Here at your favorite independent record store, we’re very conscious about price. We understand the questions and complaints we get from customers when they see a single-CD price hovering around the $20 mark, and we want you to know that we’re listening.

Thankfully, the labels are starting to listen, too. One of them is Universal Music Group. Last fall, Universal started trimming its standard $16.98-$18.98 list prices down to $12.98, and now it’s starting to roll out new albums — that’s right, NEW albums — for $10 and under.

You might have noticed Hole‘s new Nobody’s Daughter was offered at the RX for the low price of $9.99 when it came out a couple of weeks ago. That was no sale price; You can still get it for $9.99 today, a month from now, a year from now, whatever.

Same goes for recent new arrivals from the likes of The Jayhawks, Keane, Carney and We Are the Fallen.

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The second annual Gem State Jam Music and Arts Festival will take place at 12:30 p.m. Saturday, June 19, at the Old Idaho Penitentiary, and this year’s fest is bigger and better than the inaugural event!

Twelve national and local acts will rock two solar-powered stages. The festival also features artists, vendors and penitentiary exhibits.

Scheduled Gem State Jam performers include:
Cash’d Out (Johnny Cash tribute)
Jerry Joseph with Wally Ingrim
Mike Pinto Band
Shook Twins
Wendy Darling
Big Light
The Very Most
David Robert King
Volifonix
Dan Keck (Bank)
Brandon Pritchett
Boise Rock School

Purchase advance tickets at The Record Exchange for $15 and save $5 (tickets are 20 bucks at the gate). That low ticket price includes the Old Pen’s regular admission, so you’ll have full access to the facility grounds during the festival.

The Record Exchange is giving away tickets to the festival. To enter to win a pair, e-mail us HERE by midnight Monday, June 14. The winners will be selected at random and notified on Tuesday, June 15.

GSquare Productions and the Idaho Historical Society want you to ride your Bike to the Gem State Jam! There will be plenty of bicycle parking and much to see, so come early and stay a while.

Learn more about the Gem State Jam on the Interwebs:
gemstatejam.com
myspace.com/gemstatejammusicfestival
facebook.com/gemstatejammusicfestival

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Two great bands, two great albums, one great price. Head down to The Record Exchange and get you some new Black Keys and Band of Horses for $9.99 each!

The New York Times has called The Black Keys’ music “tough-minded, blues haunted songs,” and the ghosts of Alabama’s legendary Muscle Shoals Sound Studios, where the bulk of Brothers was recorded, inhabit the album’s 15 tracks. With Brothers, says Uncut, The Black Keys prove to be “one of the best rock ‘n’ roll bands on the planet.” Hear a full album stream HERE.

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Infinite Arms is Band of Horses‘ third full-length and the first with Tyler Ramsey and Bill Reynolds, long-time touring members of the group. (Watch a video for the song “Laredo” HERE and on the making of Infinite Arms HERE.) Through touring together in support of Cease to Begin and during breaks in the Infinite Arms‘ recording process, the band have become a cohesive force with all members making invaluable contributions to the unmistakable sound that founder Bridwell has crafted since the band’s inception. As Bridwell himself concedes, “in many ways, this is the first Band of Horses record.”

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BUY THE DELUXE VINYL BOX SET HERE
BUY THE DIGITAL DOWNLOAD HERE

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The Record Exchange is pleased to announce that The Black Keys‘ new album Brothers will be available for the $9.99 Right Price for one week beginning Tuesday, May 18!

You can stream Brothers in its entirety now by clicking HERE. For more information on Brothers and other Right Price titles, click HERE.

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