90's is the new vintage

Empire Records is a 1995 coming of age film that follows a group of record store employees over the course of one exceptional day. In a nutshell, the employees of this independent music store try to fight off a large chain, all while learning about each other. The film was directed by Allan Moyle and stars Anthony LaPaglia, Robin Tunney, Rory Cochrane, Renée Zellweger, Ethan Embry, and Liv Tyler.

[…] The film did poorly at the box office and received generally negative reviews. As of December 2009, it has only a 24% “Rotten” rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Roger Ebert called the film a “lost cause,” but presciently predicted some of the actors might have a future in other, better films; LaPaglia, Cochrane, Embry, Zellweger, Tyler and Tunney all went on to achieve significantly greater fame. Despite its poor box office performance, the film has established something of a cult classic status. Even though the majority of professional reviews on Rotten Tomatoes were negative, 83% of users enjoyed the film. (Wikipedia)

Indeed Empire Records was just a funny and easy music commedy, but was also the last celebration of the myth of record stores just before the MP3 era blown them away.