Some months ago, longstanding Houston record shack Sound Exchange moved from its second location in the Montrose to the new, hip and old-school East Houston neighborhood off Milby Street.
The new location at 101 N. Milby #3, Houston TX 77003 resembles their first location, a strip-mall at Dunlavy and Westheimer but is less spacious than the digs that the store occupied for twenty years at Hazard and Richmond, yet still makes for a comfortable record rack.
Expect to find three shelving units packed with vinyl, including lots of classic death metal, and a CD section which covers the best of underground metal as well as numerous local bands. Attention has been paid to acquiring rarities for sale while they are still in print.
Hint for hipsters: trendy Washington Blvd becomes Franklin Street downtown and then mainlines into Navigation Blvd, which crosses Milby right past York, which has become sort of the epicenter of outsider development of the formerly abandoned industrial East Houston area.
For those of us who have been attending these locations since the late 1980s, seeing the continuation of this classic record store warms the heart, especially as the number of places where you can find metal on the shelves decreases because Millennials buy streaming services for some godawful reason.
Death metal
Must be against
Women
Minorities
Rap
Jews
Liberals
Niceness
Kindness
Charity
I want danger nooooo democrappers
Fags must be like Milo yiannopolis in metal
It must be dark mean and against society
Fuck humanity fuck em all….
Scare people ok?
Stop being complicated metal needs to attack women and rap and diversity ok
Hahaha hey Brett do Jewish bitches like gal gadot and Kristen wigg Natasha lyonne have
Unholy ass smelly vaginas or what?
We have to ask Solomon Henderson, another victim of equality and diversity.
I was just there this weekend! Great selection and Curt the owner is a good guy. It’s been at its current location for more than a few months though. I went to the milby street location for the first time mid 2023.
Absolutely a good guy. No idea how long they’ve been there since time stretched and snapped after the flu panicdemic.
This all reminds me that as a teen it was always a weird feeling hitting the jackpot at a place like CD Warehouse or Half Price Books where hard to find metal albums suddenly appeared in abundance in the used section at times. While biking home (sounds lame, but the trek was 10+ miles each way) it was impossible not to eventually wonder why someone surrendered all that content at once for practically nothing…
But before you know it you get home and hear Emperor’s debut for the first time and stop caring about it. Those were the days. I feel bad for kids that don’t have real life everyday experiences like that anymore.
Maybe there’s a lesson in there somewhere.
Make everything too easy, and nothing is worth anything.
Applies to socialism, streaming music, and permanent agricultural civilization.
Strive to thrive.
Finding Ildjarn – Strength and Anger in the “Industrial gabber punk” section, those were the days