Hymie’s Vintage Records (also known as just Hymie’s Records) is a vinyl record store in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Hymie's was opened in 1988 by James “Hymie” Peterson in a former clothespin factory on Lake Street in Minneapolis. The store has carried exclusively analog audio media for most of its life. In 2010 the store relocated five blocks east to a new location. The Hymie's Blog began in October 2009, and has posted nearly every day about interesting or unusual records, local music reviews and local music events. Since 2009, Hymie’s has had a shop dog, a Boston Terrier named Irene, who has become an icon for the store. Irene has been photographed by Rolling Stone, and also appeared on popular t-shirts and as Miss June in a charity calendar. Hymie’s has been singled out as one of the best record stores in the United States by Rolling Stone and USA Today, and has been featured in many other publications.
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The 2003 LP Hymie’s Basement was recorded in the basement of the original record store and released by Lex Records. In 2014 the store launched its own record label with a single by Brian Laidlaw and the Family Trade and, simultaneously, the eighth album by Ben Weaver, I Would Rather Be a Buffalo.
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