It’s somewhat unique since what we see from past vinyl record pressing releases are the usual clear vinyl with splatters, opaque colored vinyl records with splatters, and halves of one side of the vinyl with different colors. The vinyl record on top of the record player is a hybrid between clear vinyl and solid colored vinyl with a splatter on the center. Half Clear / Half Opaque Colored Vinyl Records with Splatter The vinyl record’s design is already a very on point message from the band as the album’s theme talks about the destruction of the environment and things related to it. The orange color at the center looks like lava spreading and the black splatters look like rocks and ashes shooting out before the overflow of lava eats the whole vinyl record. The vinyl somehow depicts a volcano explosion in action. It’s quite a cool but also gory kind of a splatter vinyl record, huh. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard’s fifteenth studio album, “Infest the Rat’s Nest”. Here are some of the prettiest vinyl records that Newbury Comics are selling: The other two stores are situated inside malls of New York counties, Nassau and Westchester counties. As of now, the company sells and ships music and pop culture goods through thirty physical stores in total, twenty eight in New England: twenty in Massachusetts, four in New Hampshire, two in Rhode Island, one in Maine and one in Connecticut. Magazine’s 500 fastest-growing companies in the country.
They have also made it to the list of Inc. The magazine helped boost the popularity of already existing local bands like The Neighborhood and Mission of Burma and helped set the stage for experimental bands like The Clash and U2.Īfter such a rapid success, the list of Newbury Comics physical stores rapidly increased too, which were mainly built in New England’s five states. The albums sold fast.Īt the time of Newbury Comics’ booming sales, Dreese spearheaded the release of a tabloid magazine called the “Boston Rock”, where it covers fashion, style, and entertainment.
He just put it in their store and BAM, they’re gone. This was all thanks to a box of records Dreese brought back from England and Boston’s booming local music scene. Somewhere in the early 1980’s, the comic store shifted into selling CDs and vinyl records.
The founders, John Brusger and Mike Dreese, both MIT students, started selling Brusger’s preloved comic book collections on Batman, Superman and Spider-Man and later expanded to many other comics with different styles and origins– from American comic books, graphic novels, manga…you name any comic title, they probably have it.īut what really elevated their success aren’t the comic books, it’s music! They should probably rename the store to Newbury Music but I guess they don’t need to. Their first store opened in Boston, New England’s largest city in 1978. Newbury Comics was originally a comic store that only sells…well, comics. When we talk about vinyl records, we can’t NOT talk about Newbury Comics!įor those of you who aren’t familiar with Newbury Comics, you might, you might go “WAIT WHUT?!” because there’s nothing VINYL about Newbury Comics at all.
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