Normals Books & Records
@normalsbooksbalto.bsky.social
A 34 year old book & record store nestled in the heart of The People’s Republic of Waverly. From the obscure to the indispensable is our motto. Open 7 days a week.
Put on your favorite holiday threads and peruse our stacks for Small Business Saturday. Clutch a Dickens leaning against the warmth of our old school radiators. 20% off all used books. Photo a still from Mrs William Horsley’s film Fleegix.
November 29, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Put on your favorite holiday threads and peruse our stacks for Small Business Saturday. Clutch a Dickens leaning against the warmth of our old school radiators. 20% off all used books. Photo a still from Mrs William Horsley’s film Fleegix.
A New Horse Lords Day miracle! The last box of my RSD order came to my house early afternoon & Young Leo was able to pick it up.
November 28, 2025 at 8:16 PM
A New Horse Lords Day miracle! The last box of my RSD order came to my house early afternoon & Young Leo was able to pick it up.
Well my main distributor let me down and the RSD box with Ween, The Ramones and Talking Heads won’t arrive in time for opening tomorrow, but another box came with the new Horse Lords @horselords collaborating with Arnold Dreyblatt, “Extended Field”, LP. So tomorrow we will be immersed in
November 28, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Well my main distributor let me down and the RSD box with Ween, The Ramones and Talking Heads won’t arrive in time for opening tomorrow, but another box came with the new Horse Lords @horselords collaborating with Arnold Dreyblatt, “Extended Field”, LP. So tomorrow we will be immersed in
Happy Indigenous Peoples/Parade/Giving Thanks Day! I am thankful we’re in our 35th year and that you still grace our doors! Most of you clothed. At least 2/3 brilliant, the other 1/3 doggone charming. Have a great day in whatever way you roll,
November 27, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Happy Indigenous Peoples/Parade/Giving Thanks Day! I am thankful we’re in our 35th year and that you still grace our doors! Most of you clothed. At least 2/3 brilliant, the other 1/3 doggone charming. Have a great day in whatever way you roll,
If you avoid the hyped day some of these may still be present. If not, there’s been a ton of new and used books & LPs going out of late. Still waiting on one more box that contains The Ramones Live at CBGBs among other things.
November 26, 2025 at 5:29 PM
If you avoid the hyped day some of these may still be present. If not, there’s been a ton of new and used books & LPs going out of late. Still waiting on one more box that contains The Ramones Live at CBGBs among other things.
Black Friday #RecordStoreDay LPs prepared for the big day. Miles at the Plugged Nickel, Dylan’s “Freewheelin’” as it was supposed to originally be released, a Jonathan Richman never before released, rare Strata East reissue, Roland Kirk and Yusef Lateef live.
November 26, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Black Friday #RecordStoreDay LPs prepared for the big day. Miles at the Plugged Nickel, Dylan’s “Freewheelin’” as it was supposed to originally be released, a Jonathan Richman never before released, rare Strata East reissue, Roland Kirk and Yusef Lateef live.
No matter how you treat the holidays, like Young Leo filling in today retreating into his scalp shrubbery anticipating his Thanksgiving Popeye’s turkey, or upbeat Lottie in her holiday sweater, they are coming! Closing tomorrow at 5 & closed on Thanksgiving. #BaltimoreBookstore #ShopLocal
November 25, 2025 at 8:41 PM
No matter how you treat the holidays, like Young Leo filling in today retreating into his scalp shrubbery anticipating his Thanksgiving Popeye’s turkey, or upbeat Lottie in her holiday sweater, they are coming! Closing tomorrow at 5 & closed on Thanksgiving. #BaltimoreBookstore #ShopLocal
Stocking the larder with vinyl sweets for holiday or every day use!
November 21, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Stocking the larder with vinyl sweets for holiday or every day use!
Reissue of the debut of #Grouper , Japanese super group Food Brain from 1970, mentioned in Julian Cope’s Jap Rock Sampler, “Songs of the Cambodian Liberation” & new #OpticSink , Gonerfest regulars. And Baltimore encompassing all, it turns out Bruiser
November 20, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Reissue of the debut of #Grouper , Japanese super group Food Brain from 1970, mentioned in Julian Cope’s Jap Rock Sampler, “Songs of the Cambodian Liberation” & new #OpticSink , Gonerfest regulars. And Baltimore encompassing all, it turns out Bruiser
New #BillOrcutt ! This imposing cover photo was taken in the Revolver warehouse just as our pal ED stole his Halloween candy and packed it with our shipment. New expanded 2 lp version of Sun Ra’s first Saturn album, “Supersonic Jazz”. “Smile” reissue and one of the few albums
November 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
New #BillOrcutt ! This imposing cover photo was taken in the Revolver warehouse just as our pal ED stole his Halloween candy and packed it with our shipment. New expanded 2 lp version of Sun Ra’s first Saturn album, “Supersonic Jazz”. “Smile” reissue and one of the few albums
The #Yuletide vinyl had crashed upon the Waverly shores early this year!! We usually wait until the day after Thanksgiving to put it out but folks seem to be in the holiday mood early. #BaltimoreRecordstore #HolidayLocalShopping #DontLetTheFascistGrinchesGetYouDown
November 19, 2025 at 10:28 PM
The #Yuletide vinyl had crashed upon the Waverly shores early this year!! We usually wait until the day after Thanksgiving to put it out but folks seem to be in the holiday mood early. #BaltimoreRecordstore #HolidayLocalShopping #DontLetTheFascistGrinchesGetYouDown
6 boxes of exceptional literature, poetry, Native American history, radical and anarchist theory, sociology and Black Studies hitting the shelves. #BaltimoreBookstore #ShopLocal #WaverlyMerchants
November 19, 2025 at 6:08 PM
6 boxes of exceptional literature, poetry, Native American history, radical and anarchist theory, sociology and Black Studies hitting the shelves. #BaltimoreBookstore #ShopLocal #WaverlyMerchants
She even scored a great free t-shirt from old artist pal Todd Seltzer. Nowhere else we’d like to be in these challenging times except for maybe champagne stewarding on a Matmos tour! These classics will be in the racks tomorrow. #Shoplocal #PeoplesRepublicofWaverly #BaltimoreRecordstore
November 17, 2025 at 2:48 AM
She even scored a great free t-shirt from old artist pal Todd Seltzer. Nowhere else we’d like to be in these challenging times except for maybe champagne stewarding on a Matmos tour! These classics will be in the racks tomorrow. #Shoplocal #PeoplesRepublicofWaverly #BaltimoreRecordstore
Thank you so much Baltimore for somehow keeping it hard to keep the goodies on the shelves in these increasingly weird times! Our new intern Mrigaanka of The Many Skills got to see a wonderful wave of faces Saturday scooping up music and books and stirring fine chatter.
November 17, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Thank you so much Baltimore for somehow keeping it hard to keep the goodies on the shelves in these increasingly weird times! Our new intern Mrigaanka of The Many Skills got to see a wonderful wave of faces Saturday scooping up music and books and stirring fine chatter.
Two more new “no brainers” as the gravediggers say. Affordable reissue of reverb drenched classic and a hypnotic East African 80s album rooted in traditional Rwandan praise songs.
November 14, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Two more new “no brainers” as the gravediggers say. Affordable reissue of reverb drenched classic and a hypnotic East African 80s album rooted in traditional Rwandan praise songs.
I’ve been really waiting for this one! Before @unsociable_cat_dad the doe-eyed Marxist’s power partner @amelia_bedeliya became a farmer of renown she was a liberation theologian and she cut this wild lp. Folk spirituals somewhat with Judee Sill vibe with some Bruce Haack added!
November 14, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I’ve been really waiting for this one! Before @unsociable_cat_dad the doe-eyed Marxist’s power partner @amelia_bedeliya became a farmer of renown she was a liberation theologian and she cut this wild lp. Folk spirituals somewhat with Judee Sill vibe with some Bruce Haack added!
Sometimes a Best Of kicks out some true Besties. Like this one. And not just because some of our favorite nabobs are bound up in it…..Fantastic compilation cobbled exquisitely by Terence Winch, who just turned 80.
November 11, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Sometimes a Best Of kicks out some true Besties. Like this one. And not just because some of our favorite nabobs are bound up in it…..Fantastic compilation cobbled exquisitely by Terence Winch, who just turned 80.
Small taste of the many treasures that washed ashore the last few days. Plus many great fiction/literature titles and Eastern Religion.
November 9, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Small taste of the many treasures that washed ashore the last few days. Plus many great fiction/literature titles and Eastern Religion.
Night two of Herr Schmidt’s Diffusion Festival vis @highzerofoundation ! I’m just now seeing there will be a piece (maybe it was last night) called “Personal Tapirs”! Seeing a tapir in real life in Texas drastically changed the course of my life. This festival is guaranteed to expand your ears.
November 8, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Night two of Herr Schmidt’s Diffusion Festival vis @highzerofoundation ! I’m just now seeing there will be a piece (maybe it was last night) called “Personal Tapirs”! Seeing a tapir in real life in Texas drastically changed the course of my life. This festival is guaranteed to expand your ears.
OG 1980 “Remain in Light”. With inner sleeve & insert.
November 7, 2025 at 8:04 PM
OG 1980 “Remain in Light”. With inner sleeve & insert.
OG 1980 “Remain in Light”. With inner sleeve & insert.
November 7, 2025 at 8:03 PM
OG 1980 “Remain in Light”. With inner sleeve & insert.
Two sweet crates of #VinylClassics in! Original #Ramones with inner, original #DeadBoys , 77 #SexPistols , OG #TalkingHeads #BaltimoreRecordstore
November 7, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Two sweet crates of #VinylClassics in! Original #Ramones with inner, original #DeadBoys , 77 #SexPistols , OG #TalkingHeads #BaltimoreRecordstore
Some newbies in! Including new #Numero 4 LP box set of #HuskerDu live in 1985, when much fire was present. #BaltimoreRecordstore
November 7, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Some newbies in! Including new #Numero 4 LP box set of #HuskerDu live in 1985, when much fire was present. #BaltimoreRecordstore
Tonight! Normals co-founder, Red Room founder, Wild-eyed neoist John Berndt debuts his new experimental supergroup Hadal Zone. Opening for master improvisers Ben Bennett, zygote of legendary poet John M., & Kieran Daly.
November 5, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Tonight! Normals co-founder, Red Room founder, Wild-eyed neoist John Berndt debuts his new experimental supergroup Hadal Zone. Opening for master improvisers Ben Bennett, zygote of legendary poet John M., & Kieran Daly.
Some new titles hitting new & recommended. #DCPunkZines and new @bmoreart
November 5, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Some new titles hitting new & recommended. #DCPunkZines and new @bmoreart