National Record Store Day

My experience in Toronto has been that record stores have sales, which makes it really, really not odd to go general record shopping

man just checked out the list on the official site. pretty lame this year. gimmick 7 inches a-go-go. :(

I am basically a broken man right now... the last 72 hours have been quite something.

I plan on having a great time tomorrow though.

Music matters.

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queue of around 30 people at about half past midnight at Picadilly Records, Manchester. impressive.

fuck a record store day. hope it brings some cash in for the stories but no thanks.

If anybody is feeling generous, i'd love a copy of the Keith Hudson and Lee Perry releases. None of my local shops will be carrying those titles. I'll pay cost + shipping +10 for your efforts.

Just about to head into the shop for 8am.

I fully understand a lot of the issues people have with aspects of Record Store Day, but I'm personally excited and have put in vast efforts to try and make today work out for us.

I hope that everyone who wishes to take part has fun doing so and enjoys their records and music.

as someone who spends a shitload of time in record shops.. i'm not excited by the prospect of (mostly) overpriced major-label rehashes of old material which comprises the bulk of the RSD list...

....but as a mechanism of getting those who don't go to indie record shops to get their music fix to change their behaviour by offering limited edition goodies, and to help those shops make a bit more money to keep them going - i'm all for it...

If RSD enables shops to make a bit more profit to enable them to stay open in difficult times, then it's served its purpose as far as i'm concerned..

So have a great Record Store Day everyone, but especially if you work in a store!

I didn't go to the first 2 Record Store Days because I didn't live near a record store. Now I live near one but I probably won't bother going because:

1. queuing for a tiny chance at an expensive limited edition record, which I just tick off a list instead of looking at before I buy, and no chance to browse the rest of the stock = zzz. I like record shopping mainly for seeing what's in the used racks and bargain bins, not for paying £30 for a 200gsm limited edition of my, like, 15th choice picked off a list.

2. I find it highly unlikely that my local shop has signed up for the exclusives I'm most interested in. I'm fairly sure the Circle or Bitchin Bajas LPs are not coming to my town this year, just like the Purling Hiss / Puffy Aerolas split didn't come to my town last year, because where I live those bands would be kind of niche and the record shop would surely rather stock Arcade Monkey Bowie Dylan reissue shovelware which will definitely sell (and be on eBay the next day)

I might head down for the instore later on, but it will be basically impossible to buy anything once there are bands and amps and 20-30 spectators crammed into a shop barely bigger than my bedroom, so that's not a great win for the shop either.

(PS still hope everyone who works in a store has a good day and makes $$$, everyone who goes to one gets something they want and will actually listen to instead of selling unheard, etc)

Waited in line outside Phonica in London for a good two hours this morning, mainly in the hope of getting that Tindersticks 10" (I didn't). Some of the people at the front of the line were coming out with stacks of vinyl - call me a cynic, but I can't imagine they were planning on listening to those records...

Anyway, I bought a few overpriced singles, and that John Cale ep, but I do feel like a bit of a tit for getting suckered in by the whole thing.

Too busy today to make a visit to a shop for RSD. So I went yesterday evening to Rough Trade East to make a few purchases.. but they were shut...

yeah very good point about not even SEEING the damn things you're buying before you get them. has to be said the cover for the ABBA 12" looks really crap.
i didn't GET one of course, it sold out 30 minutes after our local shop opened, but luckily i've seen a copy on EBAY. handy!

phish boxes already selling for 100+ on ebay.

http://www.ebay.com/csc/i.html?_sacat=306&_nkw=rsd+2012&LH_Complete=1&rt=nc

good reference guide if you haven't gotten to a store yet. pick up that sigur ros thing if you see it.

stuff for sale right now if you are homebound:

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_sacat=306&_nkw=rsd+2012

People who are against RSD seem to think it is all about the limited releases. That was just supposed to be part of the incentive, and contribution to the festivities by the labels. The stores who get it are the ones that do DJ sets all day, in-store performances, BBQs, sales on general stock, etc. This is a day to strengthen the idea of a community to support record stores. It's not Record Label Day so stop treating it that way. Few places require you to stand in line after the doors open anyway.

yeah things have a way of turning into something else. i don't recall anyone on here talking about the great live music bbq that they can't wait to go to at their local record store. nijoli seemed like the only one looking forward to bbq. which is cool. i hope she has a great day.

meanwhile, you see that phish box or that jack white liquid-filled 12 inch, make sure to snap them up!

Got the Circle, Mika Väiniö, and Springsteen. No sign of the Beefheart. Damn

actually the place by my house does have a general sale on, unfortunately everything i'd want in there i've probably bought already.

Waiting in line at my local place now, which opens at noon ET. It was 82 in Cleveland yesterday, it's 43 today. FML.

It's a good excuse to dedicate the day to browsing every store in NYC that I can. I like seeing happy store owners. I figure there's a chance that places put some effort into throwing some fresh used stuff on the shelves today, too.

im gonna celebrate by hunting for "Hard to categorize rock/jazz/'experimental' but not really fusion crossover records by jazz dudes"

Worth noting, for Londoners, that Sounds of the Universe are doing 25% off all their second hand vinyl today and 20% off all vinyl on Soul Jazz. The Studio One comps they do are fantastic.

someone came in my store and said that at the turn it up in northampton they had 4 copies of the phish box and when those were gone the crowd dwindled considerably. and everyone who comes in basically asks for the phish thing. and across the street at newbury it was mobbed with lines apparently for the phish box. so, if you are in noho go to turn it up cuz everyone's at newbury.

not that anyone here will be in noho...

but anyway phish phrenzy in 2012.

phish pheeding phrenzy

phish suck btw

had a nice day visiting intoxica, honest jons, bm, phonica, sounds of the universe. biggest queues i saw were at sister ray (round the block) and rough trade west (the same) so I avoided those. scored the Numero comp, some old jimmy webb, barry white and glen campbell vinyl. good work record stores.

Is this real? Jack White's Sixteen Saltines liquid filled or something 12" sold on eBay for $3,500.00

I just spent way the hell too much at AKA in Philadelphia- got the MC5/Afrika Bambaataa 7", School of Seven Bells Siouxsie cover 7", the Domino Smugglers Way thing, the Animal Collective and Sacred Bones LPs, a Lee Hazlewood best-of 2xLP on Light in the Attic, and the Cleaners from Venus CD box set. Apparently they never got the Flaming Lips album, which sucks, but if any of these are going to be easy to find later it'll be that one.

There is a Jack White test pressing being raffled off at Tunes in Hoboken today.

I didn't know the Cleaners From Venus box came in CD version, too.
Flaming Lips was the other big seller I think, besides Phish.

Atlas Sound is playing Criminal Records at 4 then Bradford's DJing for a while.

I didn't know the Cleaners From Venus box came in CD version, too.

Phish sucks but Junta is a good record

Well the vinyl box was available online for awhile to preorder. Now it says "unavailable," which is vague because that's also how they label not yet released items, maybe just temporary items as well. So I don't know if it is only available at stores that happened to order it. What is officially RSD exclusive though is getting the albums from the box individually.

^About Cleaners From Venus

just temporarily out of stock items as well**** I meant to say

I got XXX on vinyl, yay. Was disappointed that 2 Many DJs was a UK only thing.

I stopped by Roadrunner Records in Minneapolis

About 2 and a half hours after open

Was pretty dead but I it was crazy at open

Picked over but I bought the Patti Smith Horses reissue

man, my friend chris came in just now with the grateful dead dark star thing and i didn't even know about that one. that's the first thing i've seen that i would even want. he got his for 15 and they are going for 50 or 60 right now on ebay. but aside from that, it looks cool! new old dead for 15 bucks. now that is something i can get behind. plus, whole record of dark star. what's not to love?

he got it at the turn it up store that nobody goes to. great place to snag rsd stuff.

one in one out at monorail in glasgow. 200+ people in the building? 5 year olds dancing to albert ayler. carnival atmosphere. what's not to like?

ok, i got hooked and went in. i bought a bunch of stuff--only some of it RSD exclusives. of RSD stuff i got that nutty buck owens coloring book (why not?), windy & carl LP (limited to 250 copies! green vinyl!), a pussy galore 7", misfits "walk among us" LP ---- and, yeah, i bought one of those phish vinyl boxes. i'll flip it in a few days.

i went away happy because apparently that "personal space" comp on chocolate industries came out recently and i snapped that up. so psyched for it.

"windy & carl LP (limited to 250 copies! green vinyl!)"

to be fair though, every windy & carl LP is limited to 250 and on green vinyl.

that misfits thing is selling for a bunch now too.

and wait a couple days with the misfts thing too cuz there are only 500 of them. it will go up.

wasn't necessarily planning to flip the misfits but OK. should i wait on the phish too??