There are many record stores in Toulouse, yes records. I have been living here 1.5 years and have just started to notice this. I am a music junkie. I can’t believe I didn’t notice this before. Today I was walking around the center of Toulouse and stopped counting at 8 record stores. Stores that actually carry records in Toulouse.
I guess since I am not working much and don’t have a lot of money to spare, I haven’t gone into many of the stores. Therefore, I also avert my eyes when I pass their windows. Most of the record stores in Toulouse had a “High Fidelity” look to them. I’m not sure if at age 38, that is a good thing or a bad thing. But I have spent thousands of hours in record stores so I have a soft spot in my heart for them.
My next project on this blog is to go to all the record stores in Toulouse and write a short review. It will be nice to connect with people again over music. Very few, maybe only one, of my friends here really knows and understands that my musical taste really spans Slayer, Verdi, Johnny Cash, Gary Numan, Macy Gray, Jacques Brel, X, Janis Jopin, the Clash, etc. I don’t understand people who like such a limited variety of music, it’s not a judgement, but a true mystery.
Do you know of any good record stores in Toulouse? Where should I start?
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My musical taste is also eclectric. I will listen to anything except…..rap, which I do not consider music.
I even like rap, a lot of it in fact. I have been meeting a few people here in Toulouse who seem to only like a very few styles. It is so depressing to me. I was playing a DJ remix of the whole Ziggy Stardust album at a party. The younger people liked it because they liked the style but had no idea they were David Bowie songs or maybe even who he was. The older people didn’t like it because the DJ had committed a sacrilege, desecrating David Bowie. When will I learn to accept permanent outsider status?