Record Store Day is a “time to honor” those independent stores. “Not long ago, the only place to buy music was your local, independent record store,” she said. People appreciate that,” said Camilletti. It is an art form, not a piece of dry goods. She believes that the order of songs on a record are that way for a reason and are meant to be experienced in that particular sequence. On Saturday WXRT deejays Terri Hemmert and Lyn Brehmer dropped by to join the festivities.Ĭamilletti, like many other vinyl enthusiasts, views music as a way to express one’s identity and each LP as a piece of art. She opened the store in 1972– the same year WXRT was born. Oak Park calls the record industry “remarkable” and credits it with “giving life where life was sucked away.” Camilletti started working at Capitol Records 50 years ago.
Val Camilletti, 73-year-old owner of Val’s halla Records at 239 Harrison St. To Brandt, owning a record is like “owning a piece of history.” Brandt said that Reckless Records’ stock is “primarily used LPs.” He says the new location in Forest Park will make it “easier for Reckless Records’ customers to shop and trade outside of the city” because they won’t have to deal with parking and driving in Chicago. The owner of Cyclopx wanted to sell the entirety of his stock along with the space, so Reckless Records swept in and took over. The space was previously owned by record and collectible shop Cyclopx. Gar Brandt has worked at Reckless Records for 10 years, though he just started working at their Forest Park branch when it opened a month ago at 7511 Madison St. “Record Store Day is bigger every year,” said Gianakopoulos, because records are “culturally indelible.” Jodi Gianakopoulos said that the biggest change she and Peter have experienced since opening was how, “the music industry has helped vinyl …The media is finally helping out the little guy.” She has been in the record business since 1986 and declares that it is “really fun to be a vinyl vendor” because there is “a lot of history.” Now “kids think records are cool,” she said, “which closes the generation gap” and amuses the older people. Peter and Jodi Gianakopoulos will be celebrating the 10th anniversary of The Old School Records, 7446 Madison St., next month. and thousands of similar stores internationally.” The website describes the day as “a way to celebrate and spread the word about the unique culture surrounding over 700 independently owned record stores in the U.S. Record Store Day was conceived in 2007 to cater to a growing group of LP enthusiasts, and to the growing number of musical groups that are now releasing their albums on vinyl. This year’s National Record Store Day took place Saturday, with dozens of area record stores joining this homage to vinyl.Īfter the music industry shift to digital and file-sharing killed big record chains such as Tower Records and Rose Records in the 1990s, independent record stores have been clawing back from their near-death-experiences. Local music outlets nationwide now stage Record Store Day, an annual celebration of vinyl that attracts hordes of music enthusiasts hoping to add limited-edition LPs to their record collections. At a time when almost all music is digitized–most of that downloaded to phones and ipods–vinyl records are, for a growing number of listeners, a viable and exciting way to hear their favorite music. To paraphrase Mark Twain, reports of the death of LPs are apparently greatly exaggerated.
🚨PARKING INFO: Overflow parking for our Knoxville location is the parking lot at Berry Highland Memorial … just a couple doors east from us along the same side of Kingston Pike (see map below).It’s a record: World music group Black Bear Combo performed at The Old School Records on Saturday during National Record Store Day.Courtesy: The Old School Records We accept all credit cards, Apple Pay, Wild Honey gift cards, and cash. After that, you can buy an extra copy of something, if you’d like. You can buy as many different titles as you like, RSD items are 1-per-title/per customer while there are people waiting in line. If you run out of time shopping, you can rejoin the line and come in again! While the line lasts, we’ll be letting in groups of 15 shoppers at a time for 10 minutes and we have a quick checkout outside.
For example, we’ll have 80 copies of Taylor Swift’s Folklore in Oak Ridge AND another 80 copies at our Kingston Pike shop, too.īoth our locations have long covered sidewalks, so you can stay dry if you’re waiting in line. We’re starting the day at 8am with all the RSD vinyl equally split between our two locations.
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