IN THE RECORD EXCHANGE GIFT SHOP: TRUE VINTAGE HALLOWEEN & MORE — INCLUDING RETURN OF CHICKEN HEAD, ZOMBY GEAR AND FAKE MUSTACHES!

UPDATE: CHICKEN HEAD IS BACK! “CLUCK” HERE

Halloween is one of our favorite holidays at The Record Exchange, and for good reason: It’s a fun, funny, light-up, creepy-cute, costume-y affair, and it’s full of candy consumption and free of family baggage.

Our love of Halloween is most apparent in The Record Exchange Gift Shop, which we not only decorate for the season but stock full of all sorts of fun, funny, light-up, creepy-cute, costume-y treasures to help you be truly you-nique this year.

Our Halloween display features ornaments, decorations, candy jars, trick-or-treat bags, candles (they’re fingers!), zomby jerky, Pumpkin Patch Orange-flavored Pop Rocks and the return of last season’s popular inflatable headwear (including the Beehive, Rasta Hat/Dreads and Robot Head).

One of our favorite new arrivals is a Halloween T-shirt (top picture, left) from the fine folks at True Vintage Designs, purveyors of the finest T-shirts featuring images taken from authentic vintage designs. Created from an amazing circa-1960 trick-or-treat candy bag, this American Apparel shirt features a witch, bat, haunted house and two brilliantly designed kids (one is a pumpkin, the other a pirate).

Other new Halloween apparel arrivals include a rockin’-out zomby shirt (pictured), plus shirts from popular horror flicks such as Friday the 13th and Night of the Living Dead.

Look for further Halloween updates as we get closer to the big day!

IN THE RX GIFT SHOP: 30% OFF BELTS!

Belt out a song, because all belts in The Record Exchange Gift Shop are currently 30% off!

Yeah, a belt is, first and foremost, a functional accessory serving a very important function — keeping your pants up so the world doesn’t have to look at your junk — but that doesn’t mean it can’t be stylish.

And the RX has some stylin’ belts, everything from studded designs to Star Wars to hipster white. Just look at the pretty picture of all them colorful belts and imagine yourself strutting about town wearing one of them.

NOONTUNES HOLIDAY FLASH SALE: 20% OFF GIFT CARDS & RECORD EXCHANGE MERCH NOON TO 2 PM — TODAY ONLY!

We’re officially in last-minute shopping mode, folks, and The Record Exchange wants to make it easy on you this week. Now through Thursday, we’re holding special NoonTunes Holiday Flash Sales from noon to 2 p.m.!

Today’s NoonTunes Holiday Flash Sale: 20% off Record Exchange Gift Cards and RX official merch in the Gift Shop – that includes t-shirts, hats, tote bags, shot glasses, coffee mugs, acrylic tumblers and many more goods with The Record Exchange logo!*

* Excludes sale and clearance items.

OLD BOISE GUITAR CO. T-SHIRTS NOW AVAILABLE AT THE RECORD EXCHANGE!

The Old Boise Guitar Co. lives on in our hearts here at The Record Exchange — and also in our T-shirt section.

Now available at the RX is an assortment of Old Boise Guitar Co. tees in various colors and sizes. Which is to say, rock on.

The Old Boise Guitar Co. was a Downtown Boise institution and musicians’ favorite for 26 years. Owned and operated by a musician for musicians, it was the type of shop that numbers too few these days, and we are proud to honor its legacy by carrying shirts bearing the Old Boise Guitar name.

IN THE RECORD EXCHANGE GIFT SHOP: KNITWITS ANIMAL HATS AND GLOVES!

Winter is around the corner, and that brings cold weather and holiday wish lists. The Record Exchange has one fashionable solution to both: Delux Knitwits animal hats and gloves.

Delux Knitwits are made of 100-percent natural wool from New Zealand. Wool contains lanolin, which makes it water resistant and gives it a natural, self-cleaning effect.

Knitwits are made in a fair trade environment, and a portion of proceeds are donated to the community in which they were created.