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  Broken Records: The Final Days of Bleecker Bob's Golden Oldies

  April 24, 2013 – The aromas of must and dust were what stuck with you when you exited Bleecker Bob's Golden Oldies Record Shop, the dumpy yet iconic LP store in New York City's mercurial post-boho Greenwich Village. The scents wafted out the door, where they lingered in that no-man's-land between Ben's Pizza and Village Psychic. …
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  Bleecker Bob's in Photos: The History of New York's Most Notorious Record Store

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  Labels Have Helped Prop Up HMV to the Tune of $65 Million

  December 27, 2012 – Final sales numbers for 2012 won't be in until next month, but at least one music retailer has been having a tough go of it recently. British music and DVD chain HMV, which earlier in December warned of "material uncertainty" about its future, has turned to its suppliers for financial support, reports the Daily Telegraph, which didn't cite its sources. …
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  Watch a Documentary About Troubled New York Record Store Bleecker Bob's

  July 20, 2012 – Bleecker Bob's, a record store founded in New York City's Greenwich Village in the '60s, will finally be shutting its doors before too long, another casualty of rising rent and declining physical music sales. Capital New York has posted a half-hour documentary about this local institution, produced by Hazel Sheffield and Emily Judem. …
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  Chicago Record Store Leaks Hilarious 'Do Not Never Ever Buy' List

  July 18, 2012 – If you are unfortunate to be as old as a SPIN editor, you not only know what a "record store" is, but you may have actually worked inside one! That's why this list of "DO NOT NEVER EVER BUY" CDs from Laurie’s Planet of Sound, a shop in Chicago, tickled us as pink as the font on a Jessica Simpson album that you shouldn't be buying. …
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