National Record Store Day

lolllllll sanity is barely even a record store any more.

i DJ'ed at my local shop. they had a smoke machine and everything! also much free beer. i got arthur russell 'world of...' (recent-ish repress) and the poplife sucks mix.

don't know if any of the hott xxxxclusives upthread made it to melbourne, maybe i'll have a snoop around (hearnow - where i played - is dance music predominantly).

I wanted to boycott the store in Barkly st (PurePop?) because my bf wrote them an email asking to do a gig there, which they'd been positive about. Until he mentioned the fact he'd like to start his own cafe cum record store/book store, and the guy replied with 'well that what every loser wants to try' with no other comment. Ugh!?

tbf "I'd like to compete with you" is not an endearing thing to say to someone doing you a favour, and 'guy' is v v likely otm, imagine how often he does hear it!

So psyched for National Video Store Day.

We wandered in to Jerry's Records in Pittsburgh, quite by accident :) thinking Record Store Day had already passed. Husb. got 3 45s of the Tornadoes/Telstar, one label of which he didn't already have...I just wandered around and browsed.

I have never bought a record, tape or a DVD/CD in my life. I have had a few bought for me but I refuse to give these so-called pop stars/singers any of my money. There is the radio for listening to music and that is as far as I take it.

I know of people who spend £40-£50 per month on music - quite frankly they are such sad people.

I have never even been to a music concert nor downloaded any music on the web. My money is for ME and not for others to live like lords on it.

Bob Jackson, Newport

http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thread.jspa?sortBy=2&forumID=6356&edition=1&ttl=20090419165919&#paginator

Bob Jackson otm

why is he posting on that? bob jackson is a cunt

I bought:

2 Maria Callas records
Yvonne Elliman
Kim Wilde
Frankie Valli is the Word
Louise Huebner's Seduction Through Witchcraft

bob jackson stole his radio from the windowsill of an orphanage

ps i missed smog at other music and want to cry

I didn't know that forty to fifty pounds a month was a lot of money to spend on music!

it was in 1950.

i bought the "this lp crashes hard drives" wotsit

wotsit is right! i read what was in that thing and i got dizzy. i totally would have bought one if i had been around a record store. i love overstuffed junk.

i missed smog at other music and want to cry

Bill's probably cried for you by now

I was at Waterloo last night and some NRSD stuff is still available:

THIS LP CRASHES HARD DRIVES
Various artists Records Toreism
that Arthur Russell thang
I'm sure I'm forgetting others but the 7" singles seem to be all gone.

So check your local haunt if you missed out on Sat.

local shops finally received the New Order 7". printing of the sleeve is pretty shit compared to the Factory original. not sure i should have bothered.

Local store told me it was one of their top 4 sales days ever. My friend said "it was like the early '90s all over again."

there was a line to get into Other Music. To shop! I didn't wait in line so I didn't get the pavement live lp. sux.

It'd be funny if "Bob Jackson" was the Bob Jackson at right in this photo:

http://badfinge.ipower.com/Badfinger/82TomAdamMikeBob075.jpg

The record store where I work is having lunch together today to come up with what to do special for this year's RSD. Last year we had a blast, ate pizza, had dj's play outside and drank beers. This year, the tattoo shop next door is giving out free tattoos of the 45 adapter. What are your stores doing?

We're grilling outside I think like we did last year--free hot dogs, burgers, potato chips etc while supplies lasts. last year we gave away grab bags of old dollar records & 50c 45s. lots of exclusive crap from labels etc.. we should try to have a band play i guess?? but it will probably be too busy/crowded to make that feasible.

So, in the UK, Blur are releasing their first single for *ages*, The Beatles are reissuing Paperback Writer, and there are repressings for the first Bloc Party album, and there's an Amorphous Adrogynous remix 12" of Paul Weller.

http://www.indierecordshop.org/?p=316

So, in the UK, Blur are releasing their first single for *ages*, The Beatles are reissuing Paperback Writer, and there are repressings for the first Bloc Party album, and there's an Amorphous Adrogynous remix 12" of Paul Weller.

― Mark G, Monday, April 12, 2010 12:30 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark

ysi?

Large retailers getting in on the act and trying to screw the little guys here:

http://www.recordstoreday.com/Australia

^ Real site

http://www.recordstoreday.com.au/

So psyched for National Blacksmith Day and International Year of the Chimney Sweep.

we should try to have a band play i guess?? but it will probably be too busy/crowded to make that feasible.

― ian, Sunday, April 4, 2010 6:55 PM (1 week ago)

our bands play outside in the neighbor store's parking lot. they are closed weekends so it works perfectly. i wonder if our exclusive stuff has arrived yet or not? I haven't seen it.

Blur are releasing their first single for *ages*, The Beatles are reissuing Paperback Writer, and there are repressings for the first Bloc Party album

One of these things is not like the others...

i've been trying to repress the the first bloc party album for ages -- REPRESS FROM MY MEMORY

hoping for a miracle imo

i wish i wasn't such a party pooper and cared about this thing. but i don't. every day is record store day! but i'm sure it is fun for people less misanthropic than me. and that's nice.

I don't care about the event itself much but I guess I care about the fact it genuinely seems to get people through the doors and increases revenue for an institution I like. Even if it is kinda ridic that you now need a bunch of carrots to get people to bring themselves to visit a damn record store

Some of those carrots is stuff that they SHOULD BE SELLING ANYWAY!!!

(last year I got a nice Stooges single of "1969" with pic sleeve, right in NY)

Will I make it in time to get the nice Neu! 12" single?

Probnot.

maybe for some stores its the only day when they have any good stuff. hahahaha!

Is there any limit on how much of this stuff you're allowed to buy if you do turn up in time? I wd quite like the Pavement thing and the Neu! and Harmonia things, and maybe the Fall thing which I know a friend will want a copy of anyway, and and and. But it may look kind of vulgar to buy armfuls of it.

(There are like 60 Muse things which I will not be buying, however. Plus I've no idea how much they're going to jack up the prices for this stuff, don't really plan to spend more than a fiver on a single even if it is rare and fancy etc, esp not if I have the tracks already)

PS I hope to go and haven't been to a record shop in ages, but this is because I'm in the slightly weird situation of being in a city which doesn't have a record shop while a tiny market town an hour's bus ride away apparently still has one. Which I went to a couple of times and the content was mostly former Pop Idol contestants etc but I did get myself that Wire On The Box DVD cheap, presumably because most of its customers had no idea who Wire were.

Anyway I do keep meaning to go back but the bus ride costs as much as the postage to order records online and there's nothing else to do there so I've been lazy.

i wish i wasn't such a party pooper and cared about this thing. but i don't. every day is record store day! but i'm sure it is fun for people less misanthropic than me. and that's nice.

― scott seward, Monday, April 12, 2010 2:48 PM

We just act like it is a holiday and have a big store party, so it is pretty fun even though we are surrounded by records every day of our lives. Also, we make about ten times as much money that day as we do any other day, so it keeps our doors open.

I didn't participate last year because I think I had bought a huge amount of stuff like a week before and couldn't afford to do anything. This year I'm just going to get two 12"s I've passed on in the past since they'll be on sale. I've heard that it has reminded people of record shopping in the days before napster, etc. which is something I hope will be the case.

Looking forward to that Justin Beiber/Eyehategod split.

Is it true that the sonic youth starbucks compilation "hits are for squares" is going to get a 2xlp release?

Is there anything that anyone's particularly psyched for?

http://recordstoreday.com/Page/836

the 7" single by The Fall, and the Arthur Russell "Calling Out Of Context" reissue with extra tracks. other than that, not really.

I've only got one participating store I can hit up tomorrow because just about every retail place that sells cds either is a chain store (and F.Y.E.s are going under all over the place here), or closes at 7 pm. :/

I'm not seeing a Fall 7" on that list. Not Harmonia or Neu! releases. Is this another list I'm missing?

this = there

I think there are US and UK lists.

Is it true that the sonic youth starbucks compilation "hits are for squares" is going to get a 2xlp release?

y, along with Confusion Is Sex and EVOL on 180g vinyl.

UK "top" list:

RECORD STORE DAY RELEASES
Lily Allen - Back To The Start (limited edition vinyl)
The Beatles - Paperback Writer / Rain (7" vinyl)
Blur - Fool's Day (previously unreleased 7" vinyl)
The Flaming Lips - Dark Side Of The Moon (coloured vinyl with free CD)
Goldfrapp - Head First (cassette)
Jimi Hendrix - Live EP (7" vinyl)
MGMT - Siberian Breaks (coloured vinyl)
Pet Shop Boys - Love Life (previously unreleased 7" vinyl)
Stone Roses - TBC (individually numbered vinyl album with gold foil artwork)
Tinie Tempah - Pass Out (limited edition vinyl)
Paul Weller - Andromeda remixes (previously unreleased)