Carpathian Forest

I was waxing nostalgic last night about finding priceless Tina Turner and Incredible String Band records at Mindfair, meeting Carol Spiros and having her pass on her insane vinyl bounty and wisdom onto me (Pop Group, Raincoats, Emmit Rhodes, Lizzie Mercier Desclous, ETC). Who would've thought that just today all of those Oberlin discovery memories would be simultaneously trumped and re-awakened with one piece of special news.

Word had gotten around about an Aaron Dilloway of Wolf Eyes is now living in Oberlin but it turns out he has opened up a Hanson Records outpost in the middle of town!! My mind is drooling out of my ears thinking of all the intense undergrad/townie/Dilloway pedagogical jam sessions that will go down at his place. Where does he even live? Does anyone know? I am so ready for the Oberlin noise renaissance. This is so awesome!!!

Hello everyone,
I'm pleased to announce the opening of the HANSON RECORD STORE in Oberlin, OHIO. (A bit over a 1/2 hour west of CLEVELAND)
The store is full of everything on my mailorder website plus TONS more new and used LP's, CD's, Cassettes, Books, and Magazines. MOSTLY NOISE!!!! But also Rock n' Roll, Synth, Prog, Industrial, Modern Classical, Reggae, Punk, Metal, Jazz, International, Sound FX and other random weirdness that gets thrown in THE SHOCK PIT!
The store is located in a secret underground location, so I will not be keeping regular hours. You must email or call to make an appointment to come shopping. To set up an appointment and receive directions to our secret location, just email me at: apps@hansonrecords.net or call me at 734-709-2064
So if yer living in the area or on tour or just wanna make a trip, don't hesitate to contact me.
I'll be having a big gig/party for the shop in June...more info on that later though...
Thanks to all my pals who helped organize stuff! And double extra thanks to my pal Sean at Discs and Tapes in Howell, MI for hookin me up w/ the record & CD racks AND for employing me for like 10+years as a young record slingin' snunk AND for turning me on to Deep Purple - Live in Japan!
So ya...I'm here and ready ..... Drop me a line and COME SHOPPIN'!
STORE SHOPPING APPOINTMENTS: apps@hansonrecords.net
-Aaron Dilloway, 4-29-08
BIG PS: Here are some photos, still pulling stock from storage and picking up new stock every day....

a ton more HERE