Just got a phonecall from vic. Standing in Kortrijk’s Musicmania, one of our favourite recordstores.
Tomorrow the shop closes.
First Musicmania Brussels was taken down, now Kortrijk goes out, makes me wonder what will happen in Ghent.
Of all Manias the Kortrijk shop was the beautifullest though, one big round open space, a whole lot of air, damn sweet records, Wax Poetics magazines, and Skallie of course, recordseller extraordinaire! I remember how I discovered the shop when I hadn’t grown any facial hair just yet, it was still a tiny shop near Kortrijk station, jam-packed with records I didn’t know about.
Yes, I’m touched, with this there’s almost no record shops left in the Western part of Flanders. The end of an era?
Hard times running a record store nowadays. And with that hard times for the disc-jocks, especially for the record-store-running types.
Damn, damn, damn.
This is bad people.
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