Letter to the Editor

Letter to a Thief

An appeal from the owners of What Cheer Records + Vintage

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Recently What Cheer Records + Vintage has been the victim of several instances of theft, resulting the loss of around $1000 worth of vinyl. Check the image above and keep an eye out for any Zeppelin or Pink Floyd records with those price tags.


This is an open letter to whoever has been stealing from our store What Cheer Records + Vintage on Thayer Street. Somehow you have gotten away with making off with a large number of pricey vinyl LP records from us recently. You now have an incredible collection of Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin LPs - hope you're happy with them, as they cost us a lot of money. While we didn't see you do it, we noticed, and we want for you to know how much it has hurt us, financially and personally. You have betrayed our trust. You have also stolen from people who are probably a lot like you, just with better moral compasses.

Just because we own a store doesn't make us rich. Instead, we pay our bills and then put almost everything that's left over back into the shop so that we can have the best possible inventory. We started our business in the late 1990s to allow for a flexible schedule that would allow us to pursue our artistic endeavors, so you have stolen from an artist and a musician, two people who are music lovers who never gave up on vinyl records and have done all we could to help keep them alive. We're also a resource for local musicians, as we sell LPs and CDs by local bands, including many we've had play live at What Cheer and at other venues around Providence. Your actions have taken away time and resources we could otherwise spend promoting and helping other local musicians, so you have also stolen from the entire local music community.

Commercial rents are really high here. Taxes too. Providence is an extremely difficult place for a small business like ours, but thefts like yours have hurt us more than all of that. Stealing from anyone is awful, but when you steal from a small local business, it really hits home. If you're a good person, you'll return what you stole, but if you instead never steal from anyone else again, that would be a good step in doing the right thing. We're all on this Earth together, and if we're kind and fair to one another, all of our lives will be better.

Chris and Jennifer Daltry
What Cheer Records + Vintage
Thayer + Angell Streets
Providence

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