Collecting physical media, be it CDs or vinyl records, is more than a smattering of retail therapy. There’s something ineffable about owning The Thing, from the ritual of selecting and playing records to simply having them displayed in your furniture of choice.
Dark days ahead, then, for said furniture; Amazon’s incomparably huge Black Friday sale has extended to its CD and vinyl record section in the US, resulting in a veritable cavalcade of discounts on records past and present, and a great deal more weight for your shelves to undoubtedly bear.
Amazon US CD & vinyl sale: Huge discounts up to (and over) 50%Amazon’s extensive catalog of CDs and vinyl records gets thoroughly Black Fridayed, with huge discounts applied across the board. Some items are reduced by as much as 50%, and some even more than that; the catalog is yours to dig through, but I've picked out a handful of my favourites below for you to consider.View Deal
Amazon’s sale is a great Black Friday opportunity to fill some glaring gaps in your physical catalogue – such as Black Sabbath's eponymous (and gloriously remastered) first LP, the heavyweight vinyl pressing of which enjoys a tasty 15% discount, and the CD of which is reduced a nice, shiny 28%.
This writer’s predilection for the weirder side of ‘heavy’ has made this deal on The Mars Volta’s Frances The Mute (the best of the Volta oeuvre, and yes I am quite comfortable dying on this hill thank you for asking) an impossible one to ignore. Usually $51.98, Amazon’s Black Friday discount knocks 28% off, leaving a tidy deal of a price at $37.55.
Another unignorable deal for another uncompromisingly off-kilter record here as well, in Hella’s scramble-mad noise-rock record Hold Your Horse Is – the vinyl for which is down 18% to a frankly miniscule $18.85.
If weirdness isn’t your bag, then you might not want to avail of this 50%discount, on Water From Your Eyes’ Everyone’s Crushed CD - a divisive record, but one which holds some nuts-heavy choices within it, and is otherwise well worth your time. It's down to just $7.98.
Instead, you might be after some more bona fide classics, in which case the 29% discount on Metallica’s remastered Ride The Lightning vinyl could scratch that particular itch. It's down to $17.82.
This Amazon Black Friday sale is a near-bottomless well of quality records at great new prices, and there’s bound to be more within that tickles your fancy. Better hurry with the record-riffling, though, as the deals aren’t long for sticking around. Don’t let your record shelves off the hook this time!
For more money-off options, take a look at our Black Friday vinyl deals page and we also have a guide to the best Black Friday CD deals.