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Buy Talking Heads, Sade, Vampire Weekend, Spoon, Beach House Albums From Amoeba Music, Help Haiti

Last week, Amoeba Music’s founder Marc Weinstein gave us insight into the state of music retail in an Industry Chat with Paste publisher Nick Purdy. “The cross-pollination of different cultures as seen in the bins of our stores is one of the most idealistic views of humanity many of us can get,” Weinstein said. This morning, Amoeba Music announced that it would be helping to foment the seeds of recovery in one of those other cultures — Haiti....  read more

Industry Chat: Marc Weinstein, Founder of Amoeba Music

We love record stores. Always have. And we hope we always will have actual, physical stores populated by living, breathing human beings to love/loiter in. That said, the brick and mortar store, like nearly everything else associated with the music industry, is struggling to adapt to a world dominated by pixels rather than atoms. There are signs of life, however, in the record store biz, and this being Paste, naturally, we like to point them out. We’ve been big fans of the first two Record Store Days, and like the energy they generate from both buyers and sellers of...  read more