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Record Store Owners are Given the Secret Pronunciation of Lucy Dacus.

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This Friday at our White Oaks Mall location, we’re hosting a listening party for the new Lucy Dacus release, Forever Is A Feeling!

We have some sweet Lucy merch to giveaway during the event and plenty of copies of the LP will be on hand!

Here are the hot new vinyls coming out this Friday!
– LUCY DACUS new solo album “Forever Is A Feeling” (member of supergroup Boygenius), we will have limited copies of that indie exclusive “liquid gold” vinyl as well as regular black! (We will be reserving a number of copies for 6pm at our mall location for the album release party)!
– Folk rock band MUMFORD & SONS with their 5th studio album “Rushmere” and we will have copies on exclusive blood red vinyl.
– A 30th anniversary pressing of SNOOP DOGG’s iconic 90’s album “Doggystyle” which is coming out on clear double LP and also comes with a record slipmat!
– The 6th studio album from black metal band DEAFHEAVEN “Lonely People With Power” – there are two different color variants for this one that we may have looks like.
– ARIANA GRANDE is coming out with “Eternal Sunshine DELUXE” out on some type of clear vinyl variant, we will have copies!
– VAN HALEN “Live In Dallas 1991” is being re-issued! This came out for one of the recent Record Store Days and sold out quick.

This week Pepperoni picks John Prine

“My pick this week is John Prine’s debut album from 1971. John Prine, a country/folk legend who actually had ties to Illinois (born and raised in Maywood) – if anyone remembers the “State Of Sound” exhibit at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum a few years ago, you may remember seeing John Prine’s wooden stool (he maybe had a harmonica there too?) (shoutout to Joe Crain). Anyways, all of you kids coming in looking for Bob Dylan because you just saw the new Timothée Chalamet biopic – if we are out of Dylan, I recommend picking this record up you just might like it!”

Record Store Day is right around the corner. We’re starting to receive our shipments and fine tuning our plans. We even have a special coffee blend for the occasion thanks to Arrowroot Coffee!

Oh one more thing, we also recently added a new game to the arcade!

You’re no fun

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We have so much going on right now, one thing is we finally got an official sign up at our mall location so we look like a real store even!

oh yeah there was a parade too

Here are your hot new vinyls plopping out this Friday!
– JAPANESE BREAKFAST with the fourth studio album from this indie pop band, “For Melancholy Brunettes” – we should have the marbled indie exclusive vinyl.
– MY MORNING JACKET with their 10th studio album “Is”. We should also have copies of the indie exclusive variant.
– IT’S THE EASTER BEAGLE, CHARLIE BROWN!?!?!??!?!?
– SELENA GOMEZ and Benny Blanco collaborative album “I Said I Love You First” on that juicy red vinyl.
– SOPHIE “Oil Of Every Pearl’s Un-sides Non-stop Remix Album” Huh? I guess this is the re-mix version of a 2018 album.

This week Pepperoni picked out Type O Negative

“My pick this week is goth-metal band Type O Negative’s 1996 album “October Rust”. Every time I see this album cover with the thorns I think it is going to be the heaviest thing I have ever heard. But I listened to it in full again yesterday and you know what? It’s just guys singing in slow motion with bells and drums, actually kind of nice! Nick from Good Heart Tattoo next door heard me playing it outside and popped his head in and said “H*ll yeah, Pepperoni about time you played something good!”

We’ve been buying a lot of really great used records lately, lots of good stuff coming out on our shelves soon! We’re always looking to buy and we give big money for good stuff!

Why is it funny the Aquabats are on top of my Spotify Wrapped?

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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!

They Have Games About Fightin Now

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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!”

Black Friday Golf Tee Game Time

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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!

It Was A Record Store Day

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Record Store Day has come and gone. We had our biggest day yet. It was the most titles we’ve ever stocked and a huge line despite the cold, and the most records we’ve sold in a single day. The earliest campers got in line around 5pm Friday night. We opened at 8am and had a line at the store until sometime after 11am. We need a bigger store.

Here’s our staff photo we took the night before as we got ready for the event. These shirts were available to the first 100 people to make it in Saturday morning.

But not only was it Record Store Day, it was also the weekend of a new Taylor Swift release! This time her album came out with 4 variants available to Indie record store. The normal white cover, and then 3 variants each with a different bonus track. That Taylor is getting pretty crafty! We have helped a lot of confused parents and grandparents with figuring which one they were supposed to get! We also received the special postcards that we handed out to first few people coming in for the variants.

We’ve been very busy processing online orders and trying to get back to normal business all week and perhaps by Friday we’ll finally be there.

Diving in to those FRIDAY RELEASE HIGHLIGHTS which just happens to be TOMORROW’s releases:
– ST. VINCENT has a brand new album “All Born Screaming” – we should have copies on plain black and also exclusive red vinyl.
– IRON & WINE have a brand new album “Light Verse” available on black and also nifty clear with blue swirl vinyl.
– THE BEST OF THE WAILERS: this was a UK RSD release I believe but available here starting tomorrow, on pink vinyl.
– PET SHOP BOYS with their 15th studio album “Nonetheless” available on grey vinyl.
– LAUFEY “Bewitched: Goddess Edition” (it’s goddess edition because the vinyl is blue and it comes with a board game) (I just learned how to pronounce this artist’s name and I’m really proud of myself)
– DEF LEPPARD with the 40th anniversary of “Pyromania” there is a single LP half-speed mastering version of this and also a double-LP version with demos and live tracks.
– GLORIA COLEMAN QUARTET “Soul Sisters” (being re-issued on black vinyl as part of the Verve by-request series).

This week Pepperoni has picked MCR’s Black Parade

“What’s up nerds. I hope everyone had a good Record Store Day this weekend. I’m back in the office today pickin’ my next pick… what’s this? A picture disc? I did not mean to order the picture disc version of this record but it is what showed up in the mail so I guess we’re gonna go with it. (How do you feel about picture discs Pepperoni fan’s, yay or nay)? Anyways, this is “The Black Parade” by My Chemical Romance and some of you out there will freak out about it because it is ALL you listened to in high school in the 2000’s or 2010’s or something. You owned it on CD then, come out to Dumb Records so you can own it on picture disc now.”

Total Eclipse of the Fart

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Sorry I missed a week. I was off on a weeklong vacation with my family riding a ferris wheel into the ocean (Galveston). Also Brian got engaged on Rex Manning Day, nerd.

We got so much going on this week! Friday night this show is happening with New Mexico hardcore Bleak, Cincinnati emo shoegazers Sign Language, South Carolina hardcore Your Spirit Dies and local hardcores Pucker Up and Volition

Then on Saturday we have a local hip-hop/R&B showcase with Almost Homeless and friends, presented by Paperboy Entertainment

Wow Big Releases and re-issues Friday!

– BEYONCE: “COWBOY CARTER” You all know what it is, Beyoncé’s “Country” “Album”, we listened to the full thing and I don’t even think it’s all that country TBH, just sounds like another Beyonce album and it’s good. Physical release is tomorrow.
– SUNNY DAY REAL ESTATE with the 30th anniversary release of their iconic emo album “Diary” on “pearl” vinyl
– NOAH KAHAN with some deluxe triple-LP version of his album “Stick People” pressed on “black ice” vinyl.
– Metal band DEATH have re-issues of just about all of their albums on fancy splatter vinyl, we just have their album “Human” featured here.
– GIRL IN RED with a new album “I’m Doing It Again, Baby”
– LINKIN PARK “Papercuts” a 20-track singles collection spanning the band’s career. We should be getting black and also the indie-exclusive version.

For some reason Pepperoni picked this album this week

“Here is my pick this week, this is the only KISS album you need in your collection.”

oh and Record Store Day is next week???