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These types of stores are always a neat place to visit if you happen to have any interest in music.
While they're probably not as easy to find nowadays since many prefer the digital route when it comes to getting music, they're definitely worth seeking out to take a look. You can find all sorts of records here.
A rare cassette bootleg from an indie band, a out of print album that's only available on vinyl, a famous album that managed to find its way in the bargain bin, or tons upon tons of one dollar soundtrack CDs that are usually ignored.

But on top of finding different kinds of records in these stores, you can find all kinds of people too. Music lovers, casual browsers, music collectors, audiophiles, and sometimes musicians.
And when you bring all these types together, you get all kinds of conversations too!

Record Collector: "I'm telling you, a Japanese import of this Cars album can go up ten times as much as this used one. The sound quality is amazing compared to this!"
Casual Browser: "So I'd be dropping an extra grand just to hear less cracks and pops?"

Max Goof: "...oh sure, and Powerline's my older brother!"
Grunkle Stan: " No really, I know these guys. Let me tell you how I once got in a slugfest with Henry Rollins at Lollapalooza!"

Phillip J Fry: Weird, I thought these things died out before I went to the future. ( looks around) I am still in the future aren't I?"

Wakko Warner: "Hey, Rumplestiltkin! Can I look at that when your done?"
Groundskeeper Willie: "Ay. Sure thing, laddie. Just don't call me that again."

Seller: "You sure you can't take em? Only half of these skip!"
Record Store Guy: "Sir, we only take non warped records here. Begone, record warper!"

This is one of the places I always try to go to whenever I get the chance.
One thing I love aside from drawing is collecting and listening to music. And most of my musical tastes were forged from the various finds that caught my attention within these stores.
I don't visit these places that often nowadays, one because I rarely have the time, two it gets really expensive. You'd be surprised how much money you can end up burning through just from going through the bargain bin selections week after week.

So I wanted to do a new crossover fanart piece that's loosely based on my experiences in visiting these stores. While I tend to go for a retro look in my artwork already, I decided to do something different by using a standard comic book color sheet. One that contains only 64 colors. While I did end up doing a lot of extra color mixing further down line, I mainly kept with colors in the pallete, one so I would have less difficulty in choosing colors, but also so it would have more of an old school look.

Here's a link below to the various comic book color palletes if anyone is interest in trying that out.
www.madformidcentury.com/2013/…

See how many characters you can spot here! And for a harder challenge, see how many album covers are here as well!

Description
These types of stores are always a neat place to visit if you happen to have any interest in music.
While they're probably not as easy to find nowadays since many prefer the digital route when it comes to getting music, they're definitely worth seeking out to take a look. You can find all sorts of records here.
A rare cassette bootleg from an indie band, a out of print album that's only available on vinyl, a famous album that managed to find its way in the bargain bin, or tons upon tons of one dollar soundtrack CDs that are usually ignored.

But on top of finding different kinds of records in these stores, you can find all kinds of people too. Music lovers, casual browsers, music collectors, audiophiles, and sometimes musicians.
And when you bring all these types together, you get all kinds of conversations too!

Record Collector: "I'm telling you, a Japanese import of this Cars album can go up ten times as much as this used one. The sound quality is amazing compared to this!"
Casual Browser: "So I'd be dropping an extra grand just to hear less cracks and pops?"

Max Goof: "...oh sure, and Powerline's my older brother!"
Grunkle Stan: " No really, I know these guys. Let me tell you how I once got in a slugfest with Henry Rollins at Lollapalooza!"

Phillip J Fry: Weird, I thought these things died out before I went to the future. ( looks around) I am still in the future aren't I?"

Wakko Warner: "Hey, Rumplestiltkin! Can I look at that when your done?"
Groundskeeper Willie: "Ay. Sure thing, laddie. Just don't call me that again."

Seller: "You sure you can't take em? Only half of these skip!"
Record Store Guy: "Sir, we only take non warped records here. Begone, record warper!"

This is one of the places I always try to go to whenever I get the chance.
One thing I love aside from drawing is collecting and listening to music. And most of my musical tastes were forged from the various finds that caught my attention within these stores.
I don't visit these places that often nowadays, one because I rarely have the time, two it gets really expensive. You'd be surprised how much money you can end up burning through just from going through the bargain bin selections week after week.

So I wanted to do a new crossover fanart piece that's loosely based on my experiences in visiting these stores. While I tend to go for a retro look in my artwork already, I decided to do something different by using a standard comic book color sheet. One that contains only 64 colors. While I did end up doing a lot of extra color mixing further down line, I mainly kept with colors in the pallete, one so I would have less difficulty in choosing colors, but also so it would have more of an old school look.

Here's a link below to the various comic book color palletes if anyone is interest in trying that out.
www.madformidcentury.com/2013/…

See how many characters you can spot here! And for a harder challenge, see how many album covers are here as well!