“Ya’ll got that Michael Jordan – Dangerous, Live in Buddharest?” At Dangerous Minds, record store employee Christopher Bickel shares selections from his notebook of customer comments, documented between 2002 and 2014. There are many, but here are a few of my favorites:
A guy comes in and wants to order a TV-only-offer CD. He brings in the 1-800 number from the commercial and asks if we can call it in for him.
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Two sorority girls come into the shop.
Sorority girl #1: “Do you guys have any Beatles DVD’s?… no… wait… I guess they didn’t have video cameras back then.”
*A sketchball character comes in trying to sell some obviously stolen 80’s goth records including a Bauhaus record. I try to call him out, pointing to the Bauhaus record:
Me: “So what does this one sound like?”
The guy looks at the cover of In The Flat Field, obviously for the first time ever, and sees the distorted nude photograph:
“OH! Bahadu?! He’s like the white PRINCE… ya see, he’s naked. It’s kind of mellow… it’s funky!”
HOW YOUR PRETENTIOUS LOCAL RECORD STORE ASSHOLE GOT THAT WAY (Thanks, Gil Kaufman!)