I’ve never heard that from a landlord ever. They told us that if the little hair salon that was here ever decided to move out, it would be really cool for them to have a record store. We used to go to Evans every Saturday with our kid and got to know the family. So the guys who own this shopping center, it’s the family who owns Evans Fine Foods and a bunch of real estate. And I wasn’t able to find anything gainful. It was my way of keeping my hand in it while trying to find some gainful employment. (Can you guess? It’s an Atlanta band.) Along the way, he provided a nostalgic mini-history of the record business in Atlanta since 1978, while espousing a Zen-like attitude toward vinyl that seems a healthy alternative to stockpiling LPs that you never listen to when somebody else could and would.ĪrtsATL: What made you decide to open a new store now?ĭon Radcliffe: I’d been selling music online, which is OK, but it’s really, really inefficient. In a recent interview with ArtsATL, Radcliffe touched on everything from the demise of CDs to the giant of 20th-century music known as Prince to the second-worst-selling album in the history of Columbia Records. But if you hang around long enough, everything old becomes new and cool again, and Ella Guru Records has recently re-emerged in Oak Grove Shopping Center, just a stone’s throw from Radcliffe’s original location. When he decided to close the store in 2009 due to the escalating cost of rent, it was a sad day for his regular customers. First he was at Vista Grove Plaza, then he moved to Toco Hill Shopping Center and eventually relocated to Elizabeth Street in Inman Park.
A recent local example of this revival is the rebirth of Ella Guru Records, owned and operated by Don Radcliffe.Īny music lover who has lived in Atlanta since the late 1990s and knew the best places to buy new and used records and CDs has probably frequented at least one of Radcliffe’s locations. Yes, everyone knows that vinyl records are not going to experience a renaissance that would match their popularity during their peak years, but we really are in the midst of a vinyl resurgence, as niche as it might be. He claimed that the comeback of the LP is a myth perpetuated by a small cult of vinyl hipsters and that the format is officially dead - so why lie about a nonexistent second coming? I recently came across a blogger who was ranting against writers who post stories about the return of vinyl records and their rising popularity.
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