National Record Store Day

Scott what’s the latest

who me? i've been in the back all day pricing records and listening to Faith Hill and Mannequin Pussy. Maria is out front. we don't do the rsd stuff. its been a good day though. lots of people. plus, a guy came in with a few records to sell and i got that Dom Um Ramao record i needed on Muse! the S/T one. so, i'm happy with RSD. the Beatnuts came in for a minute. they wanted to know if we would be open tomorrow. they are playing two doors down tonight for a special 4/20 show.

"Romao". sorry. typing fast.

The one thing I kinda wanted was a cover of "You Can't Hide Love" (the Creative Source / Earth Wind & Fire song) but in Spanish (or was it Portuguese? I have an awful memory) - I heard it in passing on NTS and it sounded great, but I didn't catch the title or the artist. Anyone know it?? But also fuck queueing up to take part in that circus and double-fuck paying fifteen pounds or whatever for a seven inch.

I did go to a record store today though and got some secondhand Front 242 and a couple of cheap Dave Angel twelves.

oh shit I found it!! not Spanish or portuguese at all but... Swedish! (I think?). Apologies but I was hard at work when it came on the radio. Anyway, check it out...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHH5w9kN92A
Gitte & Inge - Ad Uf Beret

I want the Rain Parade reissue but not enough to do battle with long lines, twice-a-year record shoppers, and having to hear the sound of an alarm clock on a Saturday morning

i did see one thing i was interested in, the electrafixion lp. only wrong format.

the cd currently goes for about $1.99 in the states, or £20 in the uk

Record Store Day doesn't really intersect with my record-buying mindset--I'M CHEAP--so it was really by accident I was in a store today. I had planned this week on stopping by this Woodstock store I've mentioned before, but kept delaying till today. Good timing--they had a 20% discount on everything in the store.

$4 each after discount: This Is Jimmy Rodgers (double)
Spotlight on Nana Mouskouri (double--old Fontana label)
Porter Wagoner - Down Home Country (Accord, a budget label, but sealed)
Christ Stamey - It's Alright

$8 each after discount: Ron Wood & Ronnie Lane - Mahoney's Last Stand
Melanie - Ballroom Streets (double)
Newport Broadside: Topical Songs at the Newport Folk Festival 1963
The High Flying Beau-Marks (Canadian, Birchmount reissue)
Memphis Minnie - I Ain't No Bad Gal
Magna Carta - Seasons

Everything more or less mint. The Newport album, on Vanguard, begins and ends with Dylan duets, also has two Phil Ochs songs. Why Magna Carta?

Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!

The Chris Stamey album (which I've played twice and is quite good) was the best thing I found today--37 years old!

i usually participate if i'm home but was travelling this weekend. the only thing i was very keen to get was the Soundtracks & Head - Daga Daga Daga album but i am fairly sure demand for that one was low so i should be able to pick one up next week.

i love Magna Carta.

hey, i posted this on ILE. i should post it here in honor of record stores. and days. filled with records. which should be every day. god bless record stores. even the crappy ones. and may peace be with you. i love my store.

https://medium.com/@scottseward68/open-for-business-confessions-of-a-used-record-dealer-in-new-england-42985dbca372

Epic thanks

the Soundtracks & Head - Daga Daga Daga album

ah is that the one that's mentioned on the back of the Rain, Rain, Rain 12"? is this the first time that stuff's come out?

ILU skot

Yes, Nick. Has been in the vaults all this time (not sure why it didn’t come out originally).

iirc they ran out of money to mix the LP, got put on the backburner as they moved on to other things and eventually forgotten about

Thanks for the info!

of the two things I wanted this time around, one was UK only (nine horses, which I resorted to picking up on ebay this morning for a fair enough price) and kristin hersh, which was gone from shops by the time I got there yesterday. I did find one online from a shop this morning though. they really limited the pressing on this, though my guess is they'll do a black vinyl issue soon enough

oh i did want the novelty beatles turntable; i wonder what the value on that will be in a few years. utterly stupid thing, desireable only because of it's stupidity

Beatnuts in my house! Hell, they even took over my turntable.

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that's why i keep my place fully stocked. you never know who might show up.

awesome, love the Beatnuts <3

Satisfying moment

Do you have signed famous customer photos behind the counter?

Awesome!!!!!

\m/

WKIW

forgot about this one from a few years back

https://i.imgur.com/1Ei2GNW.jpeg

Any road up, what was the actual price of that Beatles turntable?

I don't want one, just intersted

$180 USD

https://www.deerparkdist.com/products/Record-Store-Day-Exclusive/The-BEATLES-limited-edition-RSD3-turntable.html#ad-image-0

holy shit skot!! legends

For something that's meant to represent what yr parents might have bought you for Christmas in 1964

ps thanks for the price sleeve

people are asking around $400 for that turntable on ebay now.

We had five of those Beatles turntables and sold them all in the first few minutes of opening.

The one that caught us off guard was the Chappell Roan 45. When the list came out, we hadn't heard of her, but as the day got closer it was clear we'd made a mistake in not ordering a ton of them. We had one copy and were then asked about it throughout the day. Currently being sold for about $200 on eBay.

A similar thing happened last year when we didn't realise how popular Laufey was becoming with her heart shaped vinyl. We were ready for her release this year though.

a big record store day ignorer / avoider here - but just saw on insta that the Radiophonic Workshop's Inventions for Radio was released as a 4CD (?!) box as a RSD exclusive. and of course there were plenty of copies left so I bought one online. this is my story.

wild to see all those Talking Heads live LPs on eBay for $80+...my store got a ton of them for $35 I think

So amazing to have Beatnuts in your store, Scott - if I ran a record store I'd give all hip-hop DJs/producers special discount for keeping the fire going. There's an ancient record store near us in Tottenham run by the same old Jamaican guy for decades, and while I was digging their crates a few years back this young DJ came in the shop. She was clearly a regularly and had a long chat with the owner about what she'd been playing out recently, and if he had anything new in (though everything there is second hand) that she might be interested in, and I felt really honoured to have eavesdropped on a chat between two solid true believers. I picked up a copy of Pointer Sisters' We're Having A Party (because Sugar Bring Your Sweet Stuff Home To Me is the best song Stevie Wonder ever gifted to someone else) and he regaled me with a long spiel about the rare groove scene of the 80s and how there was a cut on that record that made everyone lose it back in the day.

In short, I love record shops.

i was going to do my usual rsd ignore till i saw the gene clark tip-off above! eased my concience by picking up a couple of cheapo 2nd hand finds in addition.

I managed to score the screaming trees rsd US only album at a very decent price online (plus shipping from the us which is $22 pretty much the same as the LP) but sadly the live LP i couldnt get last year at a decent price which got a reissue this year is online for silly money.

I saw that Trees demos LP listed prereleae on Juno.com for £60 or so last week - hoping that was a mistake as I would love a copy. Have given up on the live album, which I read was plagued with pressing issues.

has the 2024 version got issues?

There's reviews on here (https://www.discogs.com/master/3409429-Screaming-Trees-Wrong-Turn-To-Jahannam-Live-From-Egg-Studio-1991) that suggest the issues are on the 2024 pressing (but also those who say their pressing is strong) (classic discogs.com review situation).

SST is repressing the older albums too this year, for which I'm guessing Gary Lee won't see a penny, but those records are definitely great.

I have all the older ones on vinyl that i got early 90s except for Clairvoyance. Oh and I just have the Anthology CD.

Anthology is such a fantastic comp, and it breaks my heart I gave my vinyl copy of that away to an ex a couple of decades ago.

it is but i never listen to it as i have the albums

Spent the day DJing at a newer store in my area where the owner didn’t manage to get any RSD product, not out of any principled stand but because the shop is new enough that he just didn’t get to it in time. Instead he did the thing where he put out a bunch of boxes of really primo used stuff that he’d been saving for the day, plus a bunch of crates of $0.50 records on the sidewalk that were actually decent-enough classic rock, and people still went wild, customers waiting outside in the morning and coming through all day, buying huge stacks, hanging out, great vibes all around. That’s my favorite version of Record Store Day, when it feels more like a community event – the store felt like an oasis from the kinda-hostile, anxious, stressful vibes of the other RSD-focused stores in the area. He probably made 75% of the money he would have made if he’d carried official RSD stuff, but also had 0% of the stress, and also it seemed like a lot of the people who came out will be back as actual normal customers in the future, rather than flippers who just show up once a year. I was trying to convince the owner to do it like this every year and I think the idea definitely appealed to him.

I think it's totally fine for stores to participate or not, some need it and some don't. It is a drag overall, the releases are kind of lame and the prices are wild but I worked it for the first time after managing to avoid being on that day for years and people were much nicer and chiller than expected. And we got a lot of kids coming in for stuff which is always fun because they are just supper enthusiastic and sweet (though of course two chud hunting 50 yr old dudes were first in line).

Maybe I'm nut but store hoarding super good used shit to put out on RSD (even posting for weeks in advance what they are holding back until that day) annoys me as much if not more than RSD. Just put it out! What about the people that come in your store every week? Why encourage the mad rush? IDK I'm probably being a crank because I'm in stores all the time and hope that I'm seeing the best stuff a store has to put out at any given time. Who knows.

my local shop i posted about upthread who were not participating were nice and busy on the day, picked up a copy of songs for drella

and what does a beatnut buy on the day after RSD in the woods of western mass? we have stickers on our discogs stuff and maria left them for me so that i could see some of the stuff they got. it was my day off!

colon/blades - siempra
drums of haiti
talking heads - road to nowhere 12-inch
goofus five 1926-1927 comp
home movies ost - pino donaggio
stevie wonder - for once in my life swedish p/s 7-inch
talking heads - the lady don't mind 12-inch
theresa lindsey - gotta find a way 7-inch
john dankworth - movies 'n me comp (a killer break on there....)
kung fu soundtrack - jim helms
sister nancy - one two
lo jai - acrobates et musiciens
hurricane polymar ost
los corraleros - nuevo ritmo! (1966 columbian cumbia)

want that Sister Nancy album

for the first time ever, i went to my local store and bought nothing. one RSD release i might've bought but they didn't get it, nothing else on the list appealed to me in the slightest, and my store has raised prices since an ownership change. you can't find a more "i don't care, i'll pay more to support my store / i refuse to use Amazon and streaming services" than i am, but i just felt bummed out and left.

why is the Andre 3000 flute album $85? is there a decent reason for that? or is it less than that at most places?

that's a few dollars more than it is at most places and about 10-15 dollars more than Amazon, but it is a 3 LP set.