Vinyl Bay 777, Long Island’s music outlet, takes a look at what makes Record Store Day’s Black Friday event important
The wait is finally over! Today is Record
Store Day Black Friday! Like its parent event in April, Black Friday is a chance
to find exclusive releases while supporting the independent record shops that
foster the music community.
Now in its seventh year, Record Store Day Black Friday
emerged out of a necessity to bring independent shops back into the fold of
holiday shopping. According to their website, the event “gives record stores
exclusive releases as part of an attempt to redirect the focus of the biggest
shopping day of the year to the desirable, special things to be found at local stores.”
This year’s event will feature titles from the likes of Paul
McCartney, the Grateful
Dead, the Brian
Setzer Orchestra, Tori
Amos, Twisted
Sister, Queen,
Willie
Nelson and hundreds more. All exclusives are released in limited quantity
and once they are gone, they are gone.
Black Friday itself has been around since 1952. Taking place
the day after Thanksgiving, it is considered to be the start of the holiday
shopping season. The first profitable sales day of the year, the event is named
for the black ink used to mark profits in a business’ sales ledger (losses are
marked in red). In more recent years, Black Friday has become even more of a phenomenon,
with scores of shoppers lining up at ridiculously early hours (sometimes ON
Thanksgiving) to take part in deep discounts and sales.
Much of the time though, Black Friday feels like it is
reserved for the big retailers. Those are the stores that run the biggest deals
and draw the biggest crowds. And while Small Business Saturday is a thing, it’s
not quite as big as the behemoth that is Black Friday.
Such is the need to celebrate local, independent record shops
during the holiday season, as well as all year long. These are the places where
music communities grow and thrive, where people discover new music and the
classics. There no better place to find gifts for the music lovers in your life
than from people who know and love music.
Record Store Day has been a very profitable event for locally-owned
and independent record shops all over the world for the last ten years. The annual
April event has played a large role in the vinyl revival, helping it to become
the only physical medium to grow in albums sales year over year. Record Store
Day has also been proven to raise retail sales at independent stores. This past
April’s event earned the biggest non-Christmas retail sales in more than a
decade. So if anyone can bring attention to local stores during the holiday
season, it’s Record Store Day.
While Black Friday is often geared more towards larger
retailers, Record Store Day is aiming to bring some of that attention back to
locally-owned and independent shops with their Black Friday event. After all,
it is these Independent record shops that have had a big part in creating community
around music. Through exclusive releases, the event hopes to help draw in
business and give music lovers an added reason to shop locally this holiday
season.
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Shop for music gifts locally this holiday season at Vinyl
Bay 777. Long Island’s top new independent record shop has thousands of titles
to choose from in a variety of genres. Check out exclusive Record Store Day
Black Friday exclusives while supplies last or browse our wide selection of new
and used vinyl records, CDs, cassettes, music DVDs and memorabilia in store and
online at vinylbay777.com. New titles are being added to our selection all the
time, so you never know what you might find at Vinyl Bay 777.
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