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National Record Store Day is April 18, and its stated goal is not only to bring to light the glorious nature of the brick-and-mortar retail experience but also to illustrate why neighborhood record stores’ vitality is good for the community — and one of the last, best refuges from the doldrums of corporate sonic homogeny. Even Coachella, which celebrates the live-music experience, is honoring its recorded-music allies; its on-site shop is being operated in conjunction with National Record Store Day

― Bee OK, Saturday, 18 April 2009 02:59 (4 years ago) Permalink

sorry if this has been posted elsewhere as i couldn't find it.

i'm going to do my best to get Amoeba tomorrow!

― Bee OK, Saturday, 18 April 2009 03:05 (4 years ago) Permalink

*taken from somewhere else but i think it is true:

So official Record Store Day is Saturday April 18 and there are some really cool releases coming out for it:
Akron/Family "Everyone is Guilty" 7" first single from new album; unreleased b-side
Arthur Russell "Love Is Taking Me" 2LP 2LP (RSD exclusive)
Bad Religion Original EP 7" reissue colored vinyl; 6 tracks from 1981
Ben Harper 10" "Shimmer and Shine"/"Spanish Red Wine" B-side, "Spanish Red Wine" is unreleased
Black Kids Wizard of Ahhhs 10" first time on physical format
Black Moth Super Rainbow Born on a Day 7" Two tracks from the forthcoming studio recorded album, Eating Us
Blitzen Trapper "War is Placebo/Booksmart" 7" - two exclusive tracks w/die cut sleeve
Bob Dylan 7"--"Dreaming of You"/"Down Along the Cove" tracks recorded live at Bonnaroo; packaged in clear sleeve with 3x5 photo
Booker T "Warped Sister/Reunion Time" 7" 7"
Brandi Carlile 7" single "Downpour"/"A Promise To Keep" “Downpour” is the live track recorded in Boston
Bruce Springsteen 7" "What Love Can Do"/"A Night With The Jersey Devil" packaged in clear sleeve with 3x5 photo
Camera Obscura "French Navy" 7" 7" (RSD exclusive)
Cold War Kids Live at Fingerprints Live at Fingerprints 5 song EP
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Deja Vu Live 2LP Companion vinyl to the DVD
Cursive/Ladyfinger Split 10" picture disc four songs, two unreleased and two new
Dandy Warhols Remix CD #2
Death Cab For Cutie T-Shirt exclusive design for Record Store Day
Dead Weather Hang You From the Heavens 7" Jack White's new band! The debut release from both the Dead Weather and Third Man Records
Def Jam 25: Volume 1 and 2 4 LP gatefold history of Def Jam, only physical version of this piece is for indies 4 LP gatefold history of Def Jam, only physical version of this piece is for indies
Depeche Mode 7" "Wrong"/"Oh Well" 7"
Derek Trucks Already Live EP five previously unreleased live tracks from the 2008 tour
Dr. Dog/Floating Action Split 7" 7" - exclusive
El Grupo Nuevo de Omar Rodriguez Lopez “Cryptomnesia” Limited Edition Vinyl for RSD (3,000 pieces)
Elvis Costello* "Complicated Shadows"/"Dirty Rotten Shame" picture disc "Dirty Rotten Shame" is exclusive track--previously unreleased
Elvis Perkins "Lorraine Lookout" 7" two tracks, one unreleased
Flaming Lips/Black Keys split 7" "Borderline"/"Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles" 7" Borderline/Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles
Flight of the Conchords "Pencils In The Wind"/"Albi The" 7" - two exclusive tracks w/die cut sleeve
Gaslight Anthem Live from Park Ave 10" Live from Park Ave 10" - 6 tracks
Grateful Dead T-Shirt exclusive design for Record Store Day
Grizzly Bears Live on KCRW 7" two tracks, "While You Wait For The Others"/"He Hit Me"
Gomez Airstream Driver 7" non-album b side
Guided By Voices Hold On Hope LP Three bonus tracks
Heaven & Hell 7" "Bible Black" / Neon Knights (Live) Created exclusively for Record Store Day
Iron and Wine Norfolk 6-20-05 Live 18 track CD recorded on the Woman King tour
Jane's Addiction 7" "Mountain Song" / "Standing in the Shower…Thinking" 7" Mtn. Song/Standing In The Shower- Packaged in original replica picture sleeve
Jason Mraz T-Shirt exclusive design for Record Store Day
Jenny Lewis/Elvis Costello 7" --"Carpet Baggers"/"Go Away" Never before available in the US
Jesus Lizard 9 x 7" pack A pack of nine 7"s
Leonard Cohen 7" "The Future/"Suzanne" tracks recorded live in London, packaged in clear sleeve with 3x5 photo
Loney Dear/Andrew Bird 7" split 7" 7" - hand-silk screened covers; tour & mail order item
Lykke Li/El Perro Del Mar 7" "After Laughter (Comes Tears)" / "At Your Best (You are Love)" Made exclusively for Record Store Day featuring two unreleased cover songs.
Magnolia Electric Co, "It's Made Me Cry" 7" Jason Molina's first 7" in years
Mastodon T-Shirt exclusive design for Record Store Day
MC 5 7" "Kick Out The Jams"/"Motor City Is Burning" Packaged in the original rare picture sleeve, first time available since 1969
Metric "Help I'm Alive" 7" Picture disc "Help I'm Alive"/"Help I'm A B-Side"
Misfits Walk Among Us LP Pressed on 140 gram vinyl
Modest Mouse* 7" --"Satelite Skin"/"Guilty Cocker Spaniels" both tracks are brand new
My Morning Jacket - Celebración De La Ciudad Natal Celebracion De La Ciudad Natal CD & 2 x 10" Vinyl - 4-14 Street, Vinyl one time shot. Recorded LIVE in LOUISVILLE (at Ear X-tacy, and Waterfront Park), includes classic tracks and selections from the band's most recent GRAMMY nominated album EVIL URGES. PLEASE NOTE: double 10 inch will be a limited edition, ONE TIME pressing - We shall manufacture only what is ordered. Once it’s gone, it’s gone folks.
New Order 7" (live) "Temptation" / "Hurt" - as and A&B side.
Neil Young Sugar Mountain Live at Canterbury House 1968 2LP The special vinyl package
Oasis Falling Down Remix LP Falling Down Remix LP
Obits "I Can't Lose/Military Madness" 7" 7" - two exclusive tracks w/die cut sleeve
Paramore T-Shirt exclusive design for Record Store Day
Pavement "Live in Germany 1988" LP unreleased show from 1988
Poison The Well Six track CD 6 track CD, taken from 2 7" singles that the band sells on the road, and an upcoming 7" single that will be out later this spring
Pretenders "Break Up The Pavement"/Love's…" 7" 7" - one unrelased track, and track from new album on red vinyl
Queen EP Queen's First EP Limited Edition, Numbered CD for the first time in the US
Radiohead 10" vinyl series (see list of titles in NOTES) THESE ARE BEING RELEASED EARLY FOR RSD: Drill, Creep, My Iron Lung, High & Dry, Fake Plastic Trees, Just, Street Spirit, Paranoid Android, Karma Police, No Surprises, Pyramid Song, 2+2=5
Regina Spektor Begin to Hope LP with two tracks never before available on CD or vinyl
Rivers Cuomo Live @ Fingerprints CD and CD/DVD Combo Live @ Fingerprints CD and CD/DVD Combo
Russian Circles/These Arms Are Snakes Split !2 Previously Unreleased songs on Clear Vinyl (1,000 pieces)
Silversun Pickups Pikul 12" exclusive release ahead of their new album
Slayer 7" single "Psychopathy Red" packaged in special X-Files-style, "confidential" packaging
Sonic Youth/Beck split 7" split 7" (RSD exclusive)
Sonic Youth/Jay Reatard split 7" split 7" (RSD exclusive)
Sublime "Superstar Punani"/April 29, 1992" 7" 7" single with 2 live tracks, first time on vinyl
Taking Back Sunday 7" "Carpathia/Catholic" (live) 7" Carpathia/Catholic (live)
Talking Heads 77 LP (reissue) Pressed on 180 gram vinyl
The Color Fred The Intervention CD EP six acoustic tracks--four new
The Decemberists 7" "The Rake's Song"/"East India Lanes" B-side, "East India Lanes" is unreleased
The Smiths 7" "The Headmaster Ritual" /"Oscillate Widly" Never before available in the US as a 7" single.
The Stooges 7" "1969"/"Real Cool Time" Packaged in the original rare picture sleeve
Thermals/Thao Get Down Stay Down split 7" split 7" Get Down Stay Down (4 tracks unreleased)
Tift Merritt Buckingham Solo CD recorded live at a church; Tift solo with piano and guitar
Tom Waits "Live from the Glitterdome" 7" 7" - live tracks from Atlanta & Edinburgh
Underoath T-Shirt exclusive design for Record Store Day
Various Artists--THIS LP CRASHES HARD DRIVES Super deluxe gatefold LP (Limited to only 1,500 copies) with exclusive tracks from 10 of the finest crate digging labels out there! Includes a mix of sampler cd's, zines, catalogs, stickers, and posters, from all of these fine labels.
1) Los Destellos - “Guajira Sicodelica” (Vampi Soul)
2) P.E. Hewitt Jazz Ensemble - “Bada Que Bash” (Now Again)
3) Group Doueh - “Waya Waya” (Sublime Frequencies)
4) Noor Jehan - “I Am Very Sorry” (Finders Keepers)
5) Hypnotic Brass Ensemble - “Marcus Garvey” (Honest Jon’s)
6) Pisces feat. Linda Bruner - “Sam” (Numero Group)
7) The Monks - “Pretty Suzanne” (Light In The Attic)
8) Myron & E with The Soul Investigators - “Cold Game” (Timmion)
9) John Heartsman & Circles - “Talking About My Baby” (Jazzman)
10) Naomi Shelton & The Gospel Queens - “What Is This” (Daptone)
Various artists Records Toreism LP tracks from Mountain Tortoise, Trans Am, White Hills, Double Dagger
Vetiver "Wishing Well"/"Pay No Mind" 7" 7" - two semi-exclusive non-album tracks w/diecut sleeve
Whiskeytown 7" single - San Atone b/w Great Divide (unreleased tracks) 7" single - San Atone b/w Great Divide (unreleased tracks)
Wilco Ashes of American Flags DVD DVD is released with an exclusive window of two weeks for indie stores and mail order
Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs It’s Blitz LP vinyl version of forthcoming Yeah Yeah Yeahs CD

― Bee OK, Saturday, 18 April 2009 03:09 (4 years ago) Permalink

ok last post from me on this:

Here are are confirmed signings for the National Record Store Day Booth at Coachella....

Friday:
Ting Tings
The Airborne Toxic Event
NASA
Noah And The Whale
White Lies
Los Capesinos
Silversun Pickups
Dear and The Headlights
Junior Boys
Aggrolites
Franz Ferdinand
Steve Aoki
Cage The Elephant
Peanut Butter Wolf
Buraka Som Sistema

Saturday:
Atmosphere
Booker T
Bob Mould
James Morrison
Amanda Palmer
Mastodon
Glas Vegas
Junior Boys
Blitzen Trapper
Zizek Club
Ida Maria
Electric Touch
Superchunk

Sunday:
The Knux
Late of The Pier
The Kills
Peter Bjorn And John
The Mexican Inst. Of Sound
Knan
Friendly Fires
The Gaslight Anthem
No Age
Fucked Up
Clipse

― Bee OK, Saturday, 18 April 2009 03:14 (4 years ago) Permalink

this whole "event" is a crock. EVERY DAY is record store day.

― pipecock, Saturday, 18 April 2009 03:17 (4 years ago) Permalink

Tomorrow at work we're gonna have a BBQ, give people 10% off, and free $0.50 records with purchase of other merchandise. also, we will have maybe just a few of the record store day exclusives--the matador & daptone jams, as well as the jesus lizard singles set.

― ian, Saturday, 18 April 2009 03:24 (4 years ago) Permalink

what is the deal with these exclusives, are they really only available tomorrow?

― sleeve, Saturday, 18 April 2009 03:37 (4 years ago) Permalink

i think they're available tomorrow and if they don't sell out will be available for a few days until they disappear? i don't think we're expected to return items that don't sell during the "event" tomorrow.

― ian, Saturday, 18 April 2009 03:41 (4 years ago) Permalink

hmmm, thanks. I better go check that out. Monday is usually my record store day.

― sleeve, Saturday, 18 April 2009 03:42 (4 years ago) Permalink

Are you going to have them in a special area of the store or will The Stooges, say, be thrown in with the rest of "S?"

― Kevin John Bozelka, Saturday, 18 April 2009 03:45 (4 years ago) Permalink

Also, I heard that the New Order one won't be ready for tomorrow. True?

― Kevin John Bozelka, Saturday, 18 April 2009 03:45 (4 years ago) Permalink

well, we didn't get everyhing that's available for the event--so i dont know abt the New Order release.

we'll have the few things we have displayed by the counter. we got a bunch of phone calls today looking for the springsteen release, but we will not have it :(

― ian, Saturday, 18 April 2009 03:55 (4 years ago) Permalink

"free $0.50 records"

Wait which are they?

― Alex in SF, Saturday, 18 April 2009 04:05 (4 years ago) Permalink

we have the New Order along with a couple other of these. we're technically celebrating it, but all it's gonna do is piss me off that these people need an excuse to go look at records.

― pipecock, Saturday, 18 April 2009 04:06 (4 years ago) Permalink

records that would normally be 50c become free for the day. xp

pipecock, try to control your rage.

― ian, Saturday, 18 April 2009 04:14 (4 years ago) Permalink

I can't imagine why people wouldn't want to hang around pipecock.

― Alex in SF, Saturday, 18 April 2009 04:26 (4 years ago) Permalink

i try to be helpful and nice to people in the store :P

― pipecock, Saturday, 18 April 2009 04:29 (4 years ago) Permalink

Well I'm glad your able to hide your contempt in front of them.

― Alex in SF, Saturday, 18 April 2009 04:31 (4 years ago) Permalink

we talk shit quietly tho

― pipecock, Saturday, 18 April 2009 04:33 (4 years ago) Permalink

I imagine your neckbeards muffle a lot of the snider remarks.

― Alex in SF, Saturday, 18 April 2009 04:45 (4 years ago) Permalink

all 7 of them. the neckbeards that is.

― pipecock, Saturday, 18 April 2009 04:54 (4 years ago) Permalink

I was planning to go to Sound Exchange in Houston, even though Cactus made it into the paper for the promotion.

I will buy a 45 or a 2dollar bin record and let them know they should be grateful for my contribution.

Or maybe I will spend 80 bucks on some cool shit.

I might do both.

I need one of my turntables fixed, and they do that.

Later on, after the fights are over, I will go on the other board I post and harass my friends to get off their ass.

also, Houston, library sale this weekend.

― james k polk, Saturday, 18 April 2009 05:00 (4 years ago) Permalink

If you want any of this stuff, go NOW! I got to Waterloo Records two minutes before it opened and the line just started to wind around the building. Dude in front of me bought two of the Springsteen single. A gal walking by was carrying about ten (10!!) copies of THIS LP CRASHES HARD DRIVES. And so on. Still, I managed to get everything I wanted and then some (from three different stores):

Blitzen Trapper "War is Placebo/Booksmart" 7"
Slayer 7" single "Psychopathy Red" packaged in special X-Files-style, "confidential" packaging
Sonic Youth/Beck split 7" split 7" (RSD exclusive)
Sonic Youth/Jay Reatard split 7" split 7" (RSD exclusive)
Various Artists--THIS LP CRASHES HARD DRIVES
Various artists Records Toreism

Plus I got a mystery box of singles for $4.99 (20% cuz of NRSD), the new Marianne Faithfull, and Spellman's Four Lives in the Bebop Business.

The Neil Young and CSNY records are $65 a piece!!

― Kevin John Bozelka, Saturday, 18 April 2009 16:41 (4 years ago) Permalink

(20% cuz of NRSD)

20% OFF...most;y crap and w/o sleeves but purchased in the spirit of the occasion.

― Kevin John Bozelka, Saturday, 18 April 2009 16:44 (4 years ago) Permalink

I got the two SY 7"s which I basically assumed would be impossible to find even tho I asked for them in advance - so pretty pleased tbf

― National Lampoon's Minimal House (DJ Mencap), Saturday, 18 April 2009 17:10 (4 years ago) Permalink

I decided not to bother with Record Store Day. I buy loads of records, in record stores, so I am not part of the problem.

― The Real Dirty Vicar, Saturday, 18 April 2009 17:27 (4 years ago) Permalink

I went into Rounder and Resident and Borderline in Brighton, but they were mostly oppressively full so I had to extricate myself. Also I had no money to spend. But yeah, good to see some interesting in-store stuff going on and people being reminded to use or lose.

― Mister Craig, Saturday, 18 April 2009 17:30 (4 years ago) Permalink

I buy loads of records in thrift stores and garage sales, so maybe I am part of the problem. Usually they are way cheaper and more interesting in those places. But I'm still not partaking in this event today. Maybe that makes me lame. Independent stores deserve to survive, and I hope setting aside a special day for them pulls lots of young kids into the habit -- especially kids pointlessly addicted to getting music the day it comes out, a habit that has never made any sense to me. But braving the crowds seems silly. And I've never been somebody to buy records just because they're rare -- especially when they're created for the sole purpose of their rarity. Seems artificial to me somehow, and none of the records above strike me as all that inticing. (I thought something similar when baseball card companies got self-conscious about their collectibility, and it bugged me then, too. Not that it's especially anything new with record labels -- see also: SubPop Singles Club or whatever.) Anyway, more power to the stores -- whatever pulls in customers. I hope they all make tons of money. A friend of mine who runs a store in Philly said Record Store Day last year was his best day in years, and I hope this year he doesn't even better.

― xhuxk, Saturday, 18 April 2009 17:56 (4 years ago) Permalink

Just out of curiosity, though, what kind of exorbidant prices are those exclusive sucker-bait 7"s above going for?

― xhuxk, Saturday, 18 April 2009 18:10 (4 years ago) Permalink

I picked up the New Order and Stooges for $7.99 each, and the Camera Obscura for $6.99. This at Mad Platter in Riverside, CA.

― naus, Saturday, 18 April 2009 18:47 (4 years ago) Permalink

Shit, they had the New Order? I just called Sonic Boom and Easy Street and neither of them have the New Order.

― brotherlovesdub, Saturday, 18 April 2009 18:49 (4 years ago) Permalink

They must have had >10 there. I picked up the only Camera Obscura, tho.

― naus, Saturday, 18 April 2009 18:51 (4 years ago) Permalink

yeah nobody here in Eugene has the New Order, they heard it was delayed.

I got both Sonic Youth singles for $5 each, the Def Jam 4LP for $15 (!!!), and then I also picked up a Kurt Vile LP on Mexican Summer since it was on sale. 12 bucks!

also got the Dengue Fever/Chicha Libre split single, 5 bucks as well.

if any kind soul wants to pick me up a copy of This LP Crashes Hard Drives I will reimburse you and sing your praises. Neither of my local stores had it.

― sleeve, Saturday, 18 April 2009 18:52 (4 years ago) Permalink

Just saw the tracklisting for the Def Jam set, I may have to go back for it!

― naus, Saturday, 18 April 2009 18:55 (4 years ago) Permalink

I got that big Black Sabbath box set for 35 bucks today at Newbury Comics in Cambridge...

― henry s, Saturday, 18 April 2009 19:03 (4 years ago) Permalink

^ which Newbury Comics? the Fresh Pond one's vinyl selection is pitiful. nothing for me to buy.

― nerve_pylon, Saturday, 18 April 2009 19:08 (4 years ago) Permalink

had a good time! my "home base" store Roadrunner was grilling out in back and had coolers of beer....couple hot dogs were great!

i didn't really go in for any of the crazy exclusive shit, most of that was already sold out anyway.

i did get the Arthur Russel "Love Is Overtaking Me" vinyl but I wanted that anyway. Didn't see the Def Jam thing or would have gotten that...The Sonic Youth/Reatard single is going to be crazy Ebay bait, so many dudes looking for that.

but I got some great used vinyl, good day:

Leo Koettke - 6 and 12 String Guitar (orig on Takoma)

Rod Stewart - The Rod Stewart Album

The Groundhogs - Who Will Save The World? (gatefold)

Gaunt - I Can See Your Mom From Here (only a buck!)

John Kongos - Kongos

― 4,000 hoes in blackburn, lancashire (M@tt He1ges0n), Saturday, 18 April 2009 19:13 (4 years ago) Permalink

on sale. 12 bucks!

Wow. I'm speechless.

― xhuxk, Saturday, 18 April 2009 19:15 (4 years ago) Permalink

(also the stores i went to were PACKED and everyone was having a lot of fun so i guess this day has worked out pretty well for them)

― 4,000 hoes in blackburn, lancashire (M@tt He1ges0n), Saturday, 18 April 2009 19:24 (4 years ago) Permalink

xxxpost Harvard Square

― henry s, Saturday, 18 April 2009 19:27 (4 years ago) Permalink

which was also packed, lots of vinyl flying off the shelves...

― henry s, Saturday, 18 April 2009 19:28 (4 years ago) Permalink

Some kids are losing their vinyl cherries today..

― Mister Craig, Saturday, 18 April 2009 20:57 (4 years ago) Permalink

I buy loads of records in thrift stores and garage sales, so maybe I am part of the problem. Usually they are way cheaper and more interesting in those places.

Yeah...kinda my problem too. Looking at the list up there, and, Arthur Russell apart there's not a whole lot i would want - it's all very white and young. Thing is, I'd bet it's guys like me that spend most on records now - middle aged, not all that interested in new stuff necessarily. What killed going to record stores for me was the CD - I just never got that excited about buying them, so when Vinyl started appearing in quantities in charity shops, and then on the 'bay, that's where my purchasing went.

― sonofstan, Saturday, 18 April 2009 21:17 (4 years ago) Permalink

Wow. I'm speechless.

it's $31 on eBay right now with 4 hours left, so I'd say that's a good deal. Enjoy your dollar records.

― sleeve, Saturday, 18 April 2009 21:31 (4 years ago) Permalink

We had a really really great day at the shop I work at - loads of bands and artists playing all afternoon, loads of interest generated by the day itself and by the exclusive releases, most of which sold well. It was a wonderful party atmosphere and majorly busy all day long. Great fun and inspiring for our continued survival.

― krakow, Saturday, 18 April 2009 21:33 (4 years ago) Permalink

"Wow. I'm speechless."

Wow you are a dick.

― Alex in SF, Saturday, 18 April 2009 21:35 (4 years ago) Permalink

Oh yeah, our 7''s were/are £3.99 for the most part.

― krakow, Saturday, 18 April 2009 21:47 (4 years ago) Permalink

did you get the jesus lizard thing in, alex?

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Saturday, 18 April 2009 21:48 (4 years ago) Permalink

Not yet. A bunch of things were delayed shipping so won't be with us until Monday (SY 7''s in particular). Not sure how many we'll get though, will have to wait and see...

― krakow, Saturday, 18 April 2009 21:49 (4 years ago) Permalink

if you do get the jesus lizard Inch in can you keep me one and PM me over on DFFD and i'll come in and get it?

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Saturday, 18 April 2009 21:53 (4 years ago) Permalink

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Yeah, that's a great tactic. People who make a fuss will quickly give themselves away as ebay leeches.

― Evan, Thursday, 9 May 2013 12:46 (1 week ago) Permalink

anyone buying Record Store Day stuff had to open the shrink wrap in order to buy the item.

was there like some line before you purchased items where you had to line up to shame-facedly strip each album of its shrinkwrap in front of a two-man inquisition?

― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Thursday, 9 May 2013 12:47 (1 week ago) Permalink

if it weren't for ebay leeches record store day probably wouldn't be a "thing" in the same way

which would be good maybe

― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Thursday, 9 May 2013 12:47 (1 week ago) Permalink

Well yeah, it would be exactly what it was meant to be!

― Evan, Thursday, 9 May 2013 13:36 (1 week ago) Permalink

I thought it was about getting more people and more profits into record stores? In which case I'm all for store guy upthread who was increasing the price depending on how much they're going for on ebay.

― food and boardgames and minimal techno (NotEnough), Friday, 10 May 2013 13:49 (1 week ago) Permalink

Symbol: Zaireeka (lp box).

Share price: 87.20 % Change: -0.06 % Change: -0.30
Buy: 45.20
Offer:90.25
Volume: 12
Prev close: 70.50
Shares issued: 1,000 (numbered)
52 week high: 475.90

― Mark G, Friday, 10 May 2013 13:55 (1 week ago) Permalink

I like to imagine that if there *weren't* assholes selling shit on eBay, then the stuff wd be bought anyway by other fans that were farther back in line and it wd still be just as successful.

― siouxsan sarandon (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 10 May 2013 14:24 (1 week ago) Permalink

That probably is true in this magical world where ebay doesn't exist.

― food and boardgames and minimal techno (NotEnough), Friday, 10 May 2013 14:26 (1 week ago) Permalink

I honestly don't get the bad feelings about people flipping stuff. they BOUGHT stuff in a STORE. its not wartime. they aren't hoarding flour and sugar.

― scott seward, Friday, 10 May 2013 14:29 (1 week ago) Permalink

I mean making people open their records in front of you? fucking crazy. just don't buy the shit or don't open that day.

― scott seward, Friday, 10 May 2013 14:30 (1 week ago) Permalink

I was at an antique store last weekend in rural GA and was looking through their records and the lady behind the counter said "Oh, we're putting those on ebay, they aren't for sale." And later when i checked out she asked me who the guy was on the cover of one of the records I was buying, which was "McCartney II".

― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 10 May 2013 14:30 (1 week ago) Permalink

Who was it?

― Call the Cops, Friday, 10 May 2013 14:35 (1 week ago) Permalink

Paul McCartney LOL

― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 10 May 2013 15:00 (1 week ago) Permalink

But who is that, right?

― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 10 May 2013 15:01 (1 week ago) Permalink

Great, here comes the wave of flipper defending. Opinions on this board seem governed by the moon's gravity sometimes.

I understand your points but the records are meant for the fans. Therefore, the real answer is that the records themselves shouldn't be as limited as they are. Meet demand and the flipping won't be as ridiculous. I understand the fun of super limited releases for the labels but they should close the gap a little.

xposts

― Evan, Friday, 10 May 2013 15:02 (1 week ago) Permalink

It Was Paul McCartney 2 !

― Mark G, Friday, 10 May 2013 15:07 (1 week ago) Permalink

Who?

― Evan, Friday, 10 May 2013 15:08 (1 week ago) Permalink

yeah RSD is just done weirdly. stores not knowing what they are going to get in the mail until the last minute? not knowing what they will be paying for? so strange. but fun day of record shopping is no fun if there is a big list of rules at the door or something. just don't worry about the limited thing. just sell stuff and have fun. don't worry about what people do after they leave. a large percentage of them won't be coming back to your store until the next rsd anyway.

― scott seward, Friday, 10 May 2013 15:09 (1 week ago) Permalink

Its a great place to go if you want to buy a copy of that Kansas album with "Dust in the Wind" on it in Good condition for $8.

― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 10 May 2013 15:10 (1 week ago) Permalink

Wait, who's this McCartney guy again? Is he the dude on that duet with Pink? Oops. I mean P!nk.

― i kant believe it's not buffon (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 10 May 2013 15:10 (1 week ago) Permalink

No, he is in Foo Fighters.

― Evan, Friday, 10 May 2013 15:13 (1 week ago) Permalink

Its a great place to go if you want to buy a copy of that Kansas album with "Dust in the Wind" on it in Good condition for $8.

― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, May 10, 2013 10:10 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ah yes, those sort of places. it's like the LP-pricing version of outsider art. these are the places that single out every beat-to-shit elvis and beatles album they come across and price them at $50

― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 10 May 2013 15:15 (1 week ago) Permalink

― scott seward, Friday, May 10, 2013 11:09 AM (3 minutes ago)

Yeah, any rules would make things very uncomfortable. The morning rush is tense as it is. But I totally understand any effort of the store to get on the good side of the customers that actually might shop there before the next record store day! Beneficial to win them over, nothing to lose pissing off the ebay opportunists in the process.

― Evan, Friday, 10 May 2013 15:18 (1 week ago) Permalink

i didn't realize the steve gunn/hiss golden messenger record was an RSD release. i kinda want that.
but i got the charlie poole record from my pals in RVA, so what do i care.

― i guess i'd just rather listen to canned heat? (ian), Friday, 10 May 2013 15:21 (1 week ago) Permalink

"I4n J0hnson: Interested in only the least popular RSD titles since 2010."

― i guess i'd just rather listen to canned heat? (ian), Friday, 10 May 2013 15:21 (1 week ago) Permalink

Ha, Yeah I had been getting some of the Vanguard reissues yearly (none this year) myself and I don't think anyone else really cared about those either.

― Evan, Friday, 10 May 2013 15:29 (1 week ago) Permalink

Well, my haul consisted of the Davy Graham ep, £6 or thereabouts.

I did get the Half Japanese CD set, but directly from the company for £20 or thereabouts.

― Mark G, Friday, 10 May 2013 15:36 (1 week ago) Permalink

There kinda sorta already are rules: http://www.recordstoreday.com/CustomPage/1038

Granted, not RULES rules, but there you have it.

― Austin, Friday, 10 May 2013 17:19 (1 week ago) Permalink

they have agreed to act in the spirit of Record Store Day
they have agreed to act in the spirit of Record Store Day
they have agreed to act in the spirit of Record Store Day
they have agreed to act in the spirit of Record Store Day
they have agreed to act in the spirit of Record Store Day
they have agreed to act in the spirit of Record Store Day
they have agreed to act in the spirit of Record Store Day
they have agreed to act in the spirit of Record Store Day

― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 10 May 2013 17:27 (1 week ago) Permalink

What are the consequences if they don't, I'm wondering.

― Austin, Friday, 10 May 2013 17:39 (1 week ago) Permalink

last time i checked there were a pile (i.e. at least 4 of them) of those flaming lips Zaireeka boxsets in my local shop ..

― mark e, Friday, 10 May 2013 17:46 (1 week ago) Permalink

Consequence is that you don't get any records for next year. Store by me got in trouble and aren't allowed to participate anymore.

― Evan, Friday, 10 May 2013 17:57 (1 week ago) Permalink

That's good, I guess.

But I get really critical and start to wonder — if there is a "pledge" like this, were these sorts of places ever on the buyer's side in the first place? Because "the pledge" was created out of unflaterring circumstances, right?

Just wondering out loud.

More reason for me to just sit the whole thing out, I guess.

― Austin, Friday, 10 May 2013 18:24 (1 week ago) Permalink

Right I think the past issues of this nature motivated them to create the pledge. The conditions of the pledge aren't asking too much of the stores, honestly.

― Evan, Friday, 10 May 2013 18:50 (1 week ago) Permalink

just look for the red badge of courage.

― scott seward, Friday, 10 May 2013 18:51 (1 week ago) Permalink

mark e, yeah and their own website has it on 'special offer' too...

― Mark G, Friday, 10 May 2013 18:52 (1 week ago) Permalink

even if all of the records went into the hands of true fans, lots of them would sell anyway if the price was right. the crazy ebay prices are not caused by flippers, they're caused by the labels pressing stuff in limited editions.

― wk, Friday, 10 May 2013 23:38 (1 week ago) Permalink

I mean, I don't think I own a single record that I wouldn't let go of for $100! It's just a record.

― wk, Friday, 10 May 2013 23:39 (1 week ago) Permalink

Great, here comes the wave of flipper defending.

Fuck you Flipper rules

― Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Friday, 10 May 2013 23:40 (1 week ago) Permalink

haha

― Evan, Saturday, 11 May 2013 00:12 (1 week ago) Permalink

Somebody doesn't like Flipper? Oh I see.

― Retreat from the Sunship (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 11 May 2013 01:04 (1 week ago) Permalink

We have so many flippers that aren't RSD specific, it's kind of fucking annoying when one of them comes in and buys up some reasonably priced stuff because he can sell it on Amazon to some lazy ass with more money than sense. I would totally rather have sold that copy of Fahey's "America" to someone who would listen to it instead of cash it in so he can buy more duplicate Beatles albums.

In conclusion the internet ruined record shopping thx.

― You can fondle the cube but it will not respond. (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 11 May 2013 03:14 (1 week ago) Permalink

Or sells it to brazil or something for double.

― Evan, Saturday, 11 May 2013 03:22 (1 week ago) Permalink

I just price the easily flippable stuff higher now. if someone wants to buy all my pink floyd records at once to sell online they are gonna pay for them. but I don't price them SO high that a kid who just wants the record won't buy it.

― scott seward, Saturday, 11 May 2013 03:22 (1 week ago) Permalink

$15-$20 each?

― Evan, Saturday, 11 May 2013 03:24 (1 week ago) Permalink

around there, yup.

― scott seward, Saturday, 11 May 2013 03:27 (1 week ago) Permalink

i think it was a day a couple years ago when someone came in and bought every beatles album i had - like 10 or 15 records - when i decided that i would go up 5 bucks or more for clean copies of stuff like that. i mean i'm still pretty cheap compared to some places but i want kids getting into records to be able to buy normal rock stuff. they come back for more for one thing. unlike the guy who wiped out my beatles section. never saw him again.

― scott seward, Saturday, 11 May 2013 03:32 (1 week ago) Permalink

i give great deals to actual dealers cuz they bring me boxes of records and they buy pricy stuff and other things that most people wouldn't buy depending on what their specialty is. but the amateurs bug me. every once in a while one of them will ask me why i don't have a section for sealed records and i laugh and tell them to start digging. lazyasses.

― scott seward, Saturday, 11 May 2013 03:36 (1 week ago) Permalink

Ha. Such a shame though, fair prices can be tough to come by. Hate to see anyone ruin that for everyone else.

― Evan, Saturday, 11 May 2013 03:47 (1 week ago) Permalink

How is that Charlie Poole record Ian?

― Evan, Sunday, 12 May 2013 14:15 (1 week ago) Permalink

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