[Nicolai P. Zwar]

Obviously, in the earlier days, I used to spend a lot of time in record stores. When I lived in L.A., I used to spend a lot of time at Tower Record Stores (mostly in Northridge, less so in the further away one at Sunset Blvd.) In Cologne, Germany, there used to be the Saturn Music Dome, which at that time claimed to be the store with the largest record collection in the world. Obviously, I have never been able to confirm that, however, it was the largest record store I knew. In its heyday, the classical music section alone were two department store floors. It was huge, and I’ve bought a ton of albums over there as well. Cologne’s Saturn Music Dome is interesting, because I knew that store from way back in the 1980s when I started to buy film scores, and I’ve seen it’s “rise and fall” so to speak. It’s gone now, that store does no longer exist, it’s floor spaces made way to a gamer paradise in 2022, the upper floors are now offices; the (though of course, the name “Saturn” still exists as part of an electronic retail chain).
I rarely browse in record stores these days.