Skipping Record Store Day altogether, but I can be found in record stores at least 2-3x a week anyway -- I'm not the type that needs to be dragged there for ltd. ed. vinyl or anything. I'd rather not weather the crowds, it seems like shopping on Black Friday for music.
I did order the Devo CD reissue from Amazon for $10.99 -- think it's 3,000 copies or so?
Would pick up the Mtn Goats DVD if I had the will to go shopping. Will check Monday, and assuming it's all out of stock (likely) then I'll just pick up a used copy sometime in the coming years, when I happen to find it.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Saturday, 17 April 2010 22:19 (fourteen years ago) link
i skipped record store day too! i had to watch the kids all day so that maria could work (and also watch the store). someone sent me a record in the mail though. which is always nice.
― scott seward, Saturday, 17 April 2010 22:54 (fourteen years ago) link
I went to Phonica in London around 3pm. The Ltd edition stuff had mostly sold, not that I was keen for it. Then, I went to JB's on Hanway St. but couldn't decide so left empty handed. Apparently the dreadful Rough Trade East was busy.
― mmmm, Saturday, 17 April 2010 23:20 (fourteen years ago) link
Skipped it as always. I go once a week and don't really care for hordes of nerds.
― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 17 April 2010 23:28 (fourteen years ago) link
skipped it by default because my car's radiator hose broke
― babbylon falling (Curt1s Stephens), Saturday, 17 April 2010 23:31 (fourteen years ago) link
purchased these on cassette (last year I bought a car that happened to have a tape deck & I have since been an amassing a substantial collection of second-hand tapes)
Megadeth - Peace Sells, But Who's BuyingIce-T - OG: Original Gangster
― in movie 2001 resurrect thread on planet jupiter (Pillbox), Sunday, 18 April 2010 00:00 (fourteen years ago) link
record stores in brooklyn mobbed of course
trampled smaller shoppers to obtain:Hendrix Live @Clark bootlegB-Music/Finders Keepers compArthur Russell Calling out of Context 2LP I think/hope this is the one I likeSurfer Blood split 7"Fela 10"
threw back:roky & okkevvilblack keys
wheres my?:moby grape
not special to the day, just supportin the scene:Numero 30 Good God Born Again FunkM. Hurley - Hi Fi Snock UptownInsayngel (that one LP on Heavy Tapes, used)
― Snop Snitchin, Sunday, 18 April 2010 00:09 (fourteen years ago) link
snop snitchin, moby grapes sold out at our brooklyn store within half an hour of opening :(
(were you at my store today? say hi in the future?)
― ian, Sunday, 18 April 2010 00:15 (fourteen years ago) link
did all you guys buy Arthur Russell records?
― Throwing Muses are reuniting for my next orgasm! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 18 April 2010 00:15 (fourteen years ago) link
i got one.
― ian, Sunday, 18 April 2010 00:18 (fourteen years ago) link
My local shop said that lots of stuff won't show up there until May (like the Beatles 7"). I snagged the DBT's 7".
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 18 April 2010 00:18 (fourteen years ago) link
I did not, I thought there was new stuff on it but it is the same as the 2LP/CD that already came out.
I went to like 4 places in Seattle (Wall Of Sound, Sonic Boom, Easy Street, Everyday Music). Got the Bitchin Bajas/Moon Duo split, the Fall 7", and a buncha other non-RSD things. Nowhere I went was mobbed but all the places were busy with lines at the registers.
― bug holocaust (sleeve), Sunday, 18 April 2010 00:21 (fourteen years ago) link
I went to Hospital and bought the new Carlos Giffoni, Wolf Eyes and Burning Star Cores CDs and got a mountain of used shit at the zine fair for like $20.
Kind of funny that I only got CDs but oh well
― human centipeedi peedi (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 18 April 2010 00:33 (fourteen years ago) link
ian, i want your eyewitness account of record store day in brooklyn. this is what nerds do when they go buck whylin'.
― scott seward, Sunday, 18 April 2010 00:37 (fourteen years ago) link
ppl so upset they didn't get their stones 45.line outside the store when i showed up at 11:30, half an hour before opening.
― ian, Sunday, 18 April 2010 00:47 (fourteen years ago) link
The *legal* download of the Blur http://www.blur.co.uk/
― piscesx, Sunday, 18 April 2010 01:30 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, i got calling out of context.
also got the devo duty now reissue.
― altered dominant (get bent), Sunday, 18 April 2010 01:34 (fourteen years ago) link
so i went, hit may fave shops -- didn't make, like "AN EFFORT" of this idea -- just figgered I'd hit the same shops I always hit every week or so. Check in with them and see how things were going.
Have to say, this particular "event" seemed WAY more over-subscribed than last year. Could barely even get in to the Reckless Records in the Loop in Chicago. It was completely wall-to-wall (and it's obviously just a small little hole-in-the-wall to begin with)
but I basically got every "exclusive" release I wanted, save for a couple: couldn't find the Moby Grape 7" anywhere, couldn't find the Rolling Stones 7" anywhere. :(
and every place I went said that they never even got any copies of the 'super secret' Beastie Boys 12", whatever the hell it was
― Stormy Davis, Sunday, 18 April 2010 03:00 (fourteen years ago) link
this is crazy that I can't buy a friggin Moby Grape 7". aren't these kids supposed to be after TV on The Radio albums or something
― Stormy Davis, Sunday, 18 April 2010 03:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh, my store had that one in stock. I ultimately put it down.
― Throwing Muses are reuniting for my next orgasm! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 18 April 2010 03:05 (fourteen years ago) link
which one? Moby Grape? or Stones?
― Stormy Davis, Sunday, 18 April 2010 03:05 (fourteen years ago) link
Moby Grape. I was very tempted.
― Throwing Muses are reuniting for my next orgasm! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 18 April 2010 03:12 (fourteen years ago) link
We had the Grape, but we sold 'em quick :(
― ian, Sunday, 18 April 2010 04:02 (fourteen years ago) link
this is great, did anyone get this single?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeMjuwhTFws
― Bee OK, Sunday, 18 April 2010 09:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Got LCD Soundsystem 12"Of Montreal 7"Metallica/Sabbath pic discDangermouse Sparklehorse 7"Foals 7"Cobalt Eater of Birds double vinyl
Watched a few bands. Caribou were amazing. Saw loads of mates. Handed out some Stool Pigeons. Got an Aladin Sane stripe painted on my bonce.
Didn't get: Fall 7"Fela Kuti 10"Flaming Lips album
― I'd take the first Lightning Seeds album and add cowbell (Doran), Sunday, 18 April 2010 09:54 (fourteen years ago) link
OK, now for "see how much it is on E-bay" week?
― Mark G, Sunday, 18 April 2010 15:59 (fourteen years ago) link
heard a rumor they're making things easier for next year's Record Store Day -- all you're gonna have to do is launch iTunes
― ksh, Sunday, 18 April 2010 16:05 (fourteen years ago) link
limited edition mp3s
― ksh, Sunday, 18 April 2010 16:14 (fourteen years ago) link
P4k has the documentary "I Need That Record!" up -- http://pitchfork.com/tv/#/episode/2144-i-need-that-record/1
it's "One Week Only" though -- no idea when they first posted it, either
― ksh, Sunday, 18 April 2010 16:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Another documentary that may be worth a look is Alan Zweig's Vinyl: http://www.veoh.com/browse/videos/category/lifestyle_lifestyle/watch/v16951205N9H8Wagc
The funny thing is that I'm watching it today, and found that one of the guys interviewed in Vinyl is one of the guys I ran into at Record Store Day just yesterday. Know a few of the other characters in the movie too from my days wandering around the various stores in Toronto.
― Sean Carruthers, Sunday, 18 April 2010 16:50 (fourteen years ago) link
One of the record stores I stopped by said RSD was an enormous pain in the ass where you have to order all the "special" vinyl months in advance and then get don't get two-thirds of what you actually ordered
― human centipeedi peedi (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 18 April 2010 17:15 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah at my fave local all the clerks were drinking
"i'm doing everything i can to make time elastic so that by the time i get out of here i will hardly remember the day"
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 18 April 2010 17:36 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah having customers for once is rough stuff.
― scott seward, Sunday, 18 April 2010 18:31 (fourteen years ago) link
It wasn't the store in NYC called "Good Records" or something right? They were drinking whiskey and listening to blues but they were having fun.
― Evan, Sunday, 18 April 2010 18:33 (fourteen years ago) link
haha nah man they were happy to have the customers, it was just wall to wall all day and from a customer service standpoint i kinda get it
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 18 April 2010 18:37 (fourteen years ago) link
so, *does* anybody know what ended up on the Beastie Boys thing? was it just lame new stuff?
― Stormy Davis, Sunday, 18 April 2010 18:53 (fourteen years ago) link
I didn't get into record store day because I was at the footy but I know I would have not got anything I was wanting anyway and would be a £4 train fare down. Stupid idea to limit everything so much, no-one gets what they want and everything ends up on eBay, seriously, fuck this shit. I'll do my record shopping in my own time.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Sunday, 18 April 2010 18:57 (fourteen years ago) link
(im just pissed off as I knew there was no chance of getting that Soundgarden 7" or the Flaming Lips lp nevermind the Blur single)
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Sunday, 18 April 2010 19:00 (fourteen years ago) link
The Blur single is fetching between £100 and £200 on ebay.
― Mark G, Sunday, 18 April 2010 19:27 (fourteen years ago) link
Beastie Boys should have repressed the "Rock Hard" EP as a limited 10".
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 18 April 2010 19:29 (fourteen years ago) link
tbh Mark, I woulda been happy just to get the Soundgarden 7". But I knew i wouldn't even get that. It was silly to have things so limited. Whats the point of getting in people, who regularly shop there anyway, to come in for a ltd ed record , not get it, so go home pissed off rather than buying something they can get anytime in it's place? They should make enough for all, not the scum who buy just to eBay it.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Sunday, 18 April 2010 19:55 (fourteen years ago) link
Our store had so much fun yesterday and I am suffering a hang over. We didn't get half the exclusives we ordered, but we generally just act like it is a party day. Great bands. Too many hotdogs. So much beer. Cops came but left us alone. Another successful year!
We have two extra Moby Grapes at the store right now, btw. Who wants 'em?
― mr. waffles (Nijoli), Sunday, 18 April 2010 20:33 (fourteen years ago) link
make that four, actually.
― mr. waffles (Nijoli), Sunday, 18 April 2010 20:36 (fourteen years ago) link
I went, although not particularly to buy anything limited edition, just cuz I'm always there. Took me about 30 minutes to get through the line, I got a free t-shirt and a free burrito coupon at Chipotle (which I didn't get around to using).
Ultimately one year there are going to be deaths when two skinheads fight over the limited edition Anal Cunt reunion 7"
― Phoenix in Flight (Cattle Grind), Sunday, 18 April 2010 20:44 (fourteen years ago) link
nijolee, maybe post about the moby grapes on vinyl borad--i know stormy davis needs one
― ian, Sunday, 18 April 2010 20:50 (fourteen years ago) link
http://cgi.ebay.com/Beastie-Boys-White-Label-12-Record-Store-Day-exclusive_W0QQitemZ220591209127QQcmdZViewItemQQptZMusic_on_Vinyl?hash=item335c42baa7
― scott seward, Sunday, 18 April 2010 20:55 (fourteen years ago) link
hold steady thing is selling really well. 150 to 200 dollars. blur single is doing good too.
― scott seward, Sunday, 18 April 2010 20:58 (fourteen years ago) link
what is hold steady thing?
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 18 April 2010 21:00 (fourteen years ago) link
holy shit
― mr. waffles (Nijoli), Sunday, 18 April 2010 21:01 (fourteen years ago) link
http://cgi.ebay.com/The-Hold-Steady-Heaven-is-Whenever-12-Record-Store-Day_W0QQitemZ180495354765QQcmdZViewItemQQptZMusic_on_Vinyl?hash=item2a065c8b8d
― scott seward, Sunday, 18 April 2010 21:02 (fourteen years ago) link