These ideas are wonderful for more than Record Store Day — they’re great for anyone who loves music, LPs and 45s, CDs (maybe even cassettes!) and/or music history. It’s also for people who love frequenting independent retailers, which is what record stores usually are these days with the demise of most major record store chains.
Nowadays, the small retailer is where it’s at (and they’re who created Record Store Day back in 2007) and those are the shops where you’ll be able to find some super-cool vinyl and CD special releases in honor of the day. Check out the whole list at Record Store Day. And if you really love the idea of Record Store Day, or know someone who does, be sure to get the T-shirt, too! You can find it here. Also, check out the Record Store Day site and learn more about the event here.
1. Best Vintage Record Players for Vinyl Records
These beautiful vintage style record players and turntables make great gift ideas. Whether it’s for someone who has a closet full of old vinyl records, a music collector, or a musician, these old fashioned record players are sure to please them.
2. Best Baby Boomer Gift Idea: A New Record Player
How many times have you packed up your old vinyl long- playing record albums and moved them across town or around the country? Here’s the real question. Do you still have a record player to play them on?
3. Charming Retro ’50s and ’60s Style Portable Crosley Turntables
In the 1950s, one of the coolest new pieces of audio equipment was born, one that brought listening to records to a whole new other level. Up until then, the only place music lovers could play their vinyl records was at home.
4. Posters Rock! Collecting original rock ’n roll music posters
Looking for posters and memorabilia for your favorite rock band is easy, with dozens of online resources for poster auctions and conventions. If you know which Rock ‘n Roll band you follow, then look here to find the best music memorabilia.
Rock music lovers will be uber pleased with these Rock Music Box Sets Gifts. The best selling classic rock music box sets gifts from popular rock bands including rock new releases in both vinyl and CD. Every artist is a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee!
6. Frank Sinatra Concept Albums
Wikipedia says that a concept album is ‘unified by a theme, which can be instrumental, compositional, narrative, or lyrical’. Frank Sinatra is often cited as one of the first to come out with this type of album, beginning in the 1950s.
Is there someone on your holiday gift list that is a 1960s music enthusiast? You are sure to locate the perfect albums among the Top 100 selling albums of the decade!
8. I Was a Teenage Cowpunk Rocker; Well, Sort of.
I discovered Cowpunk music a few years ago. Although I didn’t know what it was, I was soon to learn that it was another form of fusion music. I love Fusion, however I also like the basic styles.
