Happy new year music fans! 2012 has been a great year for Records On Walls and I wanted to thank not only all my customers, but also all the visitors from all over the world who have shown some interest in this simple product. I anticipate 2013 will be even better, with even more people getting creative with displaying their vinyl record collections.
To start 2013 I’ve got two announcements to make. First, we will be adding a white vinyl record frame as an option in the next two weeks or so, which is pretty exciting. I know lots of you have been asking for the 7” record frame, and also European and Australian shipping, but unfortunately I still won’t be able to deliver on those anytime soon. Hopefully things will change. Second, I will be increasing the price of the frames ever so slightly in the next few weeks. The reason being is that shipping costs are a drag. Even though Canada is a great country for many reasons, it definitely is not eCommerce friendly, and I’ve been losing a bunch of money to the postal services for much too long. My apologies for this, and I will try to do my best to reduce costs in the coming months, whatever way I can. So if you have been waiting to buy some record frames, now is the time to do it before the prices increase.
As well, I wanted to welcome onboard a few new retailers to the ROW family. In Canada, Records On Walls are now available in Edmonton at Listen Records and in Bowmanville (Ontario) at Vinyl Alibi. In the United States, Records On Walls are available in Los Angeles at Touch Vinyl, and just outside of Houston at SweetSpot Audio (coming soon). Sebastian, the owner of Touch Vinyl, sent me this really cool google maps link to his store, where you can see Records On Walls in action. I’ve never seen a streetview from inside a store before, so that was pretty neat. What made it even better is that the record frames looks absolutely kick ass in this panoramic shot: Touch Vinyl on Google Maps.
The last thing I wanted to include in this post was a picture sent to me from Jason in Utah. This is a first for Records On Walls, and I definitely hope it won’t be the last. This picture is of Jason’s office where he is displaying some wicked records behind his desk. He even tells me that he keeps some extras around to switch up the display and to keep it interesting. I feel like the world is a better place knowing that Marc Bolan is welcome in the office, top hat and all.
All the best in 2013, and thanks for visiting! Cheers, Steve