What The Hell Were You Thinking

Episode 403: Not Today, Not On Rex Manning Day This week Host Dave Bledsoe invites a “friend” home to check his 10 inch only for her to discover he was talking about his record albums. (And in penis department he is more like a cassingle) On the show this week we celebrate Rex Manning Day by taking you back to the glory days of the record store! Along the way we learn how Dave keeps trying to deal with his childhood through buying things rather than go to therapy. (Also, binge drinking is NOT therapy no matter what your “doctor” told you Dave.)  Then we dive right into the two great record store movies, though one is arguably greater than the other, Empire Records and High Fidelity.(For record, the greater one was Empire Records) Then we take a walk through the history of the record store, from its humble beginning as mom and pop shops in every town and the rise of Tower Records all the way through to their eventual downfall from Big Box stores and the internet.  (Amazon didn’t kill record stores, WalMart