Butler County, Cincinnati shops offer deals for Record Store Day

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Main Street Vinyl (Hamilton)

Located at 227 Main St., Main Street Vinyl, opened at 227 Main Street in Hamilton in 2017.

For Record Store Day, the shop is opening the doors early at 8 a.m. and displaying hundreds of new arrivals. It also will offer $5 in “vinyl bucks” for a future purchase for every $25 spent that day. In addition, the store will offer coffee and doughnuts for early risers and door prizes, giveaways, raffles and free swag throughout the day.

Record Store Day titles are limited to one title per person limit. Customers may purchase as many titles as they wish, but only one of each. For more information, call 513-795-6979 or visit www.facebook.com/mainstvinyl.

Lester’s Rock N Roll Shop (Middletown)

Lester’s Rock N Roll Shop, which opened at 1123 Central Ave. in downtown Middletown in 2016, will offer exclusive deals and free swag. Doors open at 9 a.m. with doughnuts and coffee.

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A Fig Leaf Brewing Co. beer tasting takes place at noon with proceeds benefiting The Broad Street Bash. For more information, call 513-997-9621 or visit www.facebook.com/Lestersrocknrollshop.

Plaid Room Records (Loveland)

Located at Plaid Room Records, 20 Karl Brown Way, Loveland, Plaid Room Records will release more than 1,000 used LPs for RSD, plus The Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio live at 7 p.m and a keg of Happy Little Plaid Tree from MadTree Brewing at Cappy’s Wine and Spirits. Customers will get an exclusive RSD pint glasses free with any $75 purchase, $1 off Turntable Pils from Great Lakes Brewing Company at Paxton’s Grill and complimentary coffee from Twisted River Coffee Roaster.

Local restaurants will open early to serve breakfast and food trucks will be on hand.

For more information, call 513-583-1843 or visit www.facebook.com/plaidroomrecords

Everybody’s Records (Pleasant Ridge)

Everybody's Records at 6106 Montgomery Rd., Cincinnati, will offer "plenty of vinyl" and give away turntables and gift certificates. Live music also will be featured at 2 p.m. courtesy of The Jimmy D. Three.

For more information, call 513-531-4500 or visit www.facebook.com/Everybodys-Records-100200448825

Shake It Records (Cincinnati)

In addition to the thousands of records the store says it will have for sale, Shake It Records, 4156 Hamilton Ave., Cincinnati, will also feature a new Rhinegeist brew and three live performances. The store opens at 8 a.m. and customers can get 10 percent off by donating a canned good for CAIN-Churches Active In Northside.

For more information, call 513-591-0123 or visit www.facebook.com/shakeitrecords.

Skeleton Dust Records (Dayton)

Opened last fall, Skeleton Dust Records at 133 E. 3rd St. in Dayton

will be stocking the store with new and used titles of all kinds and have deejays Josh Egeland, Sophie Huling, Jay Madewell and James DeGregorio spinning records throughout the day.

For more information, call 937-221-8528 or visit www.facebook.com/SkeletonDustRecords

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For a list of Record Store Day releases, visit www.recordstoreday.com.

Additional Cincinnati area record stores include:

Staff Writer Rick McCrabb contributed to this report.