Sorry Brain is out on vacation this week and we do not have a nifty graphic of the hot new Friday vinyls or a Pepperoni Pick. What a waste of a week. We do have this new shirt at the mall tho and you can now order it along with the Dolly Parton shirt online.
We also have these cute lil keychains, limited supplies and selling fast!
Another nifty little tidbit, the top selling records of 2024. Chappell Roan won this with a very comfortable lead.
Boy it sure has been cold and snowy around here. Reminds me of the days of warming my hands in a cookie oven which was the only source of heat in the Black Sheep Cafe one year.
During our Anniversary sale we met none other than the voice of Larry the Cucumber from VeggieTales! what an honor. He earned a free t-shirt for being the actual guy.
Here are your hot Friday vinyls!
– MAC MILLER with “Balloonerism” – his 7th studio album, which was recorded sometime between 2013 and 2014 around the time the mixtape “Faces” was released. We will have the indie exclusive white vinyl variant at both locations.
– “Be My Valentine Charlie Brown” (Vince Guaraldi) celebrating it’s 50th anniversary! This might actually be some sort of pink vinyl, we are not sure.
– GLORILLA, the debut album from this American rapper called “Glorious” out on gold vinyl.
– A re-issue of heavy metal band GREAT WHITE’s 1991 album “Hooked”
– The deluxe version of GRACIE ABRAM’s album from last year “The Secret Of Us” will be coming out on double light blue vinyl!
This week Pepperoni picked Taylor again
“Sneakin’ out laaaaaate tapppin’ on yer windowwww, when we’re on the phone and you be talkin’ REAL SLOWWWWW… CUZ IT’S LATE AND YER MAMA DON’T KNOWwwwwww, when you think of me do you think of Timmm McGrawwwwww”
“This is the first ever album by Taylor Swift. She made this when she was practically like twelve years old. Okay now I have picked every Taylor Swift album except for Reputation.”
It’s that time of year again! Well actually it’s been 11 years since this store first got kicked off. We’re celebrating our existence with a big sale!
This Friday at 6pm in the Mall we’re hosting a listening party for Ringo’s latest album. We’ll have free posters to give away and 2 raffle prizes!
Here are you Ringo Week Friday Releases!
– CHILDISH GAMBINO’s latest album “Atavista” that was released digitally last year is getting it’s physical release this Friday!
– RINGO STAR with his 21st studio album “Look Up” and it’s supposed to be his country album? On gray vinyl?
– Tell your kids because the soundtrack for MOANA 2 is being released!
– WAR ON DRUGS is out with their second live album (?) “Live Drugs Again”
– The newest from Franz Ferdinand (which is actually the name of a band and not a person) new album “The Human Fear”
This week Pepperoni picked American Idiot
“The year was 2004. I was in seventh grade. My older cousin had hooked me up with a copy of “Dookie” for my 13th birthday on cassette that I sat in the back of the school bus and played on my walkman for a that whole year. My mom was going to let me stay up late all night to watch the VH1 “making of” Green Day’s music video shoot for “American Idiot” where all of the green slime came out of the American flag, that was so cool. Then she took me to Best Buy that weekend so that I could buy the CD at Best Buy. That was 20 years ago now, so we are all old. This is the 20th anniversary pressing of American Idiot, enjoy!”
Today is the big deep clean day fo the downtown store. We close up for the whole day and clean, clean clean! Luckily these days we still have our mall location where people can continue blissfully shopping for records while we’re closed downtown.
Finally we have Friday Releases again! Here’s what is coming out this Friday:
– FLEETWOOD MAC “Live From The Record Plant” (1974 recordings) on double transparent red vinyl.
– A few re-issues from prog-metal band DREAM THEATER, we ordered the most of their 1992 album “Images and Words”. On clear vinyl.
– A few re-issues from THE RAMONES, we are highlighting their 1987 album “Halfway To Sanity” and 1989’s “Brain Drain” – (Brain Drain has Pet Semetary and Merry Christmas on it)
– (not a Rhino release) but a re-issue of black metal band MAYHEM’s “PFA Demos”
Lately our team members Jack and August killed it on the food drive at the mall. I’m pretty sure most of what’s pictured here is what they brought in themselves. I’m not sure if that’s cheating or not, but they should earn a free round of putt-putt at Malibu Jacks for that!
Pepperoni hopes everyone had a joyous holiday with lots of new records. We’re thankful to all our loyal customers and awesome employees. We took a little break today, December 25th, and will be back at it tomorrow.
Still Pepperoni does not know how to take a day off and has another pick this week:
“Ho ho ho… Merry Christmas. The border on this record is red, and the turtles are green. I know that this 1977 Grateful Dead album “Terrapin Station” is what every little boy and girl asked to go in their stocking this year, so that is what I picked.”
We haven’t had many shows this month but have one more just before the new year.
The mall is having a food drive currently and we’re going to win, come bring your food by and watch us win it big! and I guess also help people who need food
This week Pepperoni picked this Queen greatest hits album
“This week it’s QUEEN – not the first greatest hits, but “Greatest Hits II” – a double LP, seventeen songs spanning the entire second half of the band’s career which truly was as jammed-packed with his as their first half. These are mostly 80’s Queen songs – including “Under Pressure,” “Radio Ga Ga,” “I Want To Break Free,” and the list goes on. Queen is a band so good and monumental that they have THREE greatest hits. (The third one was released in 1999 after Freddy’s death and included material from members solo careers and also collaborations the band did).
Oh yeah! Did you know that every week our neighbors downtown at The Cats’ Pyjamas Cat Cafe have been raffling off my featured pick? They listen to the album and draw winners every Sunday and you can enter the raffle throughout the week! Big shoutout for our neighbors for adding to the fun of picking an album every week!”
Even tho we’re very very very very busy with the Christmas shopping season, Jeff has to go and trade out more games in the arcade. Look at this mess. I guess we have 2 new games in the downtown arcade now.
We’ve been really focused lately on selling records this holiday season, but we did have a show not long ago, here is a pic from that (sorry I don’t know what band this is). We only have hardcore shows on our calendar currently, sorry again.
This Friday’s hot vinyl releases!
– SNOOP DOGG and his twentieth studio album “Missionary”… it’s a picture disc made to look like oh dear.
– THE NATIONAL have a new live album coming out called “Rome” and we should be getting a few copies of the indie exclusive white version.
– The MARIAH CAREY CHRISTMAS craze continues this time with a release of her Merry Christmas album on zoetrope vinyl.
– A re-issue of 3 DOORS DOWN’s greatest hits.
– the NEIL YOUNG “On The Beach” 50th anniversary pressing had gotten pushed back to this Friday.
– DAFT PUNK with a “Interstella 5555” pressing of their “Discovery” album (it’s Japanese or something?)
This week Pepperoni picked Nightmare Before Christmas
“Mind if I squeeze one last little holiday pick in before the year is over? What kind of holiday pick? One that covers Christmas AND Halloween! It’s The Nightmare Before Christmas soundtrack (composed by Danny Elfman)! We were having some sort of debate here at DR headquarters about if this record should get filed in the Christmas section. YES, it is both a Christmas record and a Halloween record, that is the whole point! That is why this movie is so popular because it covers the two best holidays, DUH. Pick up your copy of this double LP bone and aqua colored vinyl today at Dumb Records today!
We had a great black friday time with everyone. It seemed everyone knew the assignment and lined up at both downtown and the mall. Some weirdos even lined up the night before in 20 degree weather. I don’t know why, it’s so much more comfortable lining up at the mall and there’s Auntie Anne’s.
We gave out lots of free shirts and tote bags and there was no pushing and shoving. Everybody did a good job.
Here are your hot Friday vinyl releases!
– SABRINA CARPENTER has a Christmas record out! The “Fruitcake” EP, we will be getting the exclusive “fruit punch” colorway!
– RUN THE JEWELS 2, 10th Anniversary edition on double black vinyl!
– STEVIE WONDER’s “Ultimate Stevie Wonder” hits compilation! (This one would make a good Christmas gift wouldn’t it).
– TOM WAITS’s 1974 album “The Heart Of Saturday Night” getting a 50th anniversary re-issue!
– THE ROLLING STONES “Welcome To Shepherd’s Bush” – this is a live show from 1999, on double black LP!
– 20th anniversary re-issue of OLD CROW MEDICINE SHOW’s “O.C.M.S.”
– HOZIER “Unreal Unearth Unending” – Deluxe edition of their newest album, there is a 3LP version that has it ALL, then looks like a single LP version with just the bonus tracks.
This week Pepperoni picked this essential Christmas album
“It’s December. Our Christmas music bins at both stores are already picked clean. We are out of Charlie Brown, and the only thing left in the dollar bin is the Lettermen’s Christmas album and the other is a North Central High School 1969 record of just bells. So ho-ho-ho, I guess I better act fast with a good holiday pick! Why not pick Mariah Carey’s Merry Christmas – you hear this song everywhere you go right now. It’s playing on the radio on every station, playing on the speakers at the gas station as you pump gas, inside every grocery store on the speakers, it’s even playing inside the mall as you walk into our mall store. So why not order 20 copies of it so you all can buy the vinyl and listen to it at home too! Great!”
Did you know we have green elephant and Pepperoni tree ornaments now??? They don’t have to be ornaments but they sure are cute! They’re locally made and hand painted. They’re going to be pretty limited. We ran through the first batch really fast and more are on the way!
Just wanted to mention again about all our Black Friday Record Store Day stuff, which is coming up next week. Here is all the info on one image, how’s that for convenience!
We recently added Tekken 5 to our downtown arcade! We know you all thought our arcade was ok but needed some fightin’ games, so ya’ll can go an fight now.
This week’s Friday releases!
There are a LOTTTT of releases to go over for Friday release day this week! (Why are they doing this, it is one week before Black Friday Record Store Day!?!)
– ZACH BRYAN “The Great American Bar Scene” – vinyl release for REAL this time, after getting pushed back.
– THE SMASHING PUMPKINS “Aghori Maori Mei” – this new Pumpkins album was surprise released online earlier this summer around the time they played our fair and Billy surprised us ALL by stopping by our very own store! Now it’s getting a physical release!
– MÖTLEY CRÜE “Dr. Feelgood” 35th Anniversary pressing with fancy splatter vinyl and alternative artwork!
– A bunch of early albums from SABRINA CARPENTER are getting re-pressed! “Singular I”, “Singular Act II,” and “Evolution” are the ones we anticipate getting.
– New album from FATHER JOHN MISTY, “Mahashmashana”?
– New album from black metal group OPETH, “The Last Will And Testament” (this one was also pushed back).
– Re-issue of LA DISPUTE’s 2006 EP “Vancouver”
– KILLER MIKE’s new album “Songs For Sinners And Saints” clear red vinyl.
– WICKED soundtrack???
– (Not pictured), but there are re-issues for every EARLY BEATLES ALBUM?!?? “Early Beatles,” “A Hard Days Night,” “Something New,” “Beatles ’65,” “Meet The Beatles,” “The Beatles Second Album”.
WHY ARE THERE SO MANY releases the week before Record Store Day we can’t keep up!?!!
This week Pepperoni picked Evermore
“First of all, I know I am running out of Taylor Swift albums to pick (very few are potentially left). Folklore remains Taylor’s hottest selling album here at Dumb Records and probably plenty of other record stores around the world, so it is probably long overdue that I pick “Evermore,” the follow up album to Folklore, both released in the same year of 2020 when Covid-19 kept us all at home. This one starts off with the hit single “Willow.” There are features on here from HAIM, The National, and Bon Iver. Oh yeah, this is the forest green vinyl edition. Enjoy!”
Boy that big shopping day is coming up and now we have 2 stores so what the heck are we gonna do??? Well we’re gonna have Record Store Day Black Friday at BOTH LOCATIONS.
Downtown, you can expect the usual event. We’ll have ALL TITLES (except the silly 3″ beatles records). We’ll have coffee from Graba Java available for free and Johnnie O’s Mini Donuts truck will be selling donuts there as well. AT THE MALL, we’ll have 35 of the biggest titles available and the freebies until they runout but sorry no donuts or coffee there.
BOTH LOCATIONS will have 50 free shirts and 50 free tote bags, first come-first serve. Both Locations will open at 8am. The line can start whenever you want downtown, however the mall does not open until 6am so that’s the earliest the line can start there. We will have our team ready at both locations to limit how many people can shop at a time so there will not be a stampede.
And besides hosting all the exclusive Record Store Day titles, we’ll also be having a 10% off sale on everything that’s not the new RSD exclusives. Also all of our old RSD items will be marked 30% off!
So that’s all there is to know about RSD Black Friday this year, now on with this Friday’s hot new releases!
– MF DOOM “Mm… Food” 20th Anniversary re-issue on purple marble vinyl!
– GWEN STEFANI is out with a brand new solo album called “Bouquet” and we shoooould have the indie exclusive version with a SIGNED insert – also for this we will be hosting our first ever “album listening party” at 6pm Friday at DUMBER records in the mall – stay tuned for more info on that!
– LINKIN PARK have a new album, “From Zero” !?!? (With a new signer) – a couple of different color variants of this one should be rolling in, we know we at least will have “sea blue”.
– ALVVAYS selt-titled masterpiece of an indie-pop album on Polyvinyl records is celebrating it’s 10th anniversary with a special colorway.
– 2009 MAJOR LAZER album “Guns Don’t Kill People, Lazer’s Do” on double black vinyl, re-issue
– IRON MAIDEN’s “Power Slave” gets a special zoetrope vinyl release, how cool!
This week Pepperoni picked Linkin Park
“Did you know Linkin Park have a new album out this week? That’s right, their first in 7 years and first with a new vocalist (R.I.P. Chester Bennington). We’ll be getting a few copies of that in, but I figured now was a good time as any to re-visit and stock up on some of that classic Linkin Park! This is their second album “Meteora” – originally released over 20 years ago in 2003, this one had many hits on it such as “Numb,” “Faint,” “Somewhere I Belong,” etc. Those songs certainly hit hard if you were a middle schooler riding the school bus at the time, and I am sure they are good now! Pick it up at Dumb or Dumber Records!
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