National Record Store Day

http://www.forfolkssake.com/news/31537/feature-is-record-store-day-still-working

Because RSD in Harrogate is so queue-light and stress-free - you can be done within the hour - I'm still into this. From the Harrogate store's stock list, which stipulates a scalper-limiting maximum of 5 purchases per punter (although you are then allowed to re-join the back of the queue), I'll be after:
- the previously unreleased Beefheart/Magic Band 1972 Leicester de Montfort live album
- the previously unreleased Sly Stone 1968 live at Fillmore album
- UK folk reissues from Martin Carthy (1965) and Anne Briggs (1971)
- Sandra Wright's soul obscurity Wounded Woman
I've also got friends in Nottingham looking out for The Prodigy/Sleaford Mods "Ibiza" 7" (as I collect Sleafords stuff), and the previously unreleased Tamikrest live album.

http://diffuser.fm/record-store-owner-explains-why-rsd-matters/

It's been eye-opening to read these interviews with record store owners, feel a bit sorry for my earlier antipathy towards RSD - also, it's kind of sad how RSD has somehow antagonized a lot of record collectors, dunno if they've messed up in the pr department or if people are just being territorial or whatever.

I think it's just the ebay flippers and the intense atmosphere revolving around gimmicky repackaged reissues that overshadow the positives in RSD.

That's my main problem with it though: that it's become something that stores DEPEND upon. It's no fun when it reaches that point.

Well, her point there was that she depends on it in the sense that it fuels awareness for her store year by year. And the fact that it's "national" means she doesn't have to do any work to get the word out.

I think it's just the ebay flippers and the intense atmosphere revolving around gimmicky repackaged reissues that overshadow the positives in RSD.

― Evan, Friday, April 17, 2015 2:01 PM (43 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

That's my main problem with it though: that it's become something that stores DEPEND upon. It's no fun when it reaches that point.

― austinato (Austin), Friday, April 17, 2015 2:29 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^otm x2

FWIW, as a record store employee, the two weeks before and the week following RSD are the bane of my fucking existence.

Sorry if this has been posted before, but here's a big list of releases: as far as I got, all vinyl, 7" and 12". Still need to hear that 101ers album, and might be good to compare originals/covers on those singles.
Also has a search function re participating stores:
http://www.recordstoreday.com/SpecialReleases

xpost:

RE: that diffuser link
It makes me sad that she's defending it that way. i.e. "Yeah, it kind of sucks for all the valid reasons that other people have pointed out, but it makes me a lot of money." It's like, dude, you've become part of the machine and you're so conditioned that you actually like it. What a terrible thing to have to have to defend. If you are just in it for the money, say so.

That and she totally used "to" instead of "too." Come on!

So, a thing that one of the shops here is doing is opening early at 9, but not making RSD items available until 10. They are letting people queue up in the interim hour. Is this a standard procedure? Because it seems like a good solution to the immediate problem.

my only problem with rsd is that i can't help myself from reading the 400 articles about rsd every year. makes me sick of record stores. it goes without saying, you don't have to participate if you are a store. free country and all that. just put some good records out and give everyone who comes in a free kit kat bar. we are having music that night, but it just happened to fall on rsd unintentionally. you get a special ilx discount if you come by. come on, byron will be there, how record-y is that?

JDJR #13: desmadrados soldados de ventura//tarp//byron coley & matt krefting & ted lee

it makes me sad to hear about the stores that DON'T really make a lot of money on rsd. some are lucky if they break even on all the rsd stuff. cuz they buy so much of it. but i guess they don't have to buy so much.

But is that really a common thing? For places to barely (or not) break even?

In my experience, RSD has become the single best day of the year for most places.

Complete list of CDs available this RSD:

• Chris Robinson Brotherhood (Tote bag with two track CD inside. Songs recorded with Phil Lesh.)
• Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band - A LITTLE SOMETHING FROM THE ROAD, VOL. 1 (Live)
• Kmd - Bl_ck B_st_rds (Deluxe Pop Up Book)
• Ministry - MINISTRY TRAX BOX (7 CD / 1 LP Deluxe Boxset, 64 page book in Patent Leather custom box)
• Bob Moses - All In All
• Joan Rivers - THE NEXT TO LAST JOAN RIVERS ALBUM
• Various Artists - Sawyer Sessions Vol 1

"Yeah, it kind of sucks for all the valid reasons that other people have pointed out, but it makes me a lot of money."

Austin I think you're misinterpreting the point a little. I imagine she would probably clarify and say something like:

"Yeah, there are some sucky things about it that need improving or are at the very least unfortunate side-effects, but they don't outweigh or hinder the positive aspects of it- namely that it increases awareness of my store and gives a chance to build loyalty in the community with regular and new shoppers and I don't need to spend much energy promoting it."

I don't think she said much about the money it makes in the short term, more of how it is healthy for her business in the long run.

i've heard it from some people. anecdotal, i guess. probably not common, but maybe more common now that there is so much product and you can end up stuck with a bunch of stuff that doesn't sell.

x-post

“I felt very strongly about this being a subversive movement. I felt very strongly about it being socially against the dominant ideology. I felt very doctrinaire about the possibility of a mass movement that would help break anything that keeps us in chains.”

numero group suffering from delusions of grandeur?

very happy to be avoiding this shitshow of a "holiday" for the third time running.

and it seems like every year the stores are stuck with more and more unsold stock from RSD that gets progressively discounted into oblivion. i wonder if they are really making a ton of money from this in the long run.

It can be tough to know which releases can be duds, tough there's plenty of fervor online about the ones that are sure to be sought after. Yet again, there are other ways to make RSD work than to just order all of the "RSD exclusives" and do nothing else.

Celebrating RSD by buying something on Bandcamp from an artist I've never heard of.

frankly most of the record stores in this state are such shit that they deserve to fold up if they can only make money on record store day. the ones that are any good are practically the only ones where anyone (besides me) is actually shopping there on a weekday afternoon. i've been to too many shit record stores in recent years to really retain much nostalgia for them. the good ones will survive.

xpost Hey Elvis, that's a good idea! I may do the same. RSD parties in London---I'd go to Sound of the Universe:
http://www.clashmusic.com/features/7-of-the-best-record-store-day-15-parties

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CC0XQDqUsAE8uUk.jpg

sorry---credit for pic:
Richard Levine/Demotix/Corbis

streaming show:
http://wxdu.org/node/1160
Record Store Day Bash - April 18th @ Bull City Records (Sponsored by Merge Records, WXDU & NYCTaper)

WXDU is excited to celebrate Record Store Day with our friends at Bull City Records, NYCTaper and Merge Records on April 18th.

Merge acts Ex Hex, Mac McCaughan, and William Tyler will perform live outside Bull City Records in Durham (2600 Hillsborough Rd). Lagunitas Brewing Company will be on site, and we will be collecting donations to benefit Durham Public Schools via DonorsChoose.org. The whole event is free, open to the public. WXDU will be live-streaming the whole event with our good friend Jonas Blank of NYCTaper behind the mixing board.

Saturday, April 18
3–6 p.m.
Chaz’s Bull City Records
2600 Hillsborough Road, Durham, NC
Rain or shine
http://www.indyweek.com/music/archives/2015/03/12/merge-records-announces-record-store-day-party-at-bull-city-records
http://www.mergerecords.com/rsd-2015-bull-city-records
http://www.facebook.com/events/657787767682181/

It's been pretty rainy so I've mostly been inside playing videogames all week, and I can walk to two cool local record stores, so I'll probably check out what's going on tomorrow. Not really interested in anything new that's been announced but I'll probably pick up some records just the same.

Really drooling over this for some reason:

http://www.piccadillyrecords.com/imgrec/sl-102687.jpg

Housed in a very special custom-made felt backed 7” sleeve depicting original production stills this limited 45 single comprises the ocarina/electronic rhythm led main theme tune which promptly punctuated the 4.15pm slot on ITV throughout the summer of 1983. The 45 also features the Paganistic dance themes of Midwinter Rites which with its avant-garde leanings will also appeal to fans of Bruce Ditmas, Dariush Dolat-Shahi and various other Neotantrik experiments. Like the running lengths of the original episodes these rare specimens won’t stick around for long so act fast, relax, regress and rejoice for the return of the Moomin trolls.

Totally unnecessary, yet totally necessary.

Many record stores don't make money of the exclusives because the margins on new vinyl -- even the non RSD stuff -- are small. That said they do a fuckload of other business. Many stores do their best business of the year on RSD and then break that record the next year. The day isn't just about the exclusives as much as it is about reminding people that record stores exist and do cool shit year-round.

But, you know, fuck the A-Ha picture disc.

Exactly!

Also: 2 Holger Czukay albums will be available tomorrow: "Hit / Flop" (a collection of freshly remixed jams from the man himself) and "11 Years Innerspace" (Lots of Boat-Woman-Song type jams along with a rocker -- "My Can Axis"). 2x10" / Triple-gatefold. They're dope.

why do people need to be reminded that record stores exist? i don't really get it. seems like a lot of people buying stuff they won't be listening to.

Just saw that the Ministry Trax! Box will probably be selling for ~$170 based on the Amoeba page. No thanks.

People need reminding because there's still a shitload of stores that people all assume are gone because of the internet. That's the whole reason RSD got started. The growth is indeed crazy but the mission is essentially the same.

why do people need to be reminded that record stores exist? i don't really get it. seems like a lot of people buying stuff they won't be listening to.

― he quipped with heat (amateurist), Friday, April 17, 2015 10:08 PM (36 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

We get it. Buying records is stupid. Why doesn't everyone realize this?

Knobs' post above was the most info I could find on the Holger 11 Years thing. Of course "partly unreleased" should be the clue here. Hmmm. There are short edits / outtakes from Canaxis, Moving Pictures and Plight & Premonition plus some other droney stuff presumably from later releases. The "rocker" though is amazing and nuts on first listen, although rather brief. Seems to be a chopped up Can-in-full-flight jam somewhere between Halleluwah and Spoon with added ringmod effects and possibly Holger doing a Damo impression(?). Something else new to me and very good on the final side I think with U-She singing. I'm guessing the other side D track is some abused Stockhausen Weird release but I suppose I was expecting that.

Bluefat reviews Holger: http://www.bluefat.com/1504/Holger_Czukay.htm

Just don't call them reissues: http://www.bluefat.com/1409/Holger_Czukay.htm

https://scontent-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xaf1/v/t1.0-9/10850007_10153131549140189_3593019920454632753_n.jpg?oh=e1b544a269085b0a240d8af38fb68cbc&oe=55DABC71

palma violets outside rough trade today

Berwick Street was much the same.

I got a souvenir l.p. Bag for a pound, and made do. (a long slow queue to get into Sister Ray, think I'll skip it.)

action shot of when i opened for business this morning! pandemonium!

https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xap1/v/t1.0-9/11150392_10153860306542137_175752889207806522_n.jpg?oh=8a23fc35940983fede03be257c957ec5&oe=55DCD5ED&__gda__=1436430036_7f8dfd6f574fc64631c3538c30100f5f

Store Records Day

We get it. Buying records is stupid. Why doesn't everyone realize this?

― Evan, Friday, April 17, 2015 9:47 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i buy records all the time! every week!

just not today.

Well, here's my haul from various places:

William Tyler - Deseret Canyon (this is the only RSD release I got/wanted to get)
Fontanelle - s/t
Fontanelle - F
Monster Treasure - s/t
Lorelle Meets the Obsolete - Chambers

And a bag of 3 mil poly 12" sleeves.

Hooray.

seems like a lot of people buying stuff they won't be listening to.

You're a moron

Wonder how these did today
http://www.npr.org/2015/04/18/400369975/its-thin-its-plastic-its-back-flexi-discs-find-new-fans
Decibel couldn't find the right machines, but they (found the ancient patents online and) commissioned their own.

Wow, flexis, huh?

I'll keep my thoughts on that to myself.

https://scontent-atl.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/11169918_10152809633981299_987158544002008260_n.jpg?oh=fe2f09b4a09a1b3d57210a5caf4f5b3b&oe=55AA1C71

^ My lone Record Store Day purchase.