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Will Record Store Day Spin Right Past Orange County By?

Friday, Jan. 30 2009 @ 1:56PM

By Matt Coker in audiophilia, in-store appearances, long beach

April 18 is Record Store Day. The National Association of Recording Merchandisers is sponsoring this celebration of "the unique culture of indie record stores all year long" with sales, in stores and other mayhem. NAMBLA, I mean, NARM has the backing of fellow sponsors Music Monitor Network, the Coalition of Independent Music Stores and the Alliance of Independent Music Stores. It has the historical success of Record Store Day 2008, which saw sales spike at independent record stores all across the land. And it has the musical celebrity endorsements of such talent as Chuck Berry, Ziggy Marley, the Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne, Norah Jones and Sir Paul McCartney, who says, "There's nothing as glamorous to me as a record store. When I recently played Amoeba in LA, I realized what fantastic memories such a collection of music brings back when you see it all in one place. This is why I'm more than happy to support Record Store Day and I hope that these kinds of stores will be there for us all for many years to come. Cheers!" Ben Harper even gave a shout out to a store where I blew all my college loans, Rhino Records in Claremont.

Yeah, Record Store Day has everything going for it . . . except Orange County. According to the online map, we are but a desert of little pop up thingies indicating participating venues.
No Vinyl Solution of Huntington Beach, no Pepperland of Orange, no TKO Records of Fountain Valley. I'm not saying those places aren't holding events tied to Record Store Day, I'm saying they are not part of the NARM's map that shows Fingerprints in Long Beach being the closest store that is. If you have something against Fingerprints (shame on you!) or spending money is all of Los Angeles, your next closest choices are Lou's Records in Encinitas and Mad Platter in Riverside.

The gas to get to one of those should equal about a used disc and a half.

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Jon says:

I'm sorry if the Record Store Day map is misleading, but Google maps only permits 150 data points per page, and the embedded map is just the first of 4 pages of stores...The View Larger Map link is required to see them all.

TKO Records and Vinyl Solution and Pepperland are all part of the "Larger Map with pages"

Also, if you select the state of California in the drop down menu, you will see an inclusive list that includes those three stores.

Best regards,
Record Store Day Webmaster

Posted on Wednesday, Feb. 4 2009 @ 8:45AM

Matt Coker says:

Thanks for clarifying, Jon. I managed to land on the drop-down menu listing all participating stores and their web links. Those OC stores are indeed included. As for the map, I kept making it larger and larger and OC remained a pin-less desert. Maybe I'm retarded.

Posted on Wednesday, Feb. 4 2009 @ 8:54AM

Jon says:

It's partly Google's fault, we are redesigning the jump page today. When you go to the larger map on Google, you have to scroll all the way down the lefthand column to see that it's paginated with more pages...

It will become more obvious shortly as we are about to sort the map data by longitude, so it will look like all the stores are in the West, and the other pages will move around the globe. (lots of stores participating in the UK).

Cheers.

Posted on Wednesday, Feb. 4 2009 @ 9:06AM

GB says:

Sound Spectrum in Laguna Beach is also listed.

Posted on Wednesday, May. 27 2009 @ 9:02AM

GB says:

Sound Spectrum in Laguna Beach is also listed.

Posted on Wednesday, May. 27 2009 @ 9:02AM