Fans of The Smiths may have heard that their first four albums have all been re-released on 180g vinyl in limited runs of 1000 copies world-wide. Vortex brought in stock of all the titles. I called around to the other major shops in town and could only find one other store that managed to receive some... and at our price of $39.99 each, we're $6 cheaper per record than they are.

Speaking of prices... we've been told that there's a store downtown who advertises that it's a "fact" that they have the cheapest vinyl in town. I compared 35 of the titles we've brought in, chosen at random, and we were cheaper on 34 of them, most by $2 per and some as high as $5. The only one we weren't cheaper on our prices were matched. (Incidentally, I called that store yesterday and at that point they hadn't gotten any of these Smiths titles--the clerk didn't even to seem to be aware of their existence.) So, I won't say we're the cheapest in town as I haven't been to every store to check, but I will say that I'm certain we're cheaper than every store that I have checked.

Back to The Smiths... obviously because of the small print run, we will not be getting any more stock on these so you should pop in now.