“Record Store Tragedy” Archive

Car City Records

And yet another favorite record store is leaving us. Car City Records in St. Clair Shores has announced that it will be closing it’s doors for good at the end of  September. Now, if you’ve followed this blog for awhile, you’ve read a number of these kind of posts from me, and know that I [...]

Record Time

Record Time was one of the best, and oldest record store chains in Metro Detroit. Their Ferndale location has been closed for a few years now, due to declining sales and increasing rent and city taxes. Now the massive Roseville location is closing, and I paid it one last visit a couple weeks ago. When [...]

Farewell, Rock-A-Billy’s

Rock-A-Billy’s closed it’s doors this weekend, and I am really sad to see it go. This was one of the east side’s best used record and CD stores, and the owner, Bill, and his staff were some of the best guys around. I first started shopping there in 1997, and when I interned with the [...]