The water destroyed album covers, including a radio station-only Talking Heads, a Japanese pressing of “Meet the Beatles” and even the Crooked Beat Records’ owner Bill Daly’s first ever album, “Indian Reservation” by the Raiders. That’s a record Daly got when he was eight years old.
Now the record store is cleaning up and deciding whether to stay at its Alexandria, Virginia, location after two floods hit the business.
Daly sifted through pressing of Bob Marley, Bruce Springsteen and a $400 recording of the Ronettes as they were all neatly placed in a room with multiple fans running on full blast, drying them out. He told WTOP that around 400 records, worth tens of thousands of dollars, were destroyed in a flood that took place at Crooked Beat Records on Sunday, Jan. 11…