By the way, Amoeba Music bills itself "The World's Largest Independent Record Store." The original store opened in 1990 in what looks like an old arch-roofed supermarket on Telegraph Avenue near the University of California at Berkeley. The second store opened in 1997 in the Haight-Ashbury District, just across the street from Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. I haven't been to the third store, which opened in 2001 on Sunset Boulevard at Cahuenga in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles. The Wikipedia article on these stores is very interesting. I've spent many, many hours in the Northern California Amoeba stores. They're as fun as Tower Records used to be years ago.

-Joe-