Word: waxed
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...MP3s, shopping for old-fashioned records can be a frustrating business: many high-street music stores have relegated their LP offerings to the trash can. Luckily, a committed cadre of record-shop owners are keeping the vinyl dream alive. Here's where to replenish your wax. VIENNA Tucked away in the Windmühlgasse, just behind the busy Mariahilferstrasse, lies an Aladdin's cave of audio treats. Teuchtler is crammed with more than 180,000 records - split between classical, jazz and pop - as well as some 40,000 78s. The store once sold for $3,000 a rare shellac...
DIED. FAY WRAY, 96, shriektacular heroine of the original King Kong and other thrillers of the early talkie era; in New York City. Still in her teens when she started in silent films, she developed the scream she would make famous in later films like Mystery of the Wax Museum and Doctor X. She had to fight off all kinds of movie beasts, getting pawed by Erich von Stroheim in The Wedding March and Wallace Beery in Viva Villa! But the great ape was her strangest, strongest suitor, in a horror film that was also a poignant love story...
...MP3s, shopping for old-fashioned records can be a frustrating business: many high-street music stores have simply relegated their LP offerings to the trash can. Luckily, a committed cadre of record-shop owners are still keeping the vinyl dream alive. Here's where to replenish your wax. VIENNA Tucked away in the Windmühlgasse, just behind the city's busy Mariahilferstrasse shopping street, lies an Aladdin's cave of audio treats. Teuchtler is crammed with more than 180,000 records-split between classical, jazz and pop-as well as some 40,000 old 78s. The store once sold...
...TOKYO The city is in the grip of a vinyl revival, so you'll find it easy to satisfy your wax-cravings here. Head to Udagawa-cho, a five-minute walk from Shibuya train station. The area is crammed with dozens of vinyl stores, ranging from hip-hop specialists like Dance Music Record to purveyors of the unusual such as Yellow Pop, whose stocks include decades-old Japanese Rakugo-spoken-comedy records-and pressings of sporting events...
...around Bangkok for decades. After more than a few fingers of bourbon, Squaronians delight in chewing the fat under the Texas Aggie flag and the moth-eaten Cape buffalo head that?alongside yellowed Waylon Jennings and Kitty Wells record covers?grace the bar's wood-paneled walls. They'll wax nostalgic over fortunes made and squandered, over women loved and comrades lost. They'll whisper of gun running in Laos, of Tet and of black ops. Tall tales? Who knows. Truth, legends and conspiracy theories overlap and blur once the booze is flowing...