Jeff Carlson, a 64-year-old retiree who lives in Bozeman, is one of those customers. The money music fans had been spending on tickets for live shows that had disappeared started going toward vinyl albums. “They rediscovered their parents’ record collection or whatever and then they bought a new turntable.” “So many people were not going out anymore,” he said. “It’s been there for so long and it felt like an anchor for downtown for a lot of folks and it’s hard not to feel like it’s changing the character.” Josh Kinsel, Cactus Records customer When COVID shut just about everything down in early 2020, he said, sales of vinyl records soared even more. Eventually, he began to ride the wave of the resurgence of vinyl records, which breathed life into the business and now accounts for more than $1 billion in sales nationally.
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The sales provided free advertising and helped build traffic into the store. He kept the store afloat by becoming the go-to place to purchase tickets to live shows in the Bozeman area. He believes his loyal customers, who are at their core music aficionados, will stick with him. Soon after taking ownership, he had the walls soundproofed so he can resume live performances, something that had grown tiresome for some of his old downtown neighbors. “I don’t see myself kicking the store out,” the new landlord said with a chuckle. He bought the space for less than $700,000 and has a newfound sense of security. Good’s new location across the road from the Gallatin Valley Mall on the city’s west end is a bright, welcoming space, where customers can browse through aisles of new and used vinyl records and CDs and a second floor that features T-shirts and all kinds of doo-dads and music memorabilia. A million-eight, when I heard that I knew that I was not staying.” “I initially thought it would maybe be a million and I could have maybe pulled that off. A view from the second floor of the recently relocated Cactus Records store in Bozeman.
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