In Honour of Record Store Day

Another Record Store Day is upon us. I know, I know - it’s another retail holiday, just like Valentine’s Day or jesus’ birthday. But to me, a celebration of record shops is valid. I've spent large chunks of my life in record stores whenever I could afford to, and sometimes even when I couldn’t. When I was a younger man, every spare penny was spent on cassettes, then CDs, and then eventually back to vinyl. Music was so important to me that I had to be in the epicenter of it wherever I lived – and in small towns like Penticton, where I grew up, the epicenter of music is, without question, the local record store.