Wax Trax! was always a destination when I visited Chicago in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s. I discovered so much essential music through this store.
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Russell robertson
4 years ago
wax trax is a cultural institution.
When I lived in Chicago it educated me in new forms of music. Very few places like this still exist in the US. It should be kept and honored.
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Tim Lopez
4 years ago
This is historic on many levels and MUS TR be saved...
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Maureen Murray
4 years ago
SO loved Wax Trax and it should be honored as they did ALL THAT AMAZING MUSIC/1
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Ricardo Cassolatto
4 years ago
for sure, this is a historical place for music
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Chad Arreguin
4 years ago
Such a great description of the shop. I ALWAYS loved going to Wax Trax. I mean, I loved going to MOST record stores, as it meant a little bit of a road trip for my buddies and I, as we lived in Waukegan, Illinois, which was pretty much right in the middle of Chicago and Milwaukee. It was about a 40 minute drive to either city. We were CONSTANTLY driving to one city or the other either to go record shopping and/or to a show. But going to Wax Trax always felt more like we were going to an EVENT or a show instead of a record store. Man, I miss those days. Petition signed and almost accomplished. Be well.
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Aparo Jennifer
4 years ago
I loved this place and it was like a pilgrimage to go there my friends and I as teens.
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Courtney Kruzic
4 years ago
Bring it all back!
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Elizabeth Loring
4 years ago
A vital part of my early adulthood.
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Amanda Norris
4 years ago
Don't let history be forgotten.
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Sterling Imperial
4 years ago
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Jay Hedblade
4 years ago
As much as The Cubs, as much as Pizza and Hot Dogs, as much as the Sears Tower or Buckingham fountain, in the 1980s, a trip to Chicago ABSOLUTELY meant a stop at Wax Trax on Lincoln Avenue. It was a ritual on par with any other Chicago “must do.” I traveled 250 miles to shop there… it was that important.
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Marc Ludena
4 years ago
I was a kid from the suburbs. I would try to make every trip into the City include a stop at Wax Trax. I discovered so much music that became the soundtrack of my life there, and the label brought out so many records that I still listen to, decades later. Wax Trax is a vital part of the tapestry of the arts that Chicago has woven for the world.
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Robert Daoust
4 years ago
I wish I was there for what was created at this location!
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Ken Zalewski
4 years ago
WaxTrax holds great cultural relevance in Chicago’s music history and deserves landmark protection for the artists it helped and helped inspire.
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Joell Hays
4 years ago
One of the greatest record stores to ever exist. Nothing else like it.
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Jess Walton
4 years ago
It was a Defining Place for my Coming of Age; a Landmark place where do many Legendary bands got a chance to Sell their Records and Become the Beings they are today...
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Ian Barrett
4 years ago
Anything for The Cultural Preservation....
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PJ Brownlee
4 years ago
this is history, thanks!
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Christine Barrett
4 years ago
As a cultural sociologist and historian, I am working on a book about the history of record stores. Former stores like Wax Trax! are now historically significant and should be recognised as such.
Wax Trax! was always a destination when I visited Chicago in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s. I discovered so much essential music through this store.
wax trax is a cultural institution. When I lived in Chicago it educated me in new forms of music. Very few places like this still exist in the US. It should be kept and honored.
This is historic on many levels and MUS TR be saved...
SO loved Wax Trax and it should be honored as they did ALL THAT AMAZING MUSIC/1
for sure, this is a historical place for music
Such a great description of the shop. I ALWAYS loved going to Wax Trax. I mean, I loved going to MOST record stores, as it meant a little bit of a road trip for my buddies and I, as we lived in Waukegan, Illinois, which was pretty much right in the middle of Chicago and Milwaukee. It was about a 40 minute drive to either city. We were CONSTANTLY driving to one city or the other either to go record shopping and/or to a show. But going to Wax Trax always felt more like we were going to an EVENT or a show instead of a record store. Man, I miss those days. Petition signed and almost accomplished. Be well.
I loved this place and it was like a pilgrimage to go there my friends and I as teens.
Bring it all back!
A vital part of my early adulthood.
Don't let history be forgotten.
As much as The Cubs, as much as Pizza and Hot Dogs, as much as the Sears Tower or Buckingham fountain, in the 1980s, a trip to Chicago ABSOLUTELY meant a stop at Wax Trax on Lincoln Avenue. It was a ritual on par with any other Chicago “must do.” I traveled 250 miles to shop there… it was that important.
I was a kid from the suburbs. I would try to make every trip into the City include a stop at Wax Trax. I discovered so much music that became the soundtrack of my life there, and the label brought out so many records that I still listen to, decades later. Wax Trax is a vital part of the tapestry of the arts that Chicago has woven for the world.
I wish I was there for what was created at this location!
WaxTrax holds great cultural relevance in Chicago’s music history and deserves landmark protection for the artists it helped and helped inspire.
One of the greatest record stores to ever exist. Nothing else like it.
It was a Defining Place for my Coming of Age; a Landmark place where do many Legendary bands got a chance to Sell their Records and Become the Beings they are today...
Anything for The Cultural Preservation....
this is history, thanks!
As a cultural sociologist and historian, I am working on a book about the history of record stores. Former stores like Wax Trax! are now historically significant and should be recognised as such.