Vinyl Bay 777 is Featured in the Latest Issue of Good Times Magazine

The new issue of Good Times Magazine is out now! What’s more, Vinyl Bay 777 is being featured in it!

This month, the bi-weekly, free publication is running a feature on local record shops. Titled “Vinyl is King – Again: Your Guide to Area Record Stores,” the three-page spread highlights 12 Long Island shops, each talking about vinyl, the music scene and detailing their best-selling records.

Vinyl Bay 777 is featured first in the guide, mentioning the thousands of titles on sale now in store and online. The focus is shifted towards the ample rock music section, detailing new releases and best-sellers from such artists as Deep Purple, Twisted Sister, Alice Cooper, Blink-182, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Kiss and Stevie Ray Vaughn, as well as their current pre-order for the new Metallica record coming out in November. It also makes mention of the store’s participation in Rhino Records’ Rocktober event, which sees new albums from some of the label’s top artists being released every Tuesday in October.

The feature comes at a very appropriate time, as vinyl records have made a comeback in the last 10 years. For a time in the 1980s and 1990s, cassettes and CDs surpassed vinyl in popularity and by the mid-late 2000s with the advent of digital downloads; it looked like all physical mediums would fade into obscurity. But events like Record Store Day have led to a new sort of popularity for the tried and true medium of vinyl. People are looking for physical albums once again and labels are once again producing new music for the medium. You can now find new vinyl at big chains like Barnes & Noble and Urban Outfitters.

However, it’s the small shops that are really benefiting from the resurgence. There is a fascination with used records as much as there is a call for new ones. These are the places people congregate to talk about music and find out about new artists and discover the music of more established artists. You never know what kinds of rare gems you might find combing through a record shop’s bins.

“Vinyl is back and we are your music outlet,” says Vinyl Bay 777 owner Frank Napoli in the article. “We have every genre there is, from easy listening to jazz, a huge blues selection, and a large collection of original releases of rock. We have a large collection of rap and disco as well. We grade and clean our vinyl, and we make sure you are getting the proper records.”

A half-page ad for Vinyl Bay 777 is also featured on page three of the issue.

The October 4-17, 2016 issue of Good Times Magazine is available now. The record store guide runs from page two to four of the issue.

Check out one of the largest quality record stores on Long Island with nearly 1800 sealed LPs, more than 9000 cassettes and more than 7000 sealed CDs in stock. Vinyl Bay 777 also has the island’s largest collection of clean 45s, as well as tons of music memorabilia, books, magazines and posters.

Celebrate Vinyl Bay 777’s one year anniversary this November by shopping in-store at 101-14 Dupont Street in Plainview, NY or online at vinylbay777.com. Store hours are Monday and Wednesday from 4PM to 10PM, Saturday from 11AM to 2AM and Sunday from 11AM to 10PM.