Rainy Day Music was founded at Spencer, Iowa in November of 1987 and offered prerecorded music and other music-related merchandise. Rainy Day moved to the Internet in March of 2001 and promptly disappeared for a while until we resurfaced on our own site in 2005.
We feature hear-before-you-buy records, and our listing process is relatively slow (it takes about forty-five minutes per record just to record the samples and another forty-five to edit and upload them) but we’re making it a priority to keep that progress steady.
There’s no aspiration here of being the biggest guy on the block-this site is really intended to have a collector-to-collector flavor. At the present, the goal is to offer 500 record albums, topping it off at that number and gradually bringing up the grading within the 500 (more vg+, less vg).
The shopping cart is secure, and we accept credit card payments as well as PayPal payments, but we store no credit card information here (that data is handled at Square and/or PayPal). If you’re local (Spencer, IA), there’s even an option for local transactions (without shipping charges).
Though this blog contains information about our sales on other platforms, including antiques and other non-music-related items, our online STORE is another story. Over the years we’ve managed to narrow that down to an approximation of just what we did in the brick-and-mortar.
The exception to that is whatever record albums we’ve added since there was a brick and mortar, and that category will probably continue to evolve. The other stuff – promo posters, flats, postcards, and all that are from our original stock and in general were used in Rainy Day Music.
To look around in the store, it can be found at this link: It’s possible to shop as a guest, but if you register, there are certain advantages to that like everywhere else. We don’t share customer information with anyone (except certain insurance claims to third parties, which are rare).
We have two Facebook pages. The music related one is at this link. That page is going to evolve to include some content that ISN’T featured in the store, namely content about local live music, but it also includes anything new that we list to the store, and occasionally maybe stuff that we’ve posted to the wrong page (grin).