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Record Shop Talk hosts Patrick Prince (Gen Xer) and Luna Record Shop clerk Holden Russiano (Gen Zer) discuss the lasting impression that Sonic Boom record store in Toronto, Canada, had on them, referencing a Goldmine article written by record collector extraordinaire Andrew Cashin. In the second half of the podcast, we hear how high-value records on eBay both annoy and delight the hosts. Learn mor...

Jaret Reddick, the lead vocalist and guitarist for the pop-punk band Bowling For Soup, comes on Goldmine's The Dollar Bin podcast to talk about a new vinyl connection to the Punk Rock Museum, his band's rise to fame and delivering character voices for Phineas and Ferb and Chuck E. Cheese. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The core lineup of skate-punk veterans DFL (Dead Fucking Last) come on the podcast (vocalist Tom "Crazy Tom" Davis, guitarist Monty Messex, bassist Patrick Sullivan and drummer Jordan “Snare" Jordan to talk about their latest album. Fuck it, which was released in June 2026, on vinyl (SBÄM Records). They then go back to the beginning and explain how the band came together in the early 1990s in Los...

The podcast’s record collectors, Gen Xer (Goldmine editor Patrick Prince) and Gen Zer (Luna Record Shop's Holden Russiano), talk "shop" — How punk rock records hold up in the current-day record store bins and how avid punk record collectors like Henry Rollins will hunt down elusive vinyl, and (of course) more record store happenings and hipness! Listen to this recent podcast episode! Learn more ab...

Chicago punk rocker Dan Schafer (Sludgeworth, Screeching Weasel, The Queers, Generation Waste, The Riverdales, Noise By Numbers, Dan Vapid & The Cheats and The Mopes & The Methadones) talks to The Dollar Bin crew about the rock albums that made him want to take up music as a lifelong career. The evolution went something like this: Kiss, Metallica and then punk. Listen to the podcast! Learn more ab...

Henry Rollins. The man is a legend — especially for punk rock fans and record collectors — and The Dollar Bin podcast hosts Alan Brostoff (Dr. Disc) and Rev (frontman for The Drowns) are over the moon to talk to him about not only record collecting but his lifelong friendship with Ian MacKaye (Minor Threat, Fugazi and founder of Dischord Records) and being intensely involved in an archival project...

Reunited Cleveland-based melodic punk group Whatever... remember the records that made them want to form a band. And, guess what? ... KISS records influenced three out of four members before punk music. Of course, more is discussed on Goldmine's Dollar Bin podcast with co-hosts Alan Brostoff (Dr. Disc) and Rev (singer of The Drowns). So, whether you are a punk rocker or a record collector, listen...

Metal Edge editor-in-chief Dimitry Mak comes on the Record Shop Talk podcast to chat with Goldmine editor-in-chief Patrick Prince and Luna Record Shop clerk Holden Russiano about the heavy metal publication's revamped online record shop and renewed editorial mission. In turn, Russiano describes the combination of online and brick-and-mortar shops for Luna's customers. Learn more about your ad choi...

Guitarist Mike Squires comes on The Dollar Bin Podcast to talk records (KISS!) and the life of a musician with co-hosts Alan Brostoff (Dr. Disc) and Rev (vocalist of The Drowns). Squires (Duff McKagan's Loaded, Alien Crab Syndicate, Ugly Kid Joe) discusses his passion for KISS, ever since he bought his first record, Kiss' 1975 album Alive!, and his tenacity to stay active and creative in the music...

Three members of Zoinks!, an American pop-punk band originally formed in Reno, Nevada, in 1993, come on Goldmine's The Dollar Bin to face questions like "Which album in your collection would you save if your house were on fire?" and so forth. Listen to the episode now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hosts Patrick Prince (Gen Xer) and Holden Russiano (GenZer) discuss Goldmine's Summer 2026 issue and one of the artists on its several magazine covers, Bad Nerves — and this British group's Goldmine-sponsored in-store event at Nudie Jeans in London. And, of course, there is more record shop talk included. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Carmine Appice comes on Goldmine’s Dollar Bin podcast to talk to co-hosts Dr. Disc (Alan Bostoff) and Rev (vocalist of The Drowns) about his long and storied career as a rock and roll drummer, and his search for long-lost jazz albums. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chicago punk band The Effigies have been around for 45+ years, performing everything from small clubs to Riot Fest along the way. After a hiatus for most of the 1990s, the band came back strong with the album Reside, a return to their early sound, and more recently, Burned in 2024. Bassist Paul Zamost talks to The Dollar Bin's Alan Bristoff (Dr. Disc) and Rev (singer of The Drowns) about being tur...

On this episode of Record Shop Talk, where Gen Z and Gen X record collectors — co-hosts Patrick Prince and Holden Russiano — talk shop about record store culture, the recent Rolling Stones record launch event for the Foreign Tongues album is discussed, as well as recent releases in the brick-and-mortar (Luna Record Shop) and virtual (Goldmine Shop) record store space. Always a fun listen for recor...

Frontman Frank Casillas of Voodoo Glow Skulls, an influential Southern California ska punk band, comes on The Dollar Bin podcast to chat with hosts Alan Brostoff (Dr. Disc) and Rev (Singer of The Drowns) about records and the history of the California punk scene. Casillas talks about how he got the initial itch to be in a theatrical rock band after seeing Iron Maiden's 'Number of the Beast' tour a...

Mass Giorgini is well known in the pop-punk world, which gained its popularity in the 1990s. As a bassist, singer and saxophonist, he has performed and/or recorded with Screeching Weasel, Common Rider, Squirtgun, Rattail Grenadier, The Mopes, Teeth and the Man, Torture the Artist and Sweet Black And Blue. As a producer, he has worked with Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day, Kris Roe of the Ataris,...

Gen Xer and Goldmine editor Patrick Prince talks to his co-host, Gen Zer Holden Russiano, about this year's Record Store Day experience at Luna Records in Franklin, Tennessee (and, of course, other record stores). What RSD releases sold the most? Was there an overnight line? How many people showed up? Was there a great sale on used records? The hosts run the gamut, and discovered that they liked t...

Singer Hayley (aka Hayley Crusher Cain) from Hayley and the Crushers comes on The Dollar Bin to talk to hosts Alan Brostoff (Dr. Disc) and Rev (singer from The Drowns) about record-collecting habits and the influential music that made her a glitter punk rock goddess. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the podcast that teams up a Gen X record collector (editor Patrick Prince) with a Gen X record collector (Luna Records clerk Holden Russiano), the topic of anxiety leading up to Record Store Day (Saturday, April 18) is discussed. A record store's preparation is more complicated than most would think, but the outcome usually makes it all worth it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphon...

Fishbone frontman Angelo Moore comes on The Dollar Bin podcast to talk vinyl while going through his record collection, and how the band Fishbone have a preference to release their music on vinyl. As a lyricist, Moore also describes the importance of personal expression during troubled times. Check out the podcast! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As the legendary thrash metal band Testament tour (North America and later Europe) to promote their last album Para Bellum (2025), vocalist Chuck Billy was kind enough to come on Goldmine's Dollar Bin podcast and talk to hosts Alan Brostoff (Dr. Disc) and Rev (singer of The Drowns) about his preference for vinyl and how rock albums influenced his career in heavy metal. Plus, listeners and record c...

On this episode of Goldmine's Record Shop Talk, editor Patrick Prince (the Gen X record collector) and Luna Record Shop's Holden Russiano (Gen Z record collector) talk about the recent reports on the vinyl format's 19th consecutive year of growth. Put an exclamation mark at the end of this one, listeners: In 2025, U.S. vinyl record sales surpassed $1 billion in revenue for the first time since 198...

Hosts Alan Brostoff (Dr. Disc) and Rev (vocalist of The Drowns) welcome founding member and chief communications officer of the Punk Rock Museum, Melanie Kaye, to The Dollar Bin Podcast to talk punk rock records and modern-day punk's tight-knit community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Liege Lord have been active since the early '80s, performing their brand of traditional heavy metal, with their first album, Freedom's Rise, released in 1985. Co-founder and guitarist Tony Truglio (who's also been in Helmet) and current bassist Joe Dibiase (co-founder of Fates Warning and metal supergroup Withering Scorn) come on as Dollar Bin guests to talk to hosts Alan Brostoff (Dr. Disc) and R...

Hosts Patrick Prince (Goldmine editor) and Holden Russiano (Luna Record Shop) talk about creating a Progressive Rock sub-genre category in the record store racks: "Prog 2.0." Why not? As prog transitioned from the '70s to the '80s, it became more commercially accessible and, dare we say, catchy. Should there be a section dedicated to just that? (And author Martin Popoff did a Top 20 Prog 2.0 for t...