smells like children

Part 150: Smells Like Presents [Reblog]

It’s the most wonderful time of the year…

I thought it would be fun going forward to re-post old chapters of Record Store Tales that you may have missed. Enjoy this Christmas-themed re-post!

RECORD STORE TALES Part 150: Β Smells Like Presents

Our original computerized inventory system forced us to manually type in every album title ourselves. Β Out of sheer boredom, often we’d shake it up a bit. Β For example, just for laughs, we’d often input Alanis Morissette’s album Jagged Little Pill in the system as Jagged Little Pillow. Β Or whatever.

When we saw this Celine Dion Christmas album come in, somebody came up with a clever custom title for our system. Β Remember that Marilyn Manson album, Smells Like Children? Β Take a look at the Celine Dion album cover. Β You’ll understand why we used to call this one Smells Like Presents!

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R.I.P. Sunrise Records, Fairview mall