I love that blank look you get from record clerks..

[frigidpony]

..when you ask if they have something and they've never heard of it before in their fucking lives, and the computer says it doesn't exist.

Here's me at Sonic Boom last night:

"Do you have the new Castle Bravo CD? It's on Obtuse Mule records, they used to be a local label. They kind of sound like Slint"

Guy: "Huh?"

If it's not faggy ass indie rock, Sonic Boom has never heard of it. They funny thing about their stock is, they will stock the more "indie" releases on a label like 31G but fucking forget about finding an Asterisk LP or some of the grind shit on that label. It's almost like they have blinders on..

but.. Bonnie Prince Billy CD on sale, so.

BTW, Sonic Boom is actually a decent seattle area record store..


Post some more stoopid record clerk stories if you dare...

 

[Baliset]

verbatim conversation:

Record Store Clerk: Can I help you find anything today?
Greg: Yeah do you have any cds in stock by Maudlin of the Well?
Record Store Clerk: GET THE HELL OUT OF MY STORE AND NEVER COME BACK!

 

[frigidpony]

Record clerk: "We used to stock MotW CDs, but too many ugly wiccans used to come in and asked for them. Now we have a policy against gay gothic metal."

 

[minxnim]

baliset, why did he say that!?!?

the last time i was at a record store i couldn't stop giggling because of the size of the package of the dude on the 'traffic' album. i was like 'teehee omg jez look at his THING!!! teehee'.

 

[GRIND.KILLED.EMO.]

dude greg, your so totally editing that conversation, did pumpkin put you up to this?

 

[xfer]

Disappreciation to the clerk who snorted audibly when I tried to pay for the latest Ween album. I bet it was him who chose the Everclear being played loudly throughout the store.

 

[The Dope]

I don't talk to record clerks or any employees in any store for that matter. I hate them asking me if they can help me as soon as I walk in the store.

You can shut the hell up and fucking get lost while I find what I want and then when I get to the cash register, you can say hello to me and I will politely say hello back and I will pay you and tell you to have a nice evening and I will leave and you won't say a goddamn thing about it!

 

[deadair]

...i just either buy it on-line or try and get it free...

record store people are either a) too snotty for their own good, or b) incompetent

 

[Baliset]

well maybe that wasn't an ACTUAL conversation but here's an impression. Its an impression of what happens every time someone asks me my band's name.

Random Person: Whats your band's name?
Greg: Maudlin of the Well
Random Person: What?

 

[xfer]

Toby used to say the band's name was "maudlin of the Well What maudlin of the Well Oh Cool" because of the usual conversational path...

"You're in a band? What's it called?"
"maudlin of the Well."
"What?"
"maudlin of the Well."
"Oh. Cool."

 

[minxnim]

i dated someone who worked in a record store here for like 2 years.

HIGHWAY SNOBBERY. blah. worse 2 years of my life.

 

[VangelicSurgeon]

Originally posted by xfer
Toby used to say the band's name was "maudlin of the Well What maudlin of the Well Oh Cool" because of the usual conversational path...

"You're in a band? What's it called?"
"maudlin of the Well."
"What?"
"maudlin of the Well."
"Oh. Cool."

it would not be false for me to say that this just made me laugh really hard and scare my coworkers.

 

[Baliset]

it would also not be false to say that anytime i told someone our band name and they have gotten it right I have felt like giving them a hug.

 

[frigidpony]

I was at the rehearsal studio and asked a guitarist from a local "progressive metal" outfit if he had heard of Maudlin of the Well..

"Yeah, I think so."

When I told him they had french horn parts that definately piqued his interest.