It’s been talked about for months, and now it’s finally here.  Record Store Day, the day we all bum rush our local music peddlers and cause them dire stocking issues in the aftermath.  Of course, any local music shop would be ecstatic if they found themselves thousands of albums down, but tens of thousands of dollars up.  Towards this end various special events and deals are being offered by local record stores, and we’ve put together a short list (surprisingly shorter than we would like) of some you might be interested in exploiting!  (Note: record store websites are not very detailed.  If you’ve heard of a sale or event going on at a local record store this Saturday that is not mentioned below, please share!)

The Electric Fetus (Minneapolis, Duluth, and St. Cloud)

The Electric Fetus is offering a variety of sale deals , giveaways, and live in-store appearances on Saturday.  Per their e-newsletter:

Drop by the store for all kinds of limited edition releases, sale priced items, and special events including:

* Free food and beverages.
* Free “goody bags” of CD samplers, stickers, and buttons.
* Hourly giveaways of 7″ prize packs, CDs, DVDs, autographed posters, gift cards, and KOSS and Skullcandy headphones.
* Live music.
Here’s the schedule of in-stores at our three stores for Saturday:

Minneapolis:
2:30 p.m. – Chris Cornell meet & greet/signing
4:00 p.m. – Bad Plus in-store performance

Duluth:
3:00 p.m. – Danny Schmidt (Red House Records)

St. Cloud:
4:00 p.m. – Aby Wolf in-store performance

Down In The Valley (Golden Valley, MN)

Halestorm will be performing in-store live at 1PM.

Cheapo and Applause

Charlie Moranis will be performing live at GIGS, 80 N Snelling, St Paul.  Call for the time?

Other Record Stores Worth Visiting and Buying an Album At

Treehouse Records

Eclipse Records

Extreme Noise

Know Name Records

Roadrunner Records

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posted April 16th, 2009 at 12:52 pm Music News Record Store Day