We received a really neat write up in the South Brooklyn Post. Check it out HERE
This Friday April 22nd is Earth Day! Come by the shop and help us save the planet by purchasing a reusable tote bag and/or a travel mug! We’ll give you 10% off the price if you buy one on Friday! Black Gold tries to make every day Earth Day by recycling unsellable vinyl and composting our coffee grounds! Gotta take care of the planet! Ask if you are interested in free compost.
Thanks everyone for your support yesterday! Our first Record Store Day was a great success.
Time Out New York voted us a runner-up for Best New Indie Shops: Hybrid Shop. Check it out HERE.
Contest Results are in! Check out the post below to see if you won and then come claim your prize!
The results of the first LP contest are in!!! Here they are:
Grand Prize Winner is Jeremy Pickett
You get a $50 Gift Certificate and a copy of Ramones Halfway to Sanity LP autographed by Dee Dee Ramone.
1st Prize Winner is Jared Nowacki
You get a $25 Gift Certificate and a Black Gold Records Tote bag good for 10% off of all future record purchases.
2nd Prize Winner is Daniel Elliott
You get a $10 Gift Certificate, a Black Gold Travel Mug, and Black Gold Stickers
Runners-up include:
Jason Barbarich, Linda Wildemann, Rich Morgan,Walker Stern, and Brian Riggio. You each get a free cup of coffee!
Thanks for your support, now come on down to grab your free stuff!!
Smalls– An arrangement of moderately priced items is in constant rotation in our display case. From French opera glasses to hand-painted souvenir photo albums. From tin-types to fortune-telling tea sets,our gauge is wide and aimed towards perfect gift ideas that may only exist as embedded memories from ancestors until the visual suggestion strikes the eye.
Check out a positive review we received from Mr. and Mrs. Smith Travel Blog
Our LP contest has received a handful of entries and is still running (see previous post, below). If you want to be eligible for any of the listed prizes, get your entry in soon!
Our Recent Arrivals Bin has been filling up with some solid soul, funk, reggae, psych, jazz, and avant garde LPs. Really nice copies of albums we rarely see. Come grab some before they are all gone.
VOICE-O-GRAPH
Records are the audial photograph and at one time this comparison was almost literal. The amusement machine once known as the “VOICE-O-GRAPH” could be found on boardwalks and festive vacation spots during the mid to late 1950’s. The machine was simple to operate: a phone booth with hand painted instructions and a 25 cent coin-op. Users would gather around a telephone receiver, insert a quarter, wait for the indicator to instruct them to begin recording, and a few minutes later the machine produced a one minute audio recording of the event.
A Voice-O-Graph record recently surfaced in the neighborhood of the shop, and it reminded me how cool these things truly are. Imagine being able to pay 25 cents for a one minute, one sided 78 rpm recording. The Agoglia family did just that. Note the eerie, turbulent machine noise heard throughout the duration of the recording. Also listen to hear that little Rocky finally brought some prizes home from Coney. LISTEN TO THE RECORD VIA THE LINK BELOW!
LISTEN TO THE RECORD HERE > The Agoglia Family Voice-O-Graph Recording
Black Gold Contest Number 001*
(1) Grand Prize. The first person to print out the contest and redeem (at our 461 Court St. location) with 100% correct answers wins the following:
$50 Gift Certificate and a copy of Ramones Halfway to Sanity LP autographed by Dee Dee Ramone.
(1) First Prize will be awarded to the winner of a raffle containing the entries of the first dozen 100% correct submissions. Both walk-in submissions and submissions emailed to info[at]blackgoldbrooklyn.com will be accepted for this prize. The prize is as follows:
$25 Gift Certificate and a Black Gold Records Tote bag good for 10% off of all future record purchases.
(1) Second Prize will be awarded to the second place winner of a raffle containing the entries of the first dozen 100% correct submissions. Both walk-in submissions and submissions emailed to info[at]blackgoldbrooklyn.com will be accepted for this prize.
$10 Gift Certificate, a Black Gold Travel Mug, and Black Gold Stickers
(5) Runner-ups (drawn from all entries both walk in and e-mail) will receive a coupon for one (1) free small coffee.
*Prizes have no cash value. All prizes must be redeemed in person at our 461 Court Street location. No purchase necessary. No submissions will be accepted after 11:59 PM EST on Friday, April 15th 2011. Winners will announced on Saturday, April 16th 2011, Record Store Day. Winners will have the option of being mentioned on our website. Good luck.
This Friday, March 11th at 7pm: Join Ted Hudson of The Damnwells at Black Gold Records for an exclusive early debut of No One Listens To The Band Anymore, the newest vinyl release by The Damnwells. Drink coffee, flip through records, and enjoy this free event. All are invited and welcome to attend.
This upcoming week we are planning on adding a few hundred 45s to our stock. The genres are completely random as usual, but you can expect more of the same goodies in larger quantities. We are also adding a New Arrivals section to the 45s as well. Keep a look out on our FB and Twitter to find out exactly when this will happen.
