ASHEVILLE’S LARGEST USED VINYL SELECTION!
BUYING, SELLING & TRADING SINCE 1968!
We are located North of Asheville, NC at Stone Ridge Business Park in Woodfin.
📍101 Stone Ridge Blvd, 28804. Next to Siam Thai restaurant.
HOURS OF OPERATION:
MONDAY - SATURDAY: 11:00 - 6:00 PM
SUNDAY: 12:00 - 6:00 PM
*CLOSED: THANKSGIVING DAY, X-MAS DAY & NEW YEAR’S DAY!
PHONE:
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UPCOMING EVENTS:
LIMITED RSD BLACK FRIDAY EXCLUSIVE RELEASES AVAILABLE IN-STORE FRIDAY, NOV. 28TH 10AM-6PM.
RSD Black Friday is November 28th this year! We will be opening an hour early at 10 AM! Black Friday releases are very limited, so come early to guarantee you can pick up the titles you are looking for. There will also be a sale throughout the shop! RSD Black Friday is similar to Record Store Day, but there will be fewer exclusive titles. Each title is limited; we are not guaranteed to get the number of titles we ordered! It is highly recommended that you line up as early as you feel comfortable arriving. Last year people started lining up around 5 or 6 AM!
Haywood Famous will be serving hot beverages for those who arrive early! haywoodfamous.com
HOW IT WORKS: We allow people into the shop in the order they arrived / order in line. There is no cutting in line or racing to the bins. It is organized; first-come first-serve. Once you look through the RSD titles, you are welcome to continue to look through the rest of the shop and pick up other non-RSD titles!
We cannot hold RSD titles; strictly first-come first-serve. Whatever titles we have remaining at the end of the day can be saved and shipped!
Thank you for supporting your local independent record store this holiday season!
⭐SPECIAL ORDERS FOR THE HOLIDAYS MUST BE PLACED THROUGH US BY DECEMBER 19TH TO GUARANTEE ON-TIME DELIVERY!
PREORDER UPCOMING RELEASES
Contact us to secure your preorders! Want something that isn’t on this list? Ask if we can get it! Click below to browse!
ABOUT US:
Asheville's largest selection of Vinyl, Tapes & CDs with over 20,000 items both new and used! A second-generation vinyl legacy handed down from father to son! The first Earth River was based in Rochester, New York in the back of a headshop in 1968 and run by OG Owner Franklin Markowitz. Throughout the 70s & 80s the shop (and Franklin’s huge vinyl collection) moved out west and based operations in Newport Beach, California. Franklin’s family grew & Earth River Records expanded to multiple shop locations in Coos Bay, Eugene & Corvalis, Oregon. In the 90s & 2000s the shop was passed to Franklin’s son Morgan and moved to Seattle, Washington. Earth River Records finally landed in Asheville, North Carolina in 2021. Coast to coast, we've got the most! Can't make it to the shop? Check us out on Ebay and Discogs. We carry audio equipment, cassette tapes, CDs, DVDs, hundreds of vintage posters, signed memorabilia & more!
Don’t see what you want in the shop? Ask if we can order it through our supplier! Free shipping to the shop!
We are always buying, selling and trading so bring your collections to us! We make house calls!
If you are planning to be in town when we are closed, call us & we can set up an appointment.
Thank You!
We want to express our deep gratitude to each and every one of you. Western North Carolina and Asheville took another unprecedented hit from Helene. Those of us lucky enough to have made it through depend on our immediate community to survive here. And we have survived! We are still here because of YOU! (And sheer luck! The roof almost blew off our building. But it didn't!)
The wonderful folks at Siam Thai fed the Woodfin community (and us) delicious food for free when our neighborhood was hungry. Mercy Chefs set up a kitchen two doors down. Travelling linemen, firefighters and responders came in looking for music and movies. Countless friends and customers reached out, checked in and helped each other.
We weren't sure if the shop would make it in the wake of so much destruction and grief. But you kept our doors open! When the power came back on without internet service, suddenly all of this physical media had relevance again. People still needed to hear music, watch a comforting movie or play an old videogame. The whole town was transported back to pre-internet days.
We are humbled and proud to be North Asheville's community record store!
Earth River Records wishes you and yours all the best this year.
See you soon!
