ear X-tacy’s Vinyl Best Sellers & RSD11 News

ear X-tacy has reported back to The Vinyl District that they had a fantastic Record Store Day. In addition to performances from Thomas A Minor & Mountain Heart they also had the distinction of being one of FIVE record stores IN THE WORLD to have one of the coveted Big Star original test pressings! A HUGE congratulations to customer Mike Creamer for being the lucky one to find the test pressing (which is 36 years old) contained in his Record Store Day purchase.


Thomas A. Minor & The Picket Line

Mountain Heart

But I’m getting ahead of myself because before Record Store Even began ear X-tacy was named one of the best record stores in the USA by Rolling Stone AND TIME Magazine!

A big, comfortable space in a medium-sized, comfortable town, Ear X-tacy is arguably Louisville’s second-greatest tourist attraction after the Kentucky Derby. Yet there’s nothing touristy about it: From a packed schedule of in-store performances to a generous selection of local artists — not to mention national and international ones — this is a classic hometown record shop, with generous amounts of music-related items (not just CDs and vinyl). You know that long out of print title you’ve always hoped to run across in person? Chances are that it’s here — and that it’s cheap. -Rolling Stone

John Timmons grew up as a music fanatic in the ’60s, buying records, then 8-track tapes, then cassettes and CDs. He opened ear X-tacy in 1985, and it’s become the launch pad for a handful of Louisville bands that have gone on to wider fame, most notably My Morning Jacket. The store will be selling half the copies of a super-limited MMJ single coming out on Record Store Day. “The artists really do care about the physical, brick-and-mortar stores,” Timmons says. “And our employees are true music junkies — they can talk to anybody about any sort of music. It’s that personal interaction that’s kept us going.” -Time Magazine

Not too shabby guys! Keep up the good work!

The Chart:

ear X-tacy’s top 25 Vinyl sales 4.11-4.17.2011 (including RSD11)

  1. My Morning Jacket “Circuital
  2. Young Widows “In & Out of Youth & Lightness
  3. Foo Fighters “Medium Rare
  4. Off!”Live at Generation R…
  5. Black Angels “Another Nice Pair
  6. Jason Isbell “Here We Rest
  7. Black Angels “Phosgene Nightmare
  8. Mumford & Sons “Dharohar Project Etc
  9. Bonnie Prince Billy “Must Be Blind
  10. My Morning Jacket “It Still Moves” pic disc
  11. My Morning Jacket “Z” pic disc
  12. My Morning Jacket “Evil Urges” pic disc
  13. Foo Fighters “Wasting Light
  14. Television “Live @ the Old Waldorf
  15. Radiohead “King of Limbs
  16. Bob Dylan “Live in Concert
  17. Elliott “US Songs
  18. V/A “Local Customs: Pressed at Boddie
  19. Ray Lamontagne “Live, Fall 2010
  20. James Blake “s/t”(*CIMS)
  21. Panda Bear “Tomboy
  22. Syd Barrett “An Introduction to Syd Barrett
  23. TV on the Radio “Nine Types of Light
  24. Deftones “Covers
  25. Kings of Leon “Holy Roller Novocaine

 

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