[Quimpersound] Quimper Sound Newsletter 11/25/05

Thu Nov 24 22:17:26 PST 2005

Quimper Sound Music & Media
W. Washington's Oldest Independent Record Store
Newsletter Vol.2 No.38 11/25/05

Greetings from Quimper Sound. Welcome to the official start of the "Holiday Season". If you're not one to brave the crowds - or if you just want to put your feet up and shop from home, then try our online store! Really, with over 500,000 CDs and DVDs to choose from (with gift certificates and apparel coming soon) you can spare yourself the hassle and still shop local. Of course, our regular staff of experts and jokers is still waiting for you down at the store, too. 
As always, we've each selected our top 10 favorite releases of this year. If you go to the website you'll see links to each employee's picks on the left-hand side - if you come down to the store you'll find them right next to the holiday music. Either way all of our recommended titles are 10% off from now until the end of the year. That's 40 fantastic gift ideas right there - and at a discount! Of course we have several thousand other titles in the store and half a million online if you need something else. In the coming weeks we'll publish several helpful gift guides - Box Sets, Childrens, World Music, Jazz, DVDs, etc. And if you just can't find (or know) exactly what to get, a Quimper Sound Gift Certificate (perhaps wrapped in a Q.S T-shirt) is sure to please.
If you have any suggestions (or complaints/compliments) feedback is much appreciated - keep it coming to: feedback at quimpersound.com - thanks! And now, on with the show . . .

-Contents-
1. Best Selling Titles of 2005
2. Special Orders We've Filled 
3. Local Tickets On Sale
4. Useful Links
5. Privacy Statement 
6. Sound Off

New Releases are extremely slim next week. And our top sellers can be found on our website. So today we present to you Port Townsends 50 Favorite CDs and 20 Favorite DVDs of 2005:

-Best Selling CDs of 2005:
1. Jack Johnson - In Between Dreams
2. Green Day - American Idiot
3. Ray Charles - Genius Loves Company
4. Madeleine Peyroux - Careless Love
5. Coldplay - X&Y
6. System of a Down - Mezmerize
7. Van Morrison - Magic Time
8. Beck - Guero
9. Pink Martini - Hang On Little Tomato
10. Ray - Soundtrack
11. Garden State - Soundtrack
12. Black Eyed Peas - Monkey Business
13. Gorillaz - Demon Days
14. Death Cab For Cutie - Plans 
15. Motown Remixed - Motown Remixed 
16. DJ Style E - Small Town . . . Big City Nitelife
17. U2 - How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb
18. Neil Young - Prarie Wind
19. Pink Martini - Sympathetique
20. Low Ones - Miles of Smiles
21. White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
22. Modest Mouse - Good News For People Who Love Bad News
23. Ray LaMontagne - Trouble
24. Israel Kamakawiwo'ole - Facing Future
25. Audioslave - Out Of Exile
26. Alison Krause & Union Station - Lonely Runs Both Ways
27. Bonnie Raitt - Souls Alike
28. Micheal Buble - It's Time
29. Bruce Springsteen - Devils & Dust
30. Killers - Hot Fuss
31. Thievery Corporation - Cosmic Game
32. Gwen Stefani - Love. Angel. Music. Baby.
33. Mark Knopfler - Shagri-La
34. Amos Lee - Amos Lee
35. John Prine - Fair & Square
36. Norah Jones - Feels Like Home
37. Ray Charles - Very Best of Ray Charles
38. Ry Cooder - Chavez Ravine
39. Dave Matthews Band - Stand Up
40. Postal Service - Give Up
41. Jack Johnson - On & On
42. Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
43. AK47 - Hadlock's Most Wanted
44. Neil Young - Greatest Hits
45. Eminem - Encore
46. K.D. Lang - Hymns of the 49th Parallel
47. Norah Jones - Come Away With Me
48. Il Divo - Il Divo
49. Foo Fighters - In Your Honor
50. Madeleine Peyroux - Dreamland
-Best Selling DVDs of 2005:
1. 3 Feet Under
2. Lightning In A Bottle
3. Napoleon Dynamite
4. Lord of the Rings - Return of the King
5. Eric Clapton - Crossroads
6. Miles Davis - Miles Electric - A Different Kind of Blue
7. George Harrison - Concert For George
8. Chapelle's Show - Season 2
9. Jimi Hendrix - Jimi Hendrix
10. Ray Charles - O Genio - Live in Brazil 1963 
11. The Band - Last Waltz
12. Woodstock - 3 Days of Peace & Music 
13. What the Bleep Do We Know?
14. Viva La Bam - Season 1 
15. Harold & Maude
16. Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
17. Slayer - Still Reigning
18. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin DVD
19. Andy Goldsworthy's Rivers & Tides 
20. Rolling Stones - Rock & Roll Circus

-Special Orders We've Filled-
Special Orders Filled This Week: 93 (and counting...) 
Special Orders Filled Year-To-Date: 3,104
(if there is anything you've been itching to get but haven't seen, don't hesitate to ask us about it. We fill most special orders within a couple of days (often "next day") and never charge a fee.)

-Local Tickets For Sale This Week*-
Note: Season Passes and Individual Lectures for the School of Athens are sold out
1. Awkward Guys Get Normal
      - Thursday-Sunday, December 1-4
      - all shows 7:00pm with two shows on Sunday at 2:30pm and 7:00pm
      - $12 normal people, $10 for awkward people, children 12 & under are free
      - www.awkwardguys.com 
2. Tangoheart
      - Friday, January 20, 8:00pm - Chimacum Highschool Auditorium - $18
      - Festival Seating - upwest at olympus.net 

*This is a list of local events to which Quimper Sound is currently selling tickets. Quimper Sound sells tickets to local events as a community service and never charges a fee. Because we give all the proceeds back to the performers we can only accept cash or checks made out to the performers themselves. All tickets are General Admission unless otherwise noted.

-Useful Links-
http://www.quimpersound.com
http://www.allmusic.com (All-around best music research site on the web)
http://musicmavericks.publicradio.org/  (Your tax dollars at work - in a good way!)
http://www.centrum.org/ (Washington's home for the arts and creative education)

-Privacy Statement-
Quimper Sound collects email addresses on a voluntary basis and only for the purposes of sending you this newsletter or other store-related updates.
Except for some friends, family and select business associates (whom I took the liberty to sign up myself) every email address used was submitted on a form at Quimper Sound. If you think there has been some mistake, send email to steve at quimpersound.com and I will personally see that your address is removed - I hate spam as much as you do.
Your address will never be sold, given away or hinted at. We respect your privacy.

Your Rose Theatre ticket stub may now be redeemed at Quimper Sound for $1 off any purchase of $10 or more. This offer is valid for one month from movie date, one stub per purchase. While it's not valid on gift certificates or tickets - there are no other restrictions. 

Quimper Sound
901 Water St.
Port Townsend, WA 98368
(360)385-2454

Open 7 Days A Week.
Fall Hours:
Monday - Thursday 9-6pm,
Friday - Saturday 9-7pm
Sunday - 10-6pm

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