Record Store Tag Archives

Help! I Fell in Love With a Drummer and Now I’m in a Record Store Explaining to the Cashier Why Carter Beauford Is the Best Musician in Dave Matthews Band

Amy Currul • April 23, 2025

Love makes us do crazy things — run through airports, hold up boomboxes, and sometimes even willingly hang out on…

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Am I a Celebrity Now? Amoeba Records Security Wants To Know What’s in My Bag

Zachary Wolf • April 7, 2025

Man you guys, you’ll never believe what happened to me when I went to Amoeba Records last week! I shouldn’t…

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Lisa Loeb Wins Local Record Store’s “Sexiest Woman Alive” Award For 29th Year in a Row

The Hard Times Staff • February 26, 2025

LAWRENCE, Kan. — Employees of independent record store Tables Turned announced their coveted “Sexiest Woman Alive” award went to Lisa…

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Middle-Aged Metal Fan Prepares Elaborate Story for Record Store Clerk About Why He’s Just Now Purchasing “Reign in Blood”

Jason Clemence • February 1, 2025

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Local 46-year-old metalhead Rich Dresden nervously concocted a complex narrative to explain to the clerk at Urgent…

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The Employees of “Empire Records” Ranked By How Likely They Are Still Working Retail

Dan Kozuh • May 16, 2024

"Damn the man! Save the Empire!" These were the rallying cries of every spirited "teen" working at the fictional store…

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Local Record Shop’s Going Out of Business Sale Precedes Grand Opening

James Knapp • April 11, 2024

WALLA WALLA, Wash. — Independent record shop Columbia Flophouse somberly announced the business’s going-out-of-business sale nearly two full weeks before…

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Record Store Owner Figures He’s Five or Six More Taylor Swift Album Releases Away From Retiring Comfortably

Chris Bowen • March 14, 2024

NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. — Dale Buttry, owner of cherished local record store Spinsy’s Records and Tapes, has come to the…

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Customer Wants Refund After Local Record Store Owner Didn’t Compliment Any of Her Picks

Danielle Chelosky • December 14, 2023

PORTLAND, Ore. — Local record collector Eliza Vernon reported being distraught and is demanding a refund after the owner of…

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Sad! This Album in the Used Section by a Band No One’s Ever Heard of is Autographed

Trevor Graham • July 11, 2023

Ugh, what a bummer! While flipping through the used vinyl at my local record store with endless copies of The…

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Record Store Bathroom Has “Staff Picks” Written Next to Certain Urinals

Liam Stephenson • June 27, 2023

PORTLAND, Ore. — Local record store Death and Waxes added “staff pick” signs at certain urinals in their restroom to…

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