Did you know that a retail store can change your life?
It's hard to express in a way that would make people understand how a retail store can mean so much to me (and to so many others).
I'm struggling to put into words what music meant to me then (and now). It has been a lifelong love affair - thanks, in large part, to having the greatest record store "uptown", just a short bus ride or bike ride or long walk from home. The love affair started with the purchase of so many 45s, eventually progressing to albums. The first one I bought there, on my own with my own allowance money, age 13, was The Runaways because - oh my God! - Cherry Bomb. Can't stay at home, can't stay in school.
I remember that my mother surprised me with the Frampton Comes Alive album around that same time that she purchased at Vogel's. A double album! I'd died and gone to heaven. Do you feel like I do?
I particularly recall many trips to Vogel's with my friend Cathy, who had this really cool liquid blue eyeshadow that was all shimmery and you painted it on your lids with a brush. I was mad jealous of that eyeshadow but she shared it generously and we painted our eyes and set off to Vogel's to buy KISS albums because we were oh so cool like that.
You pushed open the door of that store, stepped inside, and your little world expanded on a soul level which sounds dramatic but isn't if you, too, have had a lifetime love affair with music.
What a great thing to have grown up in the era of great music...readily available at great record stores like Vogel's.
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