National Record Store Day

haha, yes, a typo, just was an interesting idea ...

I'm listening to a slower, countrified version of 'Gotta get up' in my head right now..

Marcy Playground – Marcy Playground [LP+7”] (first time on vinyl, limited to 2500, indie-retail exclusive) LP

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I have had a mixed bag of experiences with RSD (posts above will attest to this)but I made a list and might try and get to a local emporium this year for a thing or two on it...

DEF LEPPARD - The Def Leppard EP LP
FLOWER TRAVELLIN' BAND – Anywhere LP/CD
GOAT – Goatfuzz 7”
KYLESA - Live at Maide Vale Studio CD
IKE REIKO - You, Baby LP/CD
THE RUNAWAYS - Cherokee/Gold Star Sessions LP
PETER SCHILLING - Major Tom 7”
SLICK RICK - The Great Adventures Of… Book/CD/7”
THE WIPERS - Better off Dead 7”

I am concerned about the cost of the Slick Rick but it seems really cool (the album as a kid's book with CD and 7"). At the end of the day, it will come down to the cost and it really sucks that there is no way to ascertain an MSRP or whatever until you're there. And the LPs have to be worth it *to me* so we will see what I pick up.

I expect the 7" singles to be ridiculously overpriced which is why I only care about three of them.

the Wipers 7" is cool, those tracks aren't on the 3CD anthology set or any official reissues iirc

The UK list is so much more interesting than the US list this year. I'm really gutted that the Cocteau Twins and Asobi Seksu reissues are UK only.

xp the Wipers 7" is on History Of Portland Punk CD but that's OOP AFAIK

The cheapest price for that is https://www.discogs.com/Various-History-Of-Portland-Punk-Vol-1/release/29923075+ shipping on Discogs, so it's probably OOP.

$15

THE WIPERS - Better off Dead 7”

i so regret selling my copy :'(

Corey Feldman – Go 4 It (feat Snoop Dogg) b/w Everybody (feat Doc Ice) [7”] (Swirl Colored Vinyl, indie-exclusive, limited to 1000) 7″

WHERE DO I STAND IN LINE?

I'm a CD-collecting dork so RSD does nothing for me, usually.

tempted by the gil melle but fuck a bunch of black friday bullshit. i go to record stores to get away from people.

also, "discipline 27-11"? god, the record is called _discipline 27-ii_.

hahahaha, wait, a _tribute_ to _cut the crap_? wow.

the Wipers 7" is cool, those tracks aren't on the 3CD anthology set

I love ILM for these little tidbits. Rectified this on my digital copy, and grabbed the three otherwise unreleased songs from the "Live 1984" album while I was at it.

not that i will ever get a chance to get it, but this is the first time i would join the RSD chaos if i could !

http://recordstoreday.co.uk/exclusive-releases/rsd-2017/the-the/

I guess I'm just naive about how things work rights-wise, but I was surprised to see Simon Raymonde post on Facebook that the first he knew of the two Cocteau Twins reissues for RSD this year was seeing them on the list announced last night.

NYCNative - I can try to check a *rough* indication of UK price on the Slick Rick release when I'm back in the shop over the weekend. Might help to get a ballpark idea of what it'll be.

Pro tip: go to a store at 4pm after the madness and grab the great jazz reissues, rough guides, and world music stuff that will still be there

man those Bevis Frond reissues look pretty sweet but I can't justify buying them for a few bonus tracks I still don't have

Thanks, krakow, but the label who is putting it out actually replied to a post I made on their Facebook page and said the MSRP was $35 which is the high end of reasonable for me. Not sure if that correlates to the UK price tho.

Cool, no worries. That's good of them and sounds pretty reasonable. I don't know the label, but I won't be surprised if we'll be paying a fair bit more over here.

was perusing a local record store's seven-inch singles section last month and it was packed with lame RSD exclusives (they were still trying to sell 'em for kinda ridiculous prices though).
cynicism aside, I do want that Luna Penthouse deluxe reissue ... hopefully it'll be around after the big day.

the price of rsd singles is insane. in the late 80s, an indie 45 went for somewhere between $1.50 and 3.00, iirc. 20 years later, the price had almost doubled ($3.00-$5.00 c 2007). but the recent rsd singles i've checked out have often been priced between $7.00 and $15.00. close to the price of a new LP in some cases.

and yeah, the bulk of them seem to sit in bins for months if not years

the husker du 7" last year was about £14. I didn't buy it

I'd somewhat like that Föllakzoid + J. Spaceman, but last time I looked at any RSD stuff all the LPs were at least £25, so I will most likely continue not doing RSD.

Also I don't really care about the J. Spaceman part and am not going to get up early to beat Spiritualized fans to the front of the queue.

the j. spaceman & kid millions LP/7" set from a couple years back initially sold for 20-some bucks. you can now have it for about $5.00. so you might just wanna wait a while.

Worth knowing, thanks! I used to know some v obsessive Spiritualized fans so I kind of forget it is not still the 90s.

Bear in mind, cost of living and inflation means LPs are not really that expensive compared to 20 years ago.

Singles £7 is a similar story. £15 is not.

reissue of sfa's international language with exclusive etching!!!

I'm their target audience and I'm not gonna bother.

Not into it at all.

obligatory I am excited about the Animal Collective EP post from https://flappybird.me/favicon.png

xp I feel the same way about a few of these things: I'm the "key demo," so to speak, but the whole Black Friday aspect of this puts me off. I'll visit the day after and pick from the scraps, maybe. Maybe not.

I also want to not participate as a sort of protest against the fact that the few vinyl pressing plants that remain are backed up months in advance because of bullshit like "Barbie Girl" and the Dark Crystal soundtrack. Like, "tough luck, techno artists and touring punk bands on tour--aka the only fucking people keeping pressing plants alive through the 90s--sucks to be you!"

dark crystal is dope fluid

Been hoping someone would issue the Geraldine Fibbers album on vinyl forever; bummed out it's for RSD. I was hoping it would pop up on Light in the Attic's modern albums sub-label or something like that. Instead it's going to cost a shitload and be hard to find.

the world will always be lousy with fibbers

xp uh five bonus tracks means I'm gonna pay whatever I have to, kinda wish I hadn't seen that ;)

my local indie shop has posted a list of his RSD stuff.

this stood out :

"ART OF NOISE - MOMENTS IN LOVE SHAPED 7" PICTURE DISC £18.99"

£19 for a 7" single no matter how shaped or colourful is just insane.

I was going to say - get an original,

https://www.discogs.com/heArt-Of-Noise-stArt-Of-Noise-Moments-In-Love/release/117475

.. but that's £30

yeah the turtle one is ztt gold dust.

luckily i never subscribed to the collector sscum groove for ztt.

I had that Hibakusha one, think I still have.

Prices have been ridiculous for years and seem to be just getting worse. The David Bowie BOWPROMO release is ~£60 for a one-sidedl 12''! Admittedly it comes in a box with some postcards etc, I'm still appalled.

*but I'm still appalled.

Best thing about RSD is the special used stuff many stores save for the occasion given they know they'll get more traffic. Limited RSD releases are specifically for the people that wait on line in the morning.

nothing super exciting this year, few things i'd buy but they seem like stuff that will be there late in the afternoon or a year from now

i am getting the one thing i wanted from my friend's shop thereby saving myself any travel or grief

I called the store that is my only place I can go because of work and of my entire list:

DEF LEPPARD - The Def Leppard EP LP
FLOWER TRAVELLIN' BAND – Anywhere LP/CD
GOAT – Goatfuzz 7”
KYLESA - Live at Maide Vale Studio CD
IKE REIKO - You, Baby LP/CD
THE RUNAWAYS - Cherokee/Gold Star Sessions LP
PETER SCHILLING - Major Tom 7”
SLICK RICK - The Great Adventures Of… Book/CD/7”
THE WIPERS - Better off Dead 7”

They only had the Peter Schilling single For $15. A single.

So I won't be partaking Record Store Day this year.

LL - what's the one thing you want?

http://exclaim.ca/images/toto_2.jpg

There's quite a lot I'm interested in - very much unlike last year - but I'd wager none of it is front-of-queue stuff, so I'll go in with my list on Tuesday and see what's left.

Xp Cobra Verde sdtk

Oh nice I'll have to check for that, classic thing that will be sitting around at 4pm after all the rate Foo Fighters and Phish stuff is gone, I picked up a couple Arthur Russell that way, only thing I ever really went hard in the paint for was the Big Star 3rd and Television Live at the Old Waldorf