Hi Everyone,

This week I wanted to send big love to Rochester, NY to our Record Archive family. In the early hours of Tuesday morning, Alayna Alderman (Vice President of Record Archive) and her husband Reo responded to the dreaded middle of the night alarm call to find quite the site; that someone had attempted to drive through the front door to gain entrance to the store.

These stories are always so disheartening especially when it affects the small businesses that are there to serve the community. However, Alayna and her team refused to let this major inconvenience get them down. They got creative with getting their customers in and out of the store and were resourceful when resources were limited (turns out the commercial door timelines are rivaling vinyl production!) By yesterday, they were back up and running with a new door to welcome their customers to their weekly Wednesday Happy Hour. Stories like this (especially with our stores) inspire and remind me that when you get knocked down, you can’t stay down. You get up, brush yourself off and get back at it.

Cheers to Record Archive for doing just that.

If you are looking for somewhere to point your Record Store love this week, hint hint… https://recordarchive.com/.

Here are the charts.
Andrea

Andrea Paschal
Executive Director
Coalition of Independent Music Stores
ThinkIndie Distribution
3738 4th Terrace North
Birmingham, AL 35222
Phone: 205.595.1932 x.208
Fax: 205.595.1938
Email : andrea@cimsmusic.com
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