Tomorrow is Record Store Day. Get pumped. Here's a good idea of what the local stores will be carrying:
PAVEMENT: LIVE IN GERMANY LP SONIC YOUTH/JAY REATARD SPLIT 7 SONIC YOUTH/BECK SPLIT 7" ARTHUR RUSSELL: LOVE IS OVERTAKING ME 2LP CAMERA OBSCURA: FRENCH NAVY 7" ELVIS PERKINS: LORRAINE, LOOKOUT 7" BLACK KIDS: WIZARD OF AHHS 10" [...]
From the Cleveland Park listserv. Writer "Don" begs for vinyl:
"I have decided to go retro in my music listening and am trying to rebuild a collection of good old vinyl record albums. If you'd like to give a loving home to those lonely albums sitting around your house, I'd be happy to take them off [...]
LOCAL RECORD BLOG MAKES GOOD!
As previously noted, the good people behind Record Store Day 2009 have tapped The Vinyl District to be their flagship blog for this year's festivities. It's a commendable move, and seems to have sparked a wave of gratitude over at TVD:
...[It is] an honor for this blog which attempts in [...]
There's lots of interesting info in an update posted Friday on Crooked Beat's MySpace page: Vinyl is now the big sales driver for the store, which is now dialing back the new CDs it stocks and getting more selective with its used CD selection as well. Excerpts from the post below. (But go read the [...]
There are tons of awesome new/old vinyl at Red Onion. We just got the e-mail. You wanna race for that gospel comp on vinyl? Don't worry there's more. Lots more. The man's got some cool reissue psych folk and some Mexican psych-punk, the new Love Is All, a bunch of Low LPs, and so on.
Intangible Arts is reporting that Orpheus, located next to the Clarendon metro stop, is still having its going-out-of-business sale:
"Proprietor Rick's 'final days' and store-closing sales have been going on since last winter, and we hungry vinyl-hounds have picked the bones while wiping away tears... But there's STILL meat on them bones.
Orpheus' door was set to [...]
May we suggest that you nerd out i.e. scan the list of new LP arrivals at Red Onion after the jump. Not on the list but just as fine as anything out there–two new titles from hot vinyl-only label Mississippi Records. Red Onion's got both (a gospel comp. and a reissue of an obscure punk [...]
This past weekend, Local Legend Tom Porter held a massive vinyl sale in his backyard. We hyped it.
Some of you complained that you missed out. Today, we are glad to report that Tom Porter is hosting another vinyl sale in his Chapin Street backyard (1435 Chapin Street NW). The sale will be on Saturday. We [...]
Dischord folk write:
We are currently stocked on many Dischord titles on Vinyl that have been unavailable for months and in some cases years, including Dag Nasty, Can I Say, which is now available for the first time on blue vinyl. We are also fully stocked on the following releases:
Minor Threat Out of Step EP
Minor Threat, [...]
I know you lost your 401K. Times are hard. The stock market is currently going all screwy. It's time to invest in the one thing that never loses its value: Vinyl LPs.
Legendary Jazz Hero Tom Porter is hosting a massive vinyl sale in the back of his house located at 1435 Chapin Street NW. The [...]
