BONUS CLUB SALE MONDAY, DEC. 3: 20% OFF STOREWIDE 9AM-5PM AND 25% OFF DURING THE PARTY (5-9PM)! FREE CRAFT BEER, RAFFLES, GIVEAWAYS AND MORE!

The Record Exchange annual Bonus Club Sale will be held on Monday, Dec. 3, and we’re gearing up to party like never before.

As a thank you to our customers for supporting Idaho’s largest independent record store, The Record Exchange is offering 25% OFF STOREWIDE DURING THE PARTY (5 TO 9 P.M.) AND 20% OFF STOREWIDE DURING THE DAY (9 A.M. TO 5 P.M.).

And that’s just the start. To enhance your holiday shopping experience, the evening festivities also will include:

• FREE CRAFT BEER FROM PAYETTE BREWING CO. We’ll have a keg of delicious, Boise-brewed craft beer from our new partner Payette Brewing Co., and you’ll get to drink some for free (provided you’re 21 or older and show us a valid I.D.).

• ARCHIE’S PLACE. We’ll have Archie’s vegan chili and beef stew for sale!

• GIVEAWAYS

• RAFFLE PRIZES

• EMCEED BY 94.9 FM THE RIVER’S TIM JOHNSTONE

In addition to housing Boise’s Biggest and Best Gift Shop, this season The Record Exchange has dozens of new Record Store Day Black Friday exclusives, plus hundreds of new CDs under 10 bucks, including 60 hand-picked Give the Gift of Music titles!

If you’re not already a member of the RX Bonus Club, you can sign up at the Bonus Club Party and start saving! As a Bonus Club member, you get $10 in store credit every time you accrue $120 in store purchases.

If you want to sign up for the RX Bonus Club prior to the sale, visit The Record Exchange and ask a clerk for a free membership form!

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VINYL WORD: BLACK MARBLE'S MELODIC DEBUT ALBUM 'A DIFFERENT ARRANGEMENT' IS 'QUIETLY INFECTIOUS'

October 30, 2012 - On Sale , The Vinyl Word - by The Record Exchange - No Comments

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Every object inside Black Marble‘s debut A Different Arrangement LP seems swaddled in a thick layer of nicotine-stained gauze. The basslines flex their muscles inside the dressing, the bioluminescence of the synth leads peeking through at the seams. Chris Stewart could be singing across a foggy Brooklyn alley, his voice trailing with detached amusement as he spells out his wry philosophies. His lyrics come through in fits and starts, but even when they’re intelligible, they’re not the point. A Different Arrangement hinges on melody and the way it wrestles with itself across open space to nestle into a satisfying whole.

Black Marble is all notes, nests and wires of notes, notes in logical progressions and notes that fall just short of where you expect them to go. The old, warm melodies of New Wave and the rigid post-punk spines are all there, but they’ve been pixelated and slushed around into a new product–a different arrangement, if you will.

The result is a quietly infectious record, the kind that seeps into your brainstem and bounces its many charms around without your realizing their source. So many tracks on A Different Arrangement chirp and squirm with soft synths and subtle hooks, yet Black Marble offer enough variation in texture and structure as to keep a uniform aesthetic interesting. They’re the chaos of Former Ghosts honed in to a knife’s edge, retaining the raw heat while relinquishing the forthright emotional barbs. As far as content goes, Black Marble relish ambiguity, straddling optimism and nihilism, never quite letting on what they’re thinking. But the masks only serve to augment a record whose textural complexities and depths sink in further, quietly addictive, play after play.—Prefix

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DVD/BLU-RAY: BEATLES' MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR FILM REMASTERED!

October 11, 2012 - DVD and Blu Ray , On Sale - by The Record Exchange - No Comments

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In September 1967 The Beatles embarked on making their third film, this time conceived and directed by themselves.

Based on a loose unscripted narrative, in the spirit of the experimental mood of the time, and directed by The Beatles themselves, the film became the vehicle to present 6 new songs – Magical Mystery Tour, The Fool On The Hill, Flying, I Am The Walrus, Blue Jay Way and Your Mother Should Know.

Now, 45 years on, the virtually forgotten film has been fully restored and is being presented properly for the first time.

The restoration of Magical Mystery Tour has been overseen by Paul Rutan Jr. of Eque Inc., the same company that handled the much acclaimed restoration of Yellow Submarine. The soundtrack work was done at Abbey Road Studios by Giles Martin and Sam Okell.

All of the packages contain a host of special features, packed with unseen footage. There are newly-filmed interviews with Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, and other members of the film’s cast and crew, as well as a director’s audio commentary recorded by Paul.

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FRIDAY'S BLUE AND ORANGE SALE EMAIL HAS BEEN SENT; CHECK YOUR INBOX NOW AND SAVE TOMORROW!

September 20, 2012 - DVD and Blu Ray , On Sale - by The Record Exchange - No Comments

If you’re a Record Exchange email subscriber, check your inbox now for the post-game details on Friday’s Blue and Orange Sale on used CDs, DVDs and vinyl LPs.

If you’re not a subscriber yet and want all the details, email us HERE today or Friday with the subject “Blue and Orange Sale” and we’ll send you the info. Go Broncos!

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SUNDAY'S BLUE AND ORANGE SALE EMAIL HAS BEEN SENT; CHECK YOUR INBOX NOW AND SAVE TOMORROW!

September 15, 2012 - DVD and Blu Ray , On Sale - by The Record Exchange - No Comments

If you’re a Record Exchange email subscriber, check your inbox now for the post-game details on Sunday’s Blue and Orange Sale on used CDs, DVDs and vinyl LPs.

If you’re not a subscriber yet and want all the details, email us HERE today or Sunday with the subject “Blue and Orange Sale” and we’ll send you the info. Go Broncos!