National Record Store Day

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

That Toto is peak RSD

i don't want any of this shit

If anyone in the US sees that Geraldine Fibbers 2LP I will pay you for it and ship you bonus records in gratitude

Like many of you on this thread, 90% of what I want--John Scoggins, Dennis Wilson, Popol Vuh--will be there weeks after RSD. The remaining 10% is not worth my fighting crowds or leaving the house at 8am, so if a week goes by and I find I just can't live without that 10%, I'll hit up Discogs, where they will inevitably be available for just a few bucks over sticker price

"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."

this.

and the fucking worst part is visiting record stores c. 3 weeks before / c. 3 weeks after rsd. where i live there are at least 10 great record stores. small enough here, though, that i'm close with most owner dudes. all of them are usually nice and let me look through incoming / unpriced stuff, but they start to get super guarded and paranoid this time of year. i'm in any given record store four days a week, and it just starts to get super grim (in terms of selection and mood) leading up to april whatever.

rsd releases upthread really belong in that "snake oil" thread or the one called "deceptive ploys to trick newcomers to vinyl" or whatever it's called.

shady scams thread, yeah RSD was the first answer

Spacemen 3 doesn't want anyone to buy their RSD releases:

http://exclaim.ca/music/article/spacemen_3_ask_fans_to_not_buy_their_record_store_day_releases

it is really having the opposite effect on me. now i want to go buy some S3 vinyl, something that i had for some reason or other yet to consider.

i was excited to hear an original u.k. vinyl copy of recurring (an album i love a ton) a month ago and it turns out that the CD i bought in 1990 sounds better. all their records sound cool on disc. no need for pricey vinyl.

A friend just tweeted "Happy Last RSD." Judging by the scene at my local shop at around 11am, and the fact that this thread hasn't been revived since yesterday, I'm thinking this might be true

oh and I didn't find anything I wanted but I'm thinking that was because the store either didn't order those things or ordered very few, because they were not things people were lining up in the rain at 8am for (Thelonious Monk, John Scoggins, Dennis Wilson, Durutti Column, Geraldine Fibbers, Popol Vuh). I guess I'll check Discogs in a few days.

I walked by one and felt bad for not going in
But to be fair I had last been in there two weeks ago

Yeah stopped by my friend's shop and out wasn't as crowded as years past.

Struck out on the Popol Vuh and Andromeda Strain ost, but they did have the Bevis Frond, plus a nice used copy of Then Play On by Fleetwood Mac & a Charles Gayle record with Jack Dejohnette & Keith Jarrett in the band that looked pretty cool

Doh Charles Lloyd not Gayle

idk guys

I showed up at Rough Trade around when they opened at 9, waited about 45 minutes, decided it wasn't worth it, got breakfast and coffee at Egg in Williamsburg, had a long text conversation with Maura about Chapo Trap House, came back at around 11:22 and the people next to me in line still weren't in the door nearly 2.5 hours later.

Went to Academy and copped a Popul Vuh, a used copy of Luening/Ussachevsky's Tape Recorder Music, a Psychomania soundtrack reissue and a coconut donut

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/fe/c5/f9/fec5f97e601759b6329ced1625b3f69e.jpg

Oh it's not going anywhere
But I think it's putting stores in a bad spot, most stores have a past RSD cutout bin as a permanent section now

Dude, that have to eat a few copies of things for the price of making handfuls of money on one work day a year

It's now 4:07, I'm back at Rough Trade to see Sneaks. Seven hours later and there's still a line to get in the building. More posts about how this is dead and no one cares, please

is it possible nyc isn't representative?

I am jealous of the coconut donut though

Darla had copies of the Durutti Column for sale on their website 2 weeks ago. I got my copy last week. It has the record store day sticker.

someone called me and asked if i had jaco pastorius RSD release. slap bass kind of the end of any era.

Ooh Psychomania! Good movie.

Also, Seattle record shops were packed. I spent 45mins in the checkout line. Even shops not carrying RSD products were packed. Daybreak guy said it was his best day since they opened and that was 2hrs ago. It's almost 2pm. So 2hrs into the day he had already had his best day. RSD isn't going anywhere. I'd like to see the regional exclusives eliminated. Everything I wanted was only available in the U.K.

I hit Silver Platters, Wall of Sound, Everyday, Sonic Boom, Jive Time and Daybreak. All of them were busier than I've ever seen before.

so what did you buy?