Anxiety said:

Snobs, god forbid u buy a cd from a commercial artist, they look at your Cd like and then they think their so cool because they play music no one has ever heard of.

Anxiety said:

Snobs, god forbid u buy a cd from a commercial artist, they look at your Cd like and then they think their so cool because they play music no one has ever heard of.

who remembers when Revolver got nailed

TheRealFiness said:

it got nailed? i thought it just went outta business. that sucks.

Generation Records & Revolver are my fav. underground stores in New York. but the last few times I've been up there, I just enjoy checkin out new artists and such in Virgin in Times Square.. I love lookin through all those cd's.

I just enjoy checkin out new artists and such in Virgin in Times Square.. I love lookin through all those cd's.

second coming was a thrill to

TheRealFiness said:

oooh, i liked second coming, too. i'd hit up the falafel joint next door when i was done spending all my money there on import CDs.

Sdldawn said:

ill...Commercial I hope you don't buy the over-priced Cd openers they sell near the checkout..... Who the hell can't open a CD with their hands.....
[Edited 6/10/05 16:35pm]

lilgish said:

Nah, I buy the rare stuff I find.. and the new artists im not aware of.. not the crap they try to make u buy on the way to the checkout.. Its very pricey in there..

Sdldawn said:

jus kidding

Anxiety said:

and that pain in the ass cat that used to roam around there lol

Kims doesn't have pirated material. What were they looking for Kim's is not even my favorite record store on st.marks, but that sounds like some bullshit.

Blecker Bob is way better than Kims. Lots of Prince boots, esp pre napster.

aight..let me be the bitch...


maybe kim shouldnt have been selling bootlegs if she didnt want to get raided..

and if she aint doing nothing wrong then she will open her snatch right back up and it will be the same as it ever was....

i have no compassion for illegally trading music or movies, PERIOD!!

nuff said!!

fuck yeah!!

sosgemini said:

"kim" is a dude, dude.

and say what you will about illegally doing whatever with music/movies, but i really don't think it's fair that the clerks were arrested and had to spend the night in jail. they don't decide what goes on the shelves. half the time, they don't even know what all is on the shelves. snobby as they might be, they really don't get paid enough to put up with this kind of crap. most of the people who work at mondo kims probably don't even know what a rap mixtape IS, unless it has cuts by belle & sebastian or the arcade fire on it.

Anxiety said:

fuck yeah!!!

im agreeing with you baby...

NYC Record Store Mondo Kim's Raided by RIAA

Rob Kleckner & Ryan Schreiber report:
The rumors are true: Mondo Kim's, one of New York's best and highest regarded independent music and video stores, was raided by New York police Wednesday at approximately 1:00 p.m. EST for allegedly selling unsanctioned hip-hop DJ mixes featuring bootlegged tracks by RIAA artists.

Employees of Mondo Kim's and fellow NYC record store Other Music, speaking to Pitchfork on conditions of anonymity, confirmed yesterday that five of Mondo Kim's employees were arrested and taken to Manhattan Central Booking, where they spent the night of June 8. When asked why these five employees were singled out for arrest, the Kim's source told us that an undercover agent was allegedly sold a bootleg, and the arrests followed. After the sale, police produced a search warrant, fingered the arrestees, shut down the store for roughly five hours, and confiscated, according to the RIAA, "500 CD-Rs, 27 Music DVDs, Nine DVD burners, and a scanner," among other items, which include the computer containing the store's database and recent sales records.

The five employees who were arrested-- all of whom were charged with trademark counterfeiting in the second degree-- are Charles Bettis, 29; store manager Theo Frimpong, 39; Diana Kinscherf, 19; Donald Stahl, 26; and music manager Craig Willingham, 32.

"What I'm told actually brought them down," said a source at Other Music, "was that there was a CD DJ mix that a guy from Sony saw in the store, and it had a bunch of big-time Sony hip-hop artists on it. So he alerted the feds, and they showed up and arrested a bunch of clerks-- not anyone who does any actual bootlegging."

The big question, of course, is what this means for the future of the mixtape industry-- in which most of today's major-label hip-hop artists freely participate-- and whether the RIAA will continue to attempt to wage war on it the way it is doing against file-sharing.

As for Mondo Kim's, Other Music dude didn't seem too concerned: "There've been a number of bootlegging busts at New York record stores over the past 10 years. A lot of places around here do live bootlegs and periodically the feds bust these places. It doesn't ever seem to affect the stores long-term, though; they get a fine and they're back in business. The manufacturers are the ones who really get in trouble, but the stores, you'd be amazed how quickly they bounce back, and how quickly they start selling bootlegs again."

Anxiety said:

I think Bleecker Bob's won that award in The Village Voice poll a few years later. Bob can be an ass sometimes. He yelled at me once for always walking in his store with bags from the competition and never really buying anything in his store. So to make him feel happy, I bought His Name Is Alive's 'Mouth By Mouth' CD. He said "You're buying that???" He must have had a slow goth-sales day.

sextonseven said:

Yeah, I go there many times too and that guy can be a real dick. He's like "what planet are you living on?" when I asked him for a copy of The Clash's last album.

Anyways, this sucks about Kim's. Are they still gonna be open now? I hope so. That's where I get most of my bootleg music DVD's and rare vinyl.

Fucking cops.

NWF said:

ya know, i never had a good experience at bleeker bob's. i've never been barked at or sneered at or whatever, but i've never found anything i wanted there, and what they did have always seemed dirty and grubby. i know some folks swear by that place, and i just don't get it. but i guess it's an institution as far as NYC indie wrecka stows go, so like whatevs.