National Record Store Day

what a bunch of worthless crap

On August 2, 2006, Clapton was scheduled to perform for a massive audience in Moscow's Red Square. At the last moment, the show was cancelled.

...and all we got is a lousy T-shirt.

Being the current pollrunner, I should bring this up:

Heavens to Betsy Calculated LP (1000 copies...contains exclusive bonus track never before released)

Yeah, and been wondering about that Mastodon set too. Also, several listed here--the most extensive list I've seen---incl Grateful Dead's Live At Hampton Coliseum, billed as the first official release in any format, Drive-By Truckers' Dragon Pants EP, J Spaceman & Kid Millions, a couple Everlys LPs, Norman Greebaum's Spirit In The Sky, which is really groovy electro-boogie, rec to fans of Silver Apples and the Dead, several Rough Guides, esp. Psychedelic Bollywood and Latin Rare Groove Vol. 1, Electroconvulsive Therapy Vol.1, and Velvet Underground's Loaded, available in "pink, black and white splatter vinyl" (sure hope that means all three colors in the splatter).
http://www.recordstoreday.com/SpecialReleases

the dead thing is already selling for 70+ on ebay so if you see it you should "grip" it as the kids say.

if you see the cake box set grab that too it's already going for 300+ and that's just gonna go up in the coming week. my investment tip of the day. cake, r.e.m., and lcd boxes all selling for 300+ right now. they are the hot tickets.

how the hell are people getting this stuff, or is this just jumping the gun type ebay listings?

some are pre-order sales. some people take pictures of the stuff on their coffee table. so who knows?

http://www.ebay.com/sch/Records-/176985/i.html?LH_Sold=1&_from=R40&LH_Complete=1&_nkw=rsd+2014&_sop=3

This just gets more and more annoying every year. Can't we just make it about parties in the stores and buying cool records and in-stores, instead of it just being a day for eBay flippers?

Whiskeytown 7" single - San Atone b/w Great Divide (unreleased tracks) 7" single - San Atone b/w Great Divide (unreleased tracks)

― Bee OK, Saturday, April 18, 2009 3:09 AM (5 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

thought this referred to this year and was confused and delighted

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6ArkRtEy-fk/UzuMnnykT_I/AAAAAAAAhf8/yuw14oJlnZ0/s1600/Record+Store+Day+2014+Exclusive+Ghostbusters+Theme+Song+Glow+in+the+Dark+Single+10%E2%80%9D+Vinyl+Record+by+Ray+Parker,+Jr..jpg

bustin' makes me feel weird

What are the 'rare dance mixes'? I had the original 12" when i was a kid, and it had some intrumental mixes and stuff.

i went to this a couple times. never again. all of the record stores can go out of business. (minus scott's).

(and any other ilxor's)

to be nice for once i heard this was really worth getting:

http://www.melodysupreme.org/product/moles-flashbacks-dream-sequences-story-moles-2lp-cd/

that guy is really nice and his store is great, glad he's starting a label!

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This just gets more and more annoying every year. Can't we just make it about parties in the stores and buying cool records and in-stores, instead of it just being a day for eBay flippers?

― djenter the dragon? (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 18 April 2014 16:28 (1 hour ago) Permalink

I'm planning to visit my local indie record shoppe tomorrow just to hang out with whoever's there, I'll buy any special releases only if they appeal to me personally and are truly reissues of rare but good stuff (usually from artists too obscure to interest eBay flippers), not limited-edition "collectable" releases of music that's already readily available.

(usually from artists too obscure to interest eBay flippers),

From what I've seen in previous years, there's nothing too obscure for these assholes. More than once I've seen guys in line ask for "one copy of everything you have on the list". I mean, I don't know how you can do anything about that beyond limiting one copy per customer, but it's disheartening and completely spoils my enjoyment of the day. I'd be fine if there were absolutely no special releases and just a general celebration of record stores. Maybe the "special" items could be just free things like label samplers and whatever.

all i want to get is the glenn jones release but i'm not willing to brave the lunatic fringe of record collector scum to do it. hoping it'll be around a couple days later.

yeah the glenn jones one is great, the alvarius b./sir richard bishop split is great. but those do seem like the sorts of things that won't be too hard to come by after record store day? i could be wrong.

all i want is solar motel band, bardo pond, and maybe alexander tucker but not for $$
i'm guessing i'll be able to find/hear these otherwise -- the BP cover of "here come the warm jets" did not electrify me tbh

probably gonna skip the whole thing unless there are some in stores i wanna see, haven't checked that yet

yeahhh, the solar motel live thing is worth standing in line for. record stores i've contacted around here have not ordered it tho.

i'd be driving around town like a gd idiot and asking for something i probably have to explain to every single person
i just want to hear it! it's a live recording right?

oh duh
you said that

but do you think it'll be available for download? i don't see why not. he puts everything else up, right?

our local instore is Mobb Deep! not gonna brave the crowds though.

All local bands here. Hence, I hate Record Store Day. But you might have heard about that already.

I can't really be bothered with any of this cobblers, but there are some cool sounding things on this list:

http://thequietus.com/articles/15042-top-releases-record-store-day-2014

Would probably get the Czukay album and Teeth of the Sea's alternative soundtrack to A Field in England if i was going to a record shop, but tbh it's the one single day of the year that I deliberately avoid them.

The Grateful Dead Hampton shows are still streaming on archive.org, the LCD concert is also on a great-sounding DVD, Shut Up And Play The Hits (well, sounds great on def sub-audiophile headphones x laptop).

But not on VINYL!!!

It's a crappy digital transfer, but it's on VINYL!!!

It says "Record Store Day" on the cover of the VINYL!!!

I always have a nice time on record store day. I'm not ever remotely interested in the crap that is flippable. In fact if I just wait I can usually find the stuff I'd wanted on sale months later. This year I also very badly want the Glenn Jones record among a few other lower-key releases. That being said, it's usually no more crowded than a record fair and that doesn't bother me either. Plus it's my birthday so a group of friends and I are doing a record/bar crawl. Should be fun.

You might find young vinyl buyers defending all the garbage releases over at reddit.com/r/vinyl

i've always been able to find all of the RSD avant stuff, like three lobed LPs and loren connors and stuff like that, for cheap even weeks later.

honestly i don't get the hate toward eBay flippers. this "exclusive" shit they put out is 90% worthless in any artistic/aesthetic sense, it's practically designed for folks to buy and then flip to some asshole who wants to pay $200 for their 85th-favorite record on puke-colored vinyl. i'm not ashamed to say i've gone to RSD mostly to buy stuff I can flip w/in hours and the money i make from all that is just as likely as not to go back to the same fucking store for some actually worthwhile stuff on a non-record-store day.

i actually want to take a road trip tomorrow because i'm getting stir crazy so maybe i'll show up to some random midwestern record store and see what's going down.

the thing that makes me not want to go is the crowds. i like my record stores relatively empty so i can browse in peace. also i don't much like other people.

honestly i don't get the hate toward eBay flippers.

Really? I mean, even if you don't give a shit about 90% of the releases, its dispiriting to see these guys being the main beneficiaries of the day. And, a few years ago I was waiting in line at a store behind two like 13 year-old girls just super, super exicted to get a My Chemical Romance exclusive. A few minutes into the official sale start, these two 50+ dudes walk out bragging about cleaning the store out of most of the "big name" exclusives, specifically listing the MCR. These two girls started crying and left the store. I mean, you can be whatever about My Chemical Romance, but that is exactly the opposite of what Record Store Day should be all about.

i'm not sure the ethics of 'flipping' is so straightforward. well yeah the hate towards people flipping the cool shit like test pressings of Paul McCartney's Ram and Big Star's Third is justified. but the other 90%, the contrived singles and whatnot, who cares

Happy birthday Evan!

I would like the Bardo Pond and maybe the Alexander Robotnick reissue plus a couple of the comps (e.g. the new Todo Muere and maybe the Faux Discx one), but I figure the shop in my town probably won't have bothered getting the things I'm most interested in and even if they do this stuff is more expensive than I can really justify spending currently, so not really sure if I'll bother taking the bus to the other side of town yet. The asking price for everything I want is going to be £20=$33 to £25=$40, judging by last year and the prices on the Rough Trade website.

its dispiriting to see these guys being the main beneficiaries of the day

but the day is DESIGNED this way, or at least that's how it has progressed. RSD is bullshit, the eBay flippers are just getting a little something out of it.

if those teenage girls were disabused of any interest in "collectable" bullshit then I say it was a win-win

they should have started record store day before the damn internet.

and frankly if i don't buy whatever stupid crap they're selling and flip it, somebody else--probably someone who otherwise spends less money in record stores--will. so fuck it.

they should have started record store day before the damn internet.

― brimstead, Friday, April 18, 2014 3:17 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

before the internet, every day was record store day.

For me two days a week, but specifically not Record Store Day, is record store day.

it's antiquated just like (as moe (?) pointed out in the vinyl reissue thread) "from the original master tapes" is not such a big deal when digital conversion processes are so good. the future!

well awesome but for a lot of record stores, record store day IS record store day, just take a look at their receipts

Oh, don't get me wrong, I'm glad it exists for the stores and I don't begrudge them the $$$$$$, I just wish it evolved differently, that's all. As it is, the day is definitively not for me.

yeah i like the part where people who run good record stores make money

ebay flippers are cunts

I went to a record store the other day, bought used copies of Fleetwood Mac's "Kiln House" and Percy Sledge "I'll Be Your Everything", plus a new release of "Static Age" (it was $14! Reminded my of buying music in the 90s!). On the way out the clerk told us there was a stack of free records, all out of their jackets, and I grabbed a bunch of random ones. Lots of UK dance music, plus disc 2 of "The Wall"! Had a great day!

Then I realized it was record store day tomorrow. Damn, I've already spent enough $ on records this week. Sorry, RSD.

Do the labels encourage flipping by promoting limited editions and RSD exclusives rather than just introducing new rarities on RSD? Printing only 500 copies helps ensure they'll be stocked by the stores, and that the stores will sell them quickly, but also means the bulk of the profits will go the the eBay flippers rather than the record stores that RSD ostensibly is intended to promote. I'd like the record labels to explicitly state that even though a potentially coveted item is making its debut on RSD, that they'll keep it available as long as the demand is there, stamping out new batches as necessary. That would discourage buying for investment or flipping, rather than playing it on your own turntable for your own enjoyment which is what RSD should be promoting.