This made our week (month! year?!?!): We acquired the remaining record collection (several thousand records) of Vinyl Fever's first Manager- the Mann who developed our original location on Fletcher in 1981! This guy (who many of you know) has spent the better part of the past 30 years in record stores and, though he had been selling off his records the past several years, what remained was the cream of the crop! Mostly Jazz, Blues and both classic and obscure R&B, much of the vinyl is pristine. This is exactly the kind of once-every-so-many-years opportunities that makes Vinyl Fever THE most fun place to work and shop in Tampa! We're putting this collection out a box of ~ 120 at a time and there are already people coming in daily, hoping for dibs. Ya know, even though we could often get more money for records like these on eBay, we keep them in-house because we like selling them to real, live people with whom we can interact. We like having the kind of quality store where you can walk in and be excited about finding sides that you might never be able to actually see and feel anywhere else. We suggest that if you love records and the kind of record store experience I just described, this is a good time of year to make it out here. See you in the racks!
- Lee