Amazon Celebrates Vinyl Store by Giving Away Records, Here’s One Indie Store’s Response: “To Amazon, your $20 is chump change. To us, your $20 helps us buy 2 more really awesome records that we want to expose you to,” the store states in a blog post. “We’re all about introducing you to music that we love and supporting the local music scene.“
Jupiter Records comes to Woodbury Heights: Add Steve Zimmerman to the list of Princeton Record Exchange alumni to strike out on his own. “I know about four or five people who worked there with me and opened their own stores,” the Central Jersey native said. “They’re all in Brooklyn, though,” he laughed.
Whatever Happened To … Record Theatre? During its heyday, Record Theatre was a hip hangout for local youngsters to revel in rock and roll and R&B. Vinyl albums and 45s were the big sellers then, but customers also lined up for concert tickets and browsed through racks of cool T-shirts, posters and books.
Introducing the brand new TVD Record Store Locator App and the TVD Record Store Club: We’re doubling down on our commitment to the mom and pop, brick and mortar shops with a whole host of plans—and they commence right now with a redesigned TVD Record Store Locator App we’re delighted to officially unveil today. And of course it’s still free for your iPhone or Android.
Record shop bucks trend as it opens expanded store: Much loved Resident Records, in Kensington Gardens, Brighton is set to take over the shop next door to cater for demand. For many years the store has struggled to find space for their various collections of genres of music. So the store’s owners, husband and wife couple Derry and Natasha Watkins, decided to knock the walls through and join the two spaces.
Vinyl fans in a spin over new Edmonton record store: Vinyl collectors were waiting at the door Thursday ready for the noon launch. James Price, who has about 3,000 records already, was one of the first to go inside. “Vinyl is an experience, it’s not just taking a piece of plastic, opening it up and putting it in,” Price said. “You can sit on your bed and open up an album and look at the cover while you’re listening.
Business of Life: Vinyl is a Well Made way of life for Cleveland company, Holley founded Well Made Music about five years ago, and since then he and his sole employee, Dave Polster, have created close to 10,000 master records. Among them are records made by Willie Nelson, George Thorogood, Jewel and BB King.
