An oversized cut out of “Aladdin Sane”-era David Bowie peaked out from behind a dozen or so boxes of vinyl records marked “Bluegrass, Country & Americana. Ambient & Electronic and Hip Hop A-K” inside a downtown Longmont storefront Tuesday afternoon.
Mr. Bowie awaited his place on the walls inside Doug Gaddy’s , opening a mere eight months after he shuttered his Boulder location that served vinyl fans for nearly a decade.
At the time, it seemed Gaddy was making a permanent exit from the realm of the brick-and-mortar record shop, a rarity in this age of online retail. The closure left Boulder with only two record stores, Ի. When Absolute Vinyl opens on Friday, Longmont will become a two record shop town. The other shop is
So why the change of heart?
“I have no really good answer,” Gaddy said. “My answer is I just can’t stay out of trouble. The other is I got a really nice opportunity in this space. Every incarnation has been an experiment on how to make things work, and this is a new one in a new town.”
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