[kj] KJ spotting circa 1981

[Nick Scott]

That is an awesome picture, thanks for sharing and the write up on the store.

On 23 January 2012 18:30, sade1 <saulomar1 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> So while you were at the Sdgn. show Kim Dotcom was being pried from his

> safe-room by the U.S. International Police Force - Zealand Station... crazy

> night, clearly.

>

>  RE: kids grown up in 2000s..

>

>      They're fuckin' buying Vinyl now! The same morons who flocked to cds

> like groupies to Eddie Money earlier on and caused the demise of Arons

> Records, Vinyl Fetish, Beats Non-Stop, The Wherehouse (they're 'used'

> selection on Sunset/LaBrea was bawmmmb!), Tower, etc.etera, et al, ad

> nauseam - and every other little great! music shop where the owners and

> workers could actually recommend records to you! My friends had their

> dealers; I had record stores.... I lost. 8'(

>

> I'll bet anything that Hipsters are have zero brain-awareness of the Irony

> they're involved in.

>

> ________________________________

> From: Brendan Quinn <bq at soundgardener.co.nz>

> To: 'A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)'

> <gathering at misera.net>

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>

> Wonder if in the future kids who grew up in the 2000s will be nostalgic

> about how the splash page of the iTunes store used to be...or when you had

> to use your fingers to order stuff from a screen, instead of your brain

> implants..."hey man remember KEYBOARDS?!"

>

> ("affirmative but illogical - beep beep")

>

> On a positive note, I was surprised that at Soundgarden I was surrounded by

> kids who obviously were familiar with their songs and knew how to use their

> legs and lungs...the kids are...okay. Ish.

>

> -----Original Message-----

> From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] On

> Behalf Of Alexander Smith

> Sent: Monday, 23 January 2012 8:12 a.m.

> To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)

> Subject: [kj] KJ spotting circa 1981

>

>

> Hey all...

>

> Some of my fellow record-shop geeks might appreciate this. A few days ago, I

> posted an entry on my blog about an old favorite shop of mine down in SoHo

> here in NYC called Rocks in Your Head. It was this tiny, little basement

> enclave in a desolate part of town that just felt like a veritable SHRINE to

> everything that was cool. I can't tell you the amount of amazing records I

> procured from this spot. It was also the first place I ever laid my hands on

> a Killing Joke t-shirt (white with the cover of the ALMOST RED sleeve on

> it). When I first started going there, they even had a little ice cream shop

> in the back, so you could thumb through their vinyl, fine a few rare

> treasures and then treat yourself to a milkshake. It was awesome.

>

> Over the years, Rocks in Your Head had to diversify to stay afloat.

> They got rid of the ice cream shop in the back and started selling/ renting

> DVDs. They still stocked vinyl, but also featured an impressive CD

> collection. As the neighborhood started to gentrify, Rocks had a hard time

> keeping up with its spiraling rent. Sadly, they were forced to close up shop

> in 2006. They moved to Brooklyn for a very short while and then went out of

> business. Very sad.

>

> In any case, I wrote a little thing about it the other day, and then apropos

> of nothing, did another little Google image search for it last night. Up

> came some pictures of the place I'd never seen before. Turns out they came

> from this MASSIVE archive of downtown NYC pics culled together by New York

> University.

>

> In any case, here's a shot of the interior of ROCKS IN YOUR HEAD circa 1981.

> Gatherers might recognize something here.....

>

> http://dlib.nyu.edu/washingtonsquare/2333.1/vq83bkjn/index.html

>

> If you're curious, you can find out more about the archive in question

> here....

>

> http://vassifer.blogs.com/alexinnyc/2012/01/vanishing-downtown-photographic-

> paydirt.html

>

> Alex in NYC

>

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