There’s some big cancellations and postponements going on these past few days that we are trying our best to keep up with impacting our store, shows, and more. Since we are involved with so many different events in and outside of our space, we are taking things step by step and case by case to make the right decisions regarding safety and heath. We’ll do our best to let you all know of any cancellations through here.

Of course many of you are aware that the Annual Springfield St. Patrick’s Day Parade downtown has been cancelled or postponed to a later date. This means no elephant.

The other big postponement affecting us and what is usually the biggest day of the year for our store is Record Store Day 2020. That has been moved to Saturday June 20th, 2020. Here’s the statement from Record Store Day:

Record Store Day is a worldwide event celebrating record stores and their place in the community. In the interest of being good members of those local, national and worldwide communities, we’ve decided to move the date of Record Store Day 2020 to JUNE 20.

The basic plan is to shift everything to that date, but there are a lot of people and things involved with a worldwide event like this, and a lot of moving pieces, so be nice to your record store if they don’t have an immediate answer to your questions. We’re all working on, well, everything.

Wash your hands. Take care. We want everyone to be happy, healthy and looking forward to getting together for the party. #RSD20#RSDJUNE20

These are exciting times for Record Store Day enthusiasts and for us as well – the official Record Store Day list for 2020 was just released to the public (and to us) yesterday! This includes a little over 400 exclusive titles of limited pressings coming out for Record Store Day 2020 on Saturday, April 18th this year.

You can find that full list on the Record Store Day website right here.

See anything that you are interested in picking up on that list? We can not put in any special orders or place any exclusive items on hold for Record Store Day, but we do have an active post going on our facebook page (pinned to the top) where we are collecting comments of what you would like us to order. Don’t have facebook? You can always email us at dumbrecs@gmail.com what you would like and we can try to make sure we can have it stocked for Record Store Day!

You can find a facebook event for Record Store Day at Dumb Records right here. Our store will be open from 8:00 am to 8:00 pm (there will be people waiting in line). We are going to have live music lined up throughout the day, to be announced later on along with some more goodies!

This is an official announcement to let you all know that Record Store Day 2020 is happening exactly two months from today on Saturday, April 18th. Record Store Day is an annual world-wide event which started in 2008, making this the 13th one. Usually every year it is the biggest day for us, and the same probably true for hundreds of other record stores around the globe.

No, there are no exclusive releases being announced for Record Store Day just yet, and we have not put any orders in. We do plan on making announcements on our pages as soon as those releases are known and also once we can announce what we have planned for the day. We can say that we are likely to have WYMG broadcasting live inside of our space when we open again, likely live music throughout the day, and maybe some extra deals on top of all of that. Oh, and free coffee provided by Foamed Up!

Stay tuned!

Good morning everyone and hope you had a great Thanksgiving, now it’s time for Black Friday Record Store Day!!! Our store opens in a few minutes at 8:00 am and looks like there have been some people in line since around 6:00 am!!

Of course some people are in line to get dibs on those limited exclusives that we have coming in. We will have free coffee and donuts.  Everything in the store other than the exclusive releases will be 25% off. This is the first time we have ever done a sale in the new store. We DO have a fresh run of shirts, sweatshirts, hoodies, and zip-ups in time for this day! We DO have gift cards available for the first time at the new store! We also just put out about a hundred extra used records into the store for the first time! Wow! We also have a few record players for sale!

Then there is a show happening at 7:00 pm that night at our space with five acts. This includes Kate The Band, who we all know and love. This also includes “Pretty Pleased” – a guy from Chicago whose music you can find streaming on the player below. Right smack dab in the middle is Ricki Marvel (formerly Eric Marvel), playing some of that electronic new wave music. Before that is… Animals with Human Names! Playing some old school hip hop after he gets done perusing our hip hop section in the store and taking advantage of that 25% off sale. Opening things up is Kenyon DeShasier playing some sweet sweet and refreshing indie pop.

Yes. Find a facebook event for all of that right here. Also check out our shows page where we keep a list of everything that’s coming up and going on.

Wow, we are mentioned in the local paper yet again. The State-Journal Register have an article in their big fat Black Friday Deals Thanksgiving newspaper about Black Friday Record Store Day being celebrated around the globe, and taking place at Dumb Records and Recycled Record downtown. (Let’s not forget to support The Elf Shelf even if they don’t have exclusives, because Record Store Day is about supporting the local record store). The paper talked with owners Brian Galecki and Mark Kessler about what each store has lined up for tomorrow. From the article:

This year’s event comes at an interesting time for both stores, as Dumb Records – previously located in the South Town district – closes in on one year since its move downtown and as Recycled Records owner Mark Kessler continues to entertain offers to sell his one-of-a-kind store.

For Galecki, the move downtown has been good for his business, which has seen increased traffic driven by tourists. He also lauded the neighborhood’s creative atmosphere.

Check out that full article online right here, or pick up a copy of today’s local paper while you still have time.

We open at 8:00 am tomorrow morning, and Recycled Records opens even earlier, but starts selling their Black Friday Record Store Day exclusives at 8:00 am. Check out a facebook event for what we have going on tomorrow right here. Don’t forget we have a show going on at 7:00 pm featuring Kate The Band, Pretty Pleased, Animals With Human Names, Ricki Marvel, and Kenyon DeShasier. Check out the Record Store Day website right here. We have been posting photos today of some of the exclusive releases before we get them priced and on the shelves for tomorrow morning.

Black Friday Record Store Day is typically our second biggest day in sales at Dumb Records right next to Record Store Day in April. Believe it or not, Black Friday is just one week away from today on Friday, November 29th. We’ve been meaning to fill you all in on the titles that we are expecting to get in this year. Typically for recent Record Store Day events, one forth to one third of what we order does not end up showing up. 😦 This usually leads to a few disappointed customers (sorry). Don’t worry though, you don’t need any of that over-priced fancy shmacy stuff. Luckily we are doing a store-wide sale, 25% off everything! (Except for exclusive releases). And we are getting all stocked up on record players, gift cards, shirts, hoodies, crew neck sweatshirts and all of that great stuff!! We even have a show that night at 7:00 pm! So come out even if you aren’t just in it for the exclusives! But if you are, you can find that list of what we ordered below. For everything listed here, you can find more detailed descriptions on the Record Store Day website. And as usual, we can not put any holds on any of that stuff. Sorry.

Ace Frehley – Frehley’s Comet Live LP
Anne-Sophie Mutter, John Williams – Across The Stars LP
Bruce Springsteen – Western Stars 7”
Cardi B – Gangsta Bitch Music Vol. 1 12”
Cheap Trick – Are You Ready? Live 12/31/1979 LP
Cheap Trick – Gimme Some Truth 7”
Devo – Devo Live!
Dio – Rainbow In The Dark (Live) 10” Picture Disc
Doors – Live At The Isle Of Wight Festival 1970 LP
Elvis Presley – American Sound 1969 Highlights LPx2
Frank Sinatra – My Way LP
Frank Zappa – Peaches EN Regalia / Little Umbrellas 10”
Hank Williams – 1940 Recordings 7”
Hector Lavoe & Willie Colon – Asalto Navideno LP
James Brown – Live At Home: The After Show LP
Jimi Hendrix – Merry Christmas & Happy New Year 12”
John Lee Hooker – Black Night Is Falling LP
Kinks – Arthur / Brainwashed 7”
Larry Mullins & Mike Watt – 1969: A Tribute To Scott Asheton 7”
Madonna – I Rise – Remixes 12”
Nas – Stillmatic LP
New Pornographers – Stand-Up LP
Nick Lowe & Wilco – Cruel To Be Kind 7”
Norah Jones – I’ll Be Gone 7”
Paul McCartney – Home Tonight / In A Hurry 7” Picture Disc
Pearl Jam – MTV Unplugged LP
Phish – Story Of The Ghost
Rockabye Baby! – Lullaby Renditions of Snoop Dogg 12”
Sammy Hagar – Santa’s Going South For Christmas 10” Picture Disc
Slipknot – All Out Life / Unsainted 7” Picture Disc
Sublime – Roots Of Sublime LP
Sugar Ray – 14:59 LP
Tenacious D – Blue Series: Don’t Blow It / Kage
They Might Be Giants – Don’t Let’s Start 12” EP
Various – File #733 U.F.O. Further Investigation LPx2
Various – Matrix Revolutions Music From The Motion Picture LPx2
Various – Motown Rare & Unreleased
Various – Saturday Morning Cartoons LPx2
Velvet Turner Group – Velvet Turner Group 12”
Venom – Manitou 7”
Vitamin String Quartet – Nightmare Before Christmas 12”
William Shatner / The Cramps – Garbageman 12”
Willie Nelson – Sometimes Even I Can Get Too High / It’s All Going To Pot 7”

We have a whole LOT to tell you about Black Friday Record Store Day this year, coming up QUICK – in less than three weeks!!! This is usually the second busiest day for sales in our store, right behind the actual Record Store Day that happens in April. We do have a number of exclusive releases coming in this year – however the amount we were able to order is a little limited, so we have a few other things planned to make a trip out to our store the day after Thanksgiving worth it.

For Black Friday Record Store Day – our store opens at 8:00 am on this day. Feel free to wait in line earlier if you really really want to. We will have free coffee and donuts.  Everything in the store other than the exclusive releases will be 25% off. This is the first time we have ever done a sale in the new store. We are expecting to have a fresh run of shirts, sweatshirts, hoodies, and zip-ups in time for this day! We also expect to have gift cards available for the first time at the new store! We are also going to be putting out at least a hundred extra used records into the store for the first time! Wow! We will also have a few record players for sale!

Then there is a show happening at 7:00 pm that night at our space with five acts. This includes Kate The Band, who we all know and love. This also includes “Pretty Pleased” – a guy from Chicago whose music you can find streaming on the player below. Right smack dab in the middle is Ricki Marvel (formerly Eric Marvel), playing some of that electronic new wave music. Before that is… Animals with Human Names! Playing some old school hip hop after he gets done perusing our hip hop section in the store and taking advantage of that 25% off sale. Opening things up is Kenyon DeShasier playing some sweet sweet and refreshing indie pop.

Yes. Find a facebook event for all of that right here. Also check out our shows page where we keep a list of everything that’s coming up and going on.

The time is upon us yet again for another big Record Store Day event – the second biggest day of the year for us usually, Black Friday Record Store Day. This year Black Friday is happening on Friday, November 29th (the day after Thanksgiving). This will be our first Black Friday at our downtown location, and also our first holiday season go-around downtown so we are excited for what that and holiday walks might bring as far as traffic to our store goes! Here’s an FAQ section Record Store Day put together about Black Friday Record Store Day for those of you wanting to know more.

Today we are giving you a heads up on the full Black Friday Record Store Day list of releases that were released online very recently by Record Store Day. Check out that full list online right here.

This list is not everything we expect to be getting in our store, and we were not able to order everything on the list. We also can not do special orders off of this list. We will likely be releasing our (limited) list of titles that we ordered later on, and will also likely announce some sort of store-wide sale not just on Black Friday titles. We have three record stores in downtown Springfield now (here we all are pictured together). Usually Recycled Records participates in ordering exclusive titles as well.

See that photo up there? That’s what it’s going to look like inside of our store on Saturday, April 13th for Record Store Day in just a little over two weeks with all of those people and all of those records. Tonight we are coming at you with another long list of records – these are the ones we anticipate getting for Record Store Day in a couple of weeks. As a disclaimer – none of these records are actually guaranteed – every year we put in our orders and there are always a number of items that we ordered but we do not get in due to very limited pressings. For any given release usually this is not the case, we should be getting the majority of this list. Also as another disclaimer we are not allowed or able to put holds on any of these items for any customers – they are all first come first serve.

We open at 8:00 am on Record Store Day (you are welcome to come out early to wait in line)! There will hopefully be live music of some sort later that evening at our new space. Check out a facebook event right here.

Find the mega-huge list of things we ordered below. Of course this list is by far bigger than any other Record Store Day we have ever participated in. For more details on each one of these releases, you can check out the Record Store Day website. We are ordering a limited amount of each of these items – most of them one or two copies.

Ace Frehley – Spaceman Picture Disc
Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. – Invisible Eyes…
A-Ha – Hunting High & Low: The Early Alernate Mixes
Alarm – Strength Live 85
Alice Cooper – Dirty Diamonds
Alice Clark – Alice Clark
Alien Weaponry – Tu
Ana Tijoux – La Bala
Anderson East – Alive In Tennessee (LPx2)
Andrew Oldham Orchestra – Rolling Stones Songbook
Angelo Badalamenti / David Lynch – Twin Peaks: Season Two Music & More
Aretha Franklin – Atlantic Singles 1967 (5×7”)
Art Ensemble Of Chicago – Spiritual
AxCx (Anal Cunt) – Picnic Of Love
B-52’s – Mesopotamia
Bad Religion – My Sanity
Bananarama – Bananarama Remixed Vol. 1
Beartooth – B-Sides 7”
Bernard Pretty Purdie – Soul Is… Pretty Purdie
Bill Evans – Evans In England: Live At Ronnie Scott’s
Billy Joel – Live At Carnegie Hall 1977 (2LP)
Bingo Handjob (R.E.M.) – Live At The Borderline 1991 (2LP)
Bird & The Bee – Bird & The Bee
Bob Dorough – Multiplication Rock Original Soundtrack
Bob Dylan – Blood On The Tracks: Original New York Test Pressing
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony – E. 1999 Eternal
Boy George & Culture Club – Runaway Train
Breaking Bad Original Soundtrack
Brett Smiley – Sunset Tower
Broken Social Scene – Let’s Try The After Vol. 1 & 2
Buffalo Tom – Buffalo Tom
Buari – Buari
Canned Heat – Remember Woodstock
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band – Trout Mask Replica
Charlie Parker – Charlie Parker With Strings: Alternate Takes
Cheap Trick – Epic Archive Vol. 3 (1984-1992)
Cheech & Chong – Up In Smoke 7”
Cherrie Currie – Blvds of Splendor
Chic – Le Freak 12”
Chicano Batman – Black Lipstick EP
Coneheads Original Soundtrack
Craig Mac & The Notorious B.I.G. – B.I.G. Mack
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – 4 Way Street
Culture – Nighthawk Recordings
Czarface – Double Dose of Danger
David Bowie / Marlene Dietrich – Revolutionary Song / Just A Gigolo 7”
David Bowie – Pin Ups
David Bowie – World Of David Bowie
Death Grips – Steroids
Def Leppard – Story So Far Vol. 2 / B Sides
Desmond Dekker & The Aces – Pretty Africa
Dennis Wilson / Taylor Hawkins / Brian May – Holy Man 7”
Devo – This Is The Devo Box (LPx6)
Dillinger – CB 200
Dio – Last In Line
DJ Khaled – Victory
Doors – London Fog 10”
Dragonfly – Dragonfly
Dr. Dog – Live 2
Dr. Dre – Nuthin But A G Thang
Duran Duran – As The Lights Go Down (Live)
ED O.G. & Da Bulldogs
Elton John – Live From Moscow
Elvis Costello & The Imposters – Purse EP 12”
Elvis Presley – Live At The International Hotel Las Vegas
Emerson Lake & Palmer – Live At Pocono
Essence – Nothing Lasts Forever
Eric Clapton – One More Car One More Rider LPx3
Erykah Badu & James Poyser – Tempted
Fatlip – Loneliest Punk
Fela Kuti – Music Of Many Colours
Flaming Lips – King’s Mouth: Music & Songs
Fleetwood Mac – Alternate Fleetwood Mac
Francois De Roubaix – Les Levres Rouges 7”
Frank Zappa – Guitar World: According To Frank Zappa
Generation X – Your Generation
Giulio Confalconieri – Dali In Venice
Goblin – Yell
Golden Earring – Moontan
Goodie Mob – Still Standing (2LP)
Gorillaz – Fall
Grateful Dead – Sage & Spirit
Grateful Dead – Warfield, San Francisco CA 10/9/80
Green Day – Woodstock 1994
Green Jelly – Cereal Killer OST
Green River – Live At The Tropicana 1984
Gretta Van Fleet – From The Fires
Grodeck Whipperjenny – Grodeck Whipperjenny
Groundhogs – Thank Christ For The Bomb
Guy Moon – Creepozoids
Halestorm – Buzz / Chemicals 7”
Hawkwind – 1999 Party: Live At The Chicago Auditorium
Heptones – Swing Low
Herbie Hancock – Dedication
High On Fire – Bat Salad
House of Wax Original Soundtrack
Idles – Meat EP
Iggy Pop – Villagers / Pain & Suffering 7”
Inspectah Saigon Deck & Bekay – Raw
Insurgence DC – Broken In The Theater Of The Absurd
James Brown – Sho Is Funky Down Here
James Cotton – Late Night Blues
Janis Joplin – Woodstock Sunday August 17, 1969
Japan – Quiet Life / Life In Tokyo 12”
Jedi Mind Tricks – Visions Of Gandhi
Jeff Tweedy – Warmer
Jerry Garcia Band – Electric On The Eel (4LP Box)
Jethro Tull – North Sea Oil 10”
Joe Nardone’s All Stars – Shake A Hand 7”
Joe Strummer – Rockfield Studio Tracks
John Cage Meets Sun Ra – The Complete Film
John Lennon – Imagine: The Raw Studio Mixes
John The Martyr – History
Johnny Adams – Heart & Soul
Johnny Thunders – Que Sera, Sera: Resurrected
Julien Baker – Red Door / Conversation Piece
Kool Keith – Complicated Trip
Lee Scratch Perry – Roots Reggae Dub
Leon Russell – Live At Gilley’s
Lemonheads – Can’t Forget / Wild Child 7”
Lillingtons – Death By Television Picture Disc
Link Wray – Vernon’s Diamond 7”
Little Walter – Best Of Little Walter
Lone Justice – Live At The Palomino
Lord Huron – Night We Met
Los Lobotomys – Los Lobotomys
Lost In Translation Original Soundtrack
Lou Reed – Ecstasy LPx2
Louis Armstrong – Disney Songs The Satchmo Way
L7 – Burn Baby / Fighting The Crave
Madonna – La Isla Bonita
Madonna – True Blue
Malcom X Original Soundtrack
Masta Ace & Marco Polo – E.A.T. / Masta Polo 7”
Mastodon – Stairway To Nick John 10”
Mark Ronson – Nothing Breaks Like A Heart
Menzingers – No Penance b/w Cemetery’s Garden 7”
Michael Giacchino – Star Trek: Beyond Original Soundtrack
Minus 5 – Stroke Manor
Monty Python – Monty Python’s Life Of Brian
Moon Express – Pophetic Spirit
Morrissey – Lover-To-Be 7”
Motorhead – Rockaway Beach 7”
Motorhead – Overkill / Bomber 7”
Mumford & Sons – Delta Acoustic Sessions: Live From Electric Lady 10”
My Chemical Romance – Black Parade Is Dead LPx2
Ocampo Ocampo + Watt – Better Than A Dirtnap 7”
Ol Dirty Bastard – Intoxicated
Otis Redding & Booker T. Jones – Just Do It One More Time…
Parliaments – Baby I Owe You Something Good
Pearl Jam – Live At Easy Street
Pelican – Midnight & Mesaline 7”
Pete Rock – Return Of The SP1200
Peter Gabriel – Rated PG Picture Disc
Peter Howell & John Ferdinando – Ithaca Agincourt & Other Psych-Folk…
Pink Floyd – Saucerful of Secrets
Pinkfong – Baby Shark 7”
Plastic Penny – Two Sides Of A Penny
Police – Message In A Bottle (2×7”)
Procol Harum – Procol Harum (2LP)
Queen – Rohemian Rhapsody
Ramones – Live At The Palladium New York
Rasputin’s Stash – Srash
Residents – B.S. LP
Robert Johnson – Kind Hearted Woman Blues 10”
Robert Plant – Fate Of Nations
Rockabye Baby (Lullaby Renditions of Weezer)
Rolling Stones – Big Hits (High Tide & Green Grass)
Rolling Stones – Through The Past Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2)
Rolling Stones – She’s A Rainbow 10”
Roots Radics & Dub Syndicate – Dub The Planet VOl. 1
Roxy Music – Roxy Music Remixed
Rush – Hemispheres Picture Disc
RZA – Birth Of A Prince
Salvation Army – Live From Torrace And Beyond
Santana – Breaking Down The Door / Dolor De Rumba 7”
Serj Tankian – Harakiri
Sly & The Family Stone – Woodstock Sunday August 17 1969 (2LP)
The Specials – 10 Commandments / You’re Wondering Now
Spider Man – Into The Spider-Verse Original Soundtrack
Soul Jazz Records Present – Boombox 45 Box Set
Sunn O))) – Life Metal
Skatalites – Greatings From Skamania
S T A R G A Z E – Instruments: Track By Track Re-Composition of Fugazi…
Stiv Bators – Stiv: No Compromise No Regrets
Stranger Attractor – Stranger Attractor 7”
Stray Cats – 40 Anniversary Picture Disc
Stu Phillips – Knight Rider Original Soundtrack
Sublime – Nugs: Best of the Box
Sugar Hill Records – 12 Inch DJ Boxset
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – Pizza Power 7”
Ten Years After – Cap Ferrat Sessions
Thrice – Deeper Wells
Tiny Tim – Live At Royal Albert Hall LPx2
Tommy Bolin – Come Taste The Man
Troggs – Athens Andover
Twing – Think Pink
Van Morrison – Astral Weeks Alternative 10”
U2 – Europa EP
Various – Boy Meets Girl: Classic Stax Duets
Various – Brazil Classics (3LP)
Various – Cold War Countdown: Country Music Goes To War
Various – Disco Not Disco (3LP)
Various – Hillbillies In Hell: Vol. 8
Various – Office Space
Various – Mickey Mouse Disco
Various – Poppies: Assorted Finery From The First Psychadelic Age
Various – Rough Guide To Blind Black & Blue
Various – Rough Guide To Arabian Jazz
Various – Rough Guide To World Of Guitar
Various – Soul Slabs Vol. 2
Various – Stax Does The Beatles 2LP
Vitamin String Quartet – VSQ Performs Bjork
Weezer – Teal Album
Weezer – Dusty Gems & Raw Nuggets
Wes Montgomery – Back On Indiana Avenue
Wipers – Alien Boy 7”
Woodstock Original Soundtrack
Woody Guthrie – I Don’t Like The Way This World’s A Treatin’ Me
X-Ray Spex – I Am A Cliche
Yes – Yes
Youth Of Today – One Night Stand
Zero 7 – Home / Somersault 10”