Barnes & Noble in-store Bl. Fri. music deals?

Morris Plains: I picked up the Christine ost and Rhino - Transparent Days West Coast Nuggets 2-lp set, (last copies of each). Still lots of stuff there as of Sunday morning (Pink Floyd More and a collection of great dance songs, Black Crowes, Cars - Heartbeat City). Things do move quickly, though: there was a mono copy of Beau Brummels - Triangle on saturday afternoon; gone this morning.

 

I went back and picked up another Laura Nyro record.

Laura Nyro ‎– New York Tendaberry, Analog Spark

 

Woah is this part of the 50% off?

 

I work at a Barnes & Noble in Clackamas, Oregon. We have a good music department and a great selection of vinyl. I was the lucky fellow who got to do this 50% off vinyl project in our store. It's not the managers at my work who have chosen which vinyl is on sale - that decision must have come from somebody higher up! When I did the project I noticed that the sale expiration date is the end of April. I would not expect to be getting fresh vinyl for this sale as I think they are just trying to sell slower moving product (although I could be proved wrong). If there is anything you are looking for that you have seen mentioned on this site but your local store does not have it a bookseller can check if any of the warehouses have and order it for you. Failing that they can look up and see if any of the other Barnes & Noble stores in the USA have it in stock - if they do then there is a possibility that they can manifest it to your local store or alternatively they may be willing to take payment over the phone. I have done this over the last week for a few different customers (Pixies "Bossanova, Cure's "Faith" and "Three imaginary boys", a couple of Enya albums and the "Fast times at Ridgemont High" soundtrack album). I was first in line when our store opened on the 26th December as I obviously knew what we had on sale and these are the titles I've bought -

Peter Gabriel - Car, Scratch, Security
Joe Strummer -101
Beastie Boys - To The Five Boroughs
Johnny Marr - Call The Comet
The Time - Ice Cream Castle
Eurythmics - In the garden, Sweet dreams, Touch, Be yourself tonight
Isaac Hayes - Hot buttered soul
Shaft Soundtrack
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Juju
Massive Attack - Blue lines, Protection
Sting - Dream of the blue turtles, Nothing like the sun
Duran Duran - Seven and the ragged tiger
Rolling Stones - Let it bleed
LCD Soundsystem - American Dream
Kate Bush - Before the dawn
Paul McCartney - Egypt station
The Cars - Moving in stereo, Heartbeat City
Gary Clark Jr - The Story of Sonny Boy Slim
Rush - Signals, Hold Your Fire, Show of hands, Grace under pressure
Japan - Gentlemen take polaroids
Toto - 40 trips around the sun
Jam - Sound Affects
Roxy Music - Avalon
Roy Orbison - The classic Roy Orbison, Mystery girl
Wilson Pickett - Best of
John Fogerty - Centerfield
Iggy Pop - The idiot
Hole - Live through this
Portishead - Dummy
Tom Petty - Southern Accents, Let me up I've had enough
Dusty Springfield - Dusty in Memphis
Stevie Wonder - Hotter in July
Pink Floyd - A collection of great dance songs
Bruce Springsteen - Tunnel of love
Ryan Adams - Ryan Adams
Best Coast - California Nights
Joe Jackson - Collected
The Stooges - Raw power

There are some items that are not in store but are listed on the B&N system as being "Home delivery only". This includes Bruce Springsteen's album collections - both numbers 1 and 2 which come to around $135 each. The Pretenders vinyl box set I've also seen listed as being half price at $100. As you can tell from my list this sale has become somewhat of an addiction for me - there's plenty of other records I would also love but going to start giving some love to the above new additions to my collection.

 

They were in the store that I go to.

 

I can confirm what @Jspmike said- I called a store 40 min away to see if they had the Grateful Dead - Shrine Hall and while they didn't, the really nice girl working the dept offered to have it shipped to me from the warehouse at 50% off. So you may be able to have some of the ones missing from your store ordered for you!

 

I don’t blame them. They can’t return it and no offense intended, but most skips are due to hardware, not software. There’s a good chance it’ll play fine on another system.

I wouldn’t pay full price for it though and I’ll venture B&N has it priced at full price.

 

Would you be able to post a complete list of titles eligible?

 

I did see several James Taylor titles on Analog Spark on the 50% off sale as well.

 

2008 iirc for Bayou Country is what I've seen copies of. Also the debut album I've seen some copies of. Dunno which masterings those are. Concord and Fantasy iirc are on the sleeves.

Anyone know how good 2015 iirc Rush remasters are? Or the Dylan Love & Theft?

I picked up a # copy of Machine Gun today for $17.50 before tax.

 

I purchased a bunch. I did not see any Rush at our locations. I did pick up all the Black Lion Jazz releases when I did see them.

 

I also got copies all the Peter Gabriel vinyl. I wish more Jazz titles were available.

 

You are most likely right. It only skipped on my good turntable. On the crap table it pushed right through... But I didn't buy Full Moon Fever to play on a Califone....

 

Did you pickup the Earl Hines LP?

 

I don't have the complete list as I only printed off the titles in our store that were supposed to go in the sale area (and that was over 100 pages which gives you some idea of the selection we had). Here's a selection -

J Browne - Late for the sky
Noam Pikelny - Universal favorite
Chris Thile - thanks for listening
S Vega- Lover beloved
R Cray- R Cray & his rhythm
Keb Mo - TajMo
Rides - Pierced arrow
Doctor Ross - memphis breakdown
Bessie Smith - Rough guide to blues legends
Iron Butterfly - heavy
Oasis - Standing on the shoulder of giants
Pixies - Head carrier
S Twain - Shania Twain, up,now
Vangelis - rosetta
Laura Veirs - carbon glacier
Claudio Abbado - Brahms
Joshua Bell - For the love of brahms
A Bocelli - live at alpemare forte die marmi
M Callas - at la scala, portrys verdi, live & alive, made scenes , sings operatic arias
Jonas Kaufmann - dolce vita, nessun dorma
Kronos Quartet - pieces of africa
Lang Lang in paris
Yo ya ma - ghost rodeo sessions
George Solti
Tenors -Under one sky
Vienna Philharmonica - Mahler
Steve Martin - Wild & crazy
Restoration - songs of Elton John
Asleep at the wheel - new routes
glen campbell - adios
M C carpenter - sometimes just the sky, things that we are made of
Rosanne Cash - King's record shop
Brandy Clark - Big day in a small town
Guy clark - workbench songs
Rodney Crowell - close ties
Dixie chicks - fly, home, taking the long way
Emmylou Harris - at the reman,devil don't sleep, kjango and jimmie, blue kentucky, elite hotel, red dirt girl , travelling kind
Hillary scott - love remains
Lady Antebellum - heartbreak
Little Big Town - the breaker
Loretta Lynn - full circle
Lillie Mae - forever and then some
Mavericks - brand new day
Martina Mcbride - reckless
Reba Mcentire - sing it now
Willie Nelson - band of brothers, for the good times, god's problem child, last man standing, summertime, the troublemaker, willie and the boys
Jennifer Nettles -playing with fire
Margo Price - all american made
Kim richey - edgeland
Draius rucker - when was the last time
Sugarland - bigger
Kiefer Sutherland - down in a hole
Time Jumpers - kid sister
K Urban - be here, fuse,love pain
Lee ann womack - lonely the lonesome
Wynonna & the big noise
Joan Bae - whistle down the wind
James Bay -electric light
Judy collins - wildflowers
Shakey graves - can't wake up
Arol Guthrie - alice's restaurant
Gordon Lightfoot - sundown
Laura Nyro - NY tendaberry
John prine -diamonds in the rough, sweet revenge
Damien Rice - my favourite faded
Willie Watson - folk singer 2
Gillian Welch - Harrow
Gipsy Kings - best of
Mickey hart - planet drum
Volo - grande amore
3 sounds - anita o'day and the 3 sounds
Art Blakey - night at bird land 2
Bad plus - it's hard
Chet baker - in ny, for lovers
T Bennettt - i left my hear in SF
George Benson - drop the needle
Brad mehldau - seymour reads the constitution
Dave Brubeck - dave digs disney
Donald Byrd - at half note cafe 1
Charles lloyd - i long to see you
John Coltrane -Atlantic year in mono, ole cotrane,
Harry connick - that would be me
Miles Davis - blue moods,porgy and bess
Duke Ellington - duke plays ellington, first time
Ella Fitzgerald - mack the knife ella in berlin
Bella Flack - juno concerto
Bill Frisell - small town
Erroll garner - ready take one
Robert Glasper - everything's beautiful
Charlie haden - last dance
Herbie Hancock - river the joni letters
Herb alpert - going places
Earl hines - tour de force
Shirley horn - softly
Freddie hubbard - breaking point
D Krall - All for you, From this moment, girl in the other room, look of love, love scenes, wallflower, when i look in your eyes
Loreen Mckennitt - visit
Charlie parker - jazz at massey hall
Pat Metheny - offramp
M peyroux - anthem, careless love
Gregor porter - take me to the alley
Andre previn - double play
Joshua Redman - nearness,
John Scofield - time on my hands
Esperanza - emily's evolution
Cassandra Wilson - coming forth by day
Lizz wright - freedom & surrender
Wynton kelly trio - smokin at the half not
Enya - amarantine
Beau Brummels - triangle
Roy orbison - classic roy orbison, one of the lonely ones, the original sound
Elvis Presley - Back in memphis, he touched me, king creole, loving you, way down in the the jungle room
Various -25th anniversary rock & roll hall of fame concerts night 1,
American Epic : The sessions
Gang of four -Brief history of the 20th century
Chicago plays the Stones
Various - Getting' together - summer of love
Los Lobos - how will the wolf
Music of David Lynch
Opeth - Pale Communion
Rock & Roll hall of fame live 2 & 3
Rutles
Faces - snakes& ladders
Sun records 7" box set
Madonna - Who's that girl
311 - mosaic, transistor
Adam & ants - kings of the wild frontier
Ryan Adams - Gold, ryan adams,
Afghan whigs - congregation, up in it, uptown avaondale
C aguilera - stripped
Air - moon safari, twenty ears
Alkaline trio - is this thing cursed
All time low - last young renegade
Greg allmän - southern blood
Allman Brothers - lightened rogues, idlewild south, live at ludlow, reach for the sky, win lose or draw, wipe the windows,
Alt-j- Reduxer, Relaxer
Tori Amos -Boys for pele, native invader
Animal Collective - painting with
Association - drop the needle, insight out
At the Drive in - interalia
Dan Auerbach - waiting on a song
Avett Brothers - Carpenter, magpie and the dandelion
Awolnation - megalithic symphnony
Bad company - straight shooter
Badfinger - wish you were here
Band - islands, moondog matinee, music from the big pink
Band of horses - cease to begin
D Banhart - ape in pink marble
Banks - altar, goddess, Anything but words
Courtney Barnett - Tell me how your really feel
Bastille - wild world
Beach Boys - BB party
Beach House - Be-sides and rarities
Beck - Guero, mutations
Belle and Sebastian - How to solve our human problems 1,2 and 3
Best Coast - California nights
J Bieber - purpose
Big Brother & holding company - cheap thrills,
Big red machine
Big Star - best of
Billy Gibbons - perfectamundo
Andrew Bird - Are you serious, Echolocations river
Bjork - utopia
Black keys - Chulahoma
James Blake - colour is anything
Blonde Redhead - Masculin Feminin
Blondie - Pollinator
Bon Jovi - The house is not for sale
Joe Bonamassa - acoustic evening at the vienna opera house, ballad of john henry, beacon theatre, blues deluxe, blues of desperation, british blues explosion live, different shades of blue, driving towards the daylight, at carnegie hall, at Greek theatre
David Bowie -Changestwobowie,david live, live nassau coliseum 76, lodger, a new career in a new town, next day deluxe,no plan, pin ups, reality, stage, who can i be now
Brand New - daisy
Broken Social scene - hug of thunder
Bruce Hornsby - rehab reunion
B Springsteen - Hammersmith odeon london 75
Buckcherry - 15
Jeff Buckly - Sketches
Jimmy Buffet - license to chill
Jake Bugg - on my one
Kate Bush - before the dawn
Will Butler - policy
David Byrne - American utopia
Carpenters- close to you
Cars - moving in stereo, shake it up
Neko case - hell on,
Chemical brothers - born in the echoes,dig your own hole
Chvrches - every open eye, love is dead
Eric clapton - from the cradle, i still do, the live album collection
Gary Clark - story of sonny boy slim
Clash - sandinista
kurt cobain - montage of heck
cocteau twins - treasure
L Cohen - popular problems
Sam Cohen - cool it
Coldplay - kaleidoscope
Phil collins -both sides, but seriously , dance into the light, essential going back , face value, hello i must be going, testify
Shawn Colvin - colvin & earle
Ry Cooder - prodigal sun
Alice cooper - Dada, flush the fashion, lace & whiskey, pretties for you, special forces, zipper catches skin,
Billy corgan - ogilala
Elvis costello - my aim is true
counting crows - recovering the satellites
cowboy junkies - all that reckoning
cream - goodbye
CCR - Bayou country
David Crosby - here if you listen, sky trails
CSN - CSN, daylight again
Crowded house - Crowded house, time on earth, wood face
Crystal Castles - amnesty
Cure - torn down:mixed up extras
Curtis Knight - you can't use my name
Miley Cyrus - Younger now

That's the first third of the titles we had in store. I will post more later if anybody is interested. Apologies for the spelling errors and bad abbreviations - if you need any more info just ask. My scanner is on the blink at the moment so I'm having to type out the list but enjoying listening to the new Dukes Of Stratosphear reissue whilst I do this!

 

Update- at the Stevens Creek location referenced above, they moved all the vinyl that was spread across the wall (all marked 50% off) and consolidated them into half the wall and put 50% off stickers on all those LPs. They added a bunch of new ones on the other half of the wall, none marked 50% off.

 

The local store had condensed everything to a single double sided aisle rack. When I stopped by today they had three fourths of the first side with the marked titles. I saw the Phil Collins remasters, Peter Gabriel remasters and mostly newer releases from the past year or two.

The selections didn’t seem like just older titles. It seemed completely randomized. Some artists have one marked and then 3-5 others regular price.

I picked up:
Sleater Kinney-No Cities to Love b and n store edition
Prophets of Rage-red/black colored vinyl
Foo Fighters-St Cecilia EP
Garbage-Strange Little Birds

 

I stopped by the B&N near my office on the way home tonight... not a ton left but I managed to find two:

Paul Weller - A Kind Revolution
New Order - Waiting for the Siren’s Call

There were a bunch more I put back but I figured I’d save some cash for the two larger stores I’ll be going by later in the week.

 

Saw both those too recently at the stores I've been visiting.

FGI, the Dylan 2LP Love and Theft is the 2017 We Are Vinyl pressing. Ray Janos did the 2001 release. His initials are not in the wax of the 2017 reissue. Still for like $13 after 50% off, it was a good bargain and I look forward to listening.

Stores have also been heavy on Nick Cave, Shins, Petty, Crowes, Radiohead, Rush, Decemberists, a few Neko Case, anyway quite a diverse selection to choose from. Not all the 50% off are 'bargains' but many are. If I knew a few of these $10-11 records, better, I'd be buying even more. Maybe that's a good thing though!

Upon its release, and afterwards, I listened to death to John Fogerty's Blue Moon Swamp, so even with the blue vinyl edition it seems it can't get me to bite on that title again. Quite a few Sinatra titles also available. Saw a few ZZ Top and some Allman Brothers. Some like Mellencamp and other reissues I'd rather put the money into having vintage pressings of. Many a slew of the Van Morrison-related recent releases also available. Couldn't find his Keep It Simple though which I might have bought on sale.

I feel bad spending at the Barnes since its kept me out of the really good used vinyl store, but man their prices on used and new vinyl at the local shop seem to have risen a good 25-50% in some cases this past year.

 

Thank you!! My local had a pretty small selection so just trying to see which ones I can order special. If you’re able to add the remaining titles that would be amazing, otherwise this is a great start. Thanks again.

 

That was super helpful. A few titles to try to track down. Thanks for posting!

 

I did not see any

 

Slight aside: the Tysons VA B&N is one of the biggest in the area, and its CD area has been decreased substantially.

I couldn't find any CD box sets there. Even the shelf that read "BOX SETS" didn't have any!

Back in December 2018, they had lots of that stuff. Now? Nuttin'!

 

Any good vinyl deals? Thinking about hitting Tyson’s and Rosslyn at some point when I’m back in that area

 

I picked up a couple at Tysons last week -
Dusty Springfield - Dusty in Memphis ("Premium Vinyl Pressing HQ" 180g - sounds great!, $12.50)
John Prine - Sweet Revenge (to replace my original) ($11)
and Brian Wilson - No Pier Pressure (2LP, 180g, 17.50)

Didn't get to Rosslyn, but Rockville has a poor selection, unless you're looking for Joe Bonamassa.
That said, I walked out with:
The Capital 60th Anniversary Edition of Frank Sinatra Sings for Only The Lonely (remaster, 2 LP, 180g $17.50)
Judy Garland - Judy at Carnegie Hall (remaster, 2 LP, 180g $17.50)

A neighbor told me Gaithersburg has a few of the Bowie boxes, but I haven't been up to check it out.