Rhino Records Vinyl, CDs & Cassettes

Rhino started in 1973 as a record store in Los Angeles, the kind of place run by people who cared too much about music to just sell it without an opinion. By the late 1970s, it had become a label, and by the 1980s, it had quietly become the most trusted name in the reissue business, building a reputation track by track on the idea that old records deserved the same care and attention as anything being made new.

The philosophy was simple and turned out to be pretty radical: find the recordings that mattered, go back to the original sources, remaster them properly, write liner notes that actually tell you something, and package the whole thing like the music is worth taking seriously. At a time when catalog releases were often treated as afterthoughts, Rhino treated them as the main event.

Eventually absorbed into Warner Music Group, Rhino became the catalog arm of one of the world's largest music libraries, granting access to the Atlantic, Elektra, and Warner archives. The Grateful Dead's catalog has lived here. So have the Doors, Fleetwood Mac, Talking Heads, Led Zeppelin, Ray Charles, the Ramones, and hundreds of others. The box sets Rhino produces are still the benchmark that every other reissue label gets measured against, detailed, beautifully packaged, and made for people who want to actually understand what they're listening to and why it matters.

If you follow Record Store Day at all, you already know Rhino shows up with some of the most sought-after releases every year. The records in this collection carry that same standard.