Amy Currul
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April 23, 2025
Love makes us do crazy things — run through airports, hold up boomboxes, and sometimes even willingly hang out on…
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Zachary Wolf
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April 7, 2025
Man you guys, you’ll never believe what happened to me when I went to Amoeba Records last week! I shouldn’t…
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The Hard Times Staff
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February 26, 2025
LAWRENCE, Kan. — Employees of independent record store Tables Turned announced their coveted “Sexiest Woman Alive” award went to Lisa…
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Jason Clemence
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February 1, 2025
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Local 46-year-old metalhead Rich Dresden nervously concocted a complex narrative to explain to the clerk at Urgent…
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"Damn the man! Save the Empire!" These were the rallying cries of every spirited "teen" working at the fictional store…
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James Knapp
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April 11, 2024
WALLA WALLA, Wash. — Independent record shop Columbia Flophouse somberly announced the business’s going-out-of-business sale nearly two full weeks before…
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Chris Bowen
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March 14, 2024
NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. — Dale Buttry, owner of cherished local record store Spinsy’s Records and Tapes, has come to the…
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Danielle Chelosky
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December 14, 2023
PORTLAND, Ore. — Local record collector Eliza Vernon reported being distraught and is demanding a refund after the owner of…
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Trevor Graham
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July 11, 2023
Ugh, what a bummer! While flipping through the used vinyl at my local record store with endless copies of The…
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Liam Stephenson
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June 27, 2023
PORTLAND, Ore. — Local record store Death and Waxes added “staff pick” signs at certain urinals in their restroom to…
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