All this talk about where to file stuff made me remember back a few years when I worked at Tower records before going to grad school. Many of those memories are lost in a cannabis fog ( everything you've imagined about working in a record store is true, and when in Rome...), but I do remember the pointless filing system. At this store, there were seperate sections for rock and alternative rock. this was supposedly based on the style of a particular band, but the second a band signed to a major label, all of their cd's would get moved to the rock section, even if their sound hadn't changed. then there were those customers who would only shop in the alternative section, because it was more 'cool'. I'm serious. forget about the music, the section you bought it from is more important! When the store finally ditched the alternative section (after listening to me and other emplotees bitch for over a year) we had customers complain immediately that they no longer knew what to buy! One day I was feeling misanthropic and a little hungover, and was hanging out in the Classical room to avoid customers. Some kid comes in off of the escalator, goes immediately into classical, looks around quickly, and asks me "Is there any alternative?" I answered "To what?" This kid just stared at me with a blank expression on his face for about 20 seconds. Fighting back laughter, I ponted him in the right direction. I file my huge cd collection at home alphabetically by artist/composer, regardless of genre. It's Bach next to the Beatles and Shonen Knife next to Shostakovitch. It's too hard to break it up into types of music, and besides, where would I file my John Zorn? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
