National Record Store Day

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

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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?

Only thing I really wanted are the Colleen vinyls, but didnt find one and have no idea where they turned up. Same problem every year.

only RSD release i ended up getting was the Nilsson Schmilsson white/yellow reissue. they were out of the Animal Collective EP. also picked up Contact - Pharmakon, Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements - Stereolab, and Hokey Pokey - Richard and Linda Thompson. store was mobbed, didn't have much room to browse.

I have to say the shop that I went to today was super packed. Got the African Head Charge LP. I wanted the Hawkwind best of LP but didn't see it. Also found a bunch of other fairly priced used stuff while I was there. Shop was too crowded to get much browsing done though. and Le Bateau, not sure if you live near Connecticut but this shop, Red Scroll Records, had a few of the Colleen records.

I sense that for some reason, people are willing this to be the last RSD.

who? labels, stores, customers?

Xxxpost

Whiney stores make very little on new product as you know and having to make guesses on which $30 releases are going to sell and which aren't actually does put smaller stores like say perhaps ones that aren't *quite* as prosperous as Rough Trade it's a lot of dough to shell out

I'm sure increased traffic and used sales balances the scales somewhat

xp yes. And it's really a guessing game, even if you have inside info (like the year we knew months in advance, due to some savvy hc / emo kids on staff, to order as many of that Brand New thing as we could, as soon as we could). One year people were lined up at 8am to get some Flaming Lips thing (I don't remember which), so subsequent years we ordered the shit out of those dumb 10"s they put out, and they are still sitting in the clearance bin.

wow this Harry Nilsson record sounds like absolute shit, let's end this

Some theories afoot about overworked, overextended, understaffed plants doing shittier jobs than usual this time of year. I'm not advancing any, just putting it out there

The fact that punk bands and techno artists -- the people who kept pressing plants in business through the wilderness of the 90s -- are given 36 week turnaround times for test pressings because Toto vinyl is some real bullshit though

oh yeah, it's absurd- is it really that hard to build more pressing plants? columbia should build their own fucking pressing plant

I guess it isn't the plant itself (though that's a big investment for something I think most loan officers would agree isn't totally stable) as much as the equipment (which no one makes anymore), the parts (ditto) and finding people who actually know how to work on these things when they go down. My understanding is that it's a small miracle a lot of these machines are still operating at all

if vinyl turns out to be more than a passing fad (pretty close right?), would people still be able to make those parts and machines?

Lmao even by Whiney Brooklyn hipster myopia standards judging The State of Record Store Day by a store with this lineup is hilarious

Record Store Day
Sunflower Bean, Sneaks, Today is the Day, Charly Bliss, Beverly, Steve Earle
Rough Trade NYCBrooklyn, NY
Sat 4/22 Doors: 11:30 AM / Show: 12 PM All Ages

if vinyl turns out to be more than a passing fad (pretty close right?), would people still be able to make those parts and machines?

― flappy bird, Saturday, April 22, 2017 6:41 PM (twenty-nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

good question. I'm assuming (hoping?) some enterprising young people at these places are trying to soak up as much know-how as possible from the older guys and gals who know everything about these machines, but who knows? It could end up like grandma's cookie recipe she never wrote down and no one ever bothered to ask about.

as far as it being a fad, I've prematurely predicted the end a few times already, so I've learned not to speculate. I theorized after the Christmas when all the Crosleys were sold it would be 6 months before used Black Keys and Ryan Adams vinyls started choking the bins, but that turned out to be wrong. I do think ridiculously high vinyl prices will eventually drive more and more people to streaming just as $18.99 Beck CDs made it easier for music lovers rationalize illegal downloading. This is not an industry known for learning from its mistakes

I def know a few millennials who have asked me for advice on a record player so they could actually play the records they already bought

if vinyl turns out to be more than a passing fad (pretty close right?), would people still be able to make those parts and machines?

I don't think vinyl is a passing fad, in the sense that vinyl is the only medium that can be played without electricity -- that is, it's not a "fad" only because post-apocalyptic societies could conceivably dig up and play a few records.

But I do think that, in a year or three, we'll see dollar bins full of 2000-2017 (or later) vinyl reissues mastered from CDs or other digital sources.

The big local shop here already has a $10 bin for new, sealed vinyl that once upon a time would have been cut-out/closeout stuff--old RSD things, unsold recent-ish releases, stray unpopular reissues. Last week I got two Syl Johnson Hi Records on Fat Possum from that bin.

It was packed where I was working yesterday (Agharta Records here in Minnesota). We had a decent sized line before we opened at nine and soon as we opened people just kept appearing. People were wandering around with stacks of these records paying up to $500 a time. It wasn't just RSD stuff that we were selling. People were clearing out new stuff that's been sitting that we always have (lots of Radiohead, Pixies, The National, all our copies of that boring Neutral Milk Hotel album). Lots of used records and box sets we've had sitting around for a while went too. People did not want to leave empty handed and we remained busy throughout the day. The owner said it was much bigger than last year. I couldn't believe how much we sold.

Our biggest RSD sellers were probably the 7" picture disc of Little Red Corvette (all 15 copies sold within the hour), the $75 Ramones singles box set (six copies sold within the hour), the Bowie live album (four copies gone within 10 minutes) that Toto Africa shaped vinyl (it took a few hours to sell out but we did sell all 10 copies). We only got one each of The Cure Greatest Hits which were the first things to go. We got calls about those throughout the day. I don't know who Coheed and Cambria are but one guy was not happy when he couldn't locate the album as soon as we opened. We had three copies that were snapped up immediately. The highlight of my day was locating the Fawlty Towers picture disc for this older guy who seemed so delighted when I found it for him.

The only thing I got was the Miley Cyrus Bangerz vinyl. We only got one copy and my boss (who is the nicest guy) kindly let me have the only copy we had on Friday night. So yeah, even thought that was an epic week, I had a great time and based on what went through, I don't see RSD ending any time soon.

brotherlovesdub,

You're obviously from Seattle, can you tell me what the regional RSD exclusives were released here?