Record Store Day 2024
Record Store Day 2024 is almost here! We’ll be celebrating the 17th annual Record Store Day on Saturday, April 20th. Grimey’s will open early, at 10:00 AM (hey, that’s early for us!), and we’ll have plenty of 2024 Record Store Day exclusive releases available for purchase in the shop. We’re thrilled that some of our faves, Paramore, are the 2024 Record Store Day Ambassadors!!! We love these guys and are so proud to have them represent Record Store Day and Independent Record Stores. Read their RSD 2024 statement here. They mean business, y’all.
Be sure to check out the complete list of this years’ RSD Exclusive releases on their site here, including records from Paramore, Noah Kahan, The 1975, The Replacements, Pearl Jam, De La Soul, and Bare Jr, featuring our founder & co-owner Mike Grimes! We try to order just about every title available, though sometimes we don’t know until literally the last moment if we’ll receive all the albums being released that day.
We’re stoked to announce that Bare, Jr. will join us for a live performance by the original line-up, going down here on the Grimey’s stage at 4:00 PM! The band’s debut album Boo-Tay will be released on vinyl for the first time ever on RSD. Bare Jr. will greet fans and sign copies of Boo-Tay following their performance.
We’ll be selling the RSD exclusives from our back door, across from Anaconda Vintage. We’ll offer menus listing all of the titles we have on hand to customers to select which titles they want. Then helpful Grimey’s staffers will pick your orders and bring you your records to check out. The line will form in the lawn in front of Living Waters behind our “RSD Line Forms Here” sign. Please do not line up at the back door of Grimey’s. We’ll move the line over there when we’re ready to start slingin’ records! If you choose to get here overnight, please be courteous and respectful to our other customers and look out for each other.
Joining us for the big day will be some of our friends from the community! We’re always happy to partner with our local community radio station WXNA who will be spinning tunes for the line on the lawn with the first official set starting at 8:00 AM.
WXNA DJ Sets
10-11 a.m - Laura Pochodylo (Runout Numbers)
11 a.m. to Noon - Juan Buitrago (International Echo)
Noon to 1 p.m. - Jason Piffier (All Skate)
1-2 p.m. - Plato Jenkins (The Needle In The Groove
2-3 p.m. - Caroline Cronin (BIG MOOD)
3-4 p.m. - DJ rhatfink (The Continental)
We will also be joined by HeadCount volunteers who will be here to engage with and register voters. To find out more about how to register to vote in the state of Tennessee visit the Secretary of State’s site here. If you arrive early enough, you may be able to score a delicious snack from Hi-Fi Cookiesl courtesy of our friends at Marshall Headphones! Be sure to enter to win our RSD weekend drawing for a pair of their fine headphones. (Check the table in the foyer, near the front door, for your chance to enter to win. Entry is free. Local prize pickup required.) And to round out our day, Newman Family BBQ will be set up in the parking lot slinging their tasty smoked meats until they sell out.
We hope to see all of you on April 20th for Record Store Day!
PS - If you wanna get out and listen to more records on Saturday night, right around the corner from the shop at American Legion Post 82, Sparkle City Disco—a DJ duo who have been shopping with us since they were in high school—will be celebrating the 12th Anniversary of SCJ with guest DJ Zach Cowie (our once upon a time ago Drag City sales rep!) As a nod to their love of record stores on Record Store Day, tickets are discounted to $15 with your RSD receipt at the door.
IMPORTANT PARKING INFORMATION! Our parking lot is shared with other rad businesses and it is a finite space, so parking is limited. In addition to our lot, there is an inexpensive paid parking lot behind Elegy Coffee and Mickey's on Gallatin Road that is a short walk from the shop. Please use EXTREME CAUTION if parking on the nearby, narrow neighborhood streets. Too many cars make these roads impassable and result in angry neighbors, the police being called, and cars being towed. (This is no fun at all.) If possible, please consider carpooling, ride-sharing, walking, biking, scooting, roller skating, or taking the bus to attend Record Store Day 2024 at Grimey’s.
