Mike D Quotes

I like to support local record stores.

I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches my attention.

I don't go to record stores to look at my albums, but it's always a thrill to see them.

I miss independent record stores very much.

When I was in my 20s, I started frequenting record stores, and there was one in particular called Tropicalia in Furs in New York City. It's closed now, but it was one of those magical places where you would walk in, and the owner would start playing you records and not let you leave. It was such an education.

Buy real records in real shops, or I'll come round your house and scream at your mother.

Don't get me wrong: there are aspects of buying music online that I love. Instantly being able to hear a song the moment it crosses your mind? Where's the downside? However, I do feel for those too young to remember the thrill of going record shopping.

Well, everybody faces the fact there really aren't many records stores around to just go and browse. Maybe browse online, yet that tactile feel of flipping through a stack of vinyl remains one of life's simple pleasures.

Japan is brilliant for vinyl. There's all this rare stuff that I've been looking two years for, and you walk into a store, and you find it straight away.

If I opened a record store, it wouldn't be all punk rock and esoterica.

I love that vinyl is actually growing in popularity, and that there are so many great record stores.

As an experience, as a listener, for me, I miss the record store. I miss going in and knowing the guy at the counter and being like, "Hey," knowing that he was going to hate the record I put on the counter, and still buying it. That takes some guts.

Music is an important part of our culture and record stores play a vital part in keeping the power of music alive

A lot of people don't know about music, but buy records. A lot of people that know about music can't afford to buy records.

I collect LPs, but only if they're pretty high quality. I don't go back and dig through the bins.

I'm buying records a lot, like, every week I'm just buying old reissues or old originals or new records that I have heard about.

You know you're a hopeless record nerd when your time travel fantasies always come around to how cool it would be to go back to 1973 and buy all the great funk and jazz and salsa records that came out that year on tiny obscure labels and are now really rare and expensive.

I'm a big fan of certain new acts. I love any genre of music, and I think it's really great to see that there are new artists coming through. It's kinda funny to think that I'm like the old man on campus now. But I'm really happy for groups like One Direction. I think they're really good guys.

In cities like New York and Austin, there's much more of a social context for music than in other places.

I remember times when the whole music scene was just flourishing.

I was never good at scratching, but I was good at collecting old records. Florida was a great place for that, because it's where people go to die.

I like to buy records for people, make a present of the music.

Mick Jagger's fans bought records with their allowances. Sinatra's people bought them out of wages.

Zeppelin vinyl is quite revered in audiophile circles.

I live in a country where music has very little success, though, exclusive of those who have forsaken us, we have still admirable professors and, more particularly, composers of great solidity, knowledge, and taste.