Christmas recordsby the crateful.
Holiday music on vinyl, cassette, CD and 8-track, out of a classic music warehouse in Maine.
Christmas is the whole shelf
Vinyl, cassette, CD and 8-track. Not a seasonal aisle bolted onto a general shop: it is the only thing here.
One copy deep
Most of this holding is a single copy. When one goes there is rarely a second behind it, which is worth knowing in December.
Everything ships
This is a warehouse in Maine, not a shop. There is no counter and no opening hours; orders go out by post.
Sealed, mostly
Most of this was boxed when it was new and never opened since. Every copy here grades Mint or Near Mint.
Four ways to play a Christmas record
LPs, seven inch singles and a box set. What most of this catalog was pressed on.
02CassetteThe deepest part of the Christmas holding, and the format least likely to turn up anywhere else.
03Compact DiscJewel cases and a few doubles, mostly compilations and carol collections.
048-TrackThe format that refuses to die quietly. There are a handful.
Just out of the carton
Whatever came off the shelf most recently. The Christmas shelf moves in December and most of it is one copy deep, so this changes.
Vinyl LPJoemy Wilson - Gifts, Volume II-Traditional Christmas Carols
Dargason Music · 1987
Vinyl LPMarian Anderson Interviewed By Dr. Oswald Hoffmann - Christmas With Marian Anderson: Favorite Carols By The World-Famous Contralto
Not On Label
Vinyl LPBenjamin Britten, Francis Poulenc, The Boston Cecilia, Boston Boy Choir, Donald Teeters - A Boy Was Born, Op 3, Motets Of The Season Of Christmas
AFKA Records · 1982
SealedCDGheorghe Zamfir - Christmas At Notre Dame Basilica Montreal
PolyTel
SealedVinyl LPCharles Brown - Please Come Home For Christmas
Gusto Records · 1978
SealedVinyl LPVarious - The Christmas Rock Album
PRI Records · 1986
SealedCassetteMargi Coleman - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas / Give Love This Holiday
Priority Records · 1994
SealedCassetteVarious - Big Band Christmas
Black Label Records
A warehouse, not a shop
Maine Record Sales has no counter and no opening hours. It has shelves: rack after rack of records boxed when they were new and never opened since, in a building everything ships out of.
Christmas is the section that sells better than any other, and the one that cannot be restocked. Nobody is pressing 1968 carol records any more.
Ratings and feedback are from our Discogs seller page, where we trade as MUSICMKT. Years in business is not a Discogs figure: the shop is older than the site.