National Record Store Day

i got the big star thing

that and the television live thing were the big items at my store...really lucky to have gotten big star.

people are weird, was sad to see ppl passing up like sweet rough guide world music and mississippi john hurt records for fuckin' foo fighters rarities and shit. oh well.

i'm gonna go to another store this afternoon after the mania dies down, my friend said they had like a dozen arthur russell left when he was in and had to leave because the UPS truck had arrived with the P.O.S./William Elliott Whitmore split and ppl went bonkers and shit.

does anyone know if that Country Joe & the Fish record is cool? it's supposed to be "underrated" "weird" etc....that'll totally still be there for a while

managed to snag the last wild flag 7" on the rack, huzzah! this year's opening was MUCH crazier than last year -- a giant-ass line compared to last year's loose assembly of maybe fifteen people.

if anyone has a spare hormoaning vinyl i'd be really grateful

Josh where'd u find big star? reckless on broadway and dave's didn't get any in /:

dave (bless his heart) didn't realize that the fucked up album everyone was asking for was actually the David's Town comp sitting right there on the shelf. of course I didn't let him know til I secured my copy

Old School Records in Forest Park. They had five. I bought one, the owner bought one, which leaves ... who knows by now!

(It may have helped that I gave them the heads up about this weeks ago, and they were sure to get in on the ordering early!)

alright so my initial lack of interest has picked up a bit--
the black twig pickers/glenn jones split is really great.
steve gunn/ilyas ahmed 7" is good
intl submarine band LP & single

and i may end up getting the numero comp, or the vanguard comp, but probably not. ppl should get that vanguard comp though, it's got good stuff on it, especially the serpent power.

No Big Star at my local store :(

Got the Liturgy / Oval split, wife got Damien Jurado and Akron Family jams. Almost bought that Skip James thing but bought a buncha dollar CDs instead - Acetone, David Dondero, Three Mile Pilot, Lloyd Cole, Oakley Hall.

Got the Prurient 7" and the Arthur Russell reissue. Went to three stores in wburg looking for the Lady Gaga. One of them literally laughed at me.

the hip record store here sells lady gaga lp's & singles

Forget it, Flopson. It's Hipstertown.

Bought the John Fahey from the store I work at, couldn't help it.

Whiney come to Hoboken if you want the Lady Gaga. L train to 14th and 6th, switch to Path! (Not a serious suggestion, but we've got it.)

Some dude showed up early for a John Mayall 7" and pronounced "Mayall" wrong when he asked for it.

how is that possible?

think i woulda picked up the fahey if i'd seen it.
i got the big star. anyone who's fretting because they didn't, don't worry, you don't need a version of third that's sequenced so that thank you friends segues into holocaust.

fun, anyway. nice seeing people bopping around with copies of world of echo and stuff.

also woulda bought: the lower dens seven.

you don't need a version of third that's sequenced so that thank you friends segues into holocaust.
ha yeah, i keep looking at the test pressing tracklisting and thinking, "no, that's WRONG." even though it might be technically right.

I went CD shopping this morning, forgetting it was Record Store Day. Jackpot Records, in Portland, had a line going around the whole inside of the store. There were so many people there it made it literally impossible to browse. So I ended up leaving without buying anything. Everyday Music, which opens an hour before Jackpot, didn't have nearly as many people so I shopped there. Didn't even check the RSD specials to see what they had left over.

crazy!
think i'm going to a record store later after the baby wakes up. there will probably be nothing left. though i can't imagine this particular store having a line of people waiting to be let in!

I went to the four big stores in Seattle. I couldn't believe all the people buying the Fleet Foxes/Foo Fighters, etc. Got a couple things that I really wanted, but just missed out on those two White Stripes 7".

Got the Ty Segall T. Rex covers album, Nirvana's Hormoaning, Arthur Russell, the Sacred Bones comp, Fela Kuti and Buck Owens 7" and was lucky enough to grab the only copy of the Purling Hiss/Puffy Areolas split.

Easy Street was a madhouse. I walked in, saw the lines and walked right out. Sonic Boom had a great selection and the crowds weren't too crazy.

Was in Tower Records in Dublin. Got to see Steve Mason and Lykke Li for free. Which was nice.

Once again it was an amazing day for us. We had about 250 of the UK special releases for sale and had 11 bands playing over the course of the day and everything went fantastically well. I've just got home now, quite happily squiffy and tired. Keep buying records everyone, please.

Just did a late run and got arther russell and television live @ the old waldorf. Had gotten big star earlier so got everything I wanted

have you heard the television set before? it is off the hook amazing.

No I haven't but I figured jeez television in 78 were they ever not amazing? Also it's rhino handmade so pressing, packaging, etc, is all to top notch

yeah, it's a couple days before (or after, i forget) that portland show. crazy that they broke up like a month later.

krakow when did the hormoaning sell out? I just couldnt get in today :(

We had lots of Nirvana so it lasted until about 10:30am or 11am or so.

ok this television is fucking amazing. the sound quality is so good.

slick looking white vinyl too :)

couldnt have got in by then oh well. I just hope genuine fans got them and not ebay scum. Hope sandy and you all had a great time!

xpost yeah that show had been on bootleg forever, but the bootleg sounded terrible...super muddy. when rhino put it out i couldn't believe how great it sounded. nice to hear crystal clear separation between lloyd/verlaine.

I forgot that I got the Numero comp on cassette for the car rides

In the end my haul was the Television set, the Fucked Up, Superchunk on vinyl, grabbed the Foos (largely to irritate a coworker who loves the Foos but doesn't have a turntable), the Daft Tron 10", the gold Bad Brains 7", Steve Earle 7", VU 7", Roxy Music 7", and the two Grinderman 12"ers.

Wanted the Kate Bush (but it had sold out before I got there, at the one store that seemed to get 'em), and the Joan Jett (which I missed by like 2 minutes). Only other thing I missed, I think, was the Big Star. Oh well.

At last count, there are 15 Big Star auctions on ebay right now (with more to come, certainly).

Assholes.

shitloads of Nirvana ones too

if these things weren't so limited then the flippers wouldnt make any money.

^^^

Saw those, fuckers.

I really want a Hormoaning but im not paying ebay prices. Fuck the labels for making everything so limited. Record shops are there for more than 1 day a year. What about the rest of us who do go to record shops when we can?

What about the rest of us who do go to record shops when we can?

Your status as a regular customer is devalued in favor of gimmicky nostalgia.

I really only buy used shit at brick and mortars anymore because new releases are simply more affordable online, and I don't feel the least bit bad about that.

If there was a shop in my town I'd gladly buy there unfortunately both shops are looong gone, but a lot of stuff I'm into I need to buy direct from labels/bands. But as Krakow knows, i try to get into town when I can. I would rather support local shops. And everyone of the shops I go to agrees that things shouldn't be so limited. But no-one listens.

Anyone (scott?) know what the average margin of profit is for store owners on used stock vs. new stock? I'd bet used sales put more money in the bank year-round.

got the numero comp "burned at boddies" plus a numero compliation CD called "an alternate history of popular music". can't find any info anywhere on the second ... no idea if this is something limited or if it is a preview of something coming out later this year ... the only reference i found to it is here.

There is a lot more money to be made from used than new stock, yes.

that explains why Missing Records still exists then and why this store chain is expanding Anyone heard of this new second hand record/cd chain of stores in England called That's Entertainment?

many x-posts - limiting copies on physical music purchases is a bad idea; punishes the regular customers who may not show up first thing in the morning. What record labels should do is print more but limit it as a one-day sale or something. They can just mark it up enough to make up for the cost of having a few leftovers. Just a thought.

i think it's a fun idea? i guess? hyping one day and making it an event. when was the last time ANY record store was an event destination? so, it works anyway. as far as "regular customers" go, they should get their fat asses out of bed or stay home. they can go a day late and get all the crap that nobody wanted.

i mean, it's a game of sorts. see what you can score. this is sometimes the fun of actual record shopping. if you don't like that sort of thing, shop on amazon.

Ok, but limiting it as they do, it seems that a lot of music stores aren't even making these things availbable to customers anyway; they're just selling it on ebay the day before RSD (according to your post upthread at least - I avoided Music Millenium today after reading from you that they were hawking shit on Ebay a day before it was available to the public, etc.