Meanwhile, Amoeba’s Hollywood location recently announced it was stocking the rarest and most expensive record in the store’s 25 year history.īack in 2013, Amoeba made thousands of rare and out-of-print records available to download from its Vinyl Vaults website. Amoeba Records is the fifth venue in Guitar Hero World Tour. The Berkeley store’s permit application will be weighed against five other groups, and the city council will pass down a decision after a round of public hearings. He added: “Amoeba has some really good friends who really grow some beautiful strains.” Amoeba's Berkeley location (the company also maintains storefronts in Hollywood and San Francisco) has been in trouble for some time now, for years struggling to make a profit from record and. It’s counterculture to a very high degree.” “It also fits in with what we do, who we are.
“College kids don’t buy as much music as they used to,” he told the East Bay Express. Over the years, musicians including Paul McCartney, PJ Harvey and Lisa Loeb have put on shows at the Sunset Boulevard location. The famous record store wants to pull in punters with legal pot.Īmoeba Music has applied to open a medical marijuana dispensary inside its flagship store in Berkeley, California. If a permit is granted, Amoeba plans to pull stock from its current jazz and classical room, which would then be converted into a separate building, creating two separate storefronts.Īmoeba’s San Francisco location already has a weed dispensary, and co-owner David Prinz clearly thinks pot can save the music industry in an era of flagging sales. The aforementioned events were more than the usual record-company promos and made Amoeba not just a place to dig through crates in search of vinyl gems, but a real community space.
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