Ways of Hearing 5 – POWER

Radiotopia Presents: We're Doing the Wiz

Radiotopia

Society & Culture

4.3 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2017

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

When you go into a bookstore, or record store, or library, you enter another world that you have to learn to navigate. You adapt to it. But today’s digital corporations have created a musical universe that adapts, predictably, to you. Guests include: Jimmy Johnson, owner/founder of music distributor Forced Exposure; Paul Lamere, director of developer platform for Spotify; and Elaine Katzenberger, executive director of City Lights Books.

This is the fifth episode of Ways of Hearing, a six-part podcast hosted by musician Damon Krukowski (Galaxie 500, Damon & Naomi), exploring the nature of listening in our digital world.

Credits: Produced by Damon Krukowski, Max Larkin and Ian Coss. Written and hosted by Damon Krukowski. Sound design by Ian Coss. Executive Producer is Julie Shapiro. Showcase is a production of Radiotopia from PRX.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Radiotopia Presents from PRX's Radiotopia.
0:09.9	Hey.
0:10.6	Hello.
0:10.9	Hey, how are you?
0:11.8	Good to see you.
0:13.1	I still go to record stores, especially used ones.
0:19.4	It's not that I'm a vinyl snob. At least, I don't think I am.
0:23.6	Anyway, even if I am, these days you can find any particular record
0:27.6	you might be looking for much more easily online,
0:30.6	at Discogs, or eBay, or even Amazon.
0:33.6	But I go to record stores for what I don't know I'm looking for. I go to stumble on something
0:39.8	by chance. What's this record lighthouse? I don't think I've ever seen it at the point.
0:44.3	It's like a hornband, as I recall. And even if I don't find anything to buy, I always pick up some
0:51.1	knowledge from whoever else is there. Record collectors and record store clerks can have very out there interests and strong opinions.
1:01.0	Leaving me with Ivan the terrible out here.
1:04.0	They also have a lot, a lot of information.
1:07.0	If you've been sorting through records for years on end,
1:10.0	you not only know just
1:11.6	about every record I might ask about, you know the label it was on, the year it was released,
1:16.6	the likelihood of finding it, and probably a couple good anecdotes about the players on it as well.
1:21.6	Bob Dunn appears on a lot of his stuff that was just like...
1:25.6	I go to record stores because there's actually no other good way to find most of that information, online or off.
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