The last music man standing on that stretch Barrington—now that CD Plus and Sam’s across the way are history—Random Play (1587 Barrington Street, 445-1056) has also gotten into vinyl in the past year, offering 300-400 new and used records on top of the majority of their music, which is on CD. The used is ‘70s and ‘80s rock and pop,” says manager Ryan DeMerchant “We have some new vinyl, mostly modern indie rock stuff.”
This article appears in Apr 8-14, 2010.