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Jerry Weber at Jerry's Records in Squirrel Hill.
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Jerry's Records to close Bargain Basement with three-week sale

Larry Roberts/Post-Gazette

Jerry's Records to close Bargain Basement with three-week sale

Jerry’s Records will host a special vinyl sale the next three weekends, leading up to the closing of the Squirrel Hill store’s Bargain Basement on July 3.

Vinyl records — both LPs and 45s — in the Bargain Basement only will be 50 cents each and CDs will be $1.

The basement, on the ground level at 2136 Murray Ave., is filled with 30,000 to 40,000 titles, many of them by familiar artists. Owner Jerry Weber says those are records of which he has a lot of duplicates and that they “are just not screened as much,” so buyers should look closely for scratches.

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The sale will run 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and noon to 5 p.m. Sundays June 17-19, June 24-26 and July 1-3. The basement will be replenished as the sale goes on. He will also being doing giveaways of 10,000 albums over the next few months. Dates will be posted at the Jerry’s Records website.

Mr. Weber previously said he would close the Bargain Basement by the end of the year, but he’s pushed up that date, noting that the rent was too high for the return he was getting.

The Basement closing and the bulk sale of his 700,000 45s in the main store to a German online dealer has prompted frantic calls from worried vinyl junkies that Jerry’s, one of the premier record stores in the country, is closing.

He insists that is not the case, and that he is continuing to stock up on more records every day.

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Scott Mervis: smervis@post-gazette.com; 412-263-2576. Twitter: @scottmervis_pg.

First Published: June 14, 2016, 1:49 p.m.

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Jerry Weber at Jerry's Records in Squirrel Hill.  (Larry Roberts/Post-Gazette)
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