I don't go to record stores to look at my albums, but it's always a thrill to see them.
It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.
I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches my attention.
I've been able to find just as much interesting, exciting music through the Internet and iTunes... The personal interaction is not the same, and I'm not walking out of a store with a physical thing, so there's definitely an element that is lost, for sure.
Denver and Boulder are good record-buying cities. I don't know why.
I've always considered music stores to be the graveyards of musicians.
I came up at a time in the late '60s, early '70s where music was without boundaries. You'd go into a music store, and the music was in alphabetical order. I hadn't heard of that word 'genre.'
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.
Buy real records in real shops, or I'll come round your house and scream at your mother.
Someone asked me the other day what my favourite record shop was, and I said YouTube.
My only expenses are probably guitar strings and records.
People who buy my records don't go into music stores - music stores which are fading before our very eyes.
It's like so great to be in Toronto and to see everything that's in the books and everything they reference and to be able to hang out in those places and go to those bookstores and those comic book stores and those music stores, and like have that, from the books onto the screen, is so cool and I'm glad to have been part of that.
