience with living humans howling and banging away on drums, strings, and horns...

one day, the word phonograph is taped to the door of a shop and your relationship to music has changed forever. you can hear, and possibly purchase, a piece of music whenever you want. you can listen to a song over and over again; and suddenly, you don't have to remember - the activity of listening is changed, and the mystical presence of recorded sound becomes part of this world.