Photos by Stacie Joy
Record Store Day (RSD) — the annual celebration of independent record shops — is happening today.
As always, vinyl enthusiasts can look forward to limited-edition releases from artists across various genres, as well as special reissues (and reissues of reissues) and previously unreleased recordings.
The East Village has several great record stores... and we like them all.
On 12th Street, Academy LPs stopped taking part in RSD last year. (They do the big $1 bin sale at the Brooklyn annex.) The offshoot of Academy Records on 18th Street first appeared in 2001 on 10th Street and Fourth Avenue before settling into its current location between Avenue A and First Avenue in 2008.
These first photos are all from Academy the other week...
Also, a shout-out to the excellent A-1 Records on Sixth Street (thanks to Jeremie for letting us take the pic)... the shop turns 30 next year...
Here are all the full-time local record stores... all excellent in their own ways. (And as far as we know, Limited to One is the lone RSD participant. Details here.)
439 E. Sixth St. between Avenue A and First Avenue
415 E. 12th St. between Avenue A and First Avenue
32 E. Second St. between Second Avenue and the Bowery
221 E. 10th St. between First Avenue and Second Avenue
220 E. 10th St. between First Avenue and Second Avenue
218 E. Fifth St. between Second Avenue and Cooper Square
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