Meet Tyson and Boogie
they live in the record store Fox Music Company.
They are the Record Store Mascots or "Mas-Cats?"

Tyson the "Tortoise Shell" is the record store greeter, some time during your visit to Fox Music you will most likely chat with Tyson. She Loves all the attention she can get and will even allow you to pick her up and,.... will tolerate youngins' to a degree. Tyson is a "Grade A Ham" all the way!!



Boogie the "Tuxedo Cat" on the other hand will not sit still long enough for pictures very often. Boogie is way to curiuos as to what you are doing, but wants nothing to do with it once he figures it out. Boogie does not like to be picked up and is very selective with who he chats with, but once he gets goin',oh boy! and when you return he will shine around and let you in on whats been happening. If Boogie hears the sound of children even on a Record he disapears into one of his Cat Hide-Outs until the coast is clear.



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Record Store "Mas-Cats"

Phonograph Record Care and Maintenance

Cleanliness is absolutely mandatory if the optimum sound capability of the vinyl record is to be realized. A clean record will not only sound better, but last longer. It has been shown that repeated playing of soiled records can cause permanent damage to the vinyl. Preservation of valuable or irreplaceable records requires careful cleaning. Further more, stylus wear is greatly accelerated by playing dirty records, and with cartridges costing what they do these days, playing soiled records can lead to significant and unneeded expense.

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Phonograph Record Care and Maintenance

Vinyl Record Grading - Standard Goldmine Grading System

Fox Music Company uses the grading system first developed by Goldmine Records. Virtually all methods currently in use for the grading of records, is based in some way, shape, or form, on this system. Rather than offer some variation of the original system first developed by Goldmine, Fox Music Company has created a lens to display the Goldmine record grading method in it's entirety.

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Record Grading Method

Nitty Gritty Record Cleaning System
Totally Clean Your Records:

We all know someone who will tell you that audio cables don't make a difference, or that amplifiers all sound the same, and that spending exorbitant amounts of money on your stereo system is a waste. When it comes to audio, disagreements are at every turn, but I can say with certainty that you will be hard-pressed to find anyone who will tell you that dirty records sound good. Since the beginning of sound recordings, even the laziest person with the cheapest stereo imaginable has at least tried to blow the dust out of the grooves. Everyone knows that a clean record sounds better.

Clean vinyl is not only better-sounding vinyl, it is longer-lasting vinyl as well. All kinds of contaminants can end up in the grooves that will not only impede playback but may also cause long-term damage even if you don't play your records.

Everyone who owns, previously owned or is interested in purchasing records should know they need to be maintained in a clean condition in order to sound their best and to preserve the quality of their fragile surfaces. Record cleaning devises operate on a number of different theories and principles, but they all have one thing in common -- they do not totally clean all pollutants from record grooves. They leave film, grease, residue, micro dust, static electricity, carbon fiber hair, and mold release compounds behind. These remaining pollutants prevent the record owner from hearing all the music on the record, regardless of the quality of the playback system and they cause premature wear of the record and phono stylus. Until now, no available record cleaning system was accepted by professionals and enthusiasts alike as producing the desired result -- clean records. No single system was able to rid a record's surface of film, grease, residue, and dust while it eliminated static electricity and left a purified vinyl disc.

Nitty Gritty offers such a system. Records cleaned on a Nitty Gritty system reproduce all the music stored in their grooves without the interference and masking of record pollutants. The Improvement in sound that a Nitty Gritty cleaning makes is so dramatic that the benefit of upgrading one component of a hi-fi system is less significant in comparison. the Nitty Gritty record cleaning system has established itself as an essential component in every hi-fi system.

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