[gmku]

Originally Posted by porkmarras

They have a really stroppy internet mail order system that laughs at you the minute you set your eyes on their website.

I don't get your meaning, man...

[Everyneurotic]

the only horror stories i get from label mail ordering is from neurot records.

don't know about sub pop though, can't be that bad.

[porkmarras]

Originally Posted by gmku

I don't get your meaning, man...

Nevermind

Internet mail order system/stroppy record store clerk.Joke.Duh!

[gmku]

Sorry, I'm kind of dense sometimes. I get it now. I think the funny Brit word threw me. Stroppy.

[acousticrock87]

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strop·py
Chiefly British strop·pi·er, strop·pi·est
Easily offended or annoyed; ill-tempered or belligerent.
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Oh, I get it.

[gmku]

I wish they'd speak proper English over there.

[acousticrock87]

Yeah, the blokes. (Sorry if that's offensive. I really don't know.)

[gmku]

Only if you said bloody blokes.

[jheii]

I usually don't care about poor service. No one's perfect, and no one aside from the owner really cares about the customers anyway. Especially at a record store, where the people behind the counter have their jobs solely because they want to be cooler than their friends. As long as I walk out of a place with what I want, I'll be happy.

[gmku]

Yeah, I don't shop there to make friends. In fact, it's easier if you don't feel like you're friends with the clerks and owner. I don't mind "lack" of service, becuz I prefer to be an anonymous customer contentedly thumbing through the racks. I just mind "rude" service.

[acousticrock87]

That's how I feel. I actually prefer stores with 'mean' clerks. I don't like them going up to me every 5 minutes, making sure everything is alright. Or the ones who start discussions about some band I've never listened to that must, by law, be connected to a CD I bought. Perhaps I'm just anti-social when it comes to people I have no interest in getting to know.

[m^a(t)h]

Originally Posted by gmku

They were like busy as hell getting some online order ready to send out, and there was some cussing going on as they were having a hard time finding some of the albums their customer ordered.

theres your answer

[gmku]

See, the other store I go to, and the only other record store in town, is the opposite way. Too friendly. Always telling me I NEED to hear this or that. It's usually same sugary daft indie-pop crap, or else something totally out of left field like French cabaret. I feel like I can't just "hang." At least at the smug store, I can hang.

[Toilet & Bowels]

i used to work in a record shop and i was always friendly and helpful to the customers

[SuchFriendsAreDangerous]

Originally Posted by gmku

So I go into my favorite record store today and barely get a nod of recognition. I browse around a while, say good bye to the owner who's working at the register, and I get a curt 'yep.' Like WTF! I'm wondering what I did wrong? This, after I've dropped probably like 100 bucks in the place over the past 3-4 weeks.

They were like busy as hell getting some online order ready to send out, and there was some cussing going on as they were having a hard time finding some of the albums their customer ordered. But still, a customer's a customer, after all, especially an easy mark like me...

I don't get it. Does this happen to you, too? Cantankerous, you work in a record store. What's up w/ these guys? Am I just too uncool?

what you need to do is get over yourself. these people are at work, and if you take sometimes "bad" service all personally, you are only asking, if not begging for even WORSE service. be cool, like 40-fonzerelli.

[m^a(t)h]

Originally Posted by gmku

See, the other store I go to, and the only other record store in town, is the opposite way. Too friendly. Always telling me I NEED to hear this or that. It's usually same sugary daft indie-pop crap, or else something totally out of left field like French cabaret. I feel like I can't just "hang." At least at the smug store, I can hang.

french cabaret is the shit

[gmku]

Yeah, I know. I was over it the minute I walked out the door. I just wanted to check in with my SY crew on the deal, ya know?

[gmku]

Originally Posted by m^a(t)h

french cabaret is the shit

thaz what they keep telling me. I still don't buy it, though.

[Daddylikes]

Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous

what you need to do is get over yourself. these people are at work, and if you take sometimes "bad" service all personally, you are only asking, if not begging for even WORSE service. be cool, like 40-fonzerelli.

What you need to do is get over yourself. He is a man on a message board in the world, and if he doesn't like bad service, than he doesn't desire or request worse service. Be cool, like 40-fonzerelli.

[alyasa]

What everyone needs to realise is that working at a record store does not necessarily make you cooler than anyone. It just lets you think you are.