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Find Your Favorite Vinyl at Orange Monkey Music

May 9, 2016Dr. K. AshrafWaterloo

Vinyl record shop in Waterloo, ONWith the convenience of digital music sales like iTunes or subscription services like Spotify, music listeners can often be swayed out of buying physical copies of their favorite bands or artists. Although CD sales have significantly dropped in the last decade, sales are showing a resurgence in vinyl among listeners. Some listeners say that the quality of vinyl can’t be matched by CDs or the digital format while others believe that the recent popularity of vinyl boils down to the intimate experience that records provide.

Don’t take our word for it, though. The numbers speak for themselves!

In 2013, records show that sales climbed to 6 million units after only being approximately one million units back in 2007. To find a great vinyl selection here in Waterloo, ON, Orange Monkey Music has been the go-to spot for decades. To continue our small business blog series, Dr. K. Ashraf takes a break from his usual oral health and dental implant blogs to give local readers a brief look at this record shop here in Waterloo.

The Ultimate Vinyl Selection

Vinyl has only recently made a comeback in the last few years, but Orange Monkey Music has been a long-standing record store through it all. This record shop has been a vital spot for music lovers in the community since it first opened up in 1993. You can find this local record store in the heart of Uptown Waterloo at 5 Princess Street W, across the street from Princess Cinema. Orange Monkey is in an old-style building, which adds to the overall vintage feel of the shop.

Walking into this shop, you’ll immediately notice their impressive selection of records covering plenty of genres. There are records tucked into every nook and cranny of this shop, giving you plenty of choices to browse through. However, the shop is also very well organized if you have something specific in mind. Regardless of your taste in music, we’re sure you’ll be able to find something to fall in love with at Orange Monkey Music. Their vast collection of records covers plenty of genres ranging from classical to punk. They also have a great selection of rare, used, and new vinyl to suit every customer’s needs.

If you can’t find what you’re looking for, simply ask one of the friendly staff members. The staff members at Orange Monkey Music are knowledgeable about more than happy to help you find anything that you may be looking for. If you’re unable to find something you’re looking for, just let the shop know and they will special order it for you. You can call, email or drop by in person to get them to special order something specific for you.

Orange Monkey Music has more to offer than just great vinyl records. They also have a selection of other music-related treasures. Customers will also be able to find CDs, tapes, eight-tracks, toys, collectibles, posters, t-shirts, music accessories, cleaning kits, and concert tickets. They also have a selection of movies, which includes options like cult classics, rare concert tapes, collectibles, and box sets.

Overall, we’d highly recommend this local record shop for music lovers here in Waterloo. This record shop is the perfect place to pick up your favorite album or dig through their collection to find a hidden treasure. To find out more about this local shop, visit the Orange Monkey Music website.

Interested in learning more about local businesses? Stay tuned for more upcoming small business features here in Waterloo.

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During this difficult time, we are trying to do our part during the COVID-19 crisis. We are continuing to see patients with dentofacial emergencies. This means as one of the few practices remaining open during this pandemic, we are treating patients with emergencies from our fellow dental colleagues, in the Waterloo and Wellington regions (Waterloo-Kitchener-Cambridge and Guelph and surrounding townships)

We hope to assist and help as many people as we can. We also hope this will reduce the number of patients that are visiting hospitals that can be treated by us, thus freeing up time and room for the hospitals and slowing the spread of this virus.

Some additional steps our practice has taken to slow down the spread of the virus and "flatten the curve" are:
- Sanitation of common areas such as the front entry doors and the waiting room in between every patient 
- Appointments are spread out so that the waiting area only has one patient at a time 
- All front desk staff are wearing masks 
- State of the art air purifiers (Surgically Clean Air Units x5 in total)
- Patients receive gloves upon entering the clinic

And of course we have all required PPE protocol set as a standard by the Royal College of Dental Surgeons and the Province of Ontario. 

During this time we all need to help each other and do our part, only then can we pull through this quicker and return to a more happy, thankful and prosperous society.

Wishing you all the best of health,
From our family to yours.