Tower Records, Tacoma Washington, 1978
That book above the No Smoking sign was the ONLY way to find out who sang a certain song or figure out the name of a song from the first line unless you walked around asking everyone you met if they knew the song or had the album liner notes in front of you.
The books were actually pretty hard to find in most record shops. When I was in high school we had to road trip an hour away to find a shop that had one. We would go in with notebooks full of random song lyrics and take physical notes to bring back to other people.
History can be fun and not depressing.
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