We will have the new ARCADE FIRE – SUBURBS cd ON SALE for just $9.99 it’s first week of release.
Sale starts Tuesday August 3rd thru Monday August 9th. Come on in and pre-order to ensure you get your copy.
Yes it’s true, THE MAN will be in concert at the dog track in Post Falls on Wednesday, Sept. 1st - with John Mellencamp opening the BIG SHOW. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to see Dylan in your own backyard. He still rocks (yes he rocks)!! Tickets go on sale July 10th but can be purchased in advance from bobdylan.com. RIGHT NOW. This is an open seating event, but you do want to get ‘em as soon as possible. I’m sure this will be a sell-out. See you there.
Just put out 300+ pieces of vinyl. You need them all!!!
Every now & then we’ll give you the opportunity to save a $1.00 off your total purchase of regular priced goods selling at $5.00 or more at THE EAR by mentioning that you saw the verbal coupon on our web site. Now I know this won’t change any of our life styles, but it’s a way for us to check to see if you are reading our info, & this dollar would buy you a burger or soft drink from the value meal menus at the numerous fast food places on Appleway! So it’s kinda fun for all of us, after all we’ve really enjoyed supplying your music since 1973.
So mention the coupon at checkout & save a buck today thru Thursday, June 24th.
Every time you buy a new or used cd or album we give you a coupon, the other half of which goes into our very fancy coupon container. Every Sunday after we close, 6 lucky coupons are drawn at random. The main winning coupon is our LONGO WINNER. This is a kitty that grows at $10.00 per week until someone claims it. It has grown to over $300.00 at least five times. On the back of each coupon is our phone# 765-3472 that you can call to check your numbers, or better still, come on in! You need to do this the week following your purchases…our weekly drawing runs from Monday thru Sunday. If no major winner, we add an additional 10.00 to the kitty until someone wins. The other 5 winning numbers are good for a $15.00 gift certificate. You can’t lose because if your number doesn’t come up, each coupon that you have is good for a 25 cent credit until you use it. How many coupons? As many as you have saved, some of our customers have cashed in 100′s at a time!
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The weather is looking beautiful today but will it last? We here are looking forward to summer and all the great music to go with it. Here are a few staff picks to brighten up your summer days.
Mumford & Sons
The Slackers
The Hold Steady
Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings
Carolina Chocolate Drops
Have you heard anything lately that makes you drool for summer? We would like to know what ya’ll are listening to 
Thanks to everyone who came to support us on Record Store Day! We had a lot of fun and can’t wait until next year. With more and more artists supporting RSD the exclusives will only get better. Also, we would like to thank our regular customers who support us all year round (you know who you are) and make working with Nic a little more tolerable.
On a different note, this week’s nicely price item is Willie Nelson’s “Country Music”; an acoustic album that we have on sale for $9.99.
So far most of our answers for RSD include the three words “We don’t know.” Well, we still don’t know what we will have in the store on Saturday, April 17th (REMEMBER first come, first serve) but here is a list of things that we are TRYING to get (this list may be confusing but it works):
Full Length LPs
Josh Ritter-So Runs the World Away
Goldfrapp-Head First
Mastodon-Blood Mountain
Pantera-Vulgar Display of Power, Far Beyond Driven, Cowboys From Hell
T.V. On the Radio-Dear Science
Ramones-Ramones Mania (double LP set one is blue, and the other is green)
Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros-Streetcore, Global A Go-Go
Neko Case- Middle Cyclone
Flaming Lips & Stardeath & White Dwarfs-Dark Side of the Moon sea foam green vinyl
Sonic Youth-Hits Are For Squares
Monsters of Folk-S/T
Tom Waits-Mule Variations
7″ Singles
Gogol Bordello-We Comin’ Rougher/Transcontinental Hustle green vinyl
Flogging Molly-Devil’s Dance Floor/(No More) Paddy’s Lament opaque red vinyl
Rolling Stones-Plundered My Soul/All Down the Line
Drive-By Truckers-Your Woman is a Living Thing/Just Maybe
Owl City-Fireflies/Vanilla Twilight
John Lennon- Singles Bag (7 inch box set, individually numbered, w/3 7″ singles, 3 postcards, 24 X 36 poster, and custom 45 adaptor hub)
10″
Queens of the Stone Age-Feel Good Hit of the Summer (picture disc EP formerly unreleased in the U.S.)
Them Crooked Vultures-Mind Eraser No Chaser/Hwy 1/Vulture Speak (band interview) picture disc
12″
Black Keys-Tighten Up/Howlin’
MGMT-Siberian Breaks (single sided 12″ with etching)
Jimi Hendrix- Live at Clark University (“Fire,” “Red House,” “Foxy Lady,” “Purple Haze,” “Wild Thing”)
CDs
Paolo Nutini- Live at Preservation Hall EP
Nada Surf-If I Had a Hi-Fi (new album being released on RSD about 4 weeks earlier than general release)
One Eskimo-Live EP
Cage The Elephant-Live At Grimey’s
Manchester Orchestra-Live at Park Ave.
Band of Skulls-Live at Fingerprints
Grace Potter & The Nocturnals- Live in Skowhegan
Weezer-Raditude (Happy RSD)- hand picked tracks by Weezer