Friday, September 05, 2008
"What is Fat Beats?"
A brief history of the legendary underground vinyl hip hop store in NYC. I don't know how these dudes stay in business when you got cats like like this around giving away the music for free.
Going to record stores used to be a huge part of my life. Now the only digging I do is through emails for zshare and yousendit links! (although I did cop the L.A.X. album on CD last week.)
I used to hit Fat Beats on occasion (although Beat Street in Brooklyn and Turntable Lab were more my regular haunts) but the one thing I used to hate about going there was dealing with all the wannabe rappers hawking their bootleg mixtapes and homemade albums outside the entrance downstairs. Annoying but props to them (the store and those wannabe's) for fighting the good fight still even if you (Fat Beats) did rip me off on royalties for my 12" that you distributed.
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