Mere hours are between you and your favorite unsanctioned holiday of the year: Record Store Day. I’m already buzzing at the prospect of getting my hands on some exclusive wax and then getting a bacon maple bar or 12 from Voodoo Doughnut’s mobile service at the downtown Jackpot.
Now, we’ve already clued you into the many shops that are doing special stuff for RSD 2011, from the aforementioned Jackpot to Music Millennium to the good folks at Record Room and Tender Loving Empire and Everyday Music. But those are hardly the only shops that provide you and I with our regular fixes of new tunes. And while we haven’t heard from many of those stores about special stuff they have going on tomorrow, we’d be remiss if we didn’t encourage you to stop by either tomorrow or at some point during your frantic hunt for that rare Flock of Seagulls 12″.
I won’t take the time to link you every one…because someone has done that for me! The good people at Stumptown Printers have run off hundreds of copies of the 2011 Portland Guide to Independent Record and CD Stores that you can pick up around town, and have given you the list of all the shops in the guide on their website as an online reference. There are plenty of places worthy of your time and money, so close your eyes, pick a shop, and give them your business.
