I Need That Record!

Decent documentary on the death of the record store, industry and music in general.

Feels like a college broadcasting project. How this guy got Noam Chomsky in this is the most interesting this about it. What could have been a fascinating portrait of the vinyl collecting scene quickly devolves into a bad term paper on the dangers of capitalism.

While I started off with the callus approach; that record store owners are delusional conservatives living in the past, refuting change and forward progression towards the shift of the industry and refusing to align themselves with it; by the end I did feel somewhat sympathetic and saddened for all small businesses that deal with such hardship. Hopefully I'll be eating my words if vinyl makes a comeback, but even if it does it won't stop the big boxes from inevitably shutting them out.

Pretty decent look at the collapse of hard copy music, the end of an era. Though I feel things have began to change since then. Think it was maybe portrayed alittle more drastically to gain sympathy. I feel records have made a comeback, it has regained much popularity. CD's can die for all I care, and will never comeback unless they somehow get hip 50 years from now.

(Viewed on 29/01/13): Serviceable documentary about the decline of the music industry and the death of the independent record store. It's not particularly balanced--it's clear from outset that the film makers are against major labels and the general corporatisation of music-- but it's undoubtedly well meaning, and it's interesting to see the effects of store closures on local communities from the 'inside', or the whole notion of community being discussed at all in relation to music.