National Record Store Day

Did you guys know there was a Mazzy Star single of two *NEW* songs coming out today?

Lucky for me, my buddy brought in some extras at his shop because he knew I'd be interested, despite all my protests about RSD.

(of course, it's on colored vinyl and sounds shit, but hey, new Mazzy Star, amiright?)

that's the only thing I went out to get! and succeeded. also got a cut copy 10", and saw some interesting stuff but it was mostly too expensive. liked to go and walk around in the minor chaos at usually-empty stores though. and there were lots of free koozies!

i bought some stuff (Omar Souleyman, Pinback, Lydia Loveless 7" + some non-RSD records) but the one thing I really wanted - Robotic Empire's tribute to In Utero w/ Jay Reatard, Thou, Young Widows, etc - was nowhere to be found.

Oh, except on eBay, where last time I looked there were six copies listed.

there is a record store about a mile or two away from me that is the worst record store ever, basically. they no longer get new stock (CDs or vinyl) because they are cash poor and have no cred with distributors anymore. their vinyl is beat to shit and priced "by the book" (ugh). but somehow the guy who runs it manages to get some RSD stock and more people come in his store on that one day than have probably visited the store in the past full year. i was tempted to go, but it would have just depressed me.

oh that gil scott-heron thing is outtakes from his last crap album. never mind.

If you bought I'm New Here on vinyl when it was new, you got a few of those songs from the session that they've now released as its own LP. Not sure if any of the songs are repeated, but it's just Gil doing new vocal and piano versions of old songs. Meh.

They came with the digital download of I'm New Here is what I meant to say.

I was walking around Chicago today in Belmont and I passed a hi-fi store - small storefront on Belmont, couple guys in their mid-late fifties in there - maybe both of them working there, maybe one's a customer. both in old-dude slacks and button-downs with the sleeves rolled at the cuff. super I-will-never-be-able-to-afford-this gear in a very basic window display - heavy glass turntable, amp with all the tubes exposed and shiny, etc. looking through the window, I see three crates of records on a table - small crates, no more than 100 records between the three of them, and a laser-jet printed sign taped to the middle crate. the sign read:

Records Day
10% off

I will be happy about this forever.

The tame impala is a winner

Wkiw those Records Day dudes

Alright so I had FUN, OK? Friends and I wandering around BK.

My haul:

Chris Forsyth and the Solar Motel Band - Solar Live 11.15.13
Todd Terje - It's Album Time
Marisa Anderson - The Golden Hour
Life Without Buildings - Any Other City
The Field - From Here We Go Sublime
Glenn Jones - Welcomed Wherever I Go
School of Seven Bells - Put Your Sad Down

That is a good selection. I only went to one place today to try and find those Life Without Buildings and Field albums but they didn't have either. They didn't really seem to have much RSD stock at all. Hope I can still find them later on, don't think either are limited editions.

I have a feeling the Life Without Buildings that includes the 7" might be limited? I only saw The Field at the first store I went to, though.

It looks like The Field album is already selling for $40 on Ebay and one copy of the Life Without Buildings album currently at $75. Great! I wasn't bothered about getting the 7" as well, just want a regular copy but not sure that exists.

The Field wasn't too far below that honestly... it was super pricey.

And yeah I'm not too sure whether a regular copy exists either...

It's just frustrating as I kept checking all the lists before today and they never said anything about it being limited. Anyway, will see if I can track down a copy somewhere.

Give Tunes in Hoboken NJ a call? Tomorrow at this point. Worth a shot.

Thanks for the tip. I actually just went to the What's Your Rupture website where they had it in stock. I placed an order for it but have a feeling I'll get an email saying it's out of stock or something tomorrow.

i hate when they advertise something as a "LIMITED TO RSD EXCLUSIVE YADDA YADDA" and then just release a version a few weeks later the only difference being it isn't on creamsicle-smelling vinyl or just lacks a "LIMITED TO RSD EXCLUSIVE YADDA YADDA" stamp on the back. i feel like some labels are not forthcoming about this.

i once bought one of those vanguard records reissues on RSD only to find out that they had planned all along to release the same titles a month or so later--and for a fair bit cheaper.

i don't really care that it's "LIMITED!" per se I just don't need to pay "LIMITED!" prices if the same fucking thing is going to be available later for less.

All pressings are limited when you really think about it.

it's true.

I think if you stick to only buying stuff you want at prices you don't mind paying it's always a good day.

There were a lot of bitter middle aged people moaning on social media yesterday that they weren't going to attend because RSD wasn't what they signed up for. Fair enough if you don't want to attend but making a voluble point about it is kind of like going on and on about how you've seen through the Hallmark conspiracy and you won't get your girlfriend/boyfriend a Valentine's Day card or your mum a Mother's Day card - not really something I'd go round broadcasting myself. I go into record shops at least once a week and RSD is always the best day of the year for hanging round in shops/stores, mainly because the aforementioned bitter people are all at home and you get the odd person who genuinely seems quite excited to be in a store getting their hands on a One Direction 7" or a glow in the dark Ghost Busters picture disc.

Got:

LCD Soundsystem box
Placebo - Ball Of Eyes
Alex Tucker - s/t
Omar Souleyman - Jazeera Nights
Grace Jones - Me I Disconnect From You 12"
Gemma Ray and Alan Vega - Motorbike 7"

I was walking around Chicago today in Belmont and I passed a hi-fi store - small storefront on Belmont, couple guys in their mid-late fifties in there - maybe both of them working there, maybe one's a customer. both in old-dude slacks and button-downs with the sleeves rolled at the cuff. super I-will-never-be-able-to-afford-this gear in a very basic window display - heavy glass turntable, amp with all the tubes exposed and shiny, etc. looking through the window, I see three crates of records on a table - small crates, no more than 100 records between the three of them, and a laser-jet printed sign taped to the middle crate. the sign read:

Records Day
10% off

I will be happy about this forever.

― Now I Am Become Dracula (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Saturday, April 19, 2014 11:15 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

between this and Jon's story a little upthread about the eBay flippers making My Chem teens cry, the 50something men are making this day all worthwhile for me tbph

I was walking around Chicago today in Belmont and I passed a hi-fi store - small storefront on Belmont, couple guys in their mid-late fifties in there - maybe both of them working there, maybe one's a customer. both in old-dude slacks and button-downs with the sleeves rolled at the cuff.

saturday's audio. so much to love about this place: only open on the weekends, bunch of old dudes sitting on the couches watching tv all the time, helpful unpretentious staff

oh and they have a dog!

saturday's audio. so much to love about this place: only open on the weekends, bunch of old dudes sitting on the couches watching tv all the time, helpful unpretentious staff

it looked like basically the best place ever

i sold a lot of records yesterday. but i kinda do every saturday. it was a good day though. this old guy i didn't know came in with a bag full of records that he wanted to play! i was like, why not?! so we played some of his records. he was nice.

I miss hi-fi shops at least as much as much as record stores. Now it's just big-box stores where you can't listen to anything, and a few high-end audiophile places with stuff i can't afford and not even many of those. When I was a teen there were a half dozen stores in my area that sold affordable gear and had rooms full of receivers, turntables, tape decks, speakers, and headphones you could mix and match for comparison (using their pushbutton patch panel) and listen to whatever you wanted.

And the few hi-fi shops left are now more about home theater than audio gear. There's a place near me that has decently-priced amps, speakers, and CD players, but it's all tucked in a back room, while the floor is filled with massive TVs and surround systems. And they don't even stock turntables.

Think I started seeing those Crosley record players in Walmart maybe--eight years ago---don't go in there very often. Heard they were in some other big box stores too. Eventually looked more closely: some of them also play/record CDs, MP3s, maybe other formats now (recording from vinyl and included radio). Seemed reasonably priced. How do they sound?

Crosleys are known to sound awful. At least that's the consensus.

These may be the ones you can play through a computer (but their 1940s-50s style incl. little built-in speakers, and a headphone jack; I'm a headphones junkie, so not worried about speakers, long as not much turntable etc.noise in headphones)

What non-expensive turntables are good? With headphone jacks.

Picked Up:

William Onyeabor - What!? (Remixed) 2LP
J. Spaceman & Kid Millions - Live @ Le Poisson Rouge LP & 7"
Life Without Buildings - Any Other City LP & 7"
JBs - Food for Thought LP & 7"
Oneohtrix Point Never - Commissions I LP
Chocolate Milk - Action Speaks Louder Than Words LP
Sun Ra - Outer Spaceways Incorporated LP
Meade 'Lux' Lewis - Blue Note #1 12"
Albert Ammons - Blue Note #2 12"
Pussy Galore - Pussy Gold 5000 12"
Fela Kuti & His Koola Lobitos - Se E Tun De 7"
Deerhoof & Marc Ribot / Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog - split 7"

Passed On:

Built to Spill - Ultimate Alternative Wavers 2LP
The Field - From Here We Go Sublime 2LP
Dinosaur Jr. - Visitors 7" box set
Various Artists - The Space Project 7" box set
Beauregarde - Testify! 7"

Missed Out:

Destruction Unit / Merchandise / Milk Music - USA '13 split LP
Parquet Courts - Sunbathing Animal 7"
Sonic's Rendezvous Band - City Slang 7"

oh and never found a copy of Jazeera Nights. woulda bought that too. not that i have money to spend or anything...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BlnMZ4yIYAA0_Fu.jpg

pretty pleased. I passed on jazeera nights. I'm surprised the store I went to had that and the ones I purchased, TBH.

Is that the Moebius/Neumeier/Engler/Schneider TM? How is it?

For those of you that missed out on say, The Field and Chris Forsyth... good prices here (says they're in stock):

http://www.bullmoose.com/c/12066/record-store-day-2014/0

Actually pissed about how much cheaper even after shipping The Field is than the inflated price I paid at the shop!

Aw I didn't know there was an RSD reissue of "Burner" by Breadwinner! Maybe that one wasn't available UK-side. I'd kinda like that but don't trust transatlantic vinyl postage - had a few things go missing.

aww I'd like that. Only have the cd

Thanks Evan. I just ordered The Field and the ZTT Box set. Hope their stock indicators are accurate.

You're welcome!

i ordered from them years ago and the credit card company caught a fraud later on and they said it came from there. I guess they "lost" details. I wont be ordering from them

23 dollars for an Aerosmith album, even brand new, is insane!

lol blue rodeo for 30+. i think i would have to pay someone to buy an original copy of that.

waterface OTM

I found a copy of the Alvarius B/SRB split on Discogs for $20, doubt I would have paid much less than that on Saturday.

(with postage)

i actually got a copy of the one thing i wanted! the moles thing. redscroll in connecticut posted their list of what they had left and i bought it from them via discogs. 40 bucks. seemed like a nice price. i've seen it elsewhere for a hundred already. yay!

here's the stuff they still have (as of the last couple of hours anyway)

http://redscrollrecords.com/2014/04/rsd14-leftovers-21st-of-april-2014-update.html

http://www.discogs.com/seller/Redscroll

thanks skot. I've decided to buy the breadwiner from them. Cheers!