Musical Musings
Local Shops Gear Up for Record Store Day
The fourth annual Record Store Day on April 16 is just around the corner
In a little less than two weeks, record store owners around the Metro area will throw open their doors a few hours early and welcome hordes of music lovers with beer, live performances and lots of records. Criminal Records, Wax 'n' Facts, Decatur CD and Wuxtry Records are all participating in the fourth annual Record Store Day on April 16. The national holiday — well, it should be a national holiday — shines a light on the decreasing number of independent music sellers in a world where the Barnes & Noble, the slowly decomposing Borders, and other assorted big-box stores and online retailers dole out most of the music. (According to the 2010 documentary I Need that Record!, 3,000 independent record stores across the U.S. have closed in the…
