More new vinyl goodies for the bold & limber! Including a reissue of this impossible to find in original pressing (under $500) Brazilian gem #LoBorges . #ByardLancaster #MostraCollettiva #Witch #SkinnyPimp #BaltimoreRecordstore #ShoppingWhileSlippery #OofMyNateBone

Maybe this will lure you out of your smoke-filled, Colt 45 drenched snow escape bunker! Turn off Twin Peaks, it will be there for you when you return, & check out our new stuff! (And help us pay our bills for this frozen week…..)

Another new release with some local spin is “Can I Get A Pack of Camel Lights?” By #Geologist of #AnimalCollective . Plus “Galaxia Tropical”, Emotions and the Exotica side of Sun Ra.

And speaking of living under fascism and still having some freedom to work, survive, resist, make art, Drew Daniel wrote a brilliant essay in the Quietus about the complexities of the current authoritarian assault and how that affects a musician, makes them question their actions.

VERY cool grocery bag of #AvantJazz CDs going out. #DonCherry #WadadaLeoSmith #DeweyRedman #BillDixon #ArchieShepp #EddieGale #BaltimoreRecordstore

We are open and picking back up on our sidewalk I’ve assault. Putting out some rarities for your snowed in viewing pleasure.

Professor Borax has cleared a path and is holding down the fort! I am off to try to move my truck and find salt. Walk carefully over, warm up by our radiators and make a selection that will carry you through the harsh week of polar vortex.

We are going to give it a shot tomorrow and at least clear paths, spread precious salt and heat up the tomes. May close early if we’re alone in buried world. 11-?

Lovely Baltimore snow scene captured by aspiring young filmmaker Otis Smith.

@djhummingbirdfeeder ‘s union suit got locked up in the 25th St laundromat, I’m still coughing and reading books fused to my couch (not in a Nazi commandant JD Vance perverse way!), fill in Star @mrigaankamuch is currently back in Mumbai reading script lines with Shah Rukh Khan,

Happy 40th Emergence Day to Waverly stalwart Sonia Zawadzki who practically grew up right across the street from us with her painter dad Pete who had an antique shop in the basement for a while. Sonia taught herself Japanese and lived in Japan for years as a teacher.

Two new boxes of #Valancourt horror for your snowbound on the couch drinking mulled rum pleasure! Nothing hits like horror when you are coccooning against raging Nature. #CharlesBeaumont #RobertBloch #TheTenant #NestofNightmares #CarlJacobi #WomenofWeirdTales #BaltimoreBookstores

Some of today’s #usedvinyl #LP treasures. 1978 UK #SexPistols , #LeeHazlewood #NinetyEightPercentMomAndApplePieNineteenTwentynineCrashBand #HandfulofDust #PhilipGlass , #MusicInTheWorldOfIslam #BaltimoreRecordstore #MusicSuppliesBeforeSnowmageddon

More #usedvinyl new arrivals going out, including the greatest slab of Magical Miserablism! Rumor has it that MK Ultra unleashed Leonard on the counterculture to wrinkle their ponchos, but he bent the knee to no organization, just the fair ladies!

Some vinyl reissue essentials in for your mid-week browsing. Temps into the 30s! But still wear a coat.

Lots of new used books have been going out for days and now we’re catching up on used vinyl. Happy Martin Luther King Jr Day and may ICE rot in hell.

Everybody gets a turn on Satan’s calliope! Now the other buyer ((me)) is sick & wont be present tomorrow, Wednesday. But we’ll be buying Thursday through Saturday 12-5. No graphic novels or crime/mystery novels at the moment, though, all stocked up. Let go of some jazz & soul vinyl baby!

In America you drop your kid off at school, get your brains blown out on the ride home, then the Vice President drops everything for a week to call you a terrorist, to slander your family, to protect the circumstances that led to your death so they can do it again. It is government by Alex Jones.

Refilling our jazz and African music sections after fiery holiday sales. Very excited to have copies of “Fly or Die” (essential!!) by #JamieBranch , #KelanPhilCohran & Legacy’s spiritual jazz masterpiece African Skies, Sun Ra Meets Salah Ragab, plus some Strut, Soul Jazz & Analog Africa burners.

Our buyer is out with “seeing children emerge from radiator” level of illness tomorrow. Buying of vinyl and books other than romance, graphic novels & crime/mystery novels resumes Wednesday 12-5. Bring us some jazz, soul & philosophy!

Great Bernadette Mayer poem for a cold January Monday.

Open until 5 tomorrow, Wednesday the 31st, & then we’ll be flying with the lucky pigs until Friday morning at 11. Don’t do all your new years whippets at the same Safeway!

It is an honor & a stone cold hoot to have Professor Boram aboard! He is a longtime Red Room veteran and has played in there & worked our counter numerous times as Herr Schmidt tells him once again how Bonnie Prince Billy smooched him out of nowhere during a musical festival in the Alps & how

Magic Counter Soul At Normals #4. Getting to know Mrigaanka @mrigaankamuch , the busiest of bees & being interviewed by her for her Third Place Project was definitely one of my 2025 highlights. Great interviewer that puts even the most twitchy subject at ease. She is also extremely positive

Part 3 of the 2025 rundown of highlights from denizens of the Normals counter. Doug most days manages the historic OK Natural foods, but he wears many hats and whistles varied tunes. When he’s not laboring he visits antique & thrift stores off the beaten paths &

Despite being a full time mom to international dog fashion model star, sheltie Ladybird, Sarah still finds time to play in Bedlam Brass, play on the score to HBO’s great show “Task” and work here for the Friday samosas.

Some of the vinyl refreshment going out today. Including the brand new #EllenArkbro

It’s that moment that’s obsessed you all month! That caused you to stare blankly as your partner told you they were leaving you once the eggnog ran out - the year’s favorite cultural media/moments from The Denizens of The Normals Counter! Let me state that none of these visionaries have been

We are open & restocked with new vinyl for those who didn’t receive quite what they wanted and now shopping with grandma’s card $$. We won’t be buying today, but we will be tomorrow 12-5. Bring us your hot vinyl and philosophy, ancient classics,

Hope the day & the New Year bring you what you desire & seek! Or at least plenty time to curl up with a book. We’ll be back open tomorrow.

Be the holiday you desire! Open tomorrow until 4 or 5 depending on activity level. Closed Christmas Day.

Nothing is easy as our good pals Lungfish said long ago and Ganesh knows this year the economy was extra wobbly like a toy boat in a bathtub being stomped by a huge deranged diapered toddler, so we thank you Baltimore from the bottom of our wrinkled hearts for

Starting tomorrow & running for as long as supplies last - a good sized bag - free EC Comics tote to each customer who spends $50 or more & desires one.

going to mcdonalds to get the grinch meal then going to burger king to get the spongebob meal then driving into the freezing lake

Intern @mrigaankamuch poised moments before takeoff! She and @djhummingbirdfeeder found Herr Schmidt’s gallon of eggnog he hides under the counter for Red Room shows, so she’ll be feeling no pain for her 18+ hours flight!

Thankee dear Rahne.

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Fresh picks for the weekend!

It makes me happy we can’t keep Sun Ra in the racks! Got some more in for this weekend, plus a triple LP 20th anniversary pressing of “Feels” by #AnimalCollective , Dean, Britta & Sonic Boom in wintry mood and Hecklers Choice of Pavement deep cuts. #BaltimoreRecordstore #ShopWaverly #ShopLocal

Congratulations to our luminous intern @mrigaankamuch on graduating from Hopkins with her bachelor of science - biochemistry major with minor in poetry!?! AND for having her picture inserted in the Merriam Webster next to “busy bee”. Not yet 22, she already nearly has the wit, wisdom & wardrobe of

I got my annual flogging from Team Krampus!