[when i know i lost my heart instead]

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Comments

[smonsterbite]

I'm with you on Panic. I'm so not a music snob - hello, Kylie Minogue's Fever is in my desert island top 5 - but Panic makes my teeth hurt. Jam bands blechh. Give me a hook and a chorus, PLEASE, and keep the song under 10 min.

It's all indie emo crap

Hey, I'll take indie emo crap over bullshit pothead noodling any day.

[minervacat]

My opinion is that if you think the Triangle scene is boring and unfriendly, you're just not trying hard enough. Meeting people in a music scene isn't just on their end, after all. I resisted the urge to lecture her about being rude and closed-minded, though. (She went to school in Cullowhee. And that scene is better than ours? *baffled*)

[ethrosdemon]

I clicked in here basically to say everything you just did. Why is the South so heavily populated with crap noodlers?

[spuffyduds]

WWWWAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!! Schoolkids!!!

For a while there they changed the name every year or so, while still seeming to belong to the same people--I have no idea if that was tax-related or what. At one point it was "Ruthless Records" and they had a sign in the window saying, "Where's Ruth?"

WAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!

[minervacat]

Weren't they Monster Records for a while? Or was that somewhere else on Franklin? I can't remember. Regardless: it was heartbreaking to see those signs today. End of a damn era, for sure.

[ainsley]

They were Monster Records.

End of an era is right.

[perfectbound]

aw, schoolkids, sadface. (ann arbor has a schoolkids! but it's in a basement and not half as big or as good as the chapel hill one was.) cd alley is still there, i hope?

[minervacat]

cd alley is still there, and the schoolkids in raleigh and in athens are both still there, too. the guy who either owns or manages cd alley was actually really a dick when schoolkids announced they were closing; the whole thing was sort of sad and weird and awful. and i'll miss the hell out of schoolkids, for sure.

[sarahq]

Those are the saddest (in the sad-making sense of the word) closed signs I've ever seen. And I've never even been to said store.

[minervacat]

it was really, really depressing to stand outside and take those pictures this morning. it was older than me! even when i didn't buy things, i loved it! even when they made fun of me for wanting pete wentz approved albums, i loved it! *sigh* it's the end of an era in chapel hill. it was one of the last bastions of (the retail section of) the main drag in chapel hill left intact by the suburban big box store sprawl.

[minervacat]

it breaks my fucking heart. when they finally move the cradle, i'm going to cry like a little girl.

[luluminion]

The Cradle? Shut. Up. ::cries::

[minervacat]

yeah, apparently they're tearing down that strip at some point and building condos. AWESOME, HUH? god damn it, chapel hill, you're gonna make me move to raleigh! i don't want to do it, but you're gonna make me!