The Record Store Years
Hugh JonesA memoir of 25 years (1975-2000) spent working in the world of records & music in Seattle, with side trips into writings on Led Zeppelin and other adventures from my musical life.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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The Record Store Years 16) The Art of Buying
With the importance of buying used product to the business and the policy that everyone on the staff be a buyer, a lot of time was put into training. In those pre-internet days, there was no Discogs.com or central source of information wher...
The Record Store Years 15) The Tao of Cellophane Square
Cellophane Square was born in 1972 when many of the ideals and tenets of 1960s counterculture were still front of mind, especially on the west coast. Owners Jim and Steve were in their early 20s and veterans of Woodstock, which they attende...
The Record Store Years (Side Trip): The Glanz and The Monastery
In late 1975 I was still a lowly sales clerk at Cellophane Square, and the Sunday solo shift was mine for several months. The store was open from noon to 8 p.m. and business was usually slow enough that the owners deemed it unnecessary to p...
The Record Store Years 14) The Big Guns of Record Retail Come to Seattle
From the very first day I started at Cellophane Square I heard people talking in hushed, reverent tones about a record store in California called Tower Records. Employees and customers alike would relate tales of a vast, comprehensive parad...
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I am a writer, musician and carpenter living in Seattle, Washington. I spent 25 years (1975-2000) with a small chain of Seattle-area record stores known as Cellophane Square, and also published the Led Zeppelin fanzine "Proximity" during this time.
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