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Considered one of the greatest albums of the “second golden age” of hip hop in the mid-1990’s.  Tribe were at their peak production wise as they returned to the eclectic sampling of mainly 1970s jazz, funk, soul and R&B. 

Double 180gm vinyl LP pressing. Paul’s Boutique is the second studio album from the Beastie Boys. In total, 105 songs are sampled, including 24 individual samples on the last track alone. Considered the “Sgt Pepper” of Hip-Hop by some critics and has been placed on several lists of the greatest albums of all time, and is viewed by many as one of the landmark albums in hip hop.  Some dude at KEXP decided they should play every sampled song.  It took 14 hours.

Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing of 2017 remix of The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Produced by Giles Martin, the album’s new stereo mix was sourced directly from the original four-track session tapes. The Beatles’ ‘Sgt. Pepper’ Anniversary Edition is 2017’s most celebrated historical music release.  On every top ten list, everywhere, for the best albums in history.  Not bad Beatles, not bad….

Vinyl LP pressing. Digitally remastered edition. Tea For The Tillerman is arguably Cat Stevens’ best known and most cherished album. Originally released in November 1970, it celebrates it’s 50th anniversary. It’s a record full of intimacy and profound philosophy that stands the test of time.

Rolling Stone called this the best record of the 80’s. The cover is considered one of the greatest, if not THE greatest cover of all time. They were known as “The Only Band That Matters.” This record makes it clear why. A must own.

Superfly is RIAA-certified gold, with million selling singles still popular today. This release features album-length versions of all 9 songs from the film, plus 2 bonus tracks: The smash single edits of “Freddie’s Dead” and “Superfly.” Mayfield’s distinctively soulful sounds are as contemporary today as they were when they first hit the airwaves.  Dammmmmn right.

The fifth studio album is a rock opera starring his androgynous bisexual alter ego Ziggy Stardust who is sent to Earth as a savior before an impending apocalyptic disaster.  Clearly it’s too late.  Support Life on Mars!

Limited 180gm blue colored vinyl LP pressing. Free Your Mind… and Your Ass Will Follow is the second studio album by Funkadelic, originally released in July 1970 by Westbound Records.  Funkadelic was meant to be heard A side to B side on vinyl.  Robert Christgau referred to George Clinton as “someone from Carolina who encountered eternity on LSD and vowed to contain it in a groove”.  He did LSD so you don’t have to!  Unless you’re into that.  No judgement here.

Vinyl LP pressing. In a time of polarized politics and murky waters; Idles and bands like them are needed to remind people that it’s ok to dance and laugh and sing in the face of adversity. Bristol’s finest post-punk polemics Idles have been promising to do great things for some time now, and with their 2017 debut album Brutalism they absolutely fulfilled that promise, and a furious promise at that. Politically charged, refreshingly confrontational and infectiously volatile, Idles are a band like no other. Bringing the unsettling reality of the world we live in into their frantic assault on the senses, Brutalism perfectly encapsulates the intensity of their live sound.

The debut studio album by one of Seattle’s favorite sons.  Released in 1967, it is considered one of the greatest debuts in the history of rock music. It changed music.  It changed recorded music.  It changed everything.  It opens with “Purple Haze” and ends with “Are You Experienced?”  How was there a world before this record?

Double vinyl LP pressing. Collection from the late country great. The world was a better place because Johnny Cash lived in it, created in it and broke all the rules in it.  He was simply one of the greatest musical legends we will ever see or hear.  Putting his best songs on the player is why we love vinyl.  Grab this and find your inner man or woman in black.   I say “Must Own” a lot but this is Johnny Fucking Cash so you know what to do.  -John

We’ve been waiting to get this in stock and have the import in house now!  So excited to offer up the second studio album by LCD Soundsystem in all of it’s vinyl glory.  Released in 2007, Sound of Silver put James Murphy and company on the map, receiving world wide acclaim from music critics and was nominated for a Grammy.  If the Grammys can’t ignore it, surely you can’t.

Limited 180gm orange and green colored vinyl LP pressing. 2020 release. The Waterfall II radiates an undeniable sense of wonder, a testament to the wild-mindedness that’s long imbued the music of My Morning Jacket. With their unabashed curiosity infinitely stirred by their time at Stinson Beach, the band hopes that the album might lead others to look beyond what’s human-made in the search for solace and renewal.

One of the most famous shows in the history of Seattle music took place on Oct 31st, 1991 at The Paramount Theatre. This is that show.  Double 180gm vinyl LP pressing. Includes a 12 x 24″ poster insert and a cloth sticky VIP pass replica plus digital download. The band dive headlong into key cuts from across their discography: the grunge-rock shot heard ’round the world.

SALE!  We have just 3 copies left of this groundbreaking album for the low price of $25. It’s a stunning debut and the song “Gloria” crackling loud on the turntable?  Dear lord.

Limited Edition import-only vinyl LP repressing of this debut album Dummy from Portishead, released on 22 August 1994 by Go! Beat Records. The album received critical acclaim and won the 1995 Mercury Music Prize. It is often credited with popularizing the trip hop genre and was the introduction to a whole new world of music for man and is frequently cited in lists of the best albums of the 1990s.

Prince’s iconic album, Sign O’ The Times, has been remastered for the very first time by Prince’s original mastering engineer Bernie Grundman. Primarily recorded between the end of 1985 and beginning of 1987, the era saw the dissolution of his band The Revolution, the end of his engagement to Susannah Melvoin, and the creation (and ultimate abandonment) of the albums Dream Factory, Camille, and Crystal Ball. By the end of that period of transformation, Prince emerged with one of his most urgent and wide-ranging releases to date – an epochal double album that would be hailed as a creative, critical, and commercial triumph. Double 180-gram LP

2020 Album of the Year.

Brand new 40th Anniversary edition of “More Specials” has been mastered and cut at half-speed by Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios using the original production tapes. For this edition, the album has been split across 2x 12″ vinyl running at 45rpm for optimum audio quality. Also include is a bonus 7″ single, also cut at half-speed, which originally came with the initial run of the album in 1980. Originally formed in 1977, as The Coventry Automatics, The Specials combined Jamaican ska and Rocksteady mixed with the energy of punk and launching a whole Ska Revival and helped fellow likeminded bands Madness, The Beat, The Selecter to release their first singles.

The Ascension is the eighth studio album from singer, songwriter and composer Sufjan Stevens and is the long awaited follow-up to Stevens’ Carrie & Lowell. The Ascension is musically expansive and sweeping in thematic scope.  It’s a glorious combination of what made his last few records so great.  Must be heard on vinyl.

If you don’t own this you should probably own this. We have to say, it gets picked at the bar a LOT and man do we miss drinking and getting lost to this perfect record.  4 copies in house right now.  We can’t wait to send this to you.

Vinyl LP pressing. Digitally remastered edition of the Irish band’s 1984 breakthrough album, released to coincide with the 25th Anniversary of it’s original release. This new edition was remastered by band’s guitarist, the Edge, and contains a 24 page booklet. Features the hits ‘Pride (In the Name of Love)’, ‘Bad’ and the title track.

Double vinyl LP pressing. 2020 collection, the first-ever official anthology of recordings from the iconic rock duo, Jack and Meg White, is an essential career-spanning collection highlighting 26 previously released songs. From late ’90s flashes of brilliance through early 2000s underground anthems, masterful MTV Moon Man moments, Grammy-grabbing greatness, and worldwide stadium chants, the songs here are as wide-ranging as you can imagine.  A large part of Third Man Records and The White Stripes’ successes have been built on zigging when the rest of the music business is zagging. Thus, for a great band with great fans, a greatest hits compilation for The White Stripes is not only appropriate, but absolutely necessary.