holy shit...you're one of the first people to point out the fact that record bars outside japan is just not it. i've been going to countless record bars across japan including the ones in the boonies, they're not just in tokyo. it's a half centruy+ old culture in japan from prob around the 50's when people could not afford to cop records (and of course to link with other music heads). they're part of the kissaten culture which in general is being copied across the world now because they were never meant to be cool.
These used to be interesting.... More and more it reads like GQ magazine in the 90s
holy shit...you're one of the first people to point out the fact that record bars outside japan is just not it. i've been going to countless record bars across japan including the ones in the boonies, they're not just in tokyo. it's a half centruy+ old culture in japan from prob around the 50's when people could not afford to cop records (and of course to link with other music heads). they're part of the kissaten culture which in general is being copied across the world now because they were never meant to be cool.