National Record Store Day

that Disturbed one is priceless in every sense

Each turd has been carefully polished, varnished and encased in a deluxe presentation box which also includes a turd-shaped USB flash drive and limited, numbered art prints depicting the turd from various angles.

OOOOH WAH-AH-AH-AH

I want the Mclusky Do Dallas vinyl. That's the only thing I need on RSD.

Well the Flaming Lips one I'm definitely keeping for myself.

Yeah, that Flaming Lips things looks awesome, but I refuse to even get my hopes up for it.

want those lips, plan to stand in line for hours and will buy all available copies within moments of the opening bell. will then sell them to all ilxors for fifty hundred dollars cheap rare OOP L@@K!

is there the full list of stuff online yet?

not yet.

scott have you seen anything on arthur russell vinyl? they've done one record each year so far

i find that most of the stuff i really want gets restocked by the more on-the-ball shops a few weeks down the line anyway.

like all the previous arthur russell releases, for instance. got them all weeks if not months after they initially appeared.

ah i like going out and i've always managed to get the russell ones at this bigger store even late in the day cuz all the yuppies are boner'd up about foo figthers and radiohead shit

haven't seen any arthur mentions yet. one of the few rsd things i ever bought i think! i think it was for rsd. i saw it months later in some store. it hadn't sold.

i don't buy tons of stuff but i bought world of echo and also television - live at the old waldorf last year and wow that television record smokes and was a great pressing

so happy w my rsd copies of world of echo and calling out of context

yep i got both those and also love is overtaking me is kinda amazing too just imagining he had devoted himself to being an oddball indie folk singer songwriter

been operating on the assumption that this year they would reissue the world of arthur russell on vinyl, hope i'm not disappointed

i have an old vinyl copy of world. was that soul jazz that put that out? somebody like that.

please don't tell me that the soul jazz version sells for like 400 dollars or something. i like my copy.

Yeah, that was already done for Record Store Day a couple of years ago was it not?!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Qb3Ow98eWQ&list=UUKIt8fDu2w44UqNOVtt1F0g&index=1&feature=plcp

^^^ never going to find that now am i.
thankfully, i'll be happy enough with the cd edition.
but still, does look good.

oh, and i've heard that the DJ Food vs AA/FSOL 12" is going to be a RSD special.
2 versions - limited marble vinyl and standard black vinyl.

This year is all about Hydra Head's new Circle album for me!

When was that Lee Perry one?

Actually, that reminds me.. (tiptoes away to revive other thread)

the lee perry one is out this year ..

from the label :

Lee "Scratch" Perry, King Tubby, The Upsetters - Blackboard Jungle Dub, Deluxe 10" Boxset ! ONLY AVAILABLE in BRICK AND MORTAR record stores on #RSD12. Limited to a strict 2000 pieces world wide!

The list of exclusive releases varies from country to country, right? Cos the US website says the list isn't ready yet but here in Austria stores are already announcing things e.g. a Peter Brötzmann 7" which I need to get.

Yeah, it is different in different countries, though there is cross-over.

I want that Flaming Lips thing, for whatever reason, and 10,000-20,000 copies seems like a lot. Am I delusional? Will those be snapped up super fast?

I can't bear the crowds at Rough Trade in the morning, and my tiny local shop only gets one copy of some things. Will they be long gone by the end of the day, or the next day? It's all too stressful. I can give myself a panic attack over something I really don't care that much about. Why does shit like this work on me?!

At one point there was talk of a CD version compiling those Flaming Lips collabs, so maybe I'll just wait for that version.

The next year I moved to NY and things took off a little bit more, remember waiting in line and people snapping stuff up and the vibe was pure collector scum. Other Music was an hour wait by midday and Generation records in the Village just had you in a massive queue that snaked around the store then you got to the counter and picked your exclusives off of a pre-printed list where they crossed out out-of-stock items

This sounds like the most unpleasant way to buy music I have ever heard of.

It really is, that's exactly how I experience last year's RSD. Stood in line outside for a little over an hour, slowly snaking my way to the counter, then pointing to the two releases left on the list I wanted that hadn't already been crossed off. I've definitely decided I won't be taking part this year. I spend enough money at my locals throughout the year to not feel guilty in the least.

"experienced"

that's how i used to buy 45s when i was a kid. off of a top 40 list at the counter. had to ask for the record by number.

i didn't have to wait in line though.

This sounds like the most unpleasant way to buy music I have ever heard of.

Precisely. As my friend summed up RSD: "Record Store Day seems like that quintessential American activity of celebrating something by totally destroying all the appeal of it."

Would love for a store owner/clerk to be candid about how this affects their business positively.

― Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Monday, March 5, 2012 1:46 PM (Yesterday)

I have been pretty candid about how it effects us positively. We make more money in that one day than we do the whole month of Christmas. We have a blast. All of our customers who usually come in spread out over a month come in all at once and we have a big, fun party. How much more positive can it get?

yeah, i can't imagine any decent indie record shop having any kind of problem with RSD. they make money! guaranteed sales! fans come in and buy the dogshit out of things! only owner i've ever known to grouse about it was a horrible person who ran one of the most overpriced and unfriendly shops i've ever known. she was pissed cuz she overbought on the least genuinely collectible shit and didn't get rich.

Like I said, I'm glad this exists if its going to help local shops stay in business, but I'll be skipping out.

RSD doesn't have to just be about the exclusive releases. It's good to bring in casual buyers that will be likely to buy a lot of the general stock.

"I will now sell three copies of The 5 EPs by Disco Inferno."

RSD doesn't have to just be about the exclusive releases. It's good to bring in casual buyers that will be likely to buy a lot of the general stock.

― Evan

It is true. We sell so many dollar bin records that the whole thing needs to be replenished the next day. We sell a lot of every thing because there are droves of folks that love records in the store. Biggest sales of the year, so it does keep us in business.

It sounds like you run it the right way. Another disappointing aspect of the event I went to last year was that the store actively discouraged browsing. It was structured entirely to get people in the the door and up to the counter to select from the pre-printed list. You could browse a little as you shuffled along the line, but if you stepped away you lost your place. And they actually chased off two guys that started browsing in another section away from the line, telling them that they needed to keep everything "orderly". Granted, this was a pretty narrow shop, but it just seemed to emphasize that the only important thing were those exclusives and those alone.

They obviously have no idea what they are doing. Doomed to fail. If your business model is like the local grocery with the mindset that people shop there because they have to then you might as well follow fye off the inevitable cliff.

Moved from Portland, OR to Tampa this year so no record store shopping for me. Sadly, Amazon is my record store now.

Record Store Day definitely is a huge day, businesswise. 3-4x as busy as our average saturday, and getting busier each year.
it's kind of a drag to work it, honestly. the store is too busy and the employees are too busy to do much fun. it would be impossible to have an in-store. 3 years ago we had a bbq with burger and dogs and veggie stuff, but even something like that would be too hard to try to do now because of the sheer mass of ppl. last year we drank bloody marys and that helped a lot.

fyi i have done a LOT of ordering for RSD over the last few weeks, and have tried to get most things mentioned in this thread (wld love to get the brotzmann record! EU only?) but i HAVE ordered the lee perry, mclusky, flaming lips. just today i ordered a bunch of THIRD MAN crap, which people love love love and asked for all day last year, long after we sold out. so i ordered higher quanities this year. of montreal/deerhoof split, i expect to be a good seller.

i a PSYCHED about the Mynah Birds! The Rick James/Neil Young group.

there's a jimmy fallon single with his version of the reading rainbow theme song (in the style of the doors.).. skip james & mississippi john hurt reissue on vanguard..

ian are you able to order the captured tracks boxsets yet? Medicine and Cleaners From Venus? Our store isn't able to yet.

i believe you can order them direct from the label. we've definitely put in orders for them. also, superD (weird distributor i've never used until this week) had them on their list.

Just had the email about the Captured Tracks stuff last night here in the UK. Too expensive & risky for me though. They sound amazing mind.