Post #136281 by TikiGardener on Tue, Jan 18, 2005 10:19 PM

Well, the owner started the store with money he collected from an insurance claim from being hit while on his motorcycle. Sumthin like 100,000 dollars or so.

He had been working for years in various NYC record stores. So he had an apartment full of product. Not to mention at least one basement full of records.

He had plans on how he was going to do it. But word got out to the various dumpster divers and homeless guys who would always be finding records people were throwing out. Or they would work clearing apartments where people had either died, or were evicted and get to keep what they could carry away ( usually records or cds ).

There was a legendary line starting at Accidentals fron door, and wrapping around the corner, and well up 9th street.

In the course of a few months ( tops ) he had filled up 90% of his storefront. Somewhere theres a piano under all of that stuff! I'm serious! Oh, so within 6 months, he had blown through his settlement.

If he had done things properly, he would have had possibly the best record store in NYC.

So eevery time you walk past that place just think, thats what 100,000 dollars will buy you.