Ta-Nehisi Coates visits his local music archive, who are having a sale of their overstock…
Of C’s and D’s – Ta-Nehisi Coates:
The first thing I learned is that even stupid music really does sound much better if you play it on a record. It sounds—I don’t know quite how else to put this—like actual music. At least it sounds that way to me. The way a supermarket in a run-down neighborhood, where the retail strategy hasn’t substantially changed since 1976, will always look to me like an actual supermarket. (As if someday the Whole Foods veil of illusion will fall away and I will find myself wheeled backward, by an affectionate giantess, down the aisle of a Giant Food … )
(Via The Atlantic.)
