Merge Records Vinyl, CDs & Cassettes

There are independent labels, and then there's Merge. Founded in 1989 out of Chapel Hill by Laura Ballance and Mac McCaughan, the same two people who gave the world Superchunk, Merge has spent 35-plus years doing the thing majors never could: signing artists they actually believed in and letting the music take its time.

The catalog reads like a syllabus for anyone serious about indie rock. Neutral Milk Hotel. The Magnetic Fields. Dinosaur Jr. Arcade Fire, whose debut "Funeral" put Merge on the mainstream map, and whose follow-up "The Suburbs" hit number one on the Billboard charts and won the Grammy for Album of the Year. Spoon. The Mountain Goats. Bob Mould. These aren't footnotes; they're the spine of a whole era. 

Based now in Durham, North Carolina, Merge has grown from a scrappy 7-inch operation into a label with artists spanning the globe, while somehow never losing the character that made it matter in the first place. The records feel personal because they were always meant to be. 

Whether you're hunting a first press or filling gaps in a collection you've been building for years, what you'll find here is the real thing, pressed right and worth owning.