Shuga Records

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theopie — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 11:09:52 -0500

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Cyber Monday?!?

willypilgrim — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 12:15:26 -0500

The next 10 customers at www.shugarecords.com will receive 50% off their entire order. Use coupon code ‘50cybermon2012’ at checkout!!

Black Friday Sale! 40% off all purchases Friday-Monday at...

willypilgrim — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 13:06:00 -0500

Black Friday Sale! 40% off all purchases Friday-Monday at www.shugarecords.com using coupon code: 40blackfri2012.

Big Sale

theopie — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 14:40:17 -0400

Ok friends we got a big sale going on at my store until Sunday at midnight. Some killer deals happening! Here is the info and link.

It’s raining all day in Chicago, so we figured we might as well have a huge sale. Hit up www.shugarecords.c

and use coupon code “oct40sun” to receive 40% off your entire order!! If we’re stuck inside, we might as well party, right? Act fa
st, sale ends Sunday at midnight!

We’ve also made some updates to the site that should fix issues that people on certain browsers’ / operating systems (Shoutout to all my OSX 10.5 users!) have been experiencing. Let us know if you experience any problems!

With Pitchfork Festival out of the way, we’re working long...

willypilgrim — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 17:33:24 -0400

With Pitchfork Festival out of the way, we’re working long days to get as much listed as possible before Lollapalooza this weekend. Here’s a sneak peak at one of the collections we just bought, which included a very rare blue cover Carlos Chavez Columbia LP featuring artwork by a very young Andy Warhol! [available here]

Birthday Sale!

willypilgrim — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 16:59:48 -0400

It’s our Birthday!!! To celebrate, we are offering 35% off ANY order from www.shugarecords.com! Use coupon code “shuga35” at the checkout to receive your discount! As always, our website also offers free shipping on all records over $50, or combined orders over $100. Coupon code valid until Midnight Friday 6/8.

New Website is up and running!

willypilgrim — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 18:58:12 -0400

We’ve solved the issue with the Checkout cart, and purchases seem to be going through without problem now. Everybody be sure to keep letting us know what you experience on the site, we’re trying to fix any and all problems ASAP.

Tons of new LP listings in the last few days, many Classical, Folk, and Classic Rock LP’s.

New home, new website

willypilgrim — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 18:31:25 -0400

Hello from Chicago!

It’s been a bit since we’ve posted, but lots of big things have been going on! We’re completely operational in our new home on the Southside of Chicago, and are working on filling up this space as fast as possible with shelf after shelf of vinyl. Many of our orders seem to be arriving much faster to their destination from our new post office, especially for our international friends.

We recently launched a complete overhaul of shugarecords.com, which we think everyone will be very happy with (once it gets dialed in, of course). We’re still working out a few kinks with it, so if anyone experiences technical difficulties, we’d love to hear about it. Feel free to reach out to us here, on twitter, facebook, or directly at support@shugarecords.com

Stay tuned for more information about some special promotions on our website, and as always, Chicago area customers make sure to give us a call if there is something you’re looking for, all local customers receive 50% off the Online price!

Big Changes, and a Big Move, for Shuga Records

willypilgrim — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 19:09:00 -0500

After 7 years in Minnesota, the most recent 3 here in Northeast Minneapolis, we have decided to move the store back to it’s birthplace, Chicago. We recently had the opportunity to relocate presented to us, and based off the growing needs of our Online Mail Order operations, now is the perfect time for us to expand into a larger market. We are currently still working out the lease for our new space, but stay tuned for more information on where in Chicago we will be located.

Effective on Sunday, December 11th our Retail store on 13th Ave will be closed. We intend to spend the next few months preparing for our move and continuing our Online operations. We understand that’s pretty sudden, and apologize for anyone who is inconvenienced by this. If you have records to sell, or purchases to pick up, we will still be here working in back, so just give us a call at (612) 455-6285 to schedule an appointment.

Starting January 7th, we will be opening the storefront every 1st and 3rd Saturday of the month (possibly more) for massive sales to clear out inventory and other items that we don’t want to move to Chicago. This will include TONS of Vinyl, Cassettes, CD’s, Electronics, Furniture, you name it. We will publicize the sales with flyers out front, and of course on Craigslist and our Facebook, Twitter, & Tumblr accounts.

We want to thank all the customers, friends, businesses, and musicians that have helped to support us over the years here. We are extremely proud of the events we brought (or helped bring) to Northeast, including Hooliefest, Minneapolis Electronic Music Festival, The Audio Perm Block Party (we see you waggin’), The Northeast Folk Festival, plus hundreds of other musicians and artists during in-store performances, etc.

Obviously our move means that our biggest event, Hooliefest, will not be happening this Art-A-Whirl, but we hope to have it alive and kicking by next summer in Chicago, with the goal of bringing as many Minneapolis acts to showcase in Chicago as possible. Stay in touch, musicians, we can do even bigger things! We hope all the local musicians will continue pressing vinyl. Make sure to get in touch with us when you do, we’ll be happy to keep paying cash up-front for local Minneapolis (vinyl) releases.

Because we have strong feelings for this town, once we are operational in Chicago, we will be happy to continue to offer a 35-50% discount for phone-orders from Minneapolis / Twin Cities customers. Customers in Chicago will also receive 35-50% off any item picked up locally (give us a call when we get in, Chicago!)

We’ll see you at the sales before we move!

-Shugarecords

Addicted to Vinyl.

theopie — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 14:21:23 -0500

Addicted to Vinyl.

Famous people and their records. (...

theopie — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 17:54:24 -0400

Famous people and their records.

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A Letter from us, RE: Record Store Day 2011

willypilgrim — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 18:13:00 -0400

Shuga Records would like to make the following announcement to all of our customers, friends, and family regarding Record Store Day, April 16th:

We were greatly anticipating the arrival of Record Store Day this weekend, as I know many of our customers were (our phone has been ringing off the hook all week with calls about RSD). Attempting to spread the orders out through multiple distributors to mitigate the risk of supply issues, we ordered thousands of dollars in Record Store Day titles from various groups we work with, such as Red Eye Distribution, FatBeats Records, Secretly Canadian Distribution, and locally, The Electric Fetus (the ‘one-stop’ record source where most of the local shops order their inventory through, and the people we ordered a significant amount of our RSD titles from).

At around noon yesterday, we called the Electric Fetus to find out when our order would be ready, but the message was not responded to. I sent multiple e-mails to our contact at Electric Fetus, which were not responded to. This morning, after still having no response from the Electric Fetus, Adam called again, finally got through, and was initially told that they didn’t believe we had made an order. Later, they called back saying they had found a small order of “300-500 dollars” (the Flaming Lips Boxsets we ordered 4 of were $96 each, so how we only made a 400 dollar order is beyond me).

Ultimately, the most frustrating part of this event is that we have traditionally had a blast on record store day, holding in store performances from numerous local groups (this weekend is the 8-bit Short Circuit event), but this year we will have an unfortunately small amount of product to sell to our customers that have been calling for weeks hoping to snag some special vinyl. I’m not a big fan of airing dirty laundry publicly, I can deal with the petty interpersonal bullshit that has been boiling for a longtime with the Electric Fetus (in addition to numerous local record store employees or owners that don’t work at Shuga, we are ‘banned’ from shopping in the retail portion of their store. Yup. They’ll take our money for One-Stop Distribution, but they won’t let us buy a $1 classical record from their bargain bin), but when they take a shit on my customers as well, It really gets to be too much. I don’t need their used records for myself, I can find plenty, I do it all day for a living, but if I order new records for our customers to purchase, which I wasn’t able (at that time) to obtain from other sources, I expect to either be told to go elsewhere to order, or to have my order fulfilled.

All that said, we will have a small portion of record store day titles, including artists like Hank Williams III, Adele, The Flaming Lips, Daedelus, Flying Lotus, Tom Pettty, Mates of State, The Grateful Dead, Bruce Springsteen, Omar Rodriguez Lopez (super dope boxset!!), and more. Also, thanks to our friends at Red Eye Distribution, a company WORTH doing business with, we’ll have 75 limited edition Daptones Records sampler CD’s to give out, we’ll be giving away Free Drinks at the 331 CLUB & Anchor Fish and Chips Gift Certificates for every $20 spent, while supplies last. Used Media (in store) is 50% off, all online inventory is 30%, and all electronics are 30% off. The monthly 8-Bit Circuit-bending showcase, “Short Circuits”, will be taking place from 4:30 to 9.

We are excited to participate in this event, despite the lack of support from those entrusted with distribution of the fruits that fall from the RSD tree, and look forward to seeing anyone that wants to come party with us. We appreciate the continued support from Northeast, and the greater twin cities area, especially those that read this to completion. Big ups, the internet hasn’t destroyed your attention span and you stuck with me.

Will / Shugarecords

(First official artwork for this year’s Hoolie Fest during...

theopie — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 20:17:26 -0400

(First official artwork for this year’s Hoolie Fest during Art-A-Whirl)

nevver: Speed

theopie — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 15:56:11 -0400

nevver:

Speed

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theopie — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 15:03:04 -0500

Find You Some Vinyl.

theopie — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 14:06:34 -0500

Find You Some Vinyl.

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theopie — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 22:40:23 -0500

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theopie — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 14:57:42 -0500

beeriety: Crafts for Alcoholics: Butterfly Beer Can and Vinyl...

theopie — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 10:19:58 -0500

beeriety:

Crafts for Alcoholics: Butterfly Beer Can and Vinyl Wall Art - GEARFUSE

NYC artist Paul Villinski takes found beer cans and creates Beer Can Butterflies.

We love beer, and we love vinyl.

nevver: Dope on Plastic

theopie — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 18:41:46 -0500

nevver:

Dope on Plastic