Oh crap. I just received an e-mail from the Princeton Record Exchange. Turns out they've added thousands of titles to their already overwhelming collection of tantalizing vinyl.
The e-mail says:
For those of you who have been lamenting the scarcity of classical vinyl in our store over the past few months, we have good news. In the last couple of weeks we have had the good fortune to purchase several large classical LP collections.
Lamenting? I don't have much exposure to classical music, and my vinyl interests have been directed mostly toward jazz and different forms of pop and rock, but when we visited PREX in April, I remember John DeVore being pretty excited about their selection of classical. They had tons of great albums, in very good shape, at very affordable prices.
Now, they've got 3000 more albums, in very good shape, at very affordable prices. A buck a pop, to be exact.
These collections do not really have a dominant theme; they include opera, recitals, symphonies, chamber, 20th century, and just about everything else. What they do have in common is that they are, for the most part, very clean, with the covers and vinyl in good shape. We have priced almost all of them at $1.00 per disc, with a few less-common titles a little higher. Enjoy!
I'm sure we will.
And not only classical. I'm more excited about the 1500 additional jazz titles. My interest in jazz—particularly stuff from the late '60s through the mid '70s, during which time it just seems as though everyone was simply
inventing—was coming about naturally through my love of salsa and Latin jazz, but has completely
erupted through my enthusiasm for vinyl.
Also of note is a very interesting jazz LP collection of about 1,500 pieces. It features hundreds of avant-garde titles from the late 60s and 70s that we just don't see very often. Artists like Henry Threadgill, Don Pullen, Sun Ra, Cecil Taylor, and others abound along with many reissues and later pressings of classic bop-era titles. Most are priced in the $3.00 to $12.00 range.
Oh crap, dudes. I think we're going to have to make
another pilgrimage.
The Princeton Record Exchange is located in lovely downtown Princeton, where the smart girls play: 20 South Tulane Street, right around the way from the Triumph Brewing Company.
Let us eat, drink, and spin vinyl.
