Ask Rich Liukko what the first record he bought was, and you’ll get several answers.
“The first 45 I ever got was Bill Haley’sRock around the Clock, my first eight-track, given to me by my cousin, was the Beatles Revolver, and the first LP that I intentionally bought, I think, was The Jam’sSound Affects, because I saw it on The New Music,” he says.
He hasn’t lost his enthusiasm for multiple formats-- his shop, Freecloud Records, is filled to the rafters with music in every form.
“We’ve got cassettes, we’ve got eight-tracks, we have 78s, 45s, LPs, and – oh, yeah -we’ve got CDs. Anything that’s music related, in whatever format, that’s what the store is for,” says Rich. “We’re not about the modern digital downloading era. We’re about the way things originally came out, and if there are people there who are looking to experience something in the format in the way it was originally intended to be listened to, we like to be there as a resource.”
