Hey! Welcome to our blog that we post to occasionally. Just a few tidbits of basic information if you came here from our website!

Open 7 Days a week!

Monday 12 -6

Tuesday 11-7

Wednesday 11-7

Thursday 11-7

Friday 11-7

Saturday 11-7

Sunday 12 - 4

We will be CLOSED on Thanksgiving Day but as we are a Black Friday Record Store Day participant, we'll be OPEN early on Friday 11.24.17 for Black Friday RSD. Look for our *List* of Record Store Day items no later than Wednesday 11.22.17. We'll post it to our site at https://www.rediscoverrecords.com/ and to our Facebook page. Look for it here too.

Look for later Holiday Hours in the month of December!

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Our phone number is: 847 961 8445

Record Store Day 2017 - REMAINS

Thank you all for making Record Store Day 2017 such a success. Thank you for supporting Rediscover Records and your local indie record store throughout the world. Speaking on behalf of all of us (if we may), this support does not go unnoticed.

Record Store Day 2017 - 7:45am

We have a few remains from RSD. Many are in just one or two copies. Supplies limited. Thanks!!

Candlebox - CD
Big Thief
Banks and Steelz
Chills
Brandi Clark
Vic Chesnutt
BNQT
Blowfly
Busta Rhymes
Big Star
Big L
Field Music
Dexter Gordon
Hamilton Leithauser Rostam
Hawkwind
Czarface
Evan Dando
Old 97s
Pineapple Express OST
Curtis Knight with Young Hendrix
RHCP - Go Robot pic disc
Springsteen - Live in London '75
Madonna
NRBQ - 50 anniv
Ra Ra Riot
Temples - 7"
Neil Young - Decade
Studio One Hi Fi Special
Superchunk
Victoria Williams
Super Furry Animals
Dennis Wilson - Bambu
Roky Erickson Tribute - 1st time on vinyl

2017 Record Store Day List

Here is our Record Store Day list for RSD17. Titles are alphabetical by artist or artists last name. We ordered heavy this year and with the nature of limited releases, we were shut out entirely of some records or we didn't receive anywhere close to what we ordered on others. A few of the possible hot ticket items have a numeral in parenthesis (2) for the amount we have it stock.

Open promptly at 8am. Please form a line down Spring St going south and once we open at 8am, please enter in an orderly fashion (as you always do, thank you) and the line will continue around the center aisle of preowned records. To begin with, we will let 5 people at a time to promptly choose their records and then proceed to the counter to pay. Please.... just to expedite the initial rush, know what you are looking for, they'll be in ABC order in the rack. Also, you may only purchase ONE RECORD of the SAME TITLE. Example: If you want Prince "Little Red Corvette", you can only buy ONE. If you wanted one for a friend, they'll have to get one on their own. This is in the spirit of RSD. Thanks.

We'll have treats throughout the day, free swag (while supplies last) coffee from Blue Box Cafe, and later in the day, cupcakes from Herb's Bakery!

Without further hesitation, here is our list. If you don't see it here, we did not get it nor will we get it.

Andre 3000 - All Together Now

Against Me - Stabitha

Alice In Chains - What the

All Time Low - Unplugged

Animal Collective - Meeting (1)

Avenged Seven Fold - Waking (1)

Banks + Steelz - Wild Season

The Beatles - Penny Lane/Strawberry

Big L - Devil’s Son EP

Big Star - Thirds Vol 3

Big Thief - Mythological

Bitters - Stone Cold Love

Black Angels - Death Song

Blade Runner - OST (1)

Blitzen Trapper

Blondie - Long Time 7”

Blowfly - Forever Fly

BNQT - Vol 1 (1)

David Bowie - Promo (3)

David Bowie - Cracked Actor (2)

Bronx Tale - OST

Brother Ali - Undisputed

Bullet For My Valentine - Don’t...

Busta Rhymes - Calm Down

Candlebox - Disappearing - CD

The Cars - Live at Agora ‘78

Johnny Cash - Children’s LP

Cheap Trick - Archive

Vic Chesnutt - Rome

The Chills - Rocket Science

Eric Church - Caught In the

Brandy Clark - Live

Nels Cline - Wee Small Hours

Miley Cyruss - Bangerz (1)

Coheed and Cambria - Good…

Cure - Acoustic (2)

Cure - Greatest Hits (1)

Czarface - First Weapon

Evan Dando - Baby I’m Bored

Def Leppard - EP

Distillers - Coral Fang

Doors - Live at Matrix

Dr. Who + Pescatons - Sounds

Drive-By Truckers - Live

Steve Earle - Live

Electric Flag - S/T

Field Music - Tones of Town

Filthy Friends - Any Kind...

Flaming Lips - (1)

Fleetwood Mac - Alt Mirage

Ben Folds - Live in Perth

Dexter Gordon - Walk the

Grateful Dead - PNE Garden

Hawkwind - Best of

Mayor Hawthorne - Party of

Head &/t Heart - Stinson

Jason Isbell - Live

Jane’s Addiction - Been Caught

Elton John - 17/11/1970

Robert Johnson - Centennial

Sharon Jones - 7”

Kinks - All Day All of the Night 7”

Kinks - Got Love 7”

Curtis Knight (w/Hendrix) - Live

Hamilton Leithauser - Live

Lumineers - Song Seeds

Luna - Penthouse

Madonna - Dance Mix

Dave Matthews - Red Rocks (2)

McCartney/Costello - Cassette

Motorhead - Clean your…

Stevie Nicks - Rarities

Nilsson - Schmilsson

NRBQ - 50 yr Anniv

Notorious BIG - Born Again

Offspring - Offspring (3)

Old 97s - Terlingua
OnXRT: Live From the Archives Vol. 18

Jimmy Page/Black Crowes - Live

Jaco Pastorius - Truth Liberty box

Pearl Jam - State of Love

Pineapple Express - OST

Pink Floyd - Interstellar (4)

Pink Floyd - London (1)

Prince - Batdance 12”

Prince - I Could Never Take Place of Your Man

Prince - I Wish U Heaven 12”

Prince - Little Red Corvette (3) 7”

Prince - Pop Life 12”

Prince - Partyman 12”

Prince - Sign O - 12”

RL Burnside - Long Distance

Ramones - 76-79 box

Ra Ra Riot - EP

RHCP - Go Robot

Lou Reed - Perfect Night

Ike Reiko - You Baby

Todd Rundgren - Uptopia

Rush - Cygnus

Santana - Woodstock

Sex Pistols - Anarchy 7” box

Slick Rick - Great Adventures

Patti Smith - Hey Joe

Smiths - Boy w/t Thorn

Son House - Live at Oberlin

Soul Jazz Records - 7” box set

Space Jam - OST (2)

Bruce Springsteen - London Live

Spoon - Hot Thoughts

Star Wars - Crosley Cruiser RECORD PLAYER

Sublime - Badfish

Sublime with Rome - unreleased

Sundays - Blind

Sunny Day Real Estate - Rising Tide

Sun Ra - Discipline

Super Furry Animals - Fuzzy Logic

Superchunk - Cup Of Sand

Talking Heads - This Must Be (1)

Temples/Fortune - 7”

Thomas and Friends - Steam

Peter Tosh - Legaize It

Two Door Cinema Club - Live

U2 - Red Tree Hill

Townes Van Zandt - Live ACL

Stevie Ray Vaughn - Live

War On Drugs - Thinking of

Where Pyramid Meets Eye - Roky Erikson Trib

John Williams - Star Wars - New Hope

Victoria Williams

Dennis Wilson - Bambu

Link Wray - Beans and Fatback

Yes - 90120 (pic disc)

Neil Young - Decade

Frank Zappa - Rollo

Zombies - Rose 7”

Zombies - I Want You Back

Rediscover Records Holiday Hours

We'll be open for plenty of time for gift shopping for the music fans in your life. We have an abundance of pre-owned vinyl as well as new releases and reissues!

Here are our hours during the holiday season! We extended our hours Dec. 20th to 23rd!.

Sunday (December 18th) 12-4

Monday 12-6 (December 19th)

Tuesday (December 20th 11-8)
Wednesday December 21st 11-8
Thursday December 22nd 11-8
Friday (December 23rd 11-8)

...with these small changes on these days.

Christmas Eve 11am 3pm

Christmas Day - CLOSED

New Year's Eve - 11am - 7pm

New Year's Day - 12pm - 4pm

We have hundreds of preowned classic Christmas records out for the month of December. Look for some of the cheapie mix records with a variety of artists. Those make for good playlists, so to speak, but on vinyl!

Don't forget our T-Shirts or these hot (or cold) coffee mugs make great gifts!!

We also have rad shot glasses with our logo on them or if you are not sure what to get the music lover in your life, get them a Rediscover Records Gift Certificate.

Please use responsibly!

Record Store Day 2016 - Black Friday Edition

Hey, let's not mess around! Here is our Record Store Day List - Black Friday Edition. It's a modest list, most of the titles have less than 5 copies with some of them with a (1) next to it, meaning we were able to order or procure just one. We'll OPEN promptly at 8am on Black Friday with complimentary coffee from Blue Box Cafe, donuts, fresh fruit and then later bottled water and soda.

Our Rediscover Records logo shirts will be just $10 and our coffee cups (recently back in stock!) will be just $6!

Without any more hesitation.... our list. (If you don't see it here, we do not have it)

Afghan Whigs - Black Love

Alice In Chains - Live: Facelift

Anthrax - Monsters...7"

Bangles - Ladies and Gentlemen

Beach Boys - Becoming the...

Big Star - Complete Vol. 3

Bolt Thrower - Those Once...

Cars - Just What I Needed (7" pic disc)

Eric Church - On the Rocks

Ornette Coleman - An Evening...

Alice Cooper - Live From the Astroturf

Death Grips - Fashion Week

Dengue Fever - Ganadarama

Bob Dylan - Royal Albert Hall

Explosions In the Sky - Lone Survivor OST (1)

Ben Folds - In Concert

Frank Frost - Hey Boss Man
Fruit Bats - Glory of Fruit
Jerry Garcia - Reflections
Geto Boys - Mind Playing Trio
Gonn/Time Traveler
Gwar - Picture Disc (1)
Jimi Hendrix - Morning Symphony
Iggy Pop - Telluric Chaos
Iron Maiden - Brave New World

Jethro Tull - Ring Out

Jungle Brothers - Done by the…
Dustin Kensrue - More Thoughts on…
Kinks - God’s Children
Kinks - The Kinks
Kinks - Sleepwalker

Middle Brother
Minor Victories
Motley Crue - Kickstart (picture disc)
Napalm Death - Like Piss…
Harry Nillson - Popeye OST

Amanda Palmer - Strung Out

Jaco Pastorious - Soundtrack

Prophets of Rage - Party’s
Raconteurs - Steady As She Goes
Ramones - Live at the Roxy
Otis Redding - Whiskey A Go-Go

Run DMC - Christmas in Hollis
Rogue Wave - Cover Me
Rolling Stones - Ride Em All
Frank Sinatra - White Christmas (1)
Soundgarden - Satanoscilla
South Park - Christmas
Sugar Hill Gang - Meet Your…
TSOL - Revenge
Twizard - Are You Insane
Underground Kings/Int’l Players Anthem
Underworld - OST
Vandals - Hollywood
Yardbirds - Birdland (1)

Franks Zappa and Mothers - How Could I Be…

A few others coming later via UPS after 2pm (we hope!)

Kinks - Til Death Do Us Part

Fleshtones - Ana Como…
Porno For Pyros - Good Gods Urge

Gary Clark, Jr. - Healing Live

A few notes (most of you know the drill), we will open promptly at 8am (maybe a few minutes before), please enter in an orderly chill fashion. Go through the store towards the back and make a loop back towards where the NEW RELEASES are. The RSD items will be in organized by band or artists last name. Please know what you are looking for so we can get everyone through in a prompt manner. This is not the time to text your friend if they still want a title if you are standing in front of our RSD record rack! Dig? Of course, you may buy multiple items, but just one TITLE of each per person. No, you can't buy a copy of Bob Dylan Albert Hall for your friend.

Greetings and upcoming holiday greetings! In addition to Record Store Day in April, did you know that there is a Black Friday Record Store Day edition? It's not quite the blockbuster that April's RSD is, but it's pretty cool nonetheless. We're a participating store and we'll have our list posted no later than November 25th, 2016.

We look to get some pretty sweet titles! We'll post the list on this blogspot page, on our website Rediscover Records, and on our Facebook page. Look for us to tweet the link out as well.

We'll OPEN on Record Store Day Black Friday promptly at 8am and stay open until at least 7pm. Look for complimentary coffee, sodas/bottled water, and treats.

If you're visiting us after being directed to do so on our sometimes-not-so-gadget-friendly-website, we're an indie record shop located in historic downtown Elgin at 9 S. Spring St. Our building dates to the 1800s!

Here's our regular hours

Monday 12pm - 6pm 

Tuesday -Saturday 11-7pm

Sunday 12pm - 4pm

Welcome to Summer Fun at Rediscover Records! Our hours will remain the same throughout the summer. They are listed in our bio, but we'll post them here too!

Monday: 12pm - 6pm
Tuesday: 11am - 7pm
Wednesday: 11 - 7
Thursday: 11-7
Friday: 11-7
Saturday: 11-7
Sunday: 11-7

John and Paul appear to be enjoying "Freewheelin' Bob Dylan"

We will be closed on July 4th in observance of Independence Day. That's the "Day", not the film!

Look for extended hours on First Fridays of the month when there may be downtown Elgin activities going on. We welcome buskers in front of the shop. Busking rules in downtown Elgin are pretty relaxed but they do need to be observed. Elgin Busking Guidelines

The Art and Soul Festival will be on August 6th and 7th and is a great event for downtown Elgin. We'll be OPEN that weekend with possible live entertainment in front of our shop or in-store. Stay tuned!

Please follow us on Twitter @RedscvrRecords, Instagram @rediscover_records and "Like" us on Facebook for very up-to-date notes on new releases, brand new preplayed items to the shop, and live music in the shop! Share your photos and hashtag us #rediscoverrecords.

Until then....