IT'S BLACK FRIDAY! Our biggest sale of the year- get up to 80% off vinyl, cassettes, CDs, shirts, enamel pins, books and more. Now until Monday 12/1 at midnight.
Posted on November 26th, 2025
Two very big things we have to talk about!
First, it's hard to believe but we have arrived at Black Friday again! This is easily our biggest sale of the year and we have scored you some DEEP DEEP discounts. In some cases, you pay LESS than we did!
You can view all the sale items here, but we've also broken the sales down to 7 main subcategories: $5 Vinyl, $10 Vinyl, $15 Vinyl, $5 Cassettes, $3 CDs, $10 Shirts, and everything else (pins, books, posters, etc.). It's also in a handy menu on the top of our webpage.
Plus, for every $50 you spend before shipping, you get a FREE record! How cool is that? No code needed for any of the sales, just spend to your heart's content.
Sale runs through Cyber Monday, 12/1 at midnight PST. But don't wait because some quantities are limited and once they are gone, they are gone.
Second, the news you have all been waiting for: we have the finally stocked the Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) merch from tour. And yes, that includes the vinyl repress of What It Takes to Move Forward. This time around you can get it into two special variants, one in the colors of the Detroit Lions and the other in the Detroit Tigers. Take a gander here (top Lions, bottom Tigers):
For all you vinyl nerds who want pressing numbers, there are 600 copies of each variant.
We've also got the new shirts and crews the band had printed for tour. Here is the deal with these- we have a decent amount of them left from tour, but also some sizes sold out. So there is a good chance you will get your order soon, but if we don't have your size in stock then we expect to get a new batch in mid December. In the case that you have to wait, we are treating those like pre-order and any items you ordered with it will not ship until all orders come in. We honestly didn't expect to sell so many of these on tour and thought we made more than enough to cover tour and mail order after but it turns out the demand was higher than we expected. The same goes for this run- we don't know what to expect so we need to take orders for a bit to know what we need to order to cover the gap in what we have now.
In any case, we expect to have these to you in time for the holidays if you are looking for these as a gift, but we can't 100% promise that will happen. That also means everyone who orders in the next few weeks will 100% get a shirt and then after that we will have a fixed amount.
Enough talk, take a look at these:
Shout out to Mitch's Prints for the pictures. They are the fine folks behind all our shirts!
While you are grabbing your Empire! goodies, please please please grab stuff from Mt. Oriander and Parting, Keith's current projects. Lots of those things are also part of the sale and there is a lot of music to dig into.
Empire is playing a show in Chicago at The Beat Kitchen with Pet Symmetry, Joie De Vivre, Bottom Bracket on 12/14. Get tickets here. Get Joie and Bottom Bracket albums in our sale!
One last thing, our next Whatnot auction where you can get test presses, rare records, bundles, etc. is 12/17 @ 7PM EST: https://www.whatnot.com/live/c96d9827-c525-4bf7-9ad8-58242948e6e1. Bookmark it so you don't miss it. Get $15 for joining (it's free): https://whatnot.com/invite/cylsrecords
Ok, enough talk. GO FILL THAT CART PLEASE! We can't do this without your help, so thanks for your purchases that let us keep doing this. Happy hunting!
