The Armadillo World Headquarters closed in 1980. A year later – initially down the road in Zilker Park and then just blocks away on Barton Springs Road at the Palmer Auditorium – the Austin Record Convention began selling rekkids to unsuspecting youth. Said longhairs congealed into cranky collectors over 35 years, until this June when the vinyl revolution of the past decade finally went on a blind date with the original wax generation at the ARC. Crusties with vintage grooves, meet the fresh-faced 180-gram petroleum product hoarders of today. It's a match made in heaven.
