When we think of healthy living, it obviously reminds us of… ourselves! So maybe we don’t eat as much kale salad as we should, but we sure aspire to. It is for this reason that we are so pleased to have our records and turntables on the shelves of a handful of Whole Body at Whole Foods Markets across California and in Brooklyn! Our goal has always been to spread love for vinyl records far and wide, and we are so pleased that Whole Foods shares the same passion. After all, ears, brains, and souls need TLC too, and the best way we know to keep them happy and healthy is by putting a needle to the groove.
Check out our wares in El Segundo, Fairfax, Oxnard, Pasadena, Santa Barbara, Tempe, Tustin, Venice and West Hollywood, as well as Brooklyn’s new Gowanus market/bar/restaurant/hangout/record store/bike repair/coffee shop — yes, really. We hope that the program will expand to additional cities in the future, so next time you’re getting your quinoa & wheatgrass fix, be sure to mention to the clerk that you’d love to see some vinyl in the aisles.
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Third Man Records in select Whole Foods Markets
“Most independent record stores”? Not all the ones I shop at. Matter of fact, it can be cheaper for me to buy at my indie store/s than to order from TMR directly. But you obviously know all, so do go on with yer bad self.
Whole foods kills small local grocery businesses? Well digital music killed vinyl, but no one gets in an uproar when third man sells on iTunes.
Whole foods is a corporation and third man is above evil capitalism? Third Man sells at all sorts of corporate stores and is played on corporate radio. Third Man itself is a capitalist business venture.
The politics Whole Foods doesn’t align with yer personal opinions or values? Guess what, no store does except for the one you personally own.
Whole foods is overpriced and for elitist hipsters? So are most independent record stores that you demand Third Man to sell at.
The solution: if you don’t think third man should be selling at whole foods, then don’t buy their product at whole foods. Go buy the product at the stores you wanna support third man at. But to demonize third man for a business venture that is largely harmless and not out of the realm of any reasonable proprietor is just stupid.
You turn it right round
Dear everyone,
Stop being stupid.
Yer friend,
TJ
So the fact they’re doing what everybody else does is a virtue? Never used to be how we defined TMR.
Thanks for the note Quizze, I went to the Whole Foods web site and found the location in Nashville (Green Hills = not conveniently located to where I stay when visiting Nashville). All the controversy over where TMR is selling its products is really interesting. I get a kick out of how the country radio station in Nashville, WSM, is always advertising special releases of cd’s with music by country recording artists that are sold at Cracker Barrel restaurant/stores. Heck the folks at TMR are no dummies and they ain’t doing anything out of the ordinary that other music business folks are doing to sell product.
Yeah… Whole Food kinda sucks. They caused my health food store to go out of business a few years ago. This cute little 7th Day Adventist couple had a sweet little shop just in town, but they couldn’t compete with the BIG BOX ORGANIC stores. There really is very little about Whole Foods I can support as a progressive, locally minded, corporation… That said, anyone know when TMR might go public cuz imma buy me some STOCK!
WTF? I only shop at Tractor Supply! What’s wrong with Foodtown or Tractor Supply? I need to get my vinyls with my baby chickens in a box! $4.99/dozen for just hatched chicks right now!! Get then while they hot!
Maybe Jack’s chef shops here?
Skin tone….. curiouser and curious er… glad to know that TMR has upped the level of cognitive exchange and quality as content within its discussion communities… been great to debate the value of their social relevance as well…its why I shop there honestly… later peeps