National Record Store Day

we should try to have a band play i guess?? but it will probably be too busy/crowded to make that feasible.

― ian, Sunday, April 4, 2010 6:55 PM (1 week ago)

our bands play outside in the neighbor store's parking lot. they are closed weekends so it works perfectly. i wonder if our exclusive stuff has arrived yet or not? I haven't seen it.

Blur are releasing their first single for *ages*, The Beatles are reissuing Paperback Writer, and there are repressings for the first Bloc Party album

One of these things is not like the others...

i've been trying to repress the the first bloc party album for ages -- REPRESS FROM MY MEMORY

hoping for a miracle imo

i wish i wasn't such a party pooper and cared about this thing. but i don't. every day is record store day! but i'm sure it is fun for people less misanthropic than me. and that's nice.

I don't care about the event itself much but I guess I care about the fact it genuinely seems to get people through the doors and increases revenue for an institution I like. Even if it is kinda ridic that you now need a bunch of carrots to get people to bring themselves to visit a damn record store

Some of those carrots is stuff that they SHOULD BE SELLING ANYWAY!!!

(last year I got a nice Stooges single of "1969" with pic sleeve, right in NY)

Will I make it in time to get the nice Neu! 12" single?

Probnot.

maybe for some stores its the only day when they have any good stuff. hahahaha!

Is there any limit on how much of this stuff you're allowed to buy if you do turn up in time? I wd quite like the Pavement thing and the Neu! and Harmonia things, and maybe the Fall thing which I know a friend will want a copy of anyway, and and and. But it may look kind of vulgar to buy armfuls of it.

(There are like 60 Muse things which I will not be buying, however. Plus I've no idea how much they're going to jack up the prices for this stuff, don't really plan to spend more than a fiver on a single even if it is rare and fancy etc, esp not if I have the tracks already)

PS I hope to go and haven't been to a record shop in ages, but this is because I'm in the slightly weird situation of being in a city which doesn't have a record shop while a tiny market town an hour's bus ride away apparently still has one. Which I went to a couple of times and the content was mostly former Pop Idol contestants etc but I did get myself that Wire On The Box DVD cheap, presumably because most of its customers had no idea who Wire were.

Anyway I do keep meaning to go back but the bus ride costs as much as the postage to order records online and there's nothing else to do there so I've been lazy.

i wish i wasn't such a party pooper and cared about this thing. but i don't. every day is record store day! but i'm sure it is fun for people less misanthropic than me. and that's nice.

― scott seward, Monday, April 12, 2010 2:48 PM

We just act like it is a holiday and have a big store party, so it is pretty fun even though we are surrounded by records every day of our lives. Also, we make about ten times as much money that day as we do any other day, so it keeps our doors open.

I didn't participate last year because I think I had bought a huge amount of stuff like a week before and couldn't afford to do anything. This year I'm just going to get two 12"s I've passed on in the past since they'll be on sale. I've heard that it has reminded people of record shopping in the days before napster, etc. which is something I hope will be the case.

Looking forward to that Justin Beiber/Eyehategod split.

Is it true that the sonic youth starbucks compilation "hits are for squares" is going to get a 2xlp release?

Is there anything that anyone's particularly psyched for?

http://recordstoreday.com/Page/836

the 7" single by The Fall, and the Arthur Russell "Calling Out Of Context" reissue with extra tracks. other than that, not really.

I've only got one participating store I can hit up tomorrow because just about every retail place that sells cds either is a chain store (and F.Y.E.s are going under all over the place here), or closes at 7 pm. :/

I'm not seeing a Fall 7" on that list. Not Harmonia or Neu! releases. Is this another list I'm missing?

this = there

I think there are US and UK lists.

Is it true that the sonic youth starbucks compilation "hits are for squares" is going to get a 2xlp release?

y, along with Confusion Is Sex and EVOL on 180g vinyl.

UK "top" list:

RECORD STORE DAY RELEASES
Lily Allen - Back To The Start (limited edition vinyl)
The Beatles - Paperback Writer / Rain (7" vinyl)
Blur - Fool's Day (previously unreleased 7" vinyl)
The Flaming Lips - Dark Side Of The Moon (coloured vinyl with free CD)
Goldfrapp - Head First (cassette)
Jimi Hendrix - Live EP (7" vinyl)
MGMT - Siberian Breaks (coloured vinyl)
Pet Shop Boys - Love Life (previously unreleased 7" vinyl)
Stone Roses - TBC (individually numbered vinyl album with gold foil artwork)
Tinie Tempah - Pass Out (limited edition vinyl)
Paul Weller - Andromeda remixes (previously unreleased)

there are some gems in the US record store day releases,

hoping to snag a limited to 500 pressing of "The Yellow Princess" by John Fahey and maybe the Soft Machine 1971 live album

eh, where's the soft machine live album?

hmm...i may be mistaken there, i swear to god i saw something about a 71 live album by them that was unreleased.

am i dreaming about non-existent unreleased soft machine albums? i need counseling.

I think the Soft Machine thing is UK-only. There's a link upthread somewhere.

so it's unreleased? some of the early 70s live Soft Machine I have is super awesome.

somebody buy the fela ten inch and then, um, give it to me.

might pick up the arthur russell calling out of context if it's not too spendy

So that Fall 7" is UK only. :(

So I decided to check out the documentary I Need That Record - streaming on P4k right now & the opening shot is a pan of my hometown favorite shop, Encore Records in Ann Arbor, which was planning on stopping by tomorrow anyway! If u live in NYC, LA etc, I guess it is par for the course when that kind of stuff happens, but not so much out here in the rust belt.

so i'm dumb. where is the list of record-store-day (in USA) stuff? like, what might be available if you get there early?

honestly the record stores around here suck (ok, one is decent) so i'd only go if i could snatch up some interesting stuff.

list of USA stuff:

http://www.recordstoreday.com/page/836

yeah, it is kind of amazing/depressing how far I'd have to drive to get to an indie record store tomorrow. what in the heck.

Today, post your successes.

I don't understand why they don't do their best efforts to market the CD instead of marketing music on obsolete formats from the 80s or earlier. More than anything else, the existance of the record store depends on people's willingness to buy CDs rather than downloading mp3's.

Geir: CD sales are reducing in the face of downloads, although they are still good for all-encompassing 'collections' with books, box sets, etc.

LP format is becoming the 'hardback' to the mp3's paperback/pamphlet.

That's why.

Black Sabbath pic disc, Fall 7", Fela 10" here I come.

Flaming Lips in theory but the only copies in the country will (probably quite rightly) be in the hands of record store employees by now).

I find the 'massive 2LP plus CD and DVD and Book and etc' too big/cumbersome to have too many of them, but you know, etc...

i guess they figure the dorks who will come out for "record store day" will want to buy vinyl? vinyl seems more "collectable" somehow?

i actually agree with geir, it seems a bit silly to forgo limited-edition CDs altogether. hell, i'd probably buy something like that.

actually the whole limited-edition concept appeals to me not at all. kind of grosses me out. those vanguard LP reissues look nice, but i suspect they will have larger print runs eventually.

i'll probably skip record store day altogether. the stores around here need to do more to earn my business, anyway. selling the same used CDs that were on the shelves six years ago for the same cost isn't going to keep me coming around, sorry.

Rough Trade brick lane was mobbed.

It meant you couldn't really find anything.. picked up the Neu & amorphous releases but coujldnt see the Harmonia.

Good luck getting the Beatles/Blur/FLaming Lips though.

Man...

if anyone is in brooklyn today, I'm spinning rap from 1988, from 4pm to 6pm

http://i558.photobucket.com/albums/ss27/whineyg/flyer.jpg

Kill the shipping companies and distributors - even though my fave 'Permanent Records' in Chicago opened for RSD at midnight for two hours - they had very little of the 'heavy hitter exclusives' - dude pulling my items just kept sayin' 'never got it in' as we went down my request list ... bummer ... means I get to go to more stores today ...

was crazy this morning....got there about 10 minutes to 9AM and the line was out the door and down the block

thankfully, i was able to get in pretty quick and get EXACTLY what i was looking for:

John Fahey - The Yellow Princess

Soft Machine - Live at Heinie Onstad Art Centre 1971

Arthur Russell - Calling out of Context 2LP

surgical strike!!!

it's actually not too bad if you aren't looking for the limited stuff by Today's Hot Independent and Alternative Artists

kinda wanted the 69 Love Songs 10 inch box set but it was $90! too much for me.

saw ppl buying retarded shit though...a $7 45 of that awful new Hole song?

a "special edition" vinyl of Portishead Third which you can probably just walk into tons of stores and buy the one that came out like 2 years ago? duumb

I saw the Third boxset yesterday for about $15 off it's original price.

the vibe at my local record store was great, no queue, just a loose amorphous bundle of people waiting at the front door. the guys who run it came out ten minutes before they opened and gave us all candy.

picked up the mountain goats film by rian johnson, it's v. classy looking.