@normalsbooks.bsky.social
A 33 year old book and record store located in The People’s Republic of Waverly, Baltimore. Founded and run by writers, musicians, artists and humans freaky for physical media. www.normals.com
Closed New Years Day to prepare for The Grand Visitation of 2024! (And read books under a new quilt.) Open today until 6 & there’s a buyer in for books & records until 5. There will be a record buyer in 11-2 tomorrow, we’re open until 6. Open NYE 11-4.
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We’re open today for perusing until 6, tomorrow until 4 or 5 depending on visits, closed Christmas Day & back at it Tuesday 11-6. We won’t be buying until the new year though. Thanks for your support! Have a great holiday.
23.12.2023 16:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
@baltimoredjmills , the world’s bff, Crown & Ottobar regular dj, touring dj, New York historian, our Sunday Rock for I can’t even remember how long - 20 years?, whose steady presence allows me to sleep the long deep sleep of the crypt on Sundays, picks his top 10 for 2023.
21.12.2023 05:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Third Near Future kicking off!
18.12.2023 00:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
More new used #vinylgems , including the rejuvenated #Industrial genre. #Blowfly sealed #SteelPoleBathtub#AliceCooperBootleg #SSuleman #WaxTrax #BaltimoreRecordstore
15.12.2023 20:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0More Festivities unleashed! Thank you @old_line_plate
15.12.2023 18:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Some new additions to our #NewAndRecommended section. #AaronCometbus writes of a #PunkhouseInTheSouth #RobertAickman does what only he can do! A #BernadetteMayer classic, biography of #EricDolphy & our pal #VivienGoldman #BaltimoreBookstore
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Last one! See you tomorrow!
15.12.2023 05:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#Brainiacs all! New vinyl Friday at 1!
15.12.2023 05:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Midnight Holiday restock drop #4!
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Midnight #HolidayDrop part 3! #deliciousvinyl that will hit the racks 1pm Friday. More Jesuses & Lizards than our pal Shane the poet sees on a tequila hangover. #Slint #MichaelHurley #BaltimoreRecordstore
15.12.2023 04:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Okay, we’re a little late to the latest #SmashingTimes party, but I’ve met a few them, they are not stopping the party anytime overnight soon! #BigBlackdebut #GirlsAgainstBoys #BaltimoreRecordstore
15.12.2023 04:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Midnight holiday restock drop! These will hit the racks at 1pm tomorrow (Friday). #EmahoyGebru #ArvoPart #HailuMergia #ChrissyTembo #MississippiRecords #AwesomeTapesFromAfrica #GiveTheGiftofVinylRecords #BaltimoreRecordstore
15.12.2023 04:52 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Newbies part 2! #Morricone #RevoltingCocks #TheSpecials #FuManchu #PublicEnemy #MarleyMarl #Dogliotti #usedVinyl #BaltimoreRecordstore
15.12.2023 00:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
to test people’s health when they are selling #Tropicalia #Can #HorseLords !! #Zomes #RobertRental #BaltimoreRecordstore
15.12.2023 00:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
2 crates of #usedvinyl glory in!!! I have purchased the advanced radiation/fever detector made by Ronco that’s used in all the post-apocalyptic movies now, it looks like a pricing gun - cruel people tell me IT IS a pricing gun -
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Today was hopping & we had many great visitors, including old friend @chinabodina , Hampden scribe & activist, who now sports our 33 1/3 anniversary tote bag with Tim Hill design.
14.12.2023 04:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Printed gems of a wider spectrum just in. #AWomansHerbal #ZenSoul #TaoAndMotherGoose #TibetanBookifTheDead #RockArtSymbols #HunterThompson #PhilipDick #FlameWars #usedbookx #BaltimoteBookstore
13.12.2023 19:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0loins for whatever filth you’ll be indulging in at the clubs. We’re watching, we’ve paid our surveillance fees. #classicjazzvinyl #Coltrane #BillEvans #Mingus #CharlieParker #shoplical #PeoplesRepublicOfWaverly #BaltimoreRecordstore
13.12.2023 16:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Sure, all the kids are working mullets & camo, cranking noise cassettes at the washed feet of Father Schmidt, but try unwinding for the holidays by a fire with a Wolf Eyes tape! Granny ain’t on meth! Winter is a wonderful time to chill & Dream on jazz classics, to gird your
13.12.2023 16:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0darkness, spin #SongsOfLoveandHate
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Box of essential #jazzvinyl #NinaSimone & #BobDylan hitting the racks, including these 2 #desertislandpicks ! (Well, maybe Lennie’s not the right pick for extreme isolation…) Want to hit a delirious infectious groove, go with #DonCherry ! Need a comforting friend in a period of
13.12.2023 07:00 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
@markplasma ‘s All By Our Lonesome & his risograph printed manifesto about professional wrestling, Revenant/A Degenerate Model for Living.
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If you were unfortunate enough to have missed this electric, historical evening of poetry (though to be honest there were no nooks or crannies left in the room)- we have many of @anna_y2k ‘s new book, Girl poems in stock, along with
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Beautiful night of readings tonight celebrating #BruiserMagazine publishing Girl Poems by Anna Crooks. Thanks to Bruiser, Anna, all the readers & the attentive energized (& sharply dressed!) audience that came out. Standing room only!
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