Celebrate Record Store Day with Vintage Vinyl in the Loop

Other Delmar Loop businesses will be holding a sidewalk sale on Saturday.

The sixth annual Record Store Day is Saturday, April 20, and Vintage Vinyl is ready to celebrate. The record store in the Delmar Loop will have live music and great deals all day long. According to Record Store Day.com the event was conceived in 2007 at a gathering of independent record store owners and employees as a way to celebrate and spread the word about the 700 independently owned record stores in the United States. To help celebrate, businesses along the Delmar Loop will have a sidewalk sale, featuring items up to 75 percent off. The sidewalk sale begins at noon. Star Clipper will also be hosting a comic book release party for Tanked, from local comic creators Ink and Drink Comics, as they release their sixth comic anthology. The …

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Watch: Vintage Vinyl Owner Talks 'Record Store Day'

In this video from our friends at FOX-2 KTVI, Tom "Papa" Ray tells viewers what to expect at Record Store Day at Vintage Vinyl on the Loop.

Vintage Vinyl will host live performances and have free drinks and exclusive albums for Record Store Day on Saturday. The annual event celebrates and supports independently-owned record stores across the country. Vintage Vinyl will participate from 10 a.m. to midnight with a packed music schedule that includes Sleepy Sun, Rough Shop and Dear John, among others, notes the store's Facebook page. The store will also host several guest DJs. Owner Tom "Papa" Ray spoke with our friends at FOX-2 KTVI about Record Store Day.  "It's a celebration of music, culture and small business," he said. The store will carry limited-edition records that are only available through the special day. Eddie Vedder and The White Stripes are two of the artists who …

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Annual Event at Vintage Vinyl Supports Local Music

Record Store Day brings special edition records and free beer to Delmar Loop for the third year.

A special event at the Delmar Loop's premier music store brought in droves of audiophiles this past weekend. From 10 a.m. to midnight on Saturday, Vintage Vinyl hosted Record Store Day, a day of live music and special releases on vinyl records held the third Saturday of April. The sales event to support record stores -- which have greatly declined in recent years due to the rise in digital music -- has spread across the United States and the world since its inception in California. Vintage Vinyl co-owner Tom "Poppa" Ray was thrilled to see so many customers pack into the store. "It's become by far our biggest single day of business of the year," Ray said. "It's just a way the independent record store community around the country chooses to…

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