Tag: Dave Perry
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interview by Michael McCarthy The following interview with Dave Perry, the owner of the late Lowell, Massachusetts record store Vinyl Destination, took place on Wednesday, May 1st, 2024. We did the interview inside of what was once Dave’s shop and where a large number of records remain. (A new owner will be opening A Damn…
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interview by Michael McCarthy I remember back in the winter of 2013 – 2014 at some point when my artist and photographer friend Josh Bernard first took me to Mill No. 5 at 250 Jackson Street in Downtown, Lowell, Massachusetts. The fourth floor of the mill was being developed into a mall of sorts, an…
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The following is a guest editorial by former music critic and current owner of Vinyl Destination record store, Dave Perry. It was originally posted on Facebook on 3/19/17. The new point of sale at Vinyl Destination – or POS as those of us in the business world like to call it – lends us a…
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Vinyl Destination, one of our favorite record shops, is having a huge blow out sale on Saturday, July 23rd from 12 – 6 PM. This is how they described it on Facebook: “We have never had a blowout sale like this. Not even close. Thousands of LPs, 45s, and thousands of CDs. Everything’s $1. We…
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interview by Michael McCarthy photographs by Joshua Bernard except where noted There’s something about Lowell, Massachusetts that makes record stores stick like peanut butter on bread. In fact, two of the three record shops that I frequented when I was a kid are still there, RRR Records and Garnick’s Records. And it’s vinyl sales that…
