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Lines will stretch out from the doors of Lincoln’s four record stores Saturday morning, lines of people queuing up as early as 5 a.m. to try to ensure they’ll get a Record Store Day release.
Some will be hoping to pick up 7-inches by Taylor Swift, or Billie Eilish and Charli XCX, or Post Malone’s “Tribute to Nirvana." Others will want the re-issue of the Rolling Stones “Out of Our Heads,” a Fleetwood Mac picture disc or a George Harrison/Beck split single. “You’ve got teenagers buying music here and you’ve got lifelong collectors coming in to buy The Rolling Stones,” Lincoln Vintage Vinyl’s Chad Breasseale said.
“There will be a lot of women, not just guys. It will look like the people who have been coming in to buy music in the last four or five years.” That changing demographic of buyers of what oldsters call ‘records’ and youngsters ‘vinyls’ has powered an increase in sales of vinyl albums from 13.
1 million in 2016 to 49.6 million in 2023. People are also reading.
.. And those vinyl sales, 40% at independent record stores, prompted Record Store Day to broaden its offerings in number and style.
“A conscious decision has been made, let’s try and reach out to other audiences people don’t necessarily think of when they think of record stores, but honestly, it’s what’s happening in stores,” Record Store Day co-founder Carrie Colliton told the Sound Up podcast this week. “It’s actually really nice to see people are recognizing the change in the list because it’s actually what’s happening at the record store level.” The 2025 Record Store Day list is, in fact, perfect for the participating stores that can tailor their purchases to fit their customer base.
“We are very happy with the diversity of it,” said First Day Vinyl’s Travis Mannschreck. “It’s particularly big on the stuff our customers want, pop and hip-hop.” Mannschreck’s clientele skews younger, teens and 20-somethings, and is far more into Swift, Eilish, Charli XCX and Lil Uzi Vert than, say, Ralph Stanley and The 13th Floor Elevators.
So he has loaded up on pop and hip-hop releases. As for Breasseale, the more expansive list has led to more expansive offerings. “I’ve ordered 250 titles,” Breasseale said.
“It’s the most product I’ve ever brought in.” The most desired and rarest of those products like the 10 copies of Gracie Abrams “Live from Radio City Music Hall” are likely to be out the door in the first hour or two after Lincoln Vintage Vinyl’s 7 a.m.
opening. The same will hold true for Lefty’s Records and Backtrack Records, which will open at 7 a.m.
Frist Day Vinyl will open at 9 a.m. — “some people will go to Lincoln Vintage Vinyl, then come here and get in line,” Mannschreck said.
In addition to the Record Store Day records, the Lincoln stores also offer discounts on sales of used vinyl and CDs, providing an incentive for digging through the bins. Which, the store owners hope, will be repeated after Saturday. “The idea was always to get the people to come back on other days than Record Store Day,” to draw them into record stores,” said Breasseale, now in his seventh year of operations.
“It’s worked.” The E-edition is available to you every morning, and is updated throughout the day Top Journal Star photos for April 2025 Cows graze in the fields below as Sandhill Cranes take flight at sunrise along the Platte River on Sunday, April 6, 2025, in Kearney. The Cranes eat corn from the grain fields and then sleep on the sandbars.
The largest congregation of sandhill cranes occurs from February to early April along the Platte River in Nebraska. Gretna East senior Sonora DeFini scores against Lincoln Southwest with a header during a high school soccer game on Monday, April 7, 2025, at Beechner Athletic Complex. Halsey, a Great Horned Owl, looks through a kaleidoscope of mirrors on display on Saturday, April 5, 2025, at Indian Center Inc in Lincoln.
Lincoln Southwest's Sole Jones (center) competes against other athletes in heat one of the girls 400m during a track and field invitational at Union Bank Stadium on Thursday, April 3, 2025, in Lincoln. A bee covered in pollen buzzes from flower to flower on Sunday, April 6, 2025, at the Sunken Gardens in Lincoln. Jarrek Renshaw, a lead mechanic, works on an engine in a testing area at Duncan Aviation on Wednesday.
Duncan is expanding its engine overhaul facility, which will allow it to test engines for Canadian aerospace manufacturer Pratt & Whitney. University of Kansas students Remi Ward (left) and Jess Judd test out their concrete canoe Friday at Holmes Lake. The University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Engineering hosted a competition in which college students from across the region used their own concrete mixes to design and build canoes -- some more than 20 feet long and weighing more than 300 pounds.
The canoes were tested for buoyancy and raced at Holmes Lakes. The event was part of the American Society of Civil Engineers' Mid-America Student Symposium hosted by UNL from Thursday through Saturday. Rutgers’ Yomar Carreras (left) slides into home as Nebraska’s Will Jesske tags him out on Sunday at Haymarket Park.
An early voter drops off her ballot at a drop box at the Lancaster County Election Commission Office, 601 N. 46th St., on Friday in Lincoln.
The primary election is Tuesday. Sandhill Cranes excitedly dance with one another as they begin to stir along the sandbars on the Platte River the morning of Sunday, April 6, 2025, in Kearney. Hundreds of thousands of Sandhill Cranes have been converging on the Platte Basin for their annual migration to their northern breeding grounds.
Every spring, as sandhill cranes are migrating to their breeding grounds, cranes without partners will start pairing up. During this time, the cranes perform dancing displays. Although the dancing is most common in the breeding season, the cranes can dance all year long.
Sometimes the dance involves wing-flapping, bowing, and jumping. Nebraska defensive line coach Terry Bradden talks to players during a team practice on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, at Hawks Championship Center. Jacob Huebert, president of the Liberty Justice Center, argues at the Nebraska Supreme Court in a case over the city's ban on guns in public places on Thursday, April 3, 2025, at the Capitol.
Gov. Jim Pillen (right) greets World War II veterans Clare Sward (from left) and Jay Cawley on Tuesday in Lincoln. Lincoln Pius X's Tatum Heimes (from left) and Ana Patera look on as Gretna East's Lily Frederick (far right) celebrates a goal with teammate Madi Shelburne during a high school soccer game on Monday, March 31, 2025, in Lincoln.
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