We’ve written about our fair share of record stores here at Tone Deaf. We’re a veritable treasure trove of record store stories, whether it’s really tiny record stores, underground stores, important stores, unique stores, or ones you need to visit before you die.
However, we’ve never written about a store that just had too much damn vinyl for its own good, until now. As local San Diego outlet KGTV reports, hundreds of vinyl records and CDs were left strewn across the sidewalk after the second floor of a Hillcrest thrift shop collapsed on Monday morning.
Thankfully, no one was hurt as the collapse happened outside of business hours. According to officers responding to the scene, sometime before 4am, the second floor of the Thrift Trader at 1644 Univerity Ave buckled under the weight of all that awesome music and came crashing down.
According to San Diego Fire-Rescue, Thrift Trader had just moved into the location recently and the second floor was filled with sweet, sweet vinyl records. While we at Tone Deaf can’t say for sure, it sounds like they were just packing too much waxy goodness into that there floor.
A safety engineer for the city certainly seems to agree. They determined that the collapse was caused by the weight of too many vinyl records on the second floor. A notice stating that the shop was considered unsafe was taped to the front door.
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As Fox News reports, debris from the second floor shattered the first floor window and was pouring out onto the sidewalk. The building dates back to the 1930s and it was unclear if the building was up to code, according to San Diego Fire-Rescue Department spokesman Lee Swanson.
“They sell all kinds of used stuff, but they had boxes and boxes of vinyl records that they had put on the second floor,” Swanson told The San Diego Union-Tribne. “There was too much weight and it collapsed that mezzanine.”
Obviously, we’re glad no one was hurt and feel bad for the owners of the store, who just made the exciting move to a new location only to be met with disaster, but mostly we’re just sorry for all that precious vinyl.
Check out the local news coverage below, which features a close-up on a Missing Persons record we don’t actually have in our collection – damn, we would’ve given them a good price for it, too.
