Princeton Record Exchange lives

Barry Wiesfeld's Princeton Record Exchange is going strong despite the hard times in the "brick and mortar" record business. My theory: people love to browse and people love to hold it in their hands, then walk out with it. The New York Times (no less) parts the curtains of this musty sub-culture:

"'A lot of people who come here are obsessed,' said Mr. Weisfeld, a resolutely low-tech guy wearing an incongruous orange Yahoo! cap. 'I’ll give you an example. One year, we got a very bizarre collection, world music, international music, whatever you call it, very unusual stuff. We let our customers know, and we sold 500 of the 1,000 in three days. They’re not people looking for Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’ or something by Billy Joel.'"

Of course, Mr. Weisfeld does have a web site, the man's not crazy.

Read "Serious Dinosaur" Thriving in Download Age, in The New York Times