THOUGHT | All Sales Vinyl: Fort Collins’ conduit for rhythmic connection
Music breeds community connection, All Sales Vinyl solidifies unity.
This weekend, try spending fifteen minutes at All Sales Vinyl, Fort Collins’ mid-Old Town record store. It is just fifteen minutes out of your day.
Thumb through the records, new and old. Pluck on a ukelele, tersely converse with other patrons, examine the collectibles, nod your head to the rhythm that pulses through the speakers. Not too long after entering the door, you acclimate to the environment once you see another customer speak to the cashier, whose contagious smile makes you grow a grin as well.
They’re talking about your favorite band, and you chime in about the time you met the drummer. The cashier and owner of the store is a drummer, and the two of you share a relational laugh.
You check your phone to find you’ve spent an hour in All Sales Vinyl. In that hour’s time, you’ve met university professors, mothers, sons, grandparents, rappers, pianists, and posthumous geniuses. Both in auditory form and in the flesh, you have encountered an energy that can only be felt at All Sales Vinyl: interpersonal resonance. All Sales Vinyl owner Mike Fogerty vouches that music is for the soul, and an artist’s passion can be felt by anyone — especially when the medium is vinyl. And whether you leave the music boutique with a piece of history or a one dollar novelty, you experienced connection.
All Sales Vinyl seeks to meet you and your loved ones where you are. It doesn’t matter if you’re on the go, have nothing better to do, or you are determined to find a copy of a rare 1960s psych-rock grail, All Sales Vinyl and the Fogerty family will provide you with a sense of home — if your home was lined with records of every genre, of course.
At All Sales Vinyl, it is encouraged to be loud, rambunctiously reminiscing about your first record. And if you are new to the vinyl game, All Sales Vinyl is the perfect place to begin your collection. For the beginner and the expert, there is no partition between the love for music.
So next time you’re in Old Town, Fort Collins, stop by 120 South College Ave. You won’t be disappointed.
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