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Funky Moose shutting down record sales

Funky Moose shutting down record sales

It is with a heavy heart that I write this message to you. I've decided to close the doors on Funky Moose Records as a record store.

Discount codes below! 👇

Why?

The store started in 2015 as a project to learn what happens after a sale. I'm a web designer by trade, and people started asking me more and more to build an online store for them. I knew how to create the site and drive traffic to it, but I never really understood what happened after an order was placed.
I found a product I was passionate about. Vinyl (Still am!), and started building the site.
The store gradually grew to a well-known spot for vinyl collectors to get "their fix."

The height was 2020, when every other store in the country had to shut down. However, the province of SK had rules that allowed us to remain open. This was a massive year of growth, and I was able to quit my full-time job in 2021 to run both the store and Funky Moose Digital.

Of course, my record store peers didn't wait for the restrictions to be lifted. They started building amazing online stores for themselves, so after the restrictions were lifted, we faced a lot more competition. Prices for new records went up, and good used records became increasingly difficult to find around our province.
Funky Moose Digital gradually grew and made a dramatic jump in the "right direction" in 2024, which took me a significant amount of time away from the store.

For a long time, I debated shutting down the store. It's my baby, so it's tough to let go of it, and I didn't want to do so unless I could replace it with something else in the music industry that has been so good to us.

So, the name will remain, and we'll offer services for indie musicians we're currently hashing out. More on that below.

What about my order?

If you still have an order open with us, something might be holding us back from shipping it. Please use the chat widget at the bottom right to check up on your order. We'll get it sorted out for you as soon as possible. Keep in mind that, with this announcement, we'll likely get more emails than normal, so please be patient.

What's next?

As I mentioned above, Funky Moose Records is dear to me, so I want to keep it alive and find ways to keep working with the music community.

We have a few ideas in the works, so if you're a musician needing a little help, please follow Funky Moose Records on Facebook and Instagram. We'll be more active there coming up.

Discount codes:

CLOSEOUT02 - 50% off used records.
CLOSE-BBAP - 25% off new records.

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