Thursday, April 19, 2018

Record Store Day is Saturday, April 21

See here for the official Record Store Day site!

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From Facebook page of Joe Nardone's Gallery of Sound

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From Facebook page of Embassy Vinyl, 352 Adams Avenue, Scranton, PA
Record Store Day is an annual event (first held in April 2008) that celebrates independent record stores, record culture, and the art of music on vinyl. Record stores are becoming fewer in number every year as more people chose to download or stream music, and many who choose to buy physical records or CDs do so through online retailers. Participating record stores often feature special promotional items for Record Store Day, so stop by your local record store and see what they've got. Go here for locations of participating stores near you.

(That link shows me a list of seven record stores within fifty miles on Nanticoke. Seven. Two of them are Gallery of Sound locations, which once boasted eleven stores throughout the region, including two in Wilkes-Barre alone. The Electric Mindshaft in Scranton, a favorite haunt in my college days thirty years ago, is apparently closed now, and may have been closed for as much as four years. It looks like Hazleton currently has zero record stores. HINT: Search by zip code, not city, for a list of nearby record stores.)

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