3rd ANNUAL 33 1/3 SALE SEPT 25-26th!!
The updates have been a little infrequent lately, but you can keep up to date with all of our new stock, both new and used, by checking our Facebook page. It's easier to update and you get instant satisfaction. We've had some changes lately since Rob had to go and get a career, but we're still trudging along. Come by and say hello.
Anyway, now to the more important stuff...the return of the 33 1/3 sale!
This weekend marks the return of the now 3rd annual 33 1/3 sale. Originally started on my 33 1/3 birthday (4 months after my real birthday), but no one really seemed to understand the relation and kept wishing me happy birthday all day. So now it has become more than that and an annual sale to show you my love. We need to clear things out and you need cheap records, what a great trade! Tell all of your friends because this is short notice and if you snooze that's too bad. We don't do many sales anyway, but we appreciate your business and want to show you with this awesome sale. This year we decided to make the sale even better by making it Saturday and Sunday.
EVERYTHING IN THE STORE IS 20% OFF!
- LPs, CDs, DVDs, 7"s, 10"s, books, stickers, patches, everything! Saturday & Sunday ONLY!
IN ADDITION ALL USED LPs, CDs, & DVDs ARE BUY 2 GET 1 FREE! - This is combined with the 20% off, which basically amounts to buy one get one free (or a combined 47% off of all used if you want to get exact). Hopefully that makes sense. It's a lot easier for us to ring it up that way.
Canadian Rifle will also be playing the store Saturday night to further the festivities. No local as of right now.
Thanks,
Scott
Record Store Day Is This Saturday, April 18th!
In case you haven't heard or read about this, this Saturday we'll be taking part in the second annual Record Store Day, which is actually being held across the globe. For some info on what it's all about -- although you can pretty much assume what its motivations are -- check out www.recordstoreday.com
WE WILL BE OPENING AT 10 A.M. SATURDAY
Last year was awesome and I guess people felt left out because there are tons of releases coming out that day that are limited. Now, what does this mean for you? Well, over the past few weeks we've been receiving tons of freebie goodies to give away in honor of Record Store Day. If you stop by anytime on Saturday, we'll have a bag full of free stuff for you. It's first-come, first-serve, so if we're out of them by the time you get here, we're sorry. So try to make it earlier rather than later. Here's a few of the items that you'll be able to grab...
Merge Records 2009 cd sampler
Orchard Distribution cd sampler
Capitol Records/Beastie Boys slipmat (ours are cooler though...)
Sargent House cd sampler
Rounder Records cd sampler
Caroline Distribution cd sampler
Hollywood Undead 7"
Important Records cd sampler
White Lies DVD
Kings of Leon 7"
Fat Possum Records 7" (with Wavves, Preacher Man, Thomas Function, Crocodiles)
Univeral Music sampler LP (feat. Anberlin, White Lies, Raul Malo, Sam Roberts, etc.)
Sony/BMG Music sampler LP (feat. MGMT, Glasvegas, Black Kids, Q-Tip, Charles Mingus, etc.)
Redeye CD sampler
A-F Records sampler
Stickers
Temporary Tattoos
Iron-ons
Beatles numbered lithograph
Lost Highway Records cd sampler
Eagle Rock cd sampler
Posters
Button packs
etc...
ALSO there are Record Store Day EXCLUSIVES for sale only at participating stores. These are almost all very limited in nature, and in many case we did NOT get that many or as many as we ordered, so be ready. There were way more labels participating this year so there are bound to be some things I didn't even know about as well. We're trying our best to get everything though, but sometimes things slip through the cracks and with this many releases we had to budget ourselves a bit as well. Among the releases that day are a ton of 7"s. There were a few last year, but way more this year. However, we would just to point out that unlike a lot of other stores we stock hundreds of new 7" singles every day. Why? Because we love vinyl and 7"s.
The releases include:
Akron/Family - "Everyone is Guilty" 7"
Bad Religion -Original EP 7" reissue - now you don't have to spend $400 on ebay for an original
Andrew Bird/Loney Dear - split 7"
The Black Kids - "Wizard of Ahhhs" 10"
Blitzen Trapper - "War is Placebo"/"Booksmart" 7"
Bob Dylan - "Dreaming of You"/"Down Along the Cove" 7"
Booker T - "Warped Sister"/"Reunion Time" 7"
Camera Obscura - "French Navy" 7"
Leonard Cohen 7" - "The Future/"Suzanne"
Cold War Kids - "Live at Fingerprints" CD
Elvis Costello - "Complicated Shadows"/"Dirty Rotten Shame" picture disc
Rivers Cuomo - Live @ Fingerprints CD and CD/DVD Combo
Cursive/Ladyfinger - Split 10" picture disc
Dan Deacon - Bromst LP The Decemberists - "The Rake's Song"/"East India Lanes" 7"
Depeche Mode - "Wrong"/"Oh Well" 7"
Dr. Dog/Floating Action - Split 7"
El Grupo Nuevo de Omar Rodriguez Lopez - Cryptomnesia - LP
Flaming Lips/Black Keys - split 7" ("Borderline"/"Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles")
Flight of the Conchords - "Pencils In The Wind"/"Albi"
Gaslight Anthem - Live from Park Ave 10"
Gomez - Airstream Driver 7"
Grizzly Bear - Live on KCRW 7"
Guided By Voices - "Hold On Hope" LP
Ben Harper - "Shimmer and Shine"/"Spanish Red Wine" 10"
Heaven & Hell - 7" "Bible Black"/"Neon Knights (Live)"
Iron and Wine - Norfolk 6-20-05 live CD
Jane's Addiction - "Mountain Song" / "Standing in the Shower...Thinking" 7"
Jesus Lizard - Inch 9x7" box set
Jenny Lewis/Elvis Costello split 7" - "Carpet Baggers"/"Go Away"
Lykkie Li/Perro Del Mar - "After Laughter (Comes Tears)" / "At Your Best (You are Love)" 7"
Magnolia Electric Co. - "It's Made Me Cry" 7"
MC 5 - "Kick Out The Jams"/"Motor City Is Burning" 7"
Tift Merritt - Buckingham Solo CD
Metric - "Help I'm Alive" 7" Picture disc
Misfits - Walk Among Us LP (180 gram reissue)
Modest Mouse - "Satelite Skin"/"Guilty Cocker Spaniels" 7"
My Morning Jacket - Celebraci�n De La Ciudad Natal (CD & VERY LIMITED 2 X 10" LP)
New Order - "Temptation"/"Hurt" 7"
Obits - "I Can't Lose/Military Madness" 7"
Pavement - "Live in Germany 1988" LP
Elvis Perkins - "Lorraine Lookout" 7"
Pretenders - "Break Up The Pavement"/Love's..." 7"
Radiohead - 12" vinyl single series (Drill, Creep, My Iron Lung, High & Dry, Fake Plastic Trees, Just, Street Spirit, Paranoid Android, Karma Police, No Surprises, Pyramid Song, 2+2=5)
Arthur Russell - "Love Is Taking Me" 2 X LP
Russian Circles/These Arms Are Snakes - split LP
Silversun Pickups - Pikul 12" (exclusive release ahead of their new album)
Slayer - "Psychopathy Red" 7"
Slipknot - All Hope Is Gone LP
Smiths - "The Headmaster Ritual" /"Oscillate Widly" 7"
Sonic Youth/Beck - split 7"
Sonic Youth/Jay Reatard - split 7"
Charles Spearin (of Broken Social Scene) - The Happiness Project - LP
Regina Spektor - Begin To Hope LP
Bruce Springsteen - "What Love Can Do"/"A Night With The Jersey Devil" 7"
The Stooges - "1969"/"Real Cool Time" 7"
Sublime - "Superstar Punani/April 29, 1992" 7"
Taking Back Sunday - "Carpathia/Catholic" (live) 7"
Talking Heads - 77 LP
The Thermals/Thao - split 7"
Vetiver - "Wishing Well"/"Pay No Mind" 7"
Tom Waits - "Live from the Glitterdome" 7"
Whiskeytown - "San Atone"/"Great Divide" 7"
Wilco - "Ashes of American Flags" DVD
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "It's Blitz" LP
Neil Young - Sugar Mountain - Live a Canterbury House 1968 2xLP
V/A - Records Toreism - LP (songs from Tortoise, Trans Am, Mountains, White Hills and Double Dagger)
... note - due to distributor/label/whatever delays, a few of these things have been delayed, but we'll get them in next week or whenever the labels finally send them to us. These include the Modest Mouse 7", Elvis Costello 7", Rivers Cuomo CD/DVD, and Wilco LPs
ALSO, we will be having a drawing for a $50 gift certificate to be drawn on Saturday night.
AND IN ADDITION TO ALL OF THIS...we're going to bring out as many posters (and trust us, we have billions of them) & whatever else we can find to give to ya. It helps us, it helps you, it helps the world. Ok, maybe not the whole world. But we hope you'll enjoy what you can have.
The only requirement to get all this stuff is to stop by and buy something -- or, at the very least, look around and see if there's anything you want. I'm sure other stores will have more strings attached to get some of these free items, but we'd rather you have them then not, you know? We appreciate the year-round business that everyone in this community (and beyond) has brought us, year after year. Stop by on this new holiday and get a little somethin' back.
AND most importantly, we are having a Record Store Day Sale. Or you can call it our 3.5 year anniversary sale since we just had our 3rd Anniversary in January (we were a little late). Anyhow, here's the deal:
EVERYTHING IN THE STORE IS 15% OFF! - LPs, CDs, DVDs, 7"s, 10"s, books, stickers, patches, everything! Saturday only!
IN ADDITION ALL USED CDS & DVDS ARE BUY 2 GET 1 FREE! - This is combined with the 15% off, which basically amounts to buy one get one free (or a combined 44% off of all used cds & dvds if you want to get exact). Hopefully that makes sense. It's a lot easier for us to ring it up that way.
FREE LUNCHBOX RECORDS SLIPMAT WITH $50 PURCHASE - we had these made just for this and figured people might use this more than a shirt.
See you Saturday!!
Now for my rant...(reprinted from last year for your convenience)
You're probably wondering what RECORD STORE DAY is anyway? I was at first too. But it's basically a revamped customer appreciation day where hopefully you the customer appreciates us as well and the fact that you live in or near a town that still has independent record stores. I personally don't like buy things online, but lots of people do. But it's great to know that you can go to a store and browse and stumble on things you never would have thought of or heard of otherwise. You don't get too much of that online. We also do everything in our capabilities to sell you records as cheap as we can. This means buying direct whenever possible and searching for deals and unfortunately not bringing some stuff in because big labels like to give chain stores better deals than the little guy. Our prices for most things we stock are typically $2-$5 cheaper than the big store across town. We don't do sales often because we prefer to make it cheap all of the time. We stock tons of LPs and 7"s because we love the format and when I opened this store the other stores we're still busy trying to kill the format. I believe in independent music and labels and try to stock as much as I can which means a lot of lesser known indie, punk and metal titles. I'm not against major labels, but 99% of what they release is manufactured garbage, although they were all once viable indie labels.
I've been going to record stores since as long as I can remember, buying my first 7" in 1984 and getting into punk a couple years later. It wasn't until I moved to Atlanta that I had good stores that stocked underground releases and I've been addicted ever since. If I didn't love record stores I wouldn't own one. I'd go get a job that made a lot more money. People come in here a lot and tell me they love the store and it's great, and lots of out of town folks and bands do too. I really have no reference point on that anymore since I'm here seven days a week. There's only 2 other stores that sell vinyl in town, one is oldies oriented and the other banned me for life when I stopped working there and opened my own store. So I never get to go to any other stores and just try to make mine the one I would want to go to. I'm nowhere near that point yet and am working to improve it all of the time. I value people's suggestions and take them seriously, probably a little too seriously. But if you don't tell me what you want I can't read minds. The point of this being that I think the store is pretty good, and there are tons of folks that don't have a decent record store anywhere near them. So hopefully you'll support us. I realize the store isn't for everybody though.
We will continue to sell you lots of records we and you think are cool, and we will continue to have shows in the store as long as I can and bring awesome out of town bands to Charlotte. We are very thankful of those of you that have supported us for the last 3.5 years. And if you've never been here before, please come visit us.
-Scott
We buy used vinyl, CDs, DVDs, tapes every day all of the time
Unlike some other stores in town, you don't need an "appointment" to sell us your used stuff. As long as we are here and open we will gladly look at your stuff and buy it from you. None of that "so and so isn't here so we can't buy anything" or "we stop buying at 7:00" crap.
Just bring them in or if you have a whole collection to sell, we can come to you or you can email us a list. We are especially interested in punk, indie, metal and jazz collections.
Just got a few hundred jazz cds in...Blue Note, Impulse, Prestige, Riverside, etc.
someone just dropped off their jazz cd collection and it's a few hundred cds of all great '60s & '70s stuff, mostly bebop but some out stuff too. 90% of it is on Blue Note, Prestige, Riverside, or Impulse. Anyhow, it's not often that someone sells a collection this good, so I thought I'd make a post about it.
Thanks,
Scott
WE HAVE LOADS OF USED DVDs & DVD BOX SETS
That's right. Of course we have great records and cds, but we also have a ton of great used dvds!!!
And they're all cheap of course. Check out the DVD box sets we currently have used:
ADAM SANDLER COLLECTION
ALL IN THE FAMILY - SEASON 2
ALL IN THE FAMILY - SEASON 4
AMERICAN DAD - VOL. 1
ANDY GRIFFITH - SEASON 5
BATMAN ANIMATED SERIES - VOL 3
BEAVIS & BUTT-HEAD - MIKE JUDGE COLLECTION VOL. 2
BEWITCHED - SEASON 1
BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER - SEASON 3
BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER - SEASON 4
CECIL B. DEMILLE COLLECTION
CHARMED -SEASON 5
CHEERS - SEASON 8
CLOSER - SEASON 1
COACH - SEASON 1
CONCERT FOR BANGLADESH
CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM - SEASON 4
DEADWOOD - SEASON 2
DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES - SEASON 1
DHARMA & GREG - SEASON 1
DOG WHISPERER - SEASON ONE
ENTOURAGE - SEASON 1
ENTOURAGE - SEASON 2
FAMILY GUY - VOL. 3
FRASIER - SEASON 8
FRESH PRINCE OF BEL-AIR - SEASON 2
FRESH PRINCE OF BEL-AIR - SEASON 3
FULL HOUSE - SEASON 2
GODFATHER COLLECTION
HERE'S LUCY (LUCILLE BALL)
HILL STREET BLUES -SEASON 2
HOME IMPROVEMENT - SEASON 4
HOUSE - SEASON 1
JACKASS - BOX SET
JOEY -SEASON 1
KING OF THE HILL - SEASON 6
LORD OF THE RINGS - TWO TOWERS - SPECIAL 4-DISC ED.
LORD OF THE RINGS - RETURN OF THE KING - SPECIAL 4-DISC ED.
LORD OF THE RINGS - FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING - SPECIAL 4-DISC ED.
LOST -SEASON 1
M*A*S*H - SEASON 10
MEDIUM - SEASON 1
MEXICO TRILOGY BOX
MOONLIGHTING-SEASON 3
MUPPET SHOW - SEASON 1
NCIS - SEASON 1
NIGHT GALLERY - SEASON 1
NIP/TUCK - SEASON 1
NIP/TUCK - SEASON 2
O.C. - SEASON 2
OVER THERE - SEASON 1
PINK PANTHER - FILM COLLECTION (6 DISCS)
PRETENDER - SEASON 3
QUEER AS FOLK - SEASON 1
RAT PATROL - SEASON 1
SEAQUEST DSV-SEASON 1
SEINFELD - SEASON 4
SEINFELD - SEASON 5
SEINFELD - SEASON 6
SEX & THE CITY - SEASON 1
SEX & THE CITY - SEASON 2
SEX & THE CITY - SEASON 6 (PART 1)
SEX & THE CITY - SEASON 6 (PART 2)
SIMPSONS - SEASON 2
SIMPSONS - SEASON 7
SOUTH PARK - SEASON 7
STARGATE SG-1 - SEASON 7
STARGATE ATLANTIS - SEASON 1
STAR TREK FAN COLLECTIVE - TIME TRAVEL
STAR TREK FAN COLLECTIVE - BORG
STAR TREK FAN COLLECTIVE - Q
STAR TREK DEEP SPACE NINE - SEASON 5
STAR TREK NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 4
STAR TREK NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 5
THAT 70s SHOW - SEASON 4
TITUS - SEASONS 1 & 2
V - THE COMPLETE SERIES
VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA - SEASON 1
WALKER TEXAS RANGER - SEASON 1
WALTONS - SEASON 3
WILD WILD WEST - SEASON 1
WRESTLEMANIA ANTHOLOGY VOL. 4 - WM 16 - 20
X FILES -SEASON 6
