National Record Store Day

http://www.laweekly.com/2009-04-16/music/celebrating-national-record-store-day-employees-at-the-houses-of-the-holy/

National Record Store Day is April 18, and its stated goal is not only to bring to light the glorious nature of the brick-and-mortar retail experience but also to illustrate why neighborhood record stores’ vitality is good for the community — and one of the last, best refuges from the doldrums of corporate sonic homogeny. Even Coachella, which celebrates the live-music experience, is honoring its recorded-music allies; its on-site shop is being operated in conjunction with National Record Store Day

sorry if this has been posted elsewhere as i couldn't find it.

i'm going to do my best to get Amoeba tomorrow!

*taken from somewhere else but i think it is true:

So official Record Store Day is Saturday April 18 and there are some really cool releases coming out for it:

Akron/Family "Everyone is Guilty" 7" first single from new album; unreleased b-side
Arthur Russell "Love Is Taking Me" 2LP 2LP (RSD exclusive)
Bad Religion Original EP 7" reissue colored vinyl; 6 tracks from 1981
Ben Harper 10" "Shimmer and Shine"/"Spanish Red Wine" B-side, "Spanish Red Wine" is unreleased
Black Kids Wizard of Ahhhs 10" first time on physical format
Black Moth Super Rainbow Born on a Day 7" Two tracks from the forthcoming studio recorded album, Eating Us
Blitzen Trapper "War is Placebo/Booksmart" 7" - two exclusive tracks w/die cut sleeve
Bob Dylan 7"--"Dreaming of You"/"Down Along the Cove" tracks recorded live at Bonnaroo; packaged in clear sleeve with 3x5 photo
Booker T "Warped Sister/Reunion Time" 7" 7"
Brandi Carlile 7" single "Downpour"/"A Promise To Keep" “Downpour” is the live track recorded in Boston
Bruce Springsteen 7" "What Love Can Do"/"A Night With The Jersey Devil" packaged in clear sleeve with 3x5 photo
Camera Obscura "French Navy" 7" 7" (RSD exclusive)
Cold War Kids Live at Fingerprints Live at Fingerprints 5 song EP
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Deja Vu Live 2LP Companion vinyl to the DVD
Cursive/Ladyfinger Split 10" picture disc four songs, two unreleased and two new
Dandy Warhols Remix CD #2
Death Cab For Cutie T-Shirt exclusive design for Record Store Day
Dead Weather Hang You From the Heavens 7" Jack White's new band! The debut release from both the Dead Weather and Third Man Records
Def Jam 25: Volume 1 and 2 4 LP gatefold history of Def Jam, only physical version of this piece is for indies 4 LP gatefold history of Def Jam, only physical version of this piece is for indies
Depeche Mode 7" "Wrong"/"Oh Well" 7"
Derek Trucks Already Live EP five previously unreleased live tracks from the 2008 tour
Dr. Dog/Floating Action Split 7" 7" - exclusive
El Grupo Nuevo de Omar Rodriguez Lopez “Cryptomnesia” Limited Edition Vinyl for RSD (3,000 pieces)
Elvis Costello* "Complicated Shadows"/"Dirty Rotten Shame" picture disc "Dirty Rotten Shame" is exclusive track--previously unreleased
Elvis Perkins "Lorraine Lookout" 7" two tracks, one unreleased
Flaming Lips/Black Keys split 7" "Borderline"/"Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles" 7" Borderline/Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles
Flight of the Conchords "Pencils In The Wind"/"Albi The" 7" - two exclusive tracks w/die cut sleeve
Gaslight Anthem Live from Park Ave 10" Live from Park Ave 10" - 6 tracks
Grateful Dead T-Shirt exclusive design for Record Store Day
Grizzly Bears Live on KCRW 7" two tracks, "While You Wait For The Others"/"He Hit Me"
Gomez Airstream Driver 7" non-album b side
Guided By Voices Hold On Hope LP Three bonus tracks
Heaven & Hell 7" "Bible Black" / Neon Knights (Live) Created exclusively for Record Store Day
Iron and Wine Norfolk 6-20-05 Live 18 track CD recorded on the Woman King tour
Jane's Addiction 7" "Mountain Song" / "Standing in the Shower…Thinking" 7" Mtn. Song/Standing In The Shower- Packaged in original replica picture sleeve
Jason Mraz T-Shirt exclusive design for Record Store Day
Jenny Lewis/Elvis Costello 7" --"Carpet Baggers"/"Go Away" Never before available in the US
Jesus Lizard 9 x 7" pack A pack of nine 7"s
Leonard Cohen 7" "The Future/"Suzanne" tracks recorded live in London, packaged in clear sleeve with 3x5 photo
Loney Dear/Andrew Bird 7" split 7" 7" - hand-silk screened covers; tour & mail order item
Lykke Li/El Perro Del Mar 7" "After Laughter (Comes Tears)" / "At Your Best (You are Love)" Made exclusively for Record Store Day featuring two unreleased cover songs.
Magnolia Electric Co, "It's Made Me Cry" 7" Jason Molina's first 7" in years
Mastodon T-Shirt exclusive design for Record Store Day
MC 5 7" "Kick Out The Jams"/"Motor City Is Burning" Packaged in the original rare picture sleeve, first time available since 1969
Metric "Help I'm Alive" 7" Picture disc "Help I'm Alive"/"Help I'm A B-Side"
Misfits Walk Among Us LP Pressed on 140 gram vinyl
Modest Mouse* 7" --"Satelite Skin"/"Guilty Cocker Spaniels" both tracks are brand new
My Morning Jacket - Celebración De La Ciudad Natal Celebracion De La Ciudad Natal CD & 2 x 10" Vinyl - 4-14 Street, Vinyl one time shot. Recorded LIVE in LOUISVILLE (at Ear X-tacy, and Waterfront Park), includes classic tracks and selections from the band's most recent GRAMMY nominated album EVIL URGES. PLEASE NOTE: double 10 inch will be a limited edition, ONE TIME pressing - We shall manufacture only what is ordered. Once it’s gone, it’s gone folks.
New Order 7" (live) "Temptation" / "Hurt" - as and A&B side.
Neil Young Sugar Mountain Live at Canterbury House 1968 2LP The special vinyl package
Oasis Falling Down Remix LP Falling Down Remix LP
Obits "I Can't Lose/Military Madness" 7" 7" - two exclusive tracks w/die cut sleeve
Paramore T-Shirt exclusive design for Record Store Day
Pavement "Live in Germany 1988" LP unreleased show from 1988
Poison The Well Six track CD 6 track CD, taken from 2 7" singles that the band sells on the road, and an upcoming 7" single that will be out later this spring
Pretenders "Break Up The Pavement"/Love's…" 7" 7" - one unrelased track, and track from new album on red vinyl
Queen EP Queen's First EP Limited Edition, Numbered CD for the first time in the US
Radiohead 10" vinyl series (see list of titles in NOTES) THESE ARE BEING RELEASED EARLY FOR RSD: Drill, Creep, My Iron Lung, High & Dry, Fake Plastic Trees, Just, Street Spirit, Paranoid Android, Karma Police, No Surprises, Pyramid Song, 2+2=5
Regina Spektor Begin to Hope LP with two tracks never before available on CD or vinyl
Rivers Cuomo Live @ Fingerprints CD and CD/DVD Combo Live @ Fingerprints CD and CD/DVD Combo
Russian Circles/These Arms Are Snakes Split !2 Previously Unreleased songs on Clear Vinyl (1,000 pieces)
Silversun Pickups Pikul 12" exclusive release ahead of their new album
Slayer 7" single "Psychopathy Red" packaged in special X-Files-style, "confidential" packaging
Sonic Youth/Beck split 7" split 7" (RSD exclusive)
Sonic Youth/Jay Reatard split 7" split 7" (RSD exclusive)
Sublime "Superstar Punani"/April 29, 1992" 7" 7" single with 2 live tracks, first time on vinyl
Taking Back Sunday 7" "Carpathia/Catholic" (live) 7" Carpathia/Catholic (live)
Talking Heads 77 LP (reissue) Pressed on 180 gram vinyl
The Color Fred The Intervention CD EP six acoustic tracks--four new
The Decemberists 7" "The Rake's Song"/"East India Lanes" B-side, "East India Lanes" is unreleased
The Smiths 7" "The Headmaster Ritual" /"Oscillate Widly" Never before available in the US as a 7" single.
The Stooges 7" "1969"/"Real Cool Time" Packaged in the original rare picture sleeve
Thermals/Thao Get Down Stay Down split 7" split 7" Get Down Stay Down (4 tracks unreleased)
Tift Merritt Buckingham Solo CD recorded live at a church; Tift solo with piano and guitar
Tom Waits "Live from the Glitterdome" 7" 7" - live tracks from Atlanta & Edinburgh
Underoath T-Shirt exclusive design for Record Store Day
Various Artists--THIS LP CRASHES HARD DRIVES Super deluxe gatefold LP (Limited to only 1,500 copies) with exclusive tracks from 10 of the finest crate digging labels out there! Includes a mix of sampler cd's, zines, catalogs, stickers, and posters, from all of these fine labels.
1) Los Destellos - “Guajira Sicodelica” (Vampi Soul)
2) P.E. Hewitt Jazz Ensemble - “Bada Que Bash” (Now Again)
3) Group Doueh - “Waya Waya” (Sublime Frequencies)
4) Noor Jehan - “I Am Very Sorry” (Finders Keepers)
5) Hypnotic Brass Ensemble - “Marcus Garvey” (Honest Jon’s)
6) Pisces feat. Linda Bruner - “Sam” (Numero Group)
7) The Monks - “Pretty Suzanne” (Light In The Attic)
8) Myron & E with The Soul Investigators - “Cold Game” (Timmion)
9) John Heartsman & Circles - “Talking About My Baby” (Jazzman)
10) Naomi Shelton & The Gospel Queens - “What Is This” (Daptone)
Various artists Records Toreism LP tracks from Mountain Tortoise, Trans Am, White Hills, Double Dagger
Vetiver "Wishing Well"/"Pay No Mind" 7" 7" - two semi-exclusive non-album tracks w/diecut sleeve
Whiskeytown 7" single - San Atone b/w Great Divide (unreleased tracks) 7" single - San Atone b/w Great Divide (unreleased tracks)
Wilco Ashes of American Flags DVD DVD is released with an exclusive window of two weeks for indie stores and mail order
Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs It’s Blitz LP vinyl version of forthcoming Yeah Yeah Yeahs CD

ok last post from me on this:

Here are are confirmed signings for the National Record Store Day Booth at Coachella....

Friday:
Ting Tings
The Airborne Toxic Event
NASA
Noah And The Whale
White Lies
Los Capesinos
Silversun Pickups
Dear and The Headlights
Junior Boys
Aggrolites
Franz Ferdinand
Steve Aoki
Cage The Elephant
Peanut Butter Wolf
Buraka Som Sistema

Saturday:
Atmosphere
Booker T
Bob Mould
James Morrison
Amanda Palmer
Mastodon
Glas Vegas
Junior Boys
Blitzen Trapper
Zizek Club
Ida Maria
Electric Touch
Superchunk

Sunday:
The Knux
Late of The Pier
The Kills
Peter Bjorn And John
The Mexican Inst. Of Sound
Knan
Friendly Fires
The Gaslight Anthem
No Age
Fucked Up
Clipse

this whole "event" is a crock. EVERY DAY is record store day.

Tomorrow at work we're gonna have a BBQ, give people 10% off, and free $0.50 records with purchase of other merchandise. also, we will have maybe just a few of the record store day exclusives--the matador & daptone jams, as well as the jesus lizard singles set.

what is the deal with these exclusives, are they really only available tomorrow?

i think they're available tomorrow and if they don't sell out will be available for a few days until they disappear? i don't think we're expected to return items that don't sell during the "event" tomorrow.

hmmm, thanks. I better go check that out. Monday is usually my record store day.

Are you going to have them in a special area of the store or will The Stooges, say, be thrown in with the rest of "S?"

Also, I heard that the New Order one won't be ready for tomorrow. True?

well, we didn't get everyhing that's available for the event--so i dont know abt the New Order release.

we'll have the few things we have displayed by the counter. we got a bunch of phone calls today looking for the springsteen release, but we will not have it :(

"free $0.50 records"

Wait which are they?

we have the New Order along with a couple other of these. we're technically celebrating it, but all it's gonna do is piss me off that these people need an excuse to go look at records.

records that would normally be 50c become free for the day. xp

pipecock, try to control your rage.

I can't imagine why people wouldn't want to hang around pipecock.

i try to be helpful and nice to people in the store :P

Well I'm glad your able to hide your contempt in front of them.

we talk shit quietly tho

I imagine your neckbeards muffle a lot of the snider remarks.

all 7 of them. the neckbeards that is.

I was planning to go to Sound Exchange in Houston, even though Cactus made it into the paper for the promotion.

I will buy a 45 or a 2dollar bin record and let them know they should be grateful for my contribution.

Or maybe I will spend 80 bucks on some cool shit.

I might do both.

I need one of my turntables fixed, and they do that.

Later on, after the fights are over, I will go on the other board I post and harass my friends to get off their ass.

also, Houston, library sale this weekend.

If you want any of this stuff, go NOW! I got to Waterloo Records two minutes before it opened and the line just started to wind around the building. Dude in front of me bought two of the Springsteen single. A gal walking by was carrying about ten (10!!) copies of THIS LP CRASHES HARD DRIVES. And so on. Still, I managed to get everything I wanted and then some (from three different stores):

Blitzen Trapper "War is Placebo/Booksmart" 7"
Slayer 7" single "Psychopathy Red" packaged in special X-Files-style, "confidential" packaging
Sonic Youth/Beck split 7" split 7" (RSD exclusive)
Sonic Youth/Jay Reatard split 7" split 7" (RSD exclusive)
Various Artists--THIS LP CRASHES HARD DRIVES
Various artists Records Toreism

Plus I got a mystery box of singles for $4.99 (20% cuz of NRSD), the new Marianne Faithfull, and Spellman's Four Lives in the Bebop Business.

The Neil Young and CSNY records are $65 a piece!!

(20% cuz of NRSD)

20% OFF...most;y crap and w/o sleeves but purchased in the spirit of the occasion.

I got the two SY 7"s which I basically assumed would be impossible to find even tho I asked for them in advance - so pretty pleased tbf

I decided not to bother with Record Store Day. I buy loads of records, in record stores, so I am not part of the problem.

I went into Rounder and Resident and Borderline in Brighton, but they were mostly oppressively full so I had to extricate myself. Also I had no money to spend. But yeah, good to see some interesting in-store stuff going on and people being reminded to use or lose.

I buy loads of records in thrift stores and garage sales, so maybe I am part of the problem. Usually they are way cheaper and more interesting in those places. But I'm still not partaking in this event today. Maybe that makes me lame. Independent stores deserve to survive, and I hope setting aside a special day for them pulls lots of young kids into the habit -- especially kids pointlessly addicted to getting music the day it comes out, a habit that has never made any sense to me. But braving the crowds seems silly. And I've never been somebody to buy records just because they're rare -- especially when they're created for the sole purpose of their rarity. Seems artificial to me somehow, and none of the records above strike me as all that inticing. (I thought something similar when baseball card companies got self-conscious about their collectibility, and it bugged me then, too. Not that it's especially anything new with record labels -- see also: SubPop Singles Club or whatever.) Anyway, more power to the stores -- whatever pulls in customers. I hope they all make tons of money. A friend of mine who runs a store in Philly said Record Store Day last year was his best day in years, and I hope this year he doesn't even better.

Just out of curiosity, though, what kind of exorbidant prices are those exclusive sucker-bait 7"s above going for?

I picked up the New Order and Stooges for $7.99 each, and the Camera Obscura for $6.99. This at Mad Platter in Riverside, CA.

Shit, they had the New Order? I just called Sonic Boom and Easy Street and neither of them have the New Order.

They must have had >10 there. I picked up the only Camera Obscura, tho.

yeah nobody here in Eugene has the New Order, they heard it was delayed.

I got both Sonic Youth singles for $5 each, the Def Jam 4LP for $15 (!!!), and then I also picked up a Kurt Vile LP on Mexican Summer since it was on sale. 12 bucks!

also got the Dengue Fever/Chicha Libre split single, 5 bucks as well.

if any kind soul wants to pick me up a copy of This LP Crashes Hard Drives I will reimburse you and sing your praises. Neither of my local stores had it.

Just saw the tracklisting for the Def Jam set, I may have to go back for it!

I got that big Black Sabbath box set for 35 bucks today at Newbury Comics in Cambridge...

^ which Newbury Comics? the Fresh Pond one's vinyl selection is pitiful. nothing for me to buy.

had a good time! my "home base" store Roadrunner was grilling out in back and had coolers of beer....couple hot dogs were great!

i didn't really go in for any of the crazy exclusive shit, most of that was already sold out anyway.

i did get the Arthur Russel "Love Is Overtaking Me" vinyl but I wanted that anyway. Didn't see the Def Jam thing or would have gotten that...The Sonic Youth/Reatard single is going to be crazy Ebay bait, so many dudes looking for that.

but I got some great used vinyl, good day:

Leo Koettke - 6 and 12 String Guitar (orig on Takoma)

Rod Stewart - The Rod Stewart Album

The Groundhogs - Who Will Save The World? (gatefold)

Gaunt - I Can See Your Mom From Here (only a buck!)

John Kongos - Kongos

on sale. 12 bucks!

Wow. I'm speechless.

(also the stores i went to were PACKED and everyone was having a lot of fun so i guess this day has worked out pretty well for them)

xxxpost Harvard Square

which was also packed, lots of vinyl flying off the shelves...

Some kids are losing their vinyl cherries today..

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3588/3453389766_caf408f709.jpg

I buy loads of records in thrift stores and garage sales, so maybe I am part of the problem. Usually they are way cheaper and more interesting in those places.

Yeah...kinda my problem too. Looking at the list up there, and, Arthur Russell apart there's not a whole lot i would want - it's all very white and young. Thing is, I'd bet it's guys like me that spend most on records now - middle aged, not all that interested in new stuff necessarily. What killed going to record stores for me was the CD - I just never got that excited about buying them, so when Vinyl started appearing in quantities in charity shops, and then on the 'bay, that's where my purchasing went.

Wow. I'm speechless.

it's $31 on eBay right now with 4 hours left, so I'd say that's a good deal. Enjoy your dollar records.

We had a really really great day at the shop I work at - loads of bands and artists playing all afternoon, loads of interest generated by the day itself and by the exclusive releases, most of which sold well. It was a wonderful party atmosphere and majorly busy all day long. Great fun and inspiring for our continued survival.

"Wow. I'm speechless."

Wow you are a dick.

Oh yeah, our 7''s were/are £3.99 for the most part.

did you get the jesus lizard thing in, alex?

Not yet. A bunch of things were delayed shipping so won't be with us until Monday (SY 7''s in particular). Not sure how many we'll get though, will have to wait and see...

if you do get the jesus lizard Inch in can you keep me one and PM me over on DFFD and i'll come in and get it?

I'll see what I can do, but no promises, I'm afraid. It's looking like, following Rough Trade's example, we could well be holding raffles for the really high demand items, as it's looking like we could only get a ridiculously small number (like 2 or 3 of each) and a hella lotta interest. I can put your name down for raffle entry for sure and will defn. keep you posted on how things pan out.

Yeah man that would be fine, thanks!

Kurt Vile LP on Mexican Summer since it was on sale. 12 bucks!

^^ love this record, and it's hard to find now so yeah.

also, we sold out of all the record store day exclusives within 45 minutes of opening. the only thing we have left is the Arthur Russell double LP (and it's great.)

also we had a bbq but all the food is gone--on to the beer drinking portion of the event...

'bout to head over to other music to wait in line for the Bill Callahan performance. Picked up the Records Toreism LP on Thrill Jockey along with the Pavement LP, the SY 7"s and the Akron/Family single earlier, too, and most of it is really good! I think the Records Toreism comp is probably the best of the lot, although the live Pavement album is really badass too.

I hear what xhuxk is saying. Collector bait is gross and a good half of the folks seemed to be grabbing at it for investment purposes (such as they are). But how else are the stores going to entice The People? Not with dollar records (now, penny records...). And is $12 really all that shocking?

The crowds were bad only at Waterloo but it's easy to wade through record geeks (and oh yeah, they had two copies of the New Order single).

Fwiw, I bought bands I love (and admire in the case of Slayer but the sleeve is nifty) and music I didn't already own. And I bought those various artist LPs for the accompanying zines as much as the music. Most of it was resistible, though. The Pitchfork review is hilarious cuz nothing is highly recommended.

Please tell me that child's first LP is NOT Vangelis ...

I just bought the Smiths single but the quality of the print on the sleeve is terrible.

i spent a hundred buxx today on records, but i bought them at an antique store.

i thought i might be able to open my little store by today, but real life intruded. the space we were in - that was pretty cheap - turned out to be too cheap. there are several cheap apartments above it, and one day some dude's toilet overflowed in his bathroom upstairs and it totally came raining down thru the ceiling into our store and on our stuff! ewwwww. luckily, there wasn't a ton of damage, but some records got wet and we promptly starting looking for another space. and we found a great one. right on main street. and it's bigger. and it has a huuuuuge DRY basement for storage. so, we are moving our stuff there at the end of this month. we feel like we dodged a bullet. our landlords at the old space didn't even care that toilet water had come raining down into our store. our new landlord is spending thousands of bucks renovating before we move in. we're excited.

Went to Music Saves in Cleveland, picked up the Pavement LP, the Sonic Youth 7"s, Camera Obscura, Jenny Lewis, and the Beastie's "Paul's Boutique" remaster on 180g vinyl, plus Black Keys and Blitzen Trapper for a friend of mine. Seemed like nobody there was buying the Jesus Lizard, but lots were buying the Stooges.

went to 1-2-3-4-GO! records in oakland, got the pavement LP (colored edition! 1/95 total! total luck.), the jesus lizard 7"s, the obits 7", the arthur russell LPs (on now, so good!), the sonik youth splits (both sonic youth songs are ehhh, jay r and beck sides are v v good). gf got camera obscura and a pavement LP, then we hit down at lulu's, i got charles manson's LIE, the kinks' VGPS, surfer rosa, and one of those golden triangle 7"s. then our friend's car broke down. :( then we walked into berkeley and hit half-price books, and i got god bless the kinks, some random 1987 sleeping bag records 12" for 25 cents, and a book abt african music by francis bebey.

great day!

sick haul.

seems like the Pavement thing was THEEE vaunted item of the day. everything else could pretty much be easily found, at least here in Chi-town. but, whoo, that Pavement LP --- the folks wanted that one!

also, LOL, Kevin wasn't kidding --- Neil Young 2LP for 63 bucks!! uh, no thanks!

I still dropped like 300 bucks ( to be fair this also included time at a RECORD FAIR, with DEALERS and so forth ... but also totally my indie shop peeps)

i think it's a pretty rad event. and xhuxk, c'mon man, be real.

fun day. arrived when the store opened, bought fever ray vinyl & jesus lizard singles, store owners saved me a jay reatard/SY and then gave it to me, received huge grab bag full of various samplers and singles they were giving out, played some music, ate a bunch of pizza, and hung out the rest of day w/ friends while various other local bands played. A+ day. also bought 10 albums in the 50 cent bin that looked semi-promising. heard the bjork album but only a couple tracks from the others

AMP - astralmoonbeamprojections (awesome cover, KRANKY records)
the juan mclean - give me every little thing 12" w/ a bunch of remixes
the curse of singapore sling
bjork - debut
be your own pet - s/t
the geraldine fibbers - butch
a-frames - black forest
the third eye foundation - ghost
the stills - oceans will rise
wharton tiers - brighter than life

Scriabin - Complete Etudes, Piers Lane
Twelve Songs by Charles Ives - Theo Bleckmann & Kneebody (arrangements w/ computers & a Rhodes, should be interesting)
Charles Ives - The Three Orchestral Sets
Conrad Schnitzler - Context
Max Morath plays The Best of Scott Joplin
Kick that Habit DVD - Sound Movie by Peter Liechti w/ Voice Crack

Ameoba was hoppin' today

Milton, man, I really want to see that Voice Crack thing .. was it discounted at all? I mean, I will surely buy it eventually .. just curious if there was a 'record store day' deal. The one time I saw Voice Crack remains one of those top 20 or 25 shows :)

what's the deal w/ the Joplin thing? He supposed to be a good interpreter?

$10 used promo copy but it's going for $16 new just about everywhere... I've seen it before, it is one amazing DVD, I envy you getting to actually see them

my favorite Joplin is the Rifkin because that's the one I grew up with, but I'm looking for other performances and the Morath was repped by a friend. it's aiming for period arrangements, piano banjo & guitar, more lively than Rifkin who plays him like spacey Bach I'm loving it so far.

okay, i'll post what i bought today here too:

carmen - fandangos in space (1974 - paramount)

john jacob niles - i wonder as i wander (carols and love songs) (tradition)

voivod - dimension hatross (1988 - noise)

incredible string band - hard rope & silken twine (1974 - reprise)

blue oyster cult - imaginos (1988 - cbs)

diva gray and oyster - hotel paradise (1979 - columbia)

crumbacher - incandescent (1985 - broken) (i couldn't resist. 80's xian synthpop!)

kracker - "kracker brand" (1973 - abc)

ayers rock - big red rock (1974 - a&m)

steel river - a better road (evolution)

jeanie greene - mary called jeanie greene (1971 - elektra)

100% whole wheat - s/t (1977 - avi)

raven - rock until you drop (1981 - neat)

richard & mimi farina - memories (vanguard) (totally minty replacement copy for my old copy)

rockin' foo - s/t (1971 - uni)

jamme - s/t (dunhill)

lalo schifrin - marquis de sade (verve)

sonoma - s/t (1973 - abc)

amazing blondel - england (1973 - island)

punch - s/t (a&m)

l.a. jets - s/t (1976 - rca)

creation - s/t (1974 - atco)

tom cora/david moss - cargo cult revival (1983 - rift)

dantzig twist - marquis de sade (1979 - emi)

carl oglesby - going to damascus (1971 - vanguard)

frost - early frost (1978 - vanguard)

marty thau presents 2x5 (1980 - red star) (red star comp. bloodless pharaohs, comateens, revelons, fleshtones, student teachers)

the bridge - the bridge in blue (1972 - buddah)

the rose of avalanche - always there (1986 - fire) (i really liked the song "velveteen" in 1986. the rest of tha album hasn't aged so well. or isn't as good, anyway.)

even though i didn't buy them in a record store.

i'm keeping that tom cora album. it's rad. the rest will be store stockkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk.

Magma - Attahk
Shinehead - Rough & Rugged
Sabbath - Heaven & Hell
Gaslight Anthem - Record Store Day exclusive live 10"
some japanese fusion band i've never heard of

i stopped by two of my local record stores today. i guess i got there too late for the best of the record store day stuff (i hit my first store around noon). honestly i was mostly reminded how dull the local stores are. stock always seems to be the same, half of the time i look for something offbeat (even a new release) they're unlikely to have it.

though granted i'm a bit jaded as far as record stores are concerned. if i could find a record store that carried lots of used congolese LPs, i'd be excited.

i guess i just live in a boring part of the country for records. :-(

bought mostly older stuff today... the newest album i picked up was tokyo police club's elephant shell (for $5.99). not that interested in most of the RSD "exclusives" but perhaps i'll poke around tomorrow and see if i can find the pavement thing.

This made me really angry about Rekid Store Day:

Established last year with the intention of celebrating the unique culture of independently owned record stores, the event has turned slightly political this year with the involvement of the Australian Music Retailers' Association. As Australia's larger chains such as JB Hi-Fi, Sanity and Virgin are aligned with the group, the AMRA was informed they could not participate with Record Store Day celebrations because the event is held specifically for indie stores.

Instead, AMRA have announced Record Store Day Australia will also be held this Saturday, which the indies argue diverts attention from their event.

As a result, most big chains and indies will host events over the weekend.

As my partner said - JB HiFi? EVERY day is record store day for them, they have tons of customers, they dont NEED any promotion!

So we have indie bands at the little stores... and Cheech and Chong at JB HiFi or someplace. I wish I was kidding.

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)

there are some gems in the US record store day releases,

hoping to snag a limited to 500 pressing of "The Yellow Princess" by John Fahey and maybe the Soft Machine 1971 live album

eh, where's the soft machine live album?

hmm...i may be mistaken there, i swear to god i saw something about a 71 live album by them that was unreleased.

am i dreaming about non-existent unreleased soft machine albums? i need counseling.

I think the Soft Machine thing is UK-only. There's a link upthread somewhere.

so it's unreleased? some of the early 70s live Soft Machine I have is super awesome.

somebody buy the fela ten inch and then, um, give it to me.

might pick up the arthur russell calling out of context if it's not too spendy

So that Fall 7" is UK only. :(

So I decided to check out the documentary I Need That Record - streaming on P4k right now & the opening shot is a pan of my hometown favorite shop, Encore Records in Ann Arbor, which was planning on stopping by tomorrow anyway! If u live in NYC, LA etc, I guess it is par for the course when that kind of stuff happens, but not so much out here in the rust belt.

so i'm dumb. where is the list of record-store-day (in USA) stuff? like, what might be available if you get there early?

honestly the record stores around here suck (ok, one is decent) so i'd only go if i could snatch up some interesting stuff.

list of USA stuff:

http://www.recordstoreday.com/page/836

yeah, it is kind of amazing/depressing how far I'd have to drive to get to an indie record store tomorrow. what in the heck.

Today, post your successes.

I don't understand why they don't do their best efforts to market the CD instead of marketing music on obsolete formats from the 80s or earlier. More than anything else, the existance of the record store depends on people's willingness to buy CDs rather than downloading mp3's.

Geir: CD sales are reducing in the face of downloads, although they are still good for all-encompassing 'collections' with books, box sets, etc.

LP format is becoming the 'hardback' to the mp3's paperback/pamphlet.

That's why.

Black Sabbath pic disc, Fall 7", Fela 10" here I come.

Flaming Lips in theory but the only copies in the country will (probably quite rightly) be in the hands of record store employees by now).

I find the 'massive 2LP plus CD and DVD and Book and etc' too big/cumbersome to have too many of them, but you know, etc...

i guess they figure the dorks who will come out for "record store day" will want to buy vinyl? vinyl seems more "collectable" somehow?

i actually agree with geir, it seems a bit silly to forgo limited-edition CDs altogether. hell, i'd probably buy something like that.

actually the whole limited-edition concept appeals to me not at all. kind of grosses me out. those vanguard LP reissues look nice, but i suspect they will have larger print runs eventually.

i'll probably skip record store day altogether. the stores around here need to do more to earn my business, anyway. selling the same used CDs that were on the shelves six years ago for the same cost isn't going to keep me coming around, sorry.

Rough Trade brick lane was mobbed.

It meant you couldn't really find anything.. picked up the Neu & amorphous releases but coujldnt see the Harmonia.

Good luck getting the Beatles/Blur/FLaming Lips though.

Man...

if anyone is in brooklyn today, I'm spinning rap from 1988, from 4pm to 6pm

http://i558.photobucket.com/albums/ss27/whineyg/flyer.jpg

Kill the shipping companies and distributors - even though my fave 'Permanent Records' in Chicago opened for RSD at midnight for two hours - they had very little of the 'heavy hitter exclusives' - dude pulling my items just kept sayin' 'never got it in' as we went down my request list ... bummer ... means I get to go to more stores today ...

was crazy this morning....got there about 10 minutes to 9AM and the line was out the door and down the block

thankfully, i was able to get in pretty quick and get EXACTLY what i was looking for:

John Fahey - The Yellow Princess

Soft Machine - Live at Heinie Onstad Art Centre 1971

Arthur Russell - Calling out of Context 2LP

surgical strike!!!

it's actually not too bad if you aren't looking for the limited stuff by Today's Hot Independent and Alternative Artists

kinda wanted the 69 Love Songs 10 inch box set but it was $90! too much for me.

saw ppl buying retarded shit though...a $7 45 of that awful new Hole song?

a "special edition" vinyl of Portishead Third which you can probably just walk into tons of stores and buy the one that came out like 2 years ago? duumb

I saw the Third boxset yesterday for about $15 off it's original price.

the vibe at my local record store was great, no queue, just a loose amorphous bundle of people waiting at the front door. the guys who run it came out ten minutes before they opened and gave us all candy.

picked up the mountain goats film by rian johnson, it's v. classy looking.

Music Saves in Cleveland opened at noon and had about 40 ppl in line. Store was quickly packed. I picked up:

Sonic Youth EVOL vinyl
Goldfrapp Head First vinyl
Deerhoof Apple O' vinyl
Ted Leo 7"
Superchunk 7"
Telekinesis 7"
Mountain Goats DVD

No one at my local store. All he boasted for the occasion was a Moby Grape live EP.

On the other hand I got a couple of OOP mid seventies Merle Haggard albums and Boz Scaggs' Middle Man for under ten bucks.

The other big indie store is giving away cupcakes and sodas, and No Age plays later tonight.

Picked up today:
Queens Of The Stone Age - Feel Good Hit Of The Summer 10"
Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica
Sonic Youth - Hits Are For Squares 2xLP
The Flaming Lips - The Dark Side Of The Moon
Peter Gabriel/Bon Iver - Split 7"
Rolling Stones - Plundered My Soul 7"
Soundgarden - Hunted Down 7"
Fela Kuti - S/T 10" (Bought two of these things!)
Sonic Youth - EVOL
Arthur Russell - Calling Out Of Context
LCD Soundsystem - Pow Pow 12"
V/A - Fragments 4AD Sampler

Couldn't make it in the end, plans had been made for me to be somewhere else w/o telling me. Sounds like the tiny smalltown record shop I was heading for would've had very few of the rarities I was interested in anyway, though I think they promised raffles and discounts so I'd hoped to check those out.

Would be interested to know how it went here - can understand big city shops being rammed, but round here? I'll see if I can find anyone who went to ask.

I saved nearly $14 today, hooray!

I went to my local record shop for the first time in about a year. There was a shit band playing and a load of old men filling the place up watching them. I couldn't move, couldn't look through the racks, and the RSD exclusives were all right at the front where the band was, where I couldn't get to. I stood there for 25 minutes waiting for the band to finish so I could, y'know, shop. but they didn't, so I walked out empty handed.

"I went to my local record shop for the first time in about a year."

R.I.P. local shop.

Yep, swung by the local shop this morning and couldn't even get in the door so I came away empty-handed as well. Ah well, I go there once or twice a week anyway so I'll continue to support them. Just not today, apparently.

I got Moon and Antarctica, but no EVOL, which is what I had hoped to find....
half a bummer, but still cool.

Man, some of the vinyl on sale was so expensive.

Got the M0untain G04ts DVD. The last copy I saw there. Awesome.

Totally want that Soft Machine thing, but not really into anything that is being released in the US, that since that isn't, well, crap. Kinda crossing my fingers for the store having some discount Nilsson available...

Reactionary Records is where I'm going, in East Atlanta. I've never been but my friends band is playing there (Facehugger) and I want to check it out. Atlanta has a good deal of local record stores; since Tower closed down, it's actually been more difficult to find a chain music shop. Closest you can get is Best Buy.

Got the Devo reissues and the new single - looked for the Goats DVD but no luck - all sold out instantly. Dammit.

Alice Cooper Life & Crimes box set, deluxe version of Atlantic Crossing and 2-CD Stylistics best-of, all for 40 bucks...not a bad haul, but not quite as good as last year, when I got the 8-CD Black Sabbath box for about 25 bucks...

Sooo I went to the place near me that came up on the RSD page which I had previously thought was a local version of a "Hard-Rock Cafe" type eatery (Bus St0p C4fe in P1tm4n NJ), BUT it turns out that they have a lot of vinyls there! At a %15 RSD Discount no less! I got:

Axe - Nemesis
Grim Reaper - Fear No Evil
Alice Cooper - Killer
The Lemon Pipers - Jungle Marmalade
Fania All-Stars - Rhythm Machine

fer like $35!

just went to another Newbury Comics. used CDs and DVDs were all 30% off. lots of people. some guy had an armful of stuff. didn't seem like there was a lot of Record Store Day-only stuff left though

maybe i was looking in the wrong place, but i doubt it

Skipping Record Store Day altogether, but I can be found in record stores at least 2-3x a week anyway -- I'm not the type that needs to be dragged there for ltd. ed. vinyl or anything. I'd rather not weather the crowds, it seems like shopping on Black Friday for music.

I did order the Devo CD reissue from Amazon for $10.99 -- think it's 3,000 copies or so?

Would pick up the Mtn Goats DVD if I had the will to go shopping. Will check Monday, and assuming it's all out of stock (likely) then I'll just pick up a used copy sometime in the coming years, when I happen to find it.

i skipped record store day too! i had to watch the kids all day so that maria could work (and also watch the store). someone sent me a record in the mail though. which is always nice.

I went to Phonica in London around 3pm. The Ltd edition stuff had mostly sold, not that I was keen for it. Then, I went to JB's on Hanway St. but couldn't decide so left empty handed. Apparently the dreadful Rough Trade East was busy.

Skipped it as always. I go once a week and don't really care for hordes of nerds.

skipped it by default because my car's radiator hose broke

purchased these on cassette (last year I bought a car that happened to have a tape deck & I have since been an amassing a substantial collection of second-hand tapes)

Megadeth - Peace Sells, But Who's Buying
Ice-T - OG: Original Gangster

record stores in brooklyn mobbed of course

trampled smaller shoppers to obtain:
Hendrix Live @Clark bootleg
B-Music/Finders Keepers comp
Arthur Russell Calling out of Context 2LP I think/hope this is the one I like
Surfer Blood split 7"
Fela 10"

threw back:
roky & okkevvil
black keys

wheres my?:
moby grape

not special to the day, just supportin the scene:
Numero 30 Good God Born Again Funk
M. Hurley - Hi Fi Snock Uptown
Insayngel (that one LP on Heavy Tapes, used)

snop snitchin, moby grapes sold out at our brooklyn store within half an hour of opening :(

(were you at my store today? say hi in the future?)

did all you guys buy Arthur Russell records?

i got one.

My local shop said that lots of stuff won't show up there until May (like the Beatles 7"). I snagged the DBT's 7".

I did not, I thought there was new stuff on it but it is the same as the 2LP/CD that already came out.

I went to like 4 places in Seattle (Wall Of Sound, Sonic Boom, Easy Street, Everyday Music). Got the Bitchin Bajas/Moon Duo split, the Fall 7", and a buncha other non-RSD things. Nowhere I went was mobbed but all the places were busy with lines at the registers.

I went to Hospital and bought the new Carlos Giffoni, Wolf Eyes and Burning Star Cores CDs and got a mountain of used shit at the zine fair for like $20.

Kind of funny that I only got CDs but oh well

ian, i want your eyewitness account of record store day in brooklyn. this is what nerds do when they go buck whylin'.

ppl so upset they didn't get their stones 45.
line outside the store when i showed up at 11:30, half an hour before opening.

The *legal* download of the Blur http://www.blur.co.uk/

did all you guys buy Arthur Russell records?

yeah, i got calling out of context.

also got the devo duty now reissue.

so i went, hit may fave shops -- didn't make, like "AN EFFORT" of this idea -- just figgered I'd hit the same shops I always hit every week or so. Check in with them and see how things were going.

Have to say, this particular "event" seemed WAY more over-subscribed than last year. Could barely even get in to the Reckless Records in the Loop in Chicago. It was completely wall-to-wall (and it's obviously just a small little hole-in-the-wall to begin with)

but I basically got every "exclusive" release I wanted, save for a couple: couldn't find the Moby Grape 7" anywhere, couldn't find the Rolling Stones 7" anywhere. :(

and every place I went said that they never even got any copies of the 'super secret' Beastie Boys 12", whatever the hell it was

this is crazy that I can't buy a friggin Moby Grape 7". aren't these kids supposed to be after TV on The Radio albums or something

Oh, my store had that one in stock. I ultimately put it down.

which one? Moby Grape? or Stones?

Moby Grape. I was very tempted.

We had the Grape, but we sold 'em quick :(

this is great, did anyone get this single?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeMjuwhTFws

Got
LCD Soundsystem 12"
Of Montreal 7"
Metallica/Sabbath pic disc
Dangermouse Sparklehorse 7"
Foals 7"
Cobalt Eater of Birds double vinyl

Watched a few bands. Caribou were amazing. Saw loads of mates. Handed out some Stool Pigeons. Got an Aladin Sane stripe painted on my bonce.

Didn't get:
Fall 7"
Fela Kuti 10"
Flaming Lips album

OK, now for "see how much it is on E-bay" week?

heard a rumor they're making things easier for next year's Record Store Day -- all you're gonna have to do is launch iTunes

limited edition mp3s

P4k has the documentary "I Need That Record!" up -- http://pitchfork.com/tv/#/episode/2144-i-need-that-record/1

it's "One Week Only" though -- no idea when they first posted it, either

Another documentary that may be worth a look is Alan Zweig's Vinyl: http://www.veoh.com/browse/videos/category/lifestyle_lifestyle/watch/v16951205N9H8Wagc

The funny thing is that I'm watching it today, and found that one of the guys interviewed in Vinyl is one of the guys I ran into at Record Store Day just yesterday. Know a few of the other characters in the movie too from my days wandering around the various stores in Toronto.

One of the record stores I stopped by said RSD was an enormous pain in the ass where you have to order all the "special" vinyl months in advance and then get don't get two-thirds of what you actually ordered

yeah at my fave local all the clerks were drinking

"i'm doing everything i can to make time elastic so that by the time i get out of here i will hardly remember the day"

yeah having customers for once is rough stuff.

It wasn't the store in NYC called "Good Records" or something right? They were drinking whiskey and listening to blues but they were having fun.

haha nah man they were happy to have the customers, it was just wall to wall all day and from a customer service standpoint i kinda get it

so, *does* anybody know what ended up on the Beastie Boys thing? was it just lame new stuff?

I didn't get into record store day because I was at the footy but I know I would have not got anything I was wanting anyway and would be a £4 train fare down.
Stupid idea to limit everything so much, no-one gets what they want and everything ends up on eBay, seriously, fuck this shit. I'll do my record shopping in my own time.

(im just pissed off as I knew there was no chance of getting that Soundgarden 7" or the Flaming Lips lp nevermind the Blur single)

The Blur single is fetching between £100 and £200 on ebay.

Beastie Boys should have repressed the "Rock Hard" EP as a limited 10".

tbh Mark, I woulda been happy just to get the Soundgarden 7". But I knew i wouldn't even get that. It was silly to have things so limited. Whats the point of getting in people, who regularly shop there anyway, to come in for a ltd ed record , not get it, so go home pissed off rather than buying something they can get anytime in it's place? They should make enough for all, not the scum who buy just to eBay it.

Our store had so much fun yesterday and I am suffering a hang over. We didn't get half the exclusives we ordered, but we generally just act like it is a party day. Great bands. Too many hotdogs. So much beer. Cops came but left us alone. Another successful year!

We have two extra Moby Grapes at the store right now, btw. Who wants 'em?

make that four, actually.

I went, although not particularly to buy anything limited edition, just cuz I'm always there. Took me about 30 minutes to get through the line, I got a free t-shirt and a free burrito coupon at Chipotle (which I didn't get around to using).

Ultimately one year there are going to be deaths when two skinheads fight over the limited edition Anal Cunt reunion 7"

nijolee, maybe post about the moby grapes on vinyl borad--i know stormy davis needs one

http://cgi.ebay.com/Beastie-Boys-White-Label-12-Record-Store-Day-exclusive_W0QQitemZ220591209127QQcmdZViewItemQQptZMusic_on_Vinyl?hash=item335c42baa7

hold steady thing is selling really well. 150 to 200 dollars. blur single is doing good too.

what is hold steady thing?

holy shit

http://cgi.ebay.com/The-Hold-Steady-Heaven-is-Whenever-12-Record-Store-Day_W0QQitemZ180495354765QQcmdZViewItemQQptZMusic_on_Vinyl?hash=item2a065c8b8d

wtf I saw all this stuff in multiple copies yesterday, I guess it must have all been bought.

maybe not the Beasties, Grape, or Stones, but definitely Blur and Hold Steady and Soundgarden.

We had another truly amazing Record Store Day. Sold ridiculous amounts of records, had bands playing & a general great fun party atmosphere. What larks! Happy times.

Definitely felt the after effects while manning the place today on my own though. I swear that even the actual shop had a hangover.

Did you have any Soundgarden,Blur or Flaming lips in? Did the staff get them All? I wouldnt have got any, would I?

Haw. I just called our store and Nate said the exact same thing. Morning after record store day is like tumbleweeds and crickets. Maybe he should tap into the leftover beer and hot dogs to give himself a kickstart. or start hoarding our leftover exclusives and considering Ebay (j/k).

pfunkboy - we have two of the flaming lips leftover...

ohhhh. How much is it? (im in the uk btw, will you post to Scotland?)

I will post wherever. It would be nice if it could be in the hands of a fellow ilxer that appreciates it. I will grab a copy when I am at the store tomorrow morning and let you know. k?

email me at heathernijoli on the g mail so I have your info

@pfunkboy

Yes we had the Soundgarden, Blur & Flaming Lips records.

No, the staff didn't get them all. One Flaming Lips LP went to staff, none of the others mentioned did at all.

If you'd actually got up & into town & queued up outside before the 9am opening then yes you would have got a Blur 7'' and a Flaming Lips LP. If you were amongst the first 10 people or so in the shop then you would have got a Soundgarden. Otherwise probably not. Getting people into the actual shop to spend money was pretty much the point of the day.

Same with us.

Our store owner only let us get ONE of the exclusives until the end of the day after our customers had their choice. We had to pick only one to hold and I got a Moby Grape.

Amazing that we had stuff left over tbh because we were SLAMMED.

I couldnt have got there by 9am unfortunately. It's not like I never come into your shop , You know I come in when I can.

Nijoli emailing you asap, thanks!

People who buy this stuff just to turn it around on eBay are disgusting savages

Unless I'm misunderstanding the Hold Steady thing, people are going to feel pretty foolish paying that much when the real album comes out next month.

People playing any Hold Steady should feel foolish.

If you happen to download that Blur single from the official site linked above, make sure you go for the WAV version. For some reason the mp3 one cuts out at 2:26.

People who buy this stuff just to turn it around on eBay are disgusting savages

― human centipeedi peedi (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, April 18, 2010 10:49 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Possibly, but what of the people who got lucky, then see it going for £200 and think "hmm, I can always 'tape' it" etc.

I dunno, it seems that EMI have managed to make it a promo opportunity for their three main acts (Blur, LilyAllen, The Beatles)

Here's my official record store day haul, btw
Total: $53

New CDs:
Wolf Eyes - Always Wrong
Carlos Giffoni - Severance
Burning Star Core - Inside The Shadow

Used CD:
The Dead C - Eusa Kills
Kyuss - Blues For The Red Sun
Hototogisiu - Some Blood Will Stick
WZT Hearts - Heatchief
Neil Hamburger - Raw Hamburger
Masters Of Reality - s/t
Pissed Jeans - Shallow
Valerie Soundtrack
Rapeman - Two Nuns And A Pack Mule

Totally want that Soft Machine thing, but not really into anything that is being released in the US, that since that isn't, well, crap. Kinda crossing my fingers for the store having some discount Nilsson available...

Reactionary Records is where I'm going, in East Atlanta. I've never been but my friends band is playing there (Facehugger) and I want to check it out. Atlanta has a good deal of local record stores; since Tower closed down, it's actually been more difficult to find a chain music shop. Closest you can get is Best Buy.

― Adam Bruneau, Saturday, April 17, 2010 7:30 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Adam,

I bought by copy right here in loverly South Minneapolis, so some of the Soft Machine LPs reached U.S. shores.

I have to say....

it is FUCKING AWESOME

the definition of some longhair crazies GOING EXTREMELY HARD

sound quality is amazing, as is the pressing...it's on some Norway label called Smalltown Super Jazz and pressed in Germany...

nice to pick up something actually cool and NICELY PRESSED on record store day, so much garbage quality vinyl being pressed nowadays

Damn that Soft Machine lp sounds great.

yeah i need it.

jah if you like "third" this is basically that era of the band going nuts live....pretty much veer everywhere from real ethereal psych to full out free jazz

Glad to hear that the vinyl sounds good, I have stopped buying new vinyl after getting burned by too many crackles and too much sibilance. The records are shiny and pretty but sound like crap.

there's a lot of great new pressed vinyl, you just have to be careful/choosy....

RTI presses great stuff, they usually have a sticker that says "HQ 180 Gram" (silver round sticker) they do matador stuff and some of the warners reissues (like the van morrison stuff)

the capital reissue series stuff is really good

Used CD:
Kyuss - Blues For The Red Sun

Seriously cannot believe you don't own this already, Mr. Melvins/stoner rock fanatic.

Awesome choice, whiney

I went to Jumbo in Leeds around midday - got the self-titled Squirrel Bait EP and the reissue of Gray Matter's Take It Back, didn't particularly have my eye on any of the limited edition stuff. Good to see the place so busy, lots of people buying interesting-looking things, hope people go back soon.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2010/04/on-the-charts-record-store-day-is-more-important-than-christmas.html

The increase in foot traffic was reflected in Nielsen SoundScan's weekly charts. Muratore said SoundScan tabulated 573,000 sales at indie outlets this week, compared with 568,000 during the week of Record Store Day in 2009. While no album sold more than 100,000 copies this week, overall album sales were up 3%, and chain outlets saw a 7% gain, said Muratore.

The overall week-to-week gain in album sales could lead one to conclude that Record Store Day is fueling sales at all music retailers, even those not stocked with exclusive content. The sales promotion has become such a nationally recognized event that it was even referenced on "Saturday Night Live."

"It’s just too bad this kind of thing can’t happen all the time, where you get people really excited to go to physical stores and pore over records," said Billboard's chart guru, Keith Caulfield.

"Record Store Decade!"

"It’s just too bad this kind of thing can’t happen all the time, where you get people really excited to go to physical stores and pore over records," said Billboard's chart guru, Keith Caulfield.
― Bee OK, Wednesday, April 21, 2010 10:29 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

oh man, the pathos of that quote.

Only things I was really excited about were the Fela and Fahey records, neither of which I managed to find. Then again, I didn't try all that hard. Did pick up a Trouble In Mind 7" covers comp w Ty Segall doing Seger + Cococoma the Wipers, plus a Happy Birthday (ex-King Tuff) single I haven't listened to yet. Eh. At least it was cheap.

i managed to get that arthur russell thing, only other stuff left that i was interested in were some of those vanguard reissues, but they seemed overpriced at $25 ea.

P4k has the documentary "I Need That Record!" up -- http://pitchfork.com/tv/#/episode/2144-i-need-that-record/1

it's "One Week Only" though -- no idea when they first posted it, either

Checking this out now.

"No one at Target will recommend Hawkwind's Space Ritual Live to you. But I will recommend Hawkwind's Spa... Space Ritual Live to you... Space is deep."

it's so sad that they can't do this more than once a year. would be so great if record companies could release cool exclusives every week, like maybe on Tuesdays. or even do a special 're-release' if one of them ever sells out its pressing. dare to dream.

whens nat'l mp3 day

poor trash. brings a tear to my eye. too many memories to count. those are my people.

Xdanburyhardcore4everX

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2099/2129767550_ba73520b50_o.jpg

i was gonna say -- isn't the guy all the way on the right and the woman second from left in the foreground from the documentary?

those were my peeps. i've known them since i was 16. and i'm 41 now.

that's awesome! -- that guy was one of my favorite people in the documentary

Loving all the hair in that pic.

my gf won the record store drawing and grabbed that fela lp for me! good shit.

it's so sad that they can't do this more than once a year. would be so great if record companies could release cool exclusives every week, like maybe on Tuesdays. or even do a special 're-release' if one of them ever sells out its pressing. dare to dream.

There was a program last summer called "Vinyl Saturday", where one Saturday a month was packed w/exclusives ala RSD. I don't think it even lasted the whole summer.

did anyone get the fall 7 inch?

yeah I did, nice B-side that someone wrote about in fair detail on the new LP thread.

this was my favorite part from that article:

Yet one of the most sought-after Record Store Day titles wasn't even released in the U.S. -- a new single from long dormant Brit-pop band Blur. The act's "Fool's Day" was limited to 1,000 copies, and exclusive to U.K. outlets. It's also going for more than $100 on eBay.

"Every one asked for Blur," Levin noted. His Atlanta store had more than 200 people in line by 9 a.m., he said, and he bested last year's sales total by 4 p.m. Levin said participating stores had been instructed not to sell the items on eBay or in advance of the event. Those that did, he said, "are done," and will not be allowed to participate next year.

record store day 2011 DO WANT

kate bush hounds of love 10" audio fidelity
fahey requia vanguard
of montreal the past is a grotesque animal polyvinyl
black angels another nice pair light in the attic
beach boys good vibrations / heroes and villains capital

full listing: http://download.recordstoreday.com/free/RSD_2011_RELEASES.pdf

how hard is it to get the stuff u want on this day?

i want the wild nothing/beach fossils split tribute to the wake

god, i thought my store was somewhat on top of shit this RSD but i think the only thinks we'll have of the above are the of montreal & black angels...

i couldn't find ANYWHERE to get the sandy denny 7" from :( :((

otoh, Sundazed are doing a mono reissue of the international subarmarine band lp.

Lol that the only thing want is the gaga picture disc

Not much in that list that I want, except maybe the Fela Kuti

I want the Big Star record and would like to know more about what that Bad Brains single is, cuz afaik the original version has never been repressed.

Was kinda interested in the Grateful Dead 1st album mono reissue, but too expensive even with a discount.

What's the difference between the two Black Angels releases? I just woke up from a long nap, but it sounds like they're both the same material?

Audio Fidelity, the US company that remastered Kate’s Hounds of Love album last year (in a popular gatefold vinyl edition) is releasing a limited edition 4-track 10″ vinyl Hounds of Love EP, with tracks chosen by Kate, on April 16th. Pressed on pink vinyl, Side 1 features The Big Sky and Cloudbusting and Side 2 features Watching You Without Me and Jig of Life. Audio Fidelity tell me that Kate also personally selected the cover art. Click on the image to go to the Audio Fidelity site for more info. This release is to coincide with Record Store Day 2011. Support your local independent record shop!

also:

In 1979, the Bad Brains left for New York City. In December, the band recorded a debut 45 on their own label ("Pay To Cum" b/w "Stay Close To Me"), which was later included on the widely distributed Let Them Eat Jellybeans compilation LP. The first pressing of the "Pay To Cum" 7in. lists two separate Maryland addresses (one on the label, a different "Fan Club" address on the sleeve) indicating that the ties to DC weren't completely severed. The band would later repress the single in New York City and issue it without a picture sleeve (red & tan labels instead of the brown & white of the first pressing).

ARP then the queen 7" then the GaGa 12"

last year I found that getting your list sorted the day before, then splitting up with a few friends to cover different shops was the best way.

It was packed in Rough Trade, so you were better grabbing and going. not really the place for umming & ahhing.

any clue on how much the flaming lips box set is gonna cost?

Apparently the set(s) will cost around €125

There's a col vinyl version going to be available on their own website.

damn, how did i not recognize "behind the mask" on michael??

i would love a copy of that shuggie otis; the boot repress that's out these days sounds terrible.

i REALLY want the big star!!!! how do i get it??

any idea what happened to the clear vinyl version of Tomboy or the 45RPM version of Rumours?

found some sites that have preorders for rumours but 45bux is not worth it imo

i'm thinking that next year i will sign up for this and get as much stuff as i can and be closed all day and spend my record store day putting all this stuff up on ebay.

i've never actually SEEN any RSD stuff. i've never gone to a store that participated.

I near swear my local record shop just HAD their Nat'l Record Day back in October... anyone know what other events could've possibly of happened? I didn't actually attend the thing, hence why I'm not so sure it was NRD.

i've never actually SEEN any RSD stuff. i've never gone to a store that participated.

We've still got crap left over from last year. Just finally sold the last couple of Doors mono LPs.

wait, you work in a record store now? i did not know that...

kelpolaris, there was an exxxxtra 'black friday' record store day promotion this year. our store did not participate.

wait, you work in a record store now? i did not know that...

Yeah, past six months or so. It's pretty cool!

Looney Tunes of West Babylon, NY Offering Over 250+ Exclusive CD and LP Releases, Special Band Performances and Free Giveaways/Contests in Celebration of Record Store Day 2011

Nationally-recognized music store LOONEY TUNES is pleased to participate in Record Store Day on Saturday, April 16th, 2011. LOONEY TUNES is located at 31 Brookvale Avenue in West Babylon, NY and will be open on April 16th from 10am-9pm ET. Special VIP members will be permitted to enter the store at 9am. If you are not a LOONEY TUNES VIP member already, you can become one by heading to this link.

LOONEY TUNES will be offering many special deals including over 250 exclusive CD and LP releases, several band performances, free contests and giveaways and much more! Beer will be served at the store by Brickhouse Brewery of Patchogue, NY. Make sure to head to this link to check up on band performance line-ups and exclusive titles being added every day! There you can download a file of all of the titles available with estimated prices. Any product left over after 9:05pm on April 16th will be posted for sale on the website immediately.

Band performances will begin at 2pm on April 16th and as of now will feature Hotel of the Laughing Tree, Tiger Riot, Grace Read, Alex Skolnick, Thursday, and Kevin Devine. All performances are free except for Thursday and Kevin Devine which will require the purchase of merchandise/music by the artist. In addition, Alex Skolnick will be giving a guitar clinic and signing copies of his new release, Veritas, and Thursday will be offering an autograph signing of No Devolucion to pre-order purchasers through LOONEY TUNES.

gonna try and grab this one too http://clean-cut.org/art/album-art-spotlight-fucked-up-town-comp/

There's a 12" split with Puffy Areolas & Purling Hiss that I need more than any of the others.

ian, why wouldn't Academy Records want to participate in every record store day? Such good business for the store on those days.

I believe my record store of choice snagged me a Big Star. Very excited!

super pumped for the pink Kate Bush release. Kinda flakey in regards of providing much anything new besides packaging, but shit I really need more 10"'s besides Kid A

evan, to be honest we weren't aware of it until a week or so beforehand when people came in asking if we were participating. we're kind of asleep at the wheel sometimes...

Oh OK thats a good reason!

I go to my local record store at least once a month (for CDs). I've never been during RSD though. Seems like all of the cool stuff is vinyl-related, which doesn't work for me.

Some of it has been CDs in the past.

There's a 12" split with Puffy Areolas & Purling Hiss that I need more than any of the others.

Aaahhh this sounds awesome but I am pretty sure my local shop will not be getting this one! In fact I'm guessing whatever they get will be some shitty British landfill indie, 2 copies each, gone by 9:15am.

(Tho I don't think I've actually put any vinyl on since I moved here almost 2 years ago, so, I suppose it could find a better home to go to)

Seems like all of the cool stuff is vinyl-related, which doesn't work for me.

works fine for me, i dont have to worry about spending too much $$$

super pumped for the pink Kate Bush release. Kinda flakey in regards of providing much anything new besides packaging, but shit I really need more 10"'s besides Kid A

Get the self-titled Slint EP

^I will! just based off the cover-art alone, which I insta-love (never delved into the band too much aside from Spiderland)

We need another holiday before Memorial Day. Let's all take Monday the 18th off to listen to our choons... http://www.fastnbulbous.com/record-store-day.htm

discordance axis!

How did I never know you were in Chicago before?

(xpost)

I live just a block from Metro! I make Chicago references now and then. I might have even emailed to see if you were going to some show a while back.

that foo fighters record on your list is surely a mistake?

I live just a block from Metro! I make Chicago references now and then. I might have even emailed to see if you were going to some show a while back.

Yeah, you did email me! My ilx is still tied to an old email address I hardly ever check, so I didn't even see it until like a month after you sent it... and by that point I felt stupid to even write you back.

I think the only thing I REALLY want this year is the Wild Flag 7", but I pretty much hate going into local stores on Record Store Day because they are so crowded with people that aren't really into shopping and not fun at all to browse in. I think I feel about these days kinda like hardcore drinkers must feel about amateur night on NYE.

Don't get me wrong, I'm glad these days exist to give shops a shot in the arm to help stay afloat, but they just are more of a chore than anything else.

http://www.allgervais.com/images/karlHead.jpg

What does he have to do with Record Store Day?

haha, more with your post = incapable of pleasure, dislikes holidays, dislikes going out, dislikes festivities, dislikes crowds,etc..

(karl pilkington fyi)

i know what you mean tho, i absolutely cannot bear places like shopping malls and such

I pretty much hate going into local stores on Record Store Day because they are so crowded with people that aren't really into shopping and not fun at all to browse in

otm- i do plenty of record shopping several times a week, but make it a point to avoid going out on RSD

I just like to encourage the normal folk to at least go once this damn year, and sure, buy that Foo Fighters. I haven't liked their stuff, but Grohl does promise it'll be "bitchin'" and as good as Back In Black, The Black Album and Nevermind, so who am I to say otherwise!

I can sympathize w/ the distaste for crowds but w/ such a concentrated group of ppl in one place w/ one interest it really, I think, makes for good fare. It's fun being able to meet other ppl & talk about what they just copped or whatever such (everyone's enthusiasm is just BRIMMING on RSD). Crowds are much less fun on Xmas day at say, Target, or so (obviously) as it's just a clusterfuck of married couples, but RSD I almost equate to going to something like a city-wide concert... just a lot of dudes real passionate about what they're buying.

If that was my experience I might actually enjoy it more. Instead I only run into those rude, pushy people only there for that one particular 7" and get all aggro when they can't get it.

i reckon this is a cracking idea :

http://independentlabelmarket.tumblr.com/

just wish i could go

No joke, is there any chance one of you UKers could purchase things on my behalf if I gave you £££ to purchase and ship them?

http://sickmouthy.com/2011/04/14/record-store-day/

I'm going for the dollar sale on vinyl and CDs that no one cares about (except me, apparently), and my friend's band is playing. Unfortunately, My Morning jacket will be at my local store signing autographs and 'hanging out,' so I'm expecting a mob scene.

that independent label thing looks like it might be interesting. I guess it's to sell back catalogue stuff from the concern labels?

My favorite local store got an (early) shipment of the Big Star Third test pressing edition. Actually, five copies(!), so we promptly weighed them all for variance. The results:

two weigh 1 lb 4.5 oz
one weighs 1 lb 4.4 oz
one weighs 1 lb 4.3 oz

Go figure. We can't figure if the original test pressing would make the package heavier or lighter, though. They've set aside one of these special editions for me, regardless.

Guess I won't be taking part this year. My local shop decided to open at midnight tonight to start selling the special stuff. I can't possibly make it tonight, but they're already warning that most exclusives will be sold out by the time they open at 10 on Saturday. I mean, thats cool to throw a kind of "party" to celebrate, but, I don't know, kind of pissed that now I can't be there.

Yeah fuck record shopping at midnight. That's lame.

I seem to recall people lining up at midnight at Tower Records for the latest major label shit that you could buy anywhere. I wonder what the last album was that had people lining up at midnight? "No Strings Attached?"

I assumed that with the special Big Star test pressing issues, the test pressing would be in addition to the regular new disk. If someone gets the test pressing they're not gonna play it like a regular disk, right? It's a collectable. And they can't go back and buy another copy because there won't be any left.

Can't imagine that anyone that gets one of the five autographed original test pressings will complain that they can't play it.

Yeah, but they won't be able to get an album they can play, unless they open it in the store to check right after they buy it. Even then there's probably a one-per-customer thing anyway.

I'm sure they'll be able to pick up a playable copy with the money they get from immediately putting the test pressing on ebay

I hope that doesn't happen. If I get the autographed one, I'm putting it in a glass case or something.

I'm a big Wussy fan. I got a Facebook wall post yesterday that they're making an acoustic redo of Funeral Dress available for National Record Store Day. There was an in-person way to get it, and some site where you were supposed to be able to order it. Except I tried the site and it wouldn't load.

Record Store Day
We're never going to get them all, but we're working on it: STEDFORD'S in Pittsburgh? NOT COOL. Consider this your very public divorce from Record Store Day.
13 minutes ago

Uh oh. What'd they do?

Thanks to everyone who has pointed out ebay auctions to us. We really DO understand and share your frustration over how much this sucks. And we do take action where we can, especially if we find a store doing it: Time Traveler was doing it, we forced a take-down, and are putting them on public notice.

There are currently 422 auctions of RSD items; sellers include cameroncam, Apexrecords, Music_Millenium, Monster Music and Movies...some people just don't get it; they let their personal greed spoil it for others...check out the prices that cameroncam is charging...someone shove a 12" LP down his throat, please!
20 hours ago

Just ventured down to my local vinyl shop to see what they were gonna have and they mentioned that NO ONE was gonna be getting the Big Star, but perhaps that's just no one in Canada. Dang! If anyone knows different let me know I guess.

(I mean obviously it's not true that NO one is getting it because there were reported sightings above in this thread.)

We got five Big Star box sets here - along with an inordinate amount of other records. Here being Love Music in Glasgow. I'm really looking forward to tomorrow - it will be crazy but great fun.

i cant get into glasgow tomorrow :(

I wonder what the last album was that had people lining up at midnight? "No Strings Attached?"

giant metal shop here did it with the last Metallica

http://www.digitaldjtips.com/2011/04/why-record-store-day-will-never-revive-vinyl/

shameful

"digital dj tips"

The local classic rock station last week did a countdown of what they called the 100 greatest classic rock albums of all time. The fun aspect to this otherwise rote exercise was that most albums were celebrated with a spin of an entire album side - that is, actually LPs, pops and hiss and all. (The top 10 or so got the whole album played). And, boy, did that vinyl sound great coming from the car speakers, so much better than the sound of all the other stations. It's probably the clearest the difference has ever been to my ears, and for a split second I suddenly felt like replacing all my CDs with vinyl.

they mentioned that NO ONE was gonna be getting the Big Star, but perhaps that's just no one in Canada.

We couldn't get them at all. Dunno if my boss slept or what, but people are asking for it. Oh well.

Oh and we're in the U.S. So not just Canada!

Not sure if we got it either... Didn't see it. I know Alliance/Edge screwed us and others over as well, but I don't remember where Big Star was coming from.

Thanks to a fortuitous change in plans, I was able to hit up my local for the midnight sale. About 25 people in line ahead of me when I got there at 11:50. I'd say about 60 total.

I was able to get the Wild Flag and Akron Family things I wanted, but all of the others I was hoping for were gone (Nirvana, Sonic Youth, Opeth). Really wanted the Big Star, but they didn't get any in either, I'm wondering if something got fucked up or the distribution was very limited.

I had fun and got a couple things I wanted, but it kind of bummed me out because the first four dudes in line (who were camped out in folding chairs) each bought over $400 worth of stuff. I mean, if they really are hardcore record fans cool, but judging from their conversation on the way out the door they were clearly intending to dump it all on eBay immediately and that kinda sucks.

Not sure if I'm going to take part next year, just too much waiting in line to get less than half of the stuff I wanted.

Also, at this spot, the White Stripes were the obvious hot ticket. Sold out like right away and four people jumped out of line when they heard the news.

All the record stores in Brooklyn still have like 10 copies of the Cee Lo 12" from last record store day :/

Another Brooklyn record store had a copy of the magnetic fields box for months and months

White Stripes singles are madly limited and sought after indeed. We were only allowed one of each!

Just heading into work now by the way - let the mayhem & fun commence!

Chilly Gonzales is playing this morning at Rough Trade East, for any of you Brick Lane hipsters who can make it down in the next 40 minutes.

Got the Radiohead and Wild Beasts in Totnes, plus the Panda Bear Techno 7" and the weird Xiu Xiu Deerhoof thing for my boss.

i think this piece is great & on point re: record store day: http://www.dummymag.com/features/2011/04/15/record-store-day/

My takeaway from the piece: buying records is great, but don't forget, there's music all around you! For free! Listen ... to the trees! To the air! To the ocean! On youtube!

Got my Big Star, btw. I'm a happy camper.

i think that dummy piece is off point. i buy 90% of my music online as i'm rarely home to go buy locally (so am a bit of a hypocrite) but my local record shops are an important part of my local community and that's worth celebrating. if there was a fish shop day i'd try and support that as the homogenisation of our high streets is so depressing.

dddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd.wolk for time.com

http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,2065345,00.html

big star box already selling for 90 bucks on ebay:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Big-Star-Third-Test-Pressing-Record-Store-Day-2011-LP-/160574220365?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item2562f8284d

this one will probably beat that though:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Big-Star-Third-Reissue-RSD-2011-LP-/290555792383?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item43a6798bff

beady eye and ryan adams going like hotcakes on ebay. i don't even know what beady eye is.

The remnants of half of Oasis.

i don't even know what beady eye is

Lucky you

jon - were you at Permanent too? - I was about 25 people deep in the line and I was a bit bummed to see the white stripes singles sittin' on the counter and gone by the time I got there. Luckily, I'm in there every weekend and Lance and Dave, etc. know what I like and were able to guide me to some good stuff not on my list (the Scientists 45, the numero group pressed at bodie lp) and graciously explain that they didn't get a lot in - they're supposed to get more in a shipment today - may make a second trip as I want the GBV tribute and a few other things ...

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/47921000/jpg/_47921692_009291201-1.jpg

Not really looking forward to the swarm of hoarders. Hope I can pick up at least one cool thing.

i wonder what percentage of this stuff goes unopened forever.

+ and goes up on ebay the second they are brought home.

i understand that the ltd edition thing is a real motivator for lazy music nerds to go out shopping, but really don't get why the labels don't press at least enough for those interested to be able to buy them ON RECORD STORE DAY

anyone get the JD/NO single in the UK? which versions did they use?

Lmfao there's a hueg line outside of academy of ppl waiting to get in. Most of them have bags from other record stores

I'm watching a dude open a 7" with his thumbnail

Local shop said Beady Eye was a rapid seller. 7" boxed set or something?

People are walking by this line like smh

http://cgi.ebay.com/Wild-Flag-7-Ltd-RSD-11-Sleater-Kinney-/160574379670?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item2562fa9696#ht_1362wt_1141

herb albert OTM. There are so many ultra-limited things for RSD, and a very big chance that the customers that actually shop at these stores regularly through the rest of the year will never ever lay eyes on them, let alone hands or cash. Is it really THAT hard to press a few more of these things so that people that actually DO support the industry don't get the shaft?

missing this completely this year, no RSD in Peru! Oh well, I already have the 4 Men With Beards reish of Big Star's 3rd and I love it.

loving those comments that scott posted, are those from the official RSD organization?

cameroncam was probably one of the dudes in the folding chairs at Permanent.

That Dummy piece was pretty measured I think. Seen a lot of dumb things written re record store day from both ends of it. I don't think most people who get excited about record store day and like buying records are thinking, "Why can't all those assholes who like mp3s get into this?" It's not "This is the way it should be," it's "I think this is fun." Physical objects are never coming back in any real mass-market way, and that's fine. But some people will continue to enjoy them-- so let 'em.

Re: limited runs, they sort of have to be limited runs, don't they? I mean, almost nothing unique to RSD is unavailable, per se. I can buy Big Star's Third, or Beady Eye, or whatever. It's just a matter of the special packaging, which more or less demands limited runs. 7" boxed sets, that Beach Boys 78 ... I can't imagine most of these more or less vanity pressings can be done on a much larger scale without costing too much. But maybe I'm wrong.

I couldn't make it to glasgow today so no Hormoaning vinyl oh well. I did snag a mastodon live vinyl though

jon - were you at Permanent too?

No, I thought about going down to Permanent, but I stuck closer to home and went to Second Hand Tunes in Evanston.

i got the big star thing

that and the television live thing were the big items at my store...really lucky to have gotten big star.

people are weird, was sad to see ppl passing up like sweet rough guide world music and mississippi john hurt records for fuckin' foo fighters rarities and shit. oh well.

i'm gonna go to another store this afternoon after the mania dies down, my friend said they had like a dozen arthur russell left when he was in and had to leave because the UPS truck had arrived with the P.O.S./William Elliott Whitmore split and ppl went bonkers and shit.

does anyone know if that Country Joe & the Fish record is cool? it's supposed to be "underrated" "weird" etc....that'll totally still be there for a while

managed to snag the last wild flag 7" on the rack, huzzah! this year's opening was MUCH crazier than last year -- a giant-ass line compared to last year's loose assembly of maybe fifteen people.

if anyone has a spare hormoaning vinyl i'd be really grateful

Josh where'd u find big star? reckless on broadway and dave's didn't get any in /:

dave (bless his heart) didn't realize that the fucked up album everyone was asking for was actually the David's Town comp sitting right there on the shelf. of course I didn't let him know til I secured my copy

Old School Records in Forest Park. They had five. I bought one, the owner bought one, which leaves ... who knows by now!

(It may have helped that I gave them the heads up about this weeks ago, and they were sure to get in on the ordering early!)

alright so my initial lack of interest has picked up a bit--
the black twig pickers/glenn jones split is really great.
steve gunn/ilyas ahmed 7" is good
intl submarine band LP & single

and i may end up getting the numero comp, or the vanguard comp, but probably not. ppl should get that vanguard comp though, it's got good stuff on it, especially the serpent power.

No Big Star at my local store :(

Got the Liturgy / Oval split, wife got Damien Jurado and Akron Family jams. Almost bought that Skip James thing but bought a buncha dollar CDs instead - Acetone, David Dondero, Three Mile Pilot, Lloyd Cole, Oakley Hall.

Got the Prurient 7" and the Arthur Russell reissue. Went to three stores in wburg looking for the Lady Gaga. One of them literally laughed at me.

the hip record store here sells lady gaga lp's & singles

Forget it, Flopson. It's Hipstertown.

Bought the John Fahey from the store I work at, couldn't help it.

Whiney come to Hoboken if you want the Lady Gaga. L train to 14th and 6th, switch to Path! (Not a serious suggestion, but we've got it.)

Some dude showed up early for a John Mayall 7" and pronounced "Mayall" wrong when he asked for it.

how is that possible?

think i woulda picked up the fahey if i'd seen it.
i got the big star. anyone who's fretting because they didn't, don't worry, you don't need a version of third that's sequenced so that thank you friends segues into holocaust.

fun, anyway. nice seeing people bopping around with copies of world of echo and stuff.

also woulda bought: the lower dens seven.

you don't need a version of third that's sequenced so that thank you friends segues into holocaust.
ha yeah, i keep looking at the test pressing tracklisting and thinking, "no, that's WRONG." even though it might be technically right.

I went CD shopping this morning, forgetting it was Record Store Day. Jackpot Records, in Portland, had a line going around the whole inside of the store. There were so many people there it made it literally impossible to browse. So I ended up leaving without buying anything. Everyday Music, which opens an hour before Jackpot, didn't have nearly as many people so I shopped there. Didn't even check the RSD specials to see what they had left over.

crazy!
think i'm going to a record store later after the baby wakes up. there will probably be nothing left. though i can't imagine this particular store having a line of people waiting to be let in!

I went to the four big stores in Seattle. I couldn't believe all the people buying the Fleet Foxes/Foo Fighters, etc. Got a couple things that I really wanted, but just missed out on those two White Stripes 7".

Got the Ty Segall T. Rex covers album, Nirvana's Hormoaning, Arthur Russell, the Sacred Bones comp, Fela Kuti and Buck Owens 7" and was lucky enough to grab the only copy of the Purling Hiss/Puffy Areolas split.

Easy Street was a madhouse. I walked in, saw the lines and walked right out. Sonic Boom had a great selection and the crowds weren't too crazy.

Was in Tower Records in Dublin. Got to see Steve Mason and Lykke Li for free. Which was nice.

Once again it was an amazing day for us. We had about 250 of the UK special releases for sale and had 11 bands playing over the course of the day and everything went fantastically well. I've just got home now, quite happily squiffy and tired. Keep buying records everyone, please.

Just did a late run and got arther russell and television live @ the old waldorf. Had gotten big star earlier so got everything I wanted

have you heard the television set before? it is off the hook amazing.

No I haven't but I figured jeez television in 78 were they ever not amazing? Also it's rhino handmade so pressing, packaging, etc, is all to top notch

yeah, it's a couple days before (or after, i forget) that portland show. crazy that they broke up like a month later.

krakow when did the hormoaning sell out? I just couldnt get in today :(

We had lots of Nirvana so it lasted until about 10:30am or 11am or so.

ok this television is fucking amazing. the sound quality is so good.

slick looking white vinyl too :)

couldnt have got in by then oh well. I just hope genuine fans got them and not ebay scum. Hope sandy and you all had a great time!

xpost yeah that show had been on bootleg forever, but the bootleg sounded terrible...super muddy. when rhino put it out i couldn't believe how great it sounded. nice to hear crystal clear separation between lloyd/verlaine.

I forgot that I got the Numero comp on cassette for the car rides

In the end my haul was the Television set, the Fucked Up, Superchunk on vinyl, grabbed the Foos (largely to irritate a coworker who loves the Foos but doesn't have a turntable), the Daft Tron 10", the gold Bad Brains 7", Steve Earle 7", VU 7", Roxy Music 7", and the two Grinderman 12"ers.

Wanted the Kate Bush (but it had sold out before I got there, at the one store that seemed to get 'em), and the Joan Jett (which I missed by like 2 minutes). Only other thing I missed, I think, was the Big Star. Oh well.

At last count, there are 15 Big Star auctions on ebay right now (with more to come, certainly).

Assholes.

shitloads of Nirvana ones too

if these things weren't so limited then the flippers wouldnt make any money.

^^^

Saw those, fuckers.

I really want a Hormoaning but im not paying ebay prices. Fuck the labels for making everything so limited. Record shops are there for more than 1 day a year. What about the rest of us who do go to record shops when we can?

What about the rest of us who do go to record shops when we can?

Your status as a regular customer is devalued in favor of gimmicky nostalgia.

I really only buy used shit at brick and mortars anymore because new releases are simply more affordable online, and I don't feel the least bit bad about that.

If there was a shop in my town I'd gladly buy there unfortunately both shops are looong gone, but a lot of stuff I'm into I need to buy direct from labels/bands. But as Krakow knows, i try to get into town when I can. I would rather support local shops. And everyone of the shops I go to agrees that things shouldn't be so limited. But no-one listens.

Anyone (scott?) know what the average margin of profit is for store owners on used stock vs. new stock? I'd bet used sales put more money in the bank year-round.

got the numero comp "burned at boddies" plus a numero compliation CD called "an alternate history of popular music". can't find any info anywhere on the second ... no idea if this is something limited or if it is a preview of something coming out later this year ... the only reference i found to it is here.

There is a lot more money to be made from used than new stock, yes.

that explains why Missing Records still exists then and why this store chain is expanding Anyone heard of this new second hand record/cd chain of stores in England called That's Entertainment?

many x-posts - limiting copies on physical music purchases is a bad idea; punishes the regular customers who may not show up first thing in the morning. What record labels should do is print more but limit it as a one-day sale or something. They can just mark it up enough to make up for the cost of having a few leftovers. Just a thought.

i think it's a fun idea? i guess? hyping one day and making it an event. when was the last time ANY record store was an event destination? so, it works anyway. as far as "regular customers" go, they should get their fat asses out of bed or stay home. they can go a day late and get all the crap that nobody wanted.

i mean, it's a game of sorts. see what you can score. this is sometimes the fun of actual record shopping. if you don't like that sort of thing, shop on amazon.

Ok, but limiting it as they do, it seems that a lot of music stores aren't even making these things availbable to customers anyway; they're just selling it on ebay the day before RSD (according to your post upthread at least - I avoided Music Millenium today after reading from you that they were hawking shit on Ebay a day before it was available to the public, etc.

So if I'm wrong, I stand corrected.

yeah, i mean, i think everyone sees it as a way to make money. customers and store owners and everyone. welcome to america. it's not some perfect system. its a way to hype stores! and if people get greedy, well, welcome to america. wait, i already said that...

i'll probably get stuff for the store next year. but just new reissues. no new foof fighter oasis crap. fuck that shit.

Two Wild Flag singles up on ebay in auctions. The one I posted upthread was a "buy it now" that somebody "bought it then".

Heard that some folks are in the habit of buying and selling desirable discs they're not interested in to subsidize their purchase of tons of stuff they are interested in. Don't know what I think about that. I also heard that My Morning Jacket kindly requested that fans buy just one of the three special pressings or whatever, should fans come across all three for sale. Though of course my fave shop told me one dude inevitably came in and eagerly bought all three.

see that kinda thing is just some sorta pie in the sky crazy. you are in a STORE!!! that SELLS STUFF. just buy one to be nice? seems crazy. maybe on dischord records day. i know some stores limit what some people can buy and that's up to them. but come on its for sale and has a price tag on it!

yeah, i mean, i think everyone sees it as a way to make money. customers and store owners and everyone. welcome to america. it's not some perfect system. its a way to hype stores! and if people get greedy, well, welcome to america. wait, i already said that...

― scott seward, Saturday, April 16, 2011 8:34 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I agree with what your saying. I always thought one purpose of Record Store Days would be to reward people who still gave a shit about buying phsyical releases a way to buy somewhat limited releases that day; I just feel that the current selection is too limited on that day, but again, I'm not a collector.

remember, this is Record Store Day, not Record Buyer Day

It might hurt the cause if it is too limited, yes, but van smack is right. the whole point is to boost activity and excitement in your record store. It is a great way to get casual shoppers into the store, then use the occasion to do some heavy shopping for non RSD items as well.

I've been following this thread with interest, so I went down to Toronto's Sonic Boom (the Scott Pilgrim store) at about 7:00 tonight. I realized within 30 seconds that this is not really my thing. My whole life from 1975 up till 1995 was searching for great record deals; SB had their usual expensive stuff, and maybe some of it was special and limited-release, but I've just never been one to pay a lot for albums. I'm about halfway between this thread and xhuxk's dollar-vinyl thread; "I found this really great album from 1978 in mint condition, and it was only $6!" is about where I sit. (Best thing about the trip was that they were playing "That's When I Reach for My Revolver" over the sound system.)

Just wandered upthread, and I see that xhuxk himself said more less the same thing two years ago.

Since clemenza brings it up, here's what I wrote two years ago (with a couple typos corrected), which I still agree with:

I buy loads of records in thrift stores and garage sales, so maybe I am part of the problem. Usually they are way cheaper and more interesting in those places. But I'm still not partaking in this event today. Maybe that makes me lame. Independent stores deserve to survive, and I hope setting aside a special day for them pulls lots of young kids into the habit -- especially kids pointlessly addicted to getting music the day it comes out, a habit that has never made any sense to me. But braving the crowds seems silly. And I've never been somebody to buy records just because they're rare -- especially when they're created for the sole purpose of their rarity. Seems artificial to me somehow, and none of the records above strike me as all that enticing. (I thought something similar when baseball card companies got self-conscious about their collectability, and it bugged me then, too. Not that it's especially anything new with record labels -- see also: SubPop Singles Club or whatever.) Anyway, more power to the stores -- whatever pulls in customers. I hope they all make tons of money. A friend of mine who runs a store in Philly said Record Store Day last year was his best day in years, and I hope this year he does even better.

― xhuxk, Saturday, 18 April 2009

Should it be mentioned that none of these collectibles are priced so that the stores actually make much money off of them?

xhuxk's where I'm at, in essence, and I might have already said it. Were it not for the fact I was helping friends move all day yesterday I would have likely swung down to a nearby store I know run by a good guy who's been doing this for twenty years in two locations and picked up something, but it would have been just something random in the used section, where I normally look anyway.

Actually (having come to my senses during a morning bike ride just now), I should amend one thing I said in that post -- I don't really think garage sales and thrift stores (or library-overrun stores or guys' houses who put signs up on the street or twice-a-year record conventions) necessarily usually have more interesting selections or even cheaper prices than record stores -- That was just stupid; I obviously go to record stores all the time, way too much probably, to sift through 50-cent bins, dollar bins, even two-dollar bins if I'm feeling especially reckless. It is one of my favorite things to do in the world. I just don't relate at all, though, to the mindset that says have you have to pay ridiculous sucker-bait Record Store Day kinds of prices to find interesting music. That makes no sense to me. And I also don't relate at all to the collector's mentality where you buy records just to resell them, rather than listen to them -- In fact, I barely ever get around to re-selling records at all, even though I've probably got some really collectible stuff on my shelves. That's my problem. But Record Store Day still strikes me as the one day of the year I'd rather not be in record stores, just like New Year's Eve is the last night of the year I'd want to go out drinking. But like I said, I still hope my friends who run stores (hi Scott!) made lots of money yesterday, and maybe reeled in a couple new regular customers who won't wait another 365 days before they visit again.

I bought a CD yesterday - I was in Target on other errands and grabbed the new Radiohead because I happened to see it out of the corner of my eye and it was $10. But I don't own a turntable, so buying limited edition vinyl rarities (most of which are by bands I hate anyway) is out of the question.

xp That said, I did hit Breakaway Records for a few minutes yesterday (since I was at the coffee shop next door anyway) and picked up a 1988 LP by Da Krash for a dollar. The store was way busier than usual, but not insanely. It was kind of cool that I wasn't the only shopper there, for a change. But I really had no interest in checking out what was going on at Waterloo or Antone's, which are way less out-of-the-way, location-wise.

i had a decent day yesterday. even without selling the record store day stuff. and we had a fun show last night. dancing around drunk with the members of the flaming dragons of middle earth to prince's purple rain album was probably the highlight of my day. and it didn't have anything to so with selling records.

i agree totally with chuck's two years ago post.

i sold country records and movie soundtracks and rock and jazz and funk and classical records yesterday. even a conlon nancarrow album of avant garde piano rolls! so i was happy. i was foo fighters-free.

sold the cruising soundtrack. and the warriors soundtrack. CAN YOU DIG IT!!!!???? (met a guy who works at stop & shop and he said "hey, your boy is named cyrus? so is my son! we named him after cyrus in the warriors." thought that was so cool.)

that rules!

picked up a nice used copy of Tangerine Dream's Ricochet. Also played a show at Village Green Records, great little record shop/house venue in Muncie, Indiana.

I wanted to buy the Thrill Jockey records (black twig pickers/glenn jones split, the Phil Manley/Guitarist from Earthless "Norcal Values" thing, and the Liturgy/Oval split), but I couldn't find any of them anywhere :(

we at least have the glenn jones/black twigs and "norcal values" still available, maybe the liturgy record as well. if you still want 'em you can e-mail me and I can figure somethin out dr dot carl dot sagan at gmail dotcom

p sure they had liturgy at fingerprints: http://www.fingerprintsmusic.com/

my overall RSD haul (i went to a few different stores over the weekend): sonic youth live thing, vanguard psych thing, mute compilation. thing i wanted that nobody had: the oxbow king of the jews reissue: http://tinyurl.com/3o28p7d

Oxbow record was delayed apparently. I'd have a phone round this week and get a shop to put it by for you when it does come through.

it'll be available through the website in a few days.

jbr, how do you feel abt the vanguard psych comp? i didn't pick it up, rather let a customer buy it, but I loooooooove the Serpent Power; that whole record is awesomeness.

funny thing is about this is that i was fairly pumped for the weeks preceding to nab that kate bush set, and then realized there was, like, nothing redemeeing about it. aside from resell value.

so you can infer that i didn't even bother waking up til noon saturday

What's all this about an unreleased Elevators single, though?

Can anybody speak to the relative profit margin of LPs versus CDs? I've noticed a lot of records now sell for $20, $25 and even up to $45—granted for deluxe, multiple-LP editions, but still. I'm wondering how much the extra mark-up on LPs is offsetting the general decline in music sales.

What's all this about an unreleased Elevators single, though?

It's "Wait For My Love", the aborted Stacy Sutherland single from early '68. I forget what the flip is, but basically Charly released the "single that never was".

Ok, thanks.

The flip is "May The Circle..." and both sides say "remastered by Sonic Boom" though I can't really hear any difference.

jbr, how do you feel abt the vanguard psych comp? i didn't pick it up, rather let a customer buy it, but I loooooooove the Serpent Power; that whole record is awesomeness.

haven't listened yet! i'll report back when i do.

xpost My understanding is that the profit margin for the stores themselves is still pretty shitty, all said and done.

I suppose that makes sense, given that stores sell vinyl for roughly the same price as labels or artists direct do.

There is no innate difference in profit margin for stores between vinyl and CD. We do find that there is more leeway in terms of what customers will pay for a nicely done piece of vinyl compared to CDs, but any difference in mark-up that we choose to try and make is only very slight.

stores around here will sell new vinyl for about $19.99 a pop. new CDs run between $9.99 and $13.99, depending on the store.

So do you think bands and labels are turning more of a profit on vinyl (especially lavishly packaged vinyl), or is it a wash for them, too?

There is a lot of new & reissue vinyl available in the $10-15 range; though some folks opt for excessive and lavish packaging, it's not something that's ever going to become the industry standard. there are many people who just won't pay $25 for a single LP just because it's in a heavy-stock jacket.

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ljvb9eFONb1qiwz3go1_500.jpg
neil young on record store day

ha shit he's holding one of the all time used record bin records

Haha, yeah, he's probably like, "man, if I finally open this up and acknowledge its existence it'll stop popping up all the time".

Great pic btw.

it's not something that's ever going to become the industry standard. there are many people who just won't pay $25 for a single LP just because it's in a heavy-stock jacket.

― one dis leads to another (ian), lunes 18 de abril de 2011 14:57 (12 minutes ago)

to which I say THANK GOD, been thinking abt starting an ILV thread to ridicule stupidly priced new releases & reissues. latest FE update has some in the $30-35 range w/no extra packaging whatsoever.

I also love the NY pic, thanx tyler

ha, yeah, it'll be a weird day when i have a lot more money that i even consider buying a record for $20. when i was a kid in the 90s i got into buying vinyl because it was cheaper than CDs.

Yeah, I bought the new Weedeater for $17 while I was out for RSD, but kind of disappointed in the packaging. I mean, its Southern Lord, so its not awful, but there wasn't a whole lot to it. Wish they'd included a digital download cose tho.

i got into buying vinyl because it was cheaper than CDs.

Totally... I could get two new release full lengths on vinyl at Aron's for the price of one CD!

lots of local label stuff i buy still does nice quality pressings and covers on vinyl albums and manages to sell it for 10-12 bucks. AND they are only pressing like 500-1000.

how much the extra mark-up on LPs is offsetting the general decline in music sales.

Since vinyl constitutes only an infinitesimal fraction of total music sales (albeit a somewhat bigger infinitesimal fraction than a few years ago), even if the mark-up was significant, there's no way it could offset music retail's overall decline. It's just too small a drop in the bucket. (Though for select individual, independent stores where vinyl actually sells, it might make a difference.)

like it's ridiculous to see ppl paying huge bucks for weirdo garage reissues and then say this brand new amazing Michael Yonkers/Blind Shake record is readily available for $10 on 180g with MP3 download

http://learningcurverecords.myshopify.com/collections/frontpage/products/cold-town-soft-zodic-lp-cd

i don't actually know what it costs to press 500 or more records and have full cover art, etc. its more than a cd costs to make obviously. it was nice in the 90's to get a new full-length on vinyl for ten bucks and know that the cd was gonna cost you 15 or more. felt like a bargain. hardly anyone was buying new vinyl in the 90's. which was great in the 2000's cuz lotsa 90's vinyl could be sold for a ton cuz nobody bought it back then and the pressings weren't very big.

if my crystal ball had been working i would have bought WAY more pearl jam and guided by voices records in the 90's and stashed them for later.