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Criminal Records moving to a bigger locale
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
In this day and age of downloading and dwindling CD sales, most indie record stores are closing shop as well. Not Criminal Records, the now legendary Little Five Points store. It’s moving to a location with triple the space.
The current Criminal Records, a modest 1,800-square-foot space next to Junkman’s Daughter, will shut down October 12 after a weekend of concerts, a 25 percent off sale and “general shenanigans,” as manager Shannon Mulvaney described it to me Friday.
Soon after, the new Criminal Records will open about a block away at 1154A Euclid Ave. in a spot with 5,500 square feet. All CDs and DVDs will be on the floor instead of behind the register in a glass showcase. They’ll be a stage for bands to perform. And they’ll be plenty more vinyl, a surprisingly hot growth area for the store.
Owner Eric Levin is aware he’s taking a big risk but said “we’ve always done everything with no budget, seat of our pants, on a whim. I can’t think of a better time to invest more into our future, even in dark economic times.”
Criminal Records, which still generates about 70 percent of its income from music, has become a magnet for fans of local indie rock bands. “We really try to cultivate a sense of community,” Mulvaney said. “And you won’t find that snotty record store clerk attitude.”
Moby fan Amanda Jackson of Douglasville, GA, checks out a photo taken by Moby, as Jackson visited with the musician and asked him to take a photo of anything he wanted to shoot as they chat at Criminal Records in the Little Five Points neighborhood Thursday 3/24/05. CREDIT: Kimberly Smith/AJC.
A fair share of celebs have shopped and performed there, from Bruce Springsteen to the Indigo Girls to Beck. Our favorite visit? Techno musician Moby (above) in 2005, who spent nearly three hours sipping tea one on one with 200 fans to promote his oddball cookbook “Teany Book.”
Comments
By Mike V
October 6, 2008 7:39 PM | Link to this
It’s really great to hear Criminal is moving to a bigger and better spot. In these days of the record business going down the toilet I believe that stores like Criminal that cater to their clientele of music starved masses in the variety of ways that they do will be the ones to survive. LONG LIVE CRIMINAL RECORDS!!