National Record Store Day

Actually that Snapper release I got was $14.99 and is a 4 song 12" so in that case I'm a sucker but otherwise I don't feel like I got too ripped off.

mexican summer built their rep on $15 eps. hardly seems unusual anymore.

so is numero group eventually going to be reissuing the whole husker du catalogue?

"Time To Go - The Southern Psychedelic Moment: 1981-86"
--no idea this was even a RSD thing. would have bought this.

what does it actually cost to press up 500 or 1000 12" singles theses days? For the vinyl + the packaging? I know shipping costs are crazy now.

not sure about in the us, but the b. russell curated flying nun comp has been out in nz for awhile, i believe (he did a really interesting interview on national radio playing various bits and pieces from it)

really nice day in soho, in london, with a street party vibe. giles smith was playing and loads of other big names. nice sunny day and a great atmosphere. fuck shops that aren't record stores getting a dj in with some "yay record store day" premise tho - just so contrary to the point of the event.

Are vinyl LP new releases usually going for $30 these days? Cos the one store i stopped into that was what you paid for pretty much anything. And "mbv" was $45.

The line in Hoboken was especially long this year!

Hey, I was in Hoboken today too. I was there this afternoon. I only got a couple of used classical records for $2 each though - I am cheap. Tunes mentioned in this article:

http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/indies/1559027/record-store-day-2013-blog-roll-brooklyns-black-gold-records

Ha! Yeah I used to manage at that store.

The cheap vinyl is very cheap there. When the owner gets too excited that something not-s-common shows up, sometimes it tends to get priced highly. Not too bad though.

So I am extremely upset! The Snapper record I got the hole is too small for the spindle, and I may be paranoid but I'm nervous they won't have a replacement at the label. They definitely don't at the store I bought it from.

The cheap vinyl is very cheap there.

And the used CDs too - I've picked up lots of good stuff there for cheap. I try to support them as much as possible, though I tend to download most of my music these days - trying to downsize my physical collection.

Yes and no. Prices in the store match a competitive price point on amazon (for the CDs, here) when uploaded to the online amazon storefront, so therefore if something happens to be at $39.99 "Used - Like New" at the time of the upload that's the kind of price you'll see in the store. No matter how silly or indie it is. See the real issue here is that they have software that updates the price when they fluctuate online, as they often do, but new labels don't automatically print for the physical storefront and your foot-traffic consumers get screwed over just because you wanted to make as much as possible in the online worldwide market. It barely filters based on what makes a better physical store item vs. online money-maker when setting prices.

But yes, ultimately this same process will put $1.99 price tags on great stuff, simply because it is the going rate at that point on amazon.

"labels" = "price tag" sorry poor choice of words.

And update from just a little earlier- I quit whining and whittled the hole on the record no it's fine.

now*

So I am extremely upset! The Snapper record I got the hole is too small for the spindle, and I may be paranoid but I'm nervous they won't have a replacement at the label. They definitely don't at the store I bought it from.

uh, this is something you can correct w/ a pocketknife and a bit of rotary force

lol, xp exactly!

Yeah well at first it seemed way way off so I didn't consider that simple solution. then I looked closer and realized it would work fine.

gaye bykers on acid's debut lp, drill you own hole, allegedly came undrilled, so that you'd have to, uh, yeah, do that. drill it yourself. never seen an undrilled or even a hand-drilled copy, so i wonder...

I feel like that is a good way to get it to crack all the way across? Or maybe it is easier than it sounds.

fuckers can take a lot more abuse than you'd suspect

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/4vsB-oxHMRw/0.jpg

I never had a problem with holes being too tight but I recently got a new pro-ject turntable and have run into a bunch of old records that are a really tight fit. I think some brands are making their spindles too big these days.

so is numero group eventually going to be reissuing the whole husker du catalogue?

the RSD EP thing is pre-SST material so I doubt it. not sure who has the rights to it now but all those songs are/were on Rhino's CD reissue of 'Everything Falls Apart' so maybe them

I never had a problem with holes being too tight

disappointed by malkmus's precise enunciation of damo's lyrics. i'll never hear "spoon" the same again. but otherwise 'ege bamyasi' is a treat

Good for him, good for all the stores, but if RSD means 7" singles will cost $10, I probably won't be making a special trip again next year.

otm

There's also something kind of sad about how a lot of those record store day limited releases go straight to eBay.

omg this conversation
i was gonna say something about whittling the hole but i see you all got right to it

one of my sources found a copy of the josephine foster 10" and it's $30! what? and yet, i am still considering buying it because i want to be a bronze level donor, i guess?

crying bitter tears @ missing the Snapper EP reissue, also at living 75 miles away from any kind of cool record store

saul wright tho, I don't own a record player so the purchase wouldve been ornamental

omg this conversation
i was gonna say something about whittling the hole but i see you all got right to it

― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Sunday, April 21, 2013 9:31 AM (58 minutes ago)

Yeah I feel dumb now, but it really did seem way to small for that kind of fix. An illusion until I measured it.

all those songs are/were on Rhino's CD reissue of 'Everything Falls Apart'

not Writer's Cramp!

too*

Yes. Not "writer's Cramp." The only reason I purchased the single actually.

you are correct of course yes. all pre-SST stuff nonetheless. ftr that 2x7" (which could have fitted onto one 7" without much trouble) appears to be going for £15 in the UK. reel 'em in

15 British Pound Sterling equals
22.85 US Dollar

I just paid $15.99+ tax for it. Not exactly a huge profit margin, at least not yet.

I went to the princeton record exchange for NRSD and bought a bunch of non-record store day stuff, including Centipede HZ on vinyl. It was cool to see the place packed like that though. There was a guy there with Super Bowl tattoos on his face standing off in the corner and mocking record collector types to his girlfriend, who sort of silently nodded along. "Fucking records, who gives a shit," I remember hims saying. I could have done without this guy, but otherwise this was a good day at my favorite record store.

I spent hours on Friday rummaging through my friend mike's store. haven't seen him in years! so nice to catch up. and just like when I lived on MVI I found lots of nice stuff. nothing new though. on record store day I was on a boat in the ocean with family saying final goodbyes to maria's grandmother. a kid watched my store on Saturday and he said it was busy. despite the fact that I don't get the phish reissues and all that. here's what I bought at mike's store for myself:

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burton greene - presenting burton greene (columbia) (excited to find this. great copy.)

blues magoos - gulf coast bound (abc) (also never see this one.)

fraser & debolt - with pleasure (columbia)

jay bolotin - s/t (cur) (great stuff!)

bert jansch - rosemary lane (reprise)

eddie lang & lonnie johnson - blue guitars (parlophone) (60's u.k. comp of 20's stuff. sounds amazing.)

produkt der deutsch-amerikanischen freundschaft (warning records) (never seen this one.)

iron butterfly - scorching beauty (mca)

cochise - swallow tales (ua)

possum river - s/t (ovation)

lazarus - s/t (bearsville) (don't think i've ever seen it. nice record.)

redeye - one man's poison (pentagram) ( I love redeye.)

barefoot jerry - watchin' tv (monument) (thought I had all the records, but it turns out I didn't.)

uri geller - s/t (Columbia)

king pleasure sings/annie ross sings (prestige)

force of nature - s/t (tommy records)

heartsfield - the wonder of it all (mercury)

soul flutes - trust in me (a&m) (would pay double for a sealed copy, but this one sounds nice.)

eleventh hour - hollywood hot (20th century)

I will be at Long In The Tooth in Philly later today...

― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Saturday, April 20, 2013 8:47 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh snap, my bro Perry works there. How was it?

Wait, I read your follow-up post. That sucks.

I got the Double Dagger "333" mini-LP from Repo Records, which is all I really wanted, which was kind of pricey ($23.99 for a 6-song/24 minute record + a DVD) but not terribly pricey (like all the 7"s they had for $7.99).

There were a few ten dollar 7"s at my local shop. DNW.

The owner of Long In The Tooth told me that every 7" was at least $9.99.
Maybe he forgot some cheaper ones but every 7" I wanted was at least that much.

I mean, look at this:

http://s.recordshopx.com/cover/big/3/35/351645.jpg?7

This is literally all you got if you purchased the Atmosphere 7" since it came in a generic clear plastic sleeve. No artwork, not even a sticker. Not even much to look at on the label!

$9.99.

Yeah these things were really pricy - didn't go on the day because I didn't think my small town would get in the more obscure stuff I was interested in and I didn't feel like queuing, but I looked through what was left today: £25 for the Nick Drake LP, £18 for the Soundgarden 10", £12 for the two-song Eno/Grizzly Bear Jaar remix 12", £8 each for the 7"s

(£10 is currently a little over $15, so that Nick Drake was $38 and the 7"s were $12)

if it helps record shops stay alive then I'm all for it but it seems to be mainly only worth it for people who want to buy an armful of stuff to flip the next day on eBay

or people with a serious consumer fetish jones

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

who gives a shit?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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