First Album: Harley Prechtel-Cortez of Red Cortez
I first bought two records at the same place: Sam Goody at the Hawthorne Mall in Hawthorne. That place holds memories even though it is now just an abandoned building.
When I was about eight-years-old my older brother and I had both put in money we had collected to get The Joshua Tree by U2 on cassette. It had been out for a year or two by then and I remember we listened to it the day we got it over and over and we would ALWAYS sleep to it. The radio was near the top bunk bed...
I also bought The La's record in 1990 at that same Sam Goody at The Hawthorne Mall. I think I was in sixth grade. Everyone always loved "There She Goes" off that record (which is why I originally bought it), but friends would come over and ask who The La's were, thinking it was a hip-hop record, because that's what most of my friends listened to (well that and Depeche Mode).
Believe it or not I still have that La's cassette tape.
Red Cortez (formerly The Weather Underground) is on tour now with Morrissey, dates available here.
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