do you miss comic book stores and record stores

[tony]

hi everyone
do you miss comic book stores and record stores or any stores that are no longer there or malls
i miss going to them and i was looking at my boxes of comic books thinking of how fun it was
buying them and keeping then in mint and all ways have 2 or 3 copys of number ones ,

and record stores and the posters on the walls and changing my rooms looks and had my records
i still have my records and my dj mixer , there was something about going on the weekends and hunting for records and hitting the dollar bin for the 80s hits and at times meeting new friends .......i miss that alot

and that one day trucks came and they where taking all the records away
and record stores started to close ...but first the comic stores
thank you for your time

[InverseKinematics]

I miss all of it. The social connection has been gradually worn away since these places closed.

[Eve Adams]

I feel like I'm probably too old to go browsing in a comic book store nowadays. I still read them, but I get them online now, which saves me a fortune on bags and boards, and it means I don't need a loft extension to store more boxes. I used to enjoy browsing through the back issues, but the stores in my area changed over time, and back issues disappeared, being replaced by Funko pop, action figures, board games, etc. Stuff I wasn't really interested in. Okay, I bought a Metropolis robot bobblehead, but that was it.
Comics became almost an afterthought, and I thought that was sad. Mind you, the standard in both art and storytelling has taken a bit of a nosedive over the years, so I'm reading fewer of them than I used to.

It's good to see record stores making a comeback, but again, probably too old to make that my Saturday morning pleasure trip. It's nice to think, though, that a modern generation will be able to find that rare album, and experience the joy of appreciating the artwork, and the liner notes whilst listening to it. I suspect that doesn't happen often with the way music is consumed these days.
That said, my turntable doesn't even have a plug on it anymore. I converted my vinyl to FLAC years ago. It took a while, but now, they all sit nicely on my Brennan B3. I still have all of my old albums, 45s, and CDs, but like my comics, they live in my loft now.

TLDR: I think I miss the idea of them, but not the ritual of going to them.

[Keab]

Hello; yes, I miss them, but in a quite particular way; when I was younger, I could afford very few comics. There were lots of issues I could never buy, and I had to settle with just reading those evocative covers and imagine by myself what would happen inside. The promises of the greatest story ever was always there, on every unread issue. Many times I was even unable to find the next issue of an ongoing story I was reading, so they remained unconcluded, lingering in the back of my mind for decades. Every comic was a scarce treasure and I reread each and every one I had thousands of times.

Now, almost everything is available online and I've built a sizeable library. Of course, getting older has a lot to do with my current state of mind, but after getting many of those comics that I was never able to buy when they were released I've found most of them... disappointing. My tastes have evolved, and while I still find a lot of different comics really enjoyable, being so easy to get anything has deprived me of that sensation of mistery and wonder, that thrill whenever I could get a new one. Somehow, it's not the same.

Best regards

[ItsMeNotYou]

TBH I never collected either one but I do miss the arcades , poolhalls and headshops as well as movie theaters and drive-ins from back in the day , I know there are still theaters but its just not the same as it was (thanks internet) and those use to be the gathering spots where ppl socialized .

[PeepShow45]

Of course. It's a great part of history where the physical is much better appreciated than anything digitized. Local mom-and-pop shops, ice cream parlors, and arcades were the life of the community back then, and they went hand in hand.

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