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
Frank obviously never worked as a makeup artist. It’s all a matter of finding the right shade of brown for your particular skin tone.
Nobody looks good wearing brown lipstick. (Frank Zappa)
Interesting that this hasn’t hit the news/blogosphere yet. @cobra: Thanks for the link to the article about John Mackey, that’s interesting, too. Inconclusive, but very interesting. This whole thing is interesting. Just plain interesting.
@DanTheMan333 – Thank you!!! So many times I’ve seen people in The Vault saying that they live too far from Third Man to get to visit the store. Here TMR is doing something to make it easier for fans to get their merchandise and yet it seems there are so many negative comments. It seems that this is becoming a trend here. No matter what TMR tries to do all certain people do is complain and criticize. I don’t get it. I’m not at all saying that every comment has to be praising the news post if you don’t feel that way. But when I read some of the comments in many of the new posts and all I see is negative comment after negative comment from the same people I wonder why they spend their money on being a Vault member. If I was unhappy with just about everything TMR was doing I just wouldn’t spend the money. I would spend the money elsewhere. I think the new marketing ideas that Third Man is coming up with are great. And you are correct in saying the more revenue they bring in will allow them to take more chances on interesting recordings, innovative ideas, more Blue and Green series. Maybe it would even give them more money to expand and do more live shows or to put more money into the vault website and do more great things like live streams. And we don’t know – maybe Whole Foods reached out to TMR to do this. I’m sure TMR gets approached with business partnerships on a daily basis. Maybe this is a test to see if it is worth doing before they have the products in other stores or locations.
He would prefer that his mission grow and flourish as a means of allowing people…. all people… to know that their turntable is not dead as well as to have access to music that was overlooked by the Grammys this year in my opinion….
Wow! Some of these comments are just ridiculous.
Am I missing something? Where does it say that TMR is severing all ties with independently owned record stores?
I have seen TMR releases proudly displayed in almost every local record store I’ve visited in the last few years. I really don’t think that is going to change, just because TMR has reached a deal with Whole Foods to get their products displayed in 10 grocery stores. The prices on that sign even match the prices listed for those products on TMR’s webstore.
This is a good thing, people! TMR is expanding its brand identity, which will help them sell more products, which will allow them to take more chances on recording interesting, but not well-known artists in the Blue Series, Green Series, Live releases, etc. This is only going to expand Jack’s and the TMR team’s ability to create interesting, innovative products for us fans.
Seems like a lot of stores are picking up on the fact that people are into buying vinyl again. I was in a clothing store on the Upper West Side of Manhattan yesterday and they had a small vinyl section. They even had some White Stipes 12". Although their vinyl section wasn’t strictly White Stripes or Third Man stuff. They actually had some really great stuff in their vinyl records section. I think it’s great that stores that aren’t necessarily record stores see the demand for it and want to carry it. Also when speaking to some of the girls who worked there many of them are vinyl collectors so maybe that had a lot to do with the decision to sell vinyl records in this clothing store. This new added section would definitely make me go back to this store. Buying clothes with the convenience of getting some great vinyl in a win-win for me. Maybe the people at Whole Foods are also vinyl collectors and this is their way of supporting the sales of vinyl. I don’t think this collaboration was meant with ill intent. And on a side on TMR – I personally would love a Reverend Swank bobble head doll. I would put it on the dash board of my car – right next to my pair of fuzzy dice! :D :D :D
“Or would he, to put it differently, rather the mission succeed or the business flourish?” http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/01/04/100104fa_fact_paumgarten
ALTERNATIVE does not mean ELITIST…. its about definitive values that anyone can have access to support by choice as a consumer and patron….. Last time I checked Whole Foods was not turning people away at the door nor were they discriminating against staff … fair enough if you find an individual instance but as company policy I have yet to hear/see it
Do any of you recall the Blunderbuss Interview where Jack talked about working with the inde labels and how much/many times he got ripped off??? Nothing any different in the world of alternative foods and unreliable start ups at the local level when it comes to sucking a producer dry as a part of internal theft and damaged stock goes… no mystery here… companies with well defined terms and accountability are stable and insurable……………..No wish to be the devil’$ advocate when it comes to multinational corporate endorsement but I have worked for both and see a big difference between organics sold at fair price for quality production and hiked prices for things grown ‘naturally by an ignorant local farmer who is NOT practicing alternative means of production which are sustainable and chemical free’ but telling people that they are….