National Record Store Day

RSD doesn't have to just be about the exclusive releases. It's good to bring in casual buyers that will be likely to buy a lot of the general stock.

― Evan

It is true. We sell so many dollar bin records that the whole thing needs to be replenished the next day. We sell a lot of every thing because there are droves of folks that love records in the store. Biggest sales of the year, so it does keep us in business.

It sounds like you run it the right way. Another disappointing aspect of the event I went to last year was that the store actively discouraged browsing. It was structured entirely to get people in the the door and up to the counter to select from the pre-printed list. You could browse a little as you shuffled along the line, but if you stepped away you lost your place. And they actually chased off two guys that started browsing in another section away from the line, telling them that they needed to keep everything "orderly". Granted, this was a pretty narrow shop, but it just seemed to emphasize that the only important thing were those exclusives and those alone.

They obviously have no idea what they are doing. Doomed to fail. If your business model is like the local grocery with the mindset that people shop there because they have to then you might as well follow fye off the inevitable cliff.

Moved from Portland, OR to Tampa this year so no record store shopping for me. Sadly, Amazon is my record store now.

Record Store Day definitely is a huge day, businesswise. 3-4x as busy as our average saturday, and getting busier each year.
it's kind of a drag to work it, honestly. the store is too busy and the employees are too busy to do much fun. it would be impossible to have an in-store. 3 years ago we had a bbq with burger and dogs and veggie stuff, but even something like that would be too hard to try to do now because of the sheer mass of ppl. last year we drank bloody marys and that helped a lot.

fyi i have done a LOT of ordering for RSD over the last few weeks, and have tried to get most things mentioned in this thread (wld love to get the brotzmann record! EU only?) but i HAVE ordered the lee perry, mclusky, flaming lips. just today i ordered a bunch of THIRD MAN crap, which people love love love and asked for all day last year, long after we sold out. so i ordered higher quanities this year. of montreal/deerhoof split, i expect to be a good seller.

i a PSYCHED about the Mynah Birds! The Rick James/Neil Young group.

there's a jimmy fallon single with his version of the reading rainbow theme song (in the style of the doors.).. skip james & mississippi john hurt reissue on vanguard..

ian are you able to order the captured tracks boxsets yet? Medicine and Cleaners From Venus? Our store isn't able to yet.

i believe you can order them direct from the label. we've definitely put in orders for them. also, superD (weird distributor i've never used until this week) had them on their list.

Just had the email about the Captured Tracks stuff last night here in the UK. Too expensive & risky for me though. They sound amazing mind.

Just put in our Alliance order. Hope we get the stuff we ordered!

http://www.katebush.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/fullwidth_image/news/RecordStoreDay.jpg

This Kate Bush picture disc single is pretty!

Oh, I had thought those Captured Tracks boxes had sold out direct from the website, but it looks like they at the time were not YET available. Got it.

as an insider fact, the CT boxes have not even been manufactured yet... guy i know is printing the artwork and he's still waiting to hear back about the proofs he sent.

Interesting! Medicine box is the most expensive but I think I may need that and CFV for myself very badly. Though I don't have the room for excessive vinyl box-sets anymore.

oh man I want that Kate Bush single!

another lovely record store day special

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dj food vs amorphous androgynous

17 minute version of an album track that does all the usual aa excess.

This has a link to tracks from these LPs:
RECORD STORE DAY EXCLUSIVE
March 13, 2012 – Vanguard Records is proud to announce the reissue of five classic recordings available exclusively on Record Store Day – April 21, 2012.

Back in June of 2011 Vanguard and Record Store Day asked fans to vote on www.recordstoreday.com for the five Vanguard titles to be reissued on Record Store Day 2012. Fans voted, and below are the five titles selected. These 12” vinyl LPs – newly re-mastered from the original tapes - will be limited in quantity and available EXCLUSIVELY at participating independently owned record stores on April 21, 2012. And if the past two years are any indication, these LPs will be gone in hours, if not minutes! So mark your calendars – April 21, 2012 – Record Store Day!

Larry Coryell – Spaces - This iconic jazz-fusion album features Coryell alongside John McLaughlin, Billy Cobham, Miroslav Vitous, and Chick Corea.

Buddy Guy – This is Buddy Guy - This classic live blues album features Guy at the height of his powers, tearing through a blistering and virtuosic set.

Joan Baez – Farewell Angelina – This 1965 album features Bob Dylan tunes as well as songs by Donovan and Woody Guthrie.

Mississippi John Hurt – Last Sessions – Recorded just months before Hurt’s death, this album captures the blues icon in fine, inspiring form.

Skip James – Devil Got My Woman – This 1968 release holds a dozen semi-autobiographical or entirely personalized traditional songs that attest to James’ almost unparalleled artistry.

To hear tracks from these recordings, visit www.vanguardrecords.com/recordstoreday

i love vanguard for continuing to reissue records you can still find for a few bucks almost anywhere in the country. i mean, spaces and their continuing joan baez campaign.

lol so true. you just *never* see any copies of 'Spaces' around...

skip james and john hurt always welcome, but, yeah...

what store would buy that joan baez for their store? maybe in woodstock...

every once in a while i would receive new promo vanguard releases in the mail and i liked some of them a LOT. one of them even made my pazz & jop top ten a couple years ago. nobody on earth hears them. nobody. possibly some local npr-type radio play and that's about it. which is too bad, because they really have put out decent folk-ish stuff over the last 5 or 6 years.

The store I work at (up until next Monday) is a contender for ordering the boring Baez reissues. I think we even still have the Hammond ones from last year. I loved the Hurt and Fahey ones from last year though, and am very excited about the Skip James and the new Hurt reissues, definitely.

old blues is always a winner. from a sales point of view. but if you were gonna make a list of stuff that is hard to sell in a used record store...joan would be on it.

i got a reissue of the yellow princess by john fahey at record store day a couple years ago, it's nice

The current full official list of UK Record Store Day 2012 releases is now available: http://www.recordstoreday.co.uk/exclusive-product.asp

doesnt work

http://www.recordstoreday.co.uk/exclusive-product.aspx

Sorry, bad copy & paste on my part - thanks anagram!

anyone know what this is?

Bob Dylan
Can You Please Crawl Out Of Your Window
Special RSD 4x 7" boxset release, numbered copies, including a sticker
QTY: 1000
Label: Music On Vinyl

It is all about one Finnish item for me this year...

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The Heads Peel Sessions lp looks good. Botch lp too and the Tangerine Dream 7"

anyone know that DEVO 81 live show? good?

They had a good a live album out in the early 80s, didn't they? 60s Baez LPs aren't nec so easy to find beyond a few folkie strongholds, the good ones anyway (like what was it, Joan Baez 5, with everything from "Stewball" to Villa Lobos to "The Death of Queen Jane"), before the vibrato took over. That one from a few years ago, Day After Tomorrow, I think, was really good, w song selection and vocal excess reined in by producer Steve Earle, not the first artist you'd think of re vocal reliability.
Sub Pop Makes Record Store Day 2012 Worth Living with Releases from Beach House, Blitzen Trapper, and Shabazz Palaces

Terminal Sales Vol. 5: Mixed Nuts, Sub Pop’s Free 16-Track 2012 Label Sampler Will Also Be Available On Record Store Day
We here at Sub Pop Records love few things more than Record Store Day. We’ll be demonstrating and celebrating this love on April 21, 2012 with array of exclusive and limited-edition releases featuring new, rare and unreleased tracks from Beach House, Blitzen Trapper, and Shabazz Palaces. On this same day, we will also release our FREE 2012 label sampler, Terminal Sales Vol. 5: Mixed Nuts, a 16-track collection of new, rare and, in some cases, previously released tracks from Beachwood Sparks, Jaill, Shearwater, THEESatisfaction, Spoek Mathambo, Debo Band, King Tuff, and 9 more. All Sub Pop Record Store releases come with exclusive and ridiculously handsome artwork. Full track lists and release details are below.

Beach House
“Lazuli” b/w “Equal Mind” 7” single
(Limited-edition of 2,400 copies on blue vinyl)
1.Lazuli
2. Equal Mind

Beach House
Bloom Album Artwork
Pre-order: iTunes/ Amazon /Insound / Sub Pop.com

Blitzen Trapper
“Hey Joe” b/w “Skirts on Fire” 7” single
(Limited-edition of 1800 on yellow vinyl)
1. Hey Joe
2. Skirts on Fire

Shabazz Palaces
Live at KEXP12” EP
(From the band’s spectacular 2011 live session on KEXP, one of the station’s most popular live sessions, limited-edition of 2,000 copies on purple vinyl)
1. bop hard
2. An echo from the hosts that profess infinitum
3. a mess, the booth that soaks in palacian musk
4. free press and curl


Various Artists
Terminal Sales Vol. 5: Mixed Nuts
1. Shearwater – “You as You Were” (demo version)
2. Memoryhouse – “Walk With Me”
3. feedtime – “rock n roll”
4. Spoek Mathambo – “Kites”
5. THEESatisfaction – “QueenS”
6. Poor Moon – “People in Her Mind”
7. Retribution Gospel Choir – “The Stone (Revolution!)”
8. Shabazz Palaces – “bop hard” (From the Live at KEXP 12” EP)
9. Father John Misty – “Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings”
10. Beach House – “Myth”
11. King Tuff – “Bad Thing”
12. Jaill – “Waste a Lot of Things”
13. Beachwood Sparks – “Forget the Song”
14. Debo Band – "Asha Gedawo"
15. Husky – “History’s Door”
16. Niki & The Dove – “DJ, Ease My Mind”

Tompkins Square Rolls Out Line of 78 RPM Discs
Record Store Day Exclusives from Ralph Stanley, Luther Dickinson

luther78
San Francisco-based record label Tompkins Square announces the first in a series of releases in the 78 rpm 10" vinyl format.

The first two will feature previously unreleased recordings from Luther Dickinson (North Mississippi Allstars), and Ralph Stanley. Both 78's will be released as a limited edition of 500 copies on Record Store Day, April 21, 2012.

Luther Dickinson plays medleys of Southern melodies on his 78, including "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah/Beautiful Dreamer" on the A side and "Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen/Peace in the Valley" on the B side. Ralph Stanley's 78 features "Single Girl", with "Little Birdie" on the B side.

Tompkins Square owner Josh Rosenthal comments, "A lot of new turntables play 78's, and many 78 collectors listen to their records on modern equipment. Tom Waits, Elvis Costello and Nick Lowe have all recently released 78's. So I thought it would be fun to start a line of them."

The label will also release a white label 45 of Hiss Golden Messenger's "Jesus Shot Me in The Head" from the forthcoming album 'Poor Moon', b/w the unreleased "Jesus Dub," on Record Store Day.

Hiss Golden Messenger's album "Poor Moon" is set for release April 17th.

Hear Hiss Golden Messenger's album Poor Moon

Dunno what's happening with their links, but you can chack Luther's 78 here, and scroll down the right rail to the view all link for Hiss Golden Messenger's album and one by Ardoin and McGee http://soundcloud.com/tompkinssquare/nobody-knows-the-trouble-ive

The Cure for UK Record Store Day (April 21st, 2012):

Friday I'm In Love (Secret 7" single Qty: 100)
Three Imaginary Boys (Numbered 2,500 coloured vinyl LP 180g)
Seventeen Seconds (Numbered 2,500 coloured vinyl LP 180g)
Faith (Numbered 2,500 coloured vinyl LP 180g)
Pornography (Numbered 2,500 coloured vinyl LP 180g)
The Top (Numbered 2,500 coloured vinyl LP 180g)

I don't think I'd heard about the 7'', will have to investigate... thanks!

Anyone in NYC certain whether they'll be getting the Freakwater reissue?

Freakwater reissue??

PS There's also a Catherine Irwin / Wooden Wand split 7" for RSD on the People In A Position To Know label. Hazel Dickens covers!

Yeah! Freakwater's first album:

http://www.recordstoreday.com/SpecialRelease/5203

I very much would like it! Thinking it may be a harder one to find in that I'm sure who will end up ordering it for their store.

I'm not sure*

Awesome! But pretty sure that's the second or possibly even third album. (s/t and Dancing Underwater were first, I think?)

I'm not even doing the actual ordering for our store but am trying to keep on top of it all as my boss does so, as there is just the two of us, and it is totally madness-inducing! SOOOO much stuff spread across so many distributors and emails and phone calls and customer requests and order forms and and and and....

Awesome! But pretty sure that's the second or possibly even third album. (s/t and Dancing Underwater were first, I think?)

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Oops, good call. Love that band, am always kicking myself for not picking up one of their albums that came into the store I used to work at awhile ago. My own fault!

Yeah the list this year is nuts, I wonder if it'll keep expanding every year much like our universe.

Here is the list for Germany (and maybe also the rest of mainland Europe?) - seems rather different from the UK list linked to above:

http://www.recordstoredaygermany.de/?page_id=12

mmmmmmmmmmm ABBA
http://abbalatestreleases.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/new-abba-12-incher-with-voulez-vous-on.html

What's the deal with this Let Them Eat Vinyl label? They have three RSD releases - Cohen, Springsteen and Beefheart, all obviously bootlegs:

http://www.letthemeatvinyl.com

Kind of surprised RSD is sanctioning boots.