Berlin, DE | Berlin record shop Pleasure Patterns loses half of its DJ equipment in break-in: The Kreuzberg store is raising funds after turntables, mixers and headphones were stolen last week. Pleasure Patterns was broken into last week, with the Berlin record shop and café reporting that around half of its equipment was stolen. The team broke the news on Instagram last Friday, September 25th, revealing that missing gear includes turntables, mixers and headphones. The Kreuzberg venue is now asking for community support through a fundraising campaign. Pleasure Patterns, which describes itself as Berlin’s first lesbian-run record shop, opened in April. The space also hosts DJ showcases, pop-ups and bar takeovers.
Baltimore, MD | Dig The Grooves of Baltimore’s Famous Record Store: For over 30 years, there has been one record store that stands out amongst them all. Starting in 1993, The Sound Garden record store is home to over 100,000 new and used vinyl records, CDs, DVDs, video games, and Blu-Rays. Store owner and founder Bryan Burkert used to visit his hometown’s store in Buffalo once or twice a week before moving to Baltimore after graduating from college. Originally planning on going to law school, he decided to open up The Sound Garden when he was not able to find a record store that he liked in Baltimore. The 6,000-square-foot location has been a prominent staple in the Baltimore community, serving as the biggest record store and what Rolling Stone Magazine called “the second best record store in the United States.”
Coral Gables, FL | Beatles album with butchered, bloody cover goes on sale for $5K at Coral Gables record store: Attention Beatles fans or record collectors: got an extra $5,000 laying around? That’s the price for a unique piece of the Fab Four. A local record store is offering up an album that was literally butchered by the Beatles. “Yesterday” is considered one of the prettiest songs ever recorded by the Beatles. So how did it wind up on an album with a cover like this? Giovanni Hanna: “‘The Beatles: Yesterday And Today.’” What’s with all the bloody slop on the mop-tops? Deco went to Fruit Fly Records in Coral Gables to find out.
Evanston, IL | Two years old and three times the size: Dozens of people fill Animal Records as the store celebrates its second anniversary and grand reopening. The vintage record (and CDs) store moved to a new space at 620 Grove St., which is almost three times its original space next door. “I think people want a place to hang out, where they don’t feel pressured to buy,” said owner Greg Allen. “I try to treat everybody the same whether they are spending 50 cents or $500.”
Record store sim Wax Heads gets a fitting double vinyl release: Gina Loughlin’s Wax Heads OST is coming to vinyl this winter, and pre-orders are right around the corner. London-based boutique label Super Rare Games has announced an upcoming vinyl release for the narrative sim Wax Heads. Pre-orders kick off on October 8 at 6:00 PM BST, with shipments expected between December and January. Priced at €29.28, the 2LP will be pressed in limited quantities. In Wax Heads, players help passionate music lovers track down their next obsession. Much like Coffee Talk, the core loop is all about listening closely to customer requests and pointing them toward the buzziest indie gem or a must-have reissue of a legendary record.
Only 0.7% of Vinyl Reissues Are Truly All-Analog, According to a New Pressing Database: It counts what somebody typed into Discogs. Vinyl buyers have learned to be suspicious of simple phrases like “from the original master tapes.” After MoFi’s 2022 DSD disclosure, the wording on a jacket or product page can matter almost as much as the record itself. That is what makes PressPick’s latest all-analog count so striking. In its Oct. 1 snapshot, the database put just 0.7% of the reissues it tracked in the all-analog category. Its yearly count peaked at 21 pressings in 2023, fell to 11 in 2025, and stood at eight for 2026 through Oct. 1. But the release schedules tell a messier story.
CZ | Czech entrepreneur builds vinyl business worth 250m crowns: Czech entrepreneur Ondra Sanetrník has turned the vinyl record online shop Gramodesky.cz into the market leader, with turnover of CZK 250 million over the past twelve months — and the business keeps growing. Yet he himself admits he doesn’t even own a turntable at home. The story began by accident: five years ago US authorities turned down Sanetrník’s work visa application and sent him back to Europe. Back in Czechia, he went to work at his father’s antique shop in Liberec, where he spotted a niche—secondhand and new vinyl records, demand for which is rising worldwide while nobody in Czechia was selling them effectively online. Sanetrník took a gamble and bought the premium domain gramodesky.cz for ten thousand euros (about CZK 250,000)—by his own account, his best business decision ever. Today the shop is the country’s number one in its category.
UK | Streaming made music disposable. This vinyl seller is finding new ways to make records collectible: With record sales soaring, Blood Records is putting a trendy spin on an old format to deliver for younger collectors. When English singer-songwriter Sienna Spiro released her highly anticipated debut album, Visitor, in July, it was available in a variety of formats: MP3, cassette, CD, and an array of colored vinyl records (red, gold, brown) that were exclusive to different retailers. But 3,000 fans received copies that look remarkably different: discs swirled with orange and black—deeply pigmented on some copies, nearly translucent on others. The special-edition album—created by London-based Blood Records—started its journey at the Press On Vinyl record plant in Northern UK.
What Is Liquid-Filled Vinyl? Learn how these records are made, why they cost more, how they sound, and more. Vinyl has never been just about the music pressed into the grooves. From colored records and picture discs to splatter vinyl and elaborate box sets, part of the format’s lasting appeal is that a record can be an object worth looking at as well as listening to. Liquid-filled vinyl takes that idea somewhere new: inside the record itself. Recent editions have paired albums with fillings inspired by their artwork, titles, and histories. The Shrek soundtrack has appeared with green “Swamp Juice,” Bob Marley’s Uprising with “Liquid Sunshine,” while the Jaws soundtrack has received an appropriately shark-infested treatment.
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