I worked in a record store for 5 years in the late 90's and here were the breakdowns:
LPs:
Rock (basically 50's to mid 80's)
Metal (always an argument whether to put Sabbath in here or rock)
Alternative/Punk (all punk/new wave/alternative/indie)
Soul (R&B...I hated this term)
Country
Jazz
Blues
Comedy
Classical
Avant/Noise
Industrial
12" singles (techno, dance, house, etc.)
Misc. Gems (spoken word, crazy religious records, and foreign recordings...they may have created a world music section now).
7" (avant/punk&alt/rock/country)
I won't bore you with the CDs but they were similar but heavily weighted towards alternative and punk. We also had a large used section which was alphabetical by artist.
There were artists that always posed problems due to genre and name. Ex: where to you put Reverend Horton Heat? Anyway, it was fun times.
LPs:
Rock (basically 50's to mid 80's)
Metal (always an argument whether to put Sabbath in here or rock)
Alternative/Punk (all punk/new wave/alternative/indie)
Soul (R&B...I hated this term)
Country
Jazz
Blues
Comedy
Classical
Avant/Noise
Industrial
12" singles (techno, dance, house, etc.)
Misc. Gems (spoken word, crazy religious records, and foreign recordings...they may have created a world music section now).
7" (avant/punk&alt/rock/country)
I won't bore you with the CDs but they were similar but heavily weighted towards alternative and punk. We also had a large used section which was alphabetical by artist.
There were artists that always posed problems due to genre and name. Ex: where to you put Reverend Horton Heat? Anyway, it was fun times.