National Record Store Day

the whole thing is completely ridiculous to me, esp. since 75% of record store day "exclusives" are just old music in new packages. "never before on vinyl." "never before on 180g vinyl." "never before on cassette." "now with a shitty chess game." "now on orange vinyl."

who gives a shit?

i have no compunction about buying stuff to flip at a modest profit. it's not like i'm flipping some essential like baby food or water. if people want to pay a lot to get something on confetti-infused purple vinyl then who am i to stop them?

i also got some stuff to keep, almost exclusively stuff that hadn't been released before.

Anybody listen to that Codeine live album yet? How is it?

well I used to buy p. much any 10" I saw just for the novelty value, I've bought a few vinyl reissues of stuff to sit unplayed on the shelf and look nice while I listen to the mp3s I'd already paid for, so I should be target audience for stupid consumer record fetishism, but it's out of my price league, and like you say it's almost all old stuff in slightly different but generally not wildly exciting or noticeably "deluxe" packaging anyway

but if someone's buying it on RSD at $38 and someone's buying that when they flip it on eBay for $70 and this combination is keeping record shops going then fine, I guess. and if they'd had the Conny Plank, Bardo Pond, Antoni Maiovvi records in I'd probably have bought them and then hated myself when my bank statement came in, so eh

Everyone pretty much otm. If I could buy a vinyl repress of some psych classic I first bought ten years ago on CD for roughly the price i originally paid for the CD then I'd be more inclined to do that. But $30 for a single LP, you are pretty much taunting me to go right home and pirate this re-re-re-repressing out of spite.

7"s all too expensive for me, always, especially 12" singles if there were ever one I wanted for some reason.

LPs that are the most overpriced seem to be the more major label stuff. Joan Baez and Taj Mahal records that are already in the used bin a few feet away for $3 each or less don't need to be reissued (probably from digital sources, too) for RSD with $35 price tags.

I found the smaller label stuff to be priced not much worse than new records on any other day so I was happy. At least the stuff I really wanted.

7"s on RSD that is.

I bought that mono Van Dyke Parks Song Cycle for $25 just because I felt like I should buy something but I feel like a sucker for it. I could get an original pressing on ebay for not much more, and I didn't notice any difference in the mono mix.

i bought that too and feel stupid about it too.

i have to admit the kill rock stars cassette box was pretty nice-looking but c'mon

A friendly shopowner in StL is getting the Bardo Pond covers record for me. That is nice.

Wasn't there a fancy reissue of The Glove's Blue Sunshine? One store I went into had the original in the new arrivals bin for $11.99. That's the kind of o_O I saw a lot of. I also saw a Triumph cassette being sold for $5 and I don't get that either.

Mostly it was an excuse for me to go around to different record stores for a morning/early afternoon, which I realize I could do any old day but I kind of enjoyed being in crowded record stores. That in itself was pretty fun.

i hit up amoeba the day after, choosing to avoid the insanity. but apparently lots of other folks had the same idea, it was a madhouse! everything i would have wanted was long gone with the exception of the copy of 'you can't hide your love forever' by orange juice that i picked up.

missed out on imaginational anthem 6 of course

Maybe this was talked about pre-day-of I can't remember and didn't bother to look but the least likely to have sold to anyone in the world was the Avenged Sevenfold - Call of Duty Black Ops picture disc single.

Maybe the one 13 year old who loves the ultimate "bud-lite"(s) of video games and hard rock and simultaneously has a record player, $20 to spend on nothing else in the world, and enough delusion to think it will appreciate bought it. MAYBE. This one kid probably almost purchased it but went for a Rockstar Energy hoodie instead.

at vintage vinyl in evanston, the guy will track RSD exclusives on eBay AND ACTUALLY CHARGE AN INFLATED PRICE AS THE DAY GOES ON. like, some 7" with a sticker price of $7, he'll sell for $70 by the late afternoon on RSD if he thinks he can.

that guy is a turd, and I hope people google this.

you guys should have been stocking up on the DMB thing. the big winner of 2013.

http://www.ebay.com/csc/Records-/176985/i.html?_sop=3&_from=R40&_nkw=rsd+2013&LH_Complete=1&LH_Sold=1&rt=nc

i've never met anyone who actually bought or listened to jam band vinyl but it always goes for a ton. pearl jam too!

My friend bought that Dave Matthews- he is a rare being that places DMB a few spots away from Swans in best-of lists. I think the list was $149. I wonder the percentage of in-store purchases of that were for flip vs. enjoyment.

UPR is having a special (maybe cos of RSD orders?) where they knock a lot of cost out of pressing records if you don't mind having them pressed in randomly mixed colored vinyls. The cost for 7" is about 35 cents per. And this is for small orders.

whoa, we should also press up 7"s and sell them as a set!

was at a record store today, and the employees were picking over the remains, considering a $45 issue of the last waltz vs. a $25 copy of the dazed and confused soundtrack, or maybe that phish reissue, the south park picture disc 45. so somebody apparently wants whatever crap they churn out.

i bought the repo man blu-ray and felt p good about it.

Last waltz is flippable based on eBay history, not sure about the others.

due fairness, the last waltz was #2 out of howevermany thousand

the south park picture disc 45

jesus christ

I don't have a problem with the prospect of RSD getting more comicbooky/cartoony, it just seems really cynical. "How much crap tangentially related to music can we press onto vinyl"?

tbh if that record was "Uncle Fucka" b/w "Kyle's Mom Is A Big Fat Bitch" I might consider buying it.

Ha yeah I forgot that SP does get down with original songs regularly. I guess "tv/movie ---> music records" tie-ins have been going on forever. I do have a neat old 6 million dollar man lp.

South park 45? Didn't you hear about the call of duty 12"?

Again- $20, Avenged Sevenfold, 12" single with instrumental, picture disc visually equal to a promo flyer from GameStop...

SPark 45? You know they made no 1 over here?

I've heard that in the UK the record companies send a few secretaries out during their lunch break to buy ten copies each and that puts the song at number 1.

South park 45? Didn't you hear about the call of duty 12"?

― Evan, Tuesday, April 23, 2013 4:14 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah that's pretty nteresting... I know avenged sevenfold is huge but it's interesting to have call of duty there as the co-brand, are there many serious collectors of call of duty merch? enough to press a few thousand copies i guess. major labels going hard on record store day,

xpost pity those secretaries that got sent out the week between Christmas and New Year just to ask for "ten copies of Chocolate Salty Balls please.."

Captured Tracks web store has a few copies of the Snapper and Bats records that they co-released with Flying Nun, if anyone is still looking. I (hopefully) got one of the Snapper 12"s.

You can quantify your cynicism in dollars and cents:
Still Sealed: Record Store Day 2013's Highest Earning eBay Flips

Dave Matthews Band
Release: Live Trax Vol. 1 vinyl box set
Sold for: $525.00

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
Release: English Electric Collectors Tin Limited Edition 7-inch
Sold for: $275.00

Between the Buried and Me
Release: Parallax Vol. 1 & 2 vinyl box set
Sold for: $249.00

Paul Weller
Release: Sonik Kicks Sonik Kicks The Singles Collection 7-inch vinyl box set
Sold for: $229.99

Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Release: The First Five: A Picture Disc Collection box set
Sold for: $222.22

The Notorious B.I.G.
Release: Ready to Die 12-inch vinyl
Sold for: $205.02

Puscifer
Release: V Is for Vagina 12-inch vinyl
Sold for: $202.50

Phish/Trey Anastasio/Page McConnell
Release: Lawn Boy Deluxe 12-inch vinyl (Phish)
Blue Ash and Other Suburbs 7-inch picture disc (Trey Anastasio)
Unsung Cities and Movies Never Made 12-inch vinyl (Page McConnell)
Sold for: $200.50

Rodriguez
Release: Cold Fact 12-inch vinyl
Sold for: $197.50

What... was there a special version of that for RSD? Because that's still in print.

Rodriguez, that is.

apparently rodriguez rubbed his testicles on the RSD copies?

Oh, I think it was a clear vinyl version or something...

So, the shops around me started doing something this year to sort of combat this: anyone buying Record Store Day stuff had to open the shrink wrap in order to buy the item.

Thoughts?

As someone who works in a record store, my first thought it "Ha! Awesome." But we only got like 20 or 30 titles this year and tbh people seemed to be more interested in just record shopping in general than the hyped stuff.

anyone buying Record Store Day stuff had to open the shrink wrap in order to buy the item

That'll knock a fiver off the price on ebay..

Yeah, that's a great tactic. People who make a fuss will quickly give themselves away as ebay leeches.

anyone buying Record Store Day stuff had to open the shrink wrap in order to buy the item.

was there like some line before you purchased items where you had to line up to shame-facedly strip each album of its shrinkwrap in front of a two-man inquisition?

if it weren't for ebay leeches record store day probably wouldn't be a "thing" in the same way

which would be good maybe

Well yeah, it would be exactly what it was meant to be!

I thought it was about getting more people and more profits into record stores? In which case I'm all for store guy upthread who was increasing the price depending on how much they're going for on ebay.

Symbol: Zaireeka (lp box). 
Share price: 87.20 % Change: -0.06 % Change: -0.30
Buy:  45.20
Offer:90.25
Volume: 12  
Prev close: 70.50
Shares issued: 1,000 (numbered)
52 week high: 475.90

I like to imagine that if there *weren't* assholes selling shit on eBay, then the stuff wd be bought anyway by other fans that were farther back in line and it wd still be just as successful.

That probably is true in this magical world where ebay doesn't exist.