ear X-tacy one of the coolest 17 music stores in the country

Our friends over at Backseat Sandbar pointed out that Paste (a music magazine that I’m not even remotely cool enough to read) made a list of the 17 coolest record stores in the country and Louisville’s own ear X-tacy is one of them.

Best Place to Find Cool Bumper Stickers for the Outside of Your Car, and CDs for the Inside – At
a time when indie record stores were dropping off the map, John Timmons
decided he needed to move into a building big enough to need its own
map. Ear X-tacy grew from the 500-square-foot store it was in 1985 into
the 10,000-square-foot music wonderland it is today. With countless
listening stations and riveting in-store performances, the shop puts a
high premium on musical discovery