Golden Valley Store Celebrates Record Store Day with Soul Asylum Concert
Hundreds of music fans are expected to line up Saturday in Golden Valley for limited releases as part of Record Store Day.
The annual event hosted independent record stores offer vinyl albums you can only purchase on Saturday, hence the long customer lines. At Down In The Valley in Golden Valley, it’s the store’s biggest sales day of the year.
“This is our busiest day, it’s busier than Christmas,” said Steven Williams, music buyer at Down In The Valley. “When we open there’s usually 500 to 600 people in line.”
Down In The Valley told customers that it would also host a “mystery band,” which it revealed on Friday morning to be Soul Asylum. The rock band, which formed in Minneapolis in 1981, will play at 8 p.m. Saturday. For fans to see the show, there’s a certain way to get tickets.
“There is a caveat, they have a record store release, which is the unplugged set that they did on MTV in ’93. If you buy that, there will be a ticket inside that gets you into the show,” said Scott Farrell, general manager of Down In The Valley.
Greg Norton from punk rock band Hüsker Dü will also be doing a meet-and-greet with fans from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Williams says the store’s most anticipated limited release will be a Taylor Swift album called “Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions.” Down In The Valley says it has hundreds of copies.
“We’ve had phone calls, emails, social media messages. Everyone wants the Taylor Swift album,” said Williams.
Steven Williams hold up limited release Taylor Swift album.
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