Gary Koenig had never aspired to own his own record shop. Yet, somehow, he ended up founding and running Affordable Music in Dillon for three decades.
The former Henderson Mill employee clocked in around 15 years in the Grand County-based Molybdenum mine when a friend made a suggestion, “You like music so much, you should open a record store,” Koenig said, recalling a friend’s comment.
Koenig said he didn’t need much convincing to pull the trigger. He opened Affordable Music in Silverthorne in 1991. He went on to move his spot to a storefront in Dillon 11 years later, and it’s lived there since.
On Monday, Dec. 30, Koenig carried on his day just as he had every other for the past three decades, walking customers through where to find vinyl records for their favorite music genres and showing them around the inventory of instruments. The only difference between this day and the countless others comprising the past 30 years at Affordable Music is it was the last time he would get to do it. The music shop plans to close its door permanently Dec. 31.
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