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About 3inch.es 3inch.es was created by Jough Dempsey, who enjoys writing in the third person, and launched on Record Store Day (13 April) 2019, because he loves his little three inch records so much he wanted to make a web site for them. About Me I’ve been a music lover all of my life, but I’ve also been a collector of music artifacts. My first love was vinyl records because that was the medium of choice when I was young. Read more »

Three Inches, Three Guidelines Be nice (and neat). Don’t be a jerk. Post things that are on-topic and not attacking people personally. Don’t cross-post the same content everywhere. Be useful. Only post something that will contribute to the conversation. Be safe. Don’t post any private information. Don’t encourage others to post private information. If you see something, say something. Read more »

Contact 3inch.es Have we gotten something wrong? Do you have further information about a 3” record player or record release? Have some news or juicy 8ban record gossip? Have records or players you’d like to buy or sell? Fill out this form and we’ll get back to you, or else leave a comment on the site. Name Email Message Submit Read more »

Why are they called “8-ban” records? The name “8-ban” (8禁止) is derived from the records being (approximately) 8cm in diameter, with the suffix “ban” meaning “disc” or “platter.” The record label “EightBanRecords” was written in English on each of the records’ sleeves, labels, and inserts. 8cm == ~3.15 inches, so we refer to them casually as 3” records in the Read more »

While we obviously love these little 3” records, it’s understandable that sometimes people will have tiny vinyl regrets, need some extra cash (to buy more new records) or just didn’t buy-into the single song vinyl lifestyle as we did. Wanted to Buy We may buy any of your records to sell on this site at a later date, but there are some records and entire series that we would like to acquire both for listening as well as using for reference for this site: Read more »

As the original 8ban records were discontinued in 2005 and the only 3” records produced since then have been limited editions, like the White Stripes releases, or otherwise limited like those released for Record Store Day 2019, options for buying three inch records have been similarly limited. 3” Records for Sale We’ve been able to acquire some extra copies of various 3” records and rather than sell them at auction we decided to offer them here first for people who may have picked up a 3” record player but need more records to play on it (we have almost all of the 3” 8-ban records ever produced and still want more records to play on our 3” turntables). Read more »