National Record Store Day

You should have to show a receipt for a record you bought in the shop earlier in the year, and then they give you the RSD specials for free. Ha!

one of these days i'll remember to buy some of this stuff. i always forget. the sad thing is maria put our info on their website and now people call me every year - or twice a year now apparently? - and i have to give them the bad news. but other people around have this crap so i point them in the right direction.

plus, you can put a limit on how much of it people buy, right? i don't know, seems like if people get mad at people who buy too much of it for reselling there must be something they can do. i don't begrudge people who do it. land of opportunity and all that.

i started pricing my beatles/floyd/zep up a while back. it did start bugging me when one dude would wipe out my beatles section and i knew they were just going online with them. my prices were cheap. now i raise them just enough so that kids who want beatles records don't get scared away but the resellers think twice about buying. i mean i have a whole store filled with cheap stuff they could make money on. i'd much rather have ten normal people buy beatles records - and come back and buy more and bring their friends - then one dude flipping shit. its just a smarter way to make money.

record stores should just make the prices higher on the rsd stuff. or is there a limit to what they can sell them for.

― scott seward, Monday, March 5, 2012 5:46 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

dunno but most of it tends to be higher than average anyway I think

not a RSD thing but close enough - Tom Jones has a single out today on Jack White's label and they did 100 colour 7"s just to sell in my local shop, I guess cos it's the nearest one left to where he grew up - they sold them at £15 a throw and they went in 30 minutes

i've always wondered about this, what the barrier was for retailers to sell things online and cut out the flipper. is it a contract thing?

just our word, really.

i am sure there are store's that do but it just defeats the whole purpose to us. the purpose of the day is to get cool shit in the hands of our customers and we work really hard at making it a special day and getting really especially great stock for that day. we think of it as a customer appreciation day.

A friend who owns a record store thinks there should be some way of giving preferential treatment to regulars ahead of the ebay vultures. I know the point is to bring in new customers but he says that every year a bunch of people swoop on the limited vinyl on RSD and are never seen again.

i didn't just mean the record day stuff but for general backstock as well.
also, are you also not allowed to reserve copies for regulars?

it wouldn't really truly BE a record store day without collector scum though, right? though i like the idea of creating a myth that record collecting is a sunny happy place where everyone works together hand in hand. with free food! i'm all for it.

Well, you can't really reserve a copy of anything because you have no idea what you are getting out of your order.
It is like a lottery system so no store gets better stock than another.

I don't want record stores to die, I love them but RSD has evolved into something ridiculous. I remember the first year, was pretty relaxed (I lived in the bay area at the time), went to a few shops they had some good specials and exclusives and free pizza or whatever. Nice vibe. The next year I moved to NY and things took off a little bit more, remember waiting in line and people snapping stuff up and the vibe was pure collector scum. Other Music was an hour wait by midday and Generation records in the Village just had you in a massive queue that snaked around the store then you got to the counter and picked your exclusives off of a pre-printed list where they crossed out out-of-stock items. It's basically turned into a collector scum distribution system and the most disheartening part is that many of the most coveted exclusives seem to be more and more major label stuff. Last year there were ~500 official exclusives, gimme a break. Would love for a store owner/clerk to be candid about how this affects their business positively.

it really does affect businesses positively. people end up selling a ton of other stuff. for a lot of people its the best day of the year by far.

Squackett (Chris Squire of Yes and Steve Hackett of Genesis) Sea of Smiles (single edit) b/w Perfect Love Song 7" (Numbered, 2000 copies)
• Andrew Bird The Crown Salesman (Alpha Consumer cover) b/w So Much Wine (Handsome Family cover) 7”
• Bonnie 'Prince' Billy 7" Hummingbird (Leon Russell cover) b/w Tribulations (Estil Ball cover) and Becuase of Your Eyes (Exclusive solo version of this Merle Haggard song)
• Tangerine Dream Ultima Thule 7” (1000 copies, each numbered)
• Flogging Molly Drunken Lullabies (new mix) b/w A Prayer for Me in Silence (Acoustic) RED VINYL 7"

majorly rare squackett tracks, dude.

Smugglers Way is Domino and Ribbon’s first ever limited edition zine featuring FIVE individual, multi-colored flexi discs of EXCLUSIVE, UNRELEASED songs from Dirty Projectors, Real Estate, Cass McCombs, John Maus, and Villagers. Smugglers Way will be sold exclusively at indie retail for Record Store Day, April 21st 2012.

The zine comprises 24 pages of original art and prose from Domino and Ribbon artists. Highlights include a short story penned by James Yorkston; a long form poem by Laura Marling; short form pieces by Alex Bleeker (Real Estate), Ade Blackburn (Clinic), and Tom Fleming (Wild Beasts); illustrations from Alison Mosshart (The Kills), Andrea Estella (Twin Sister), Conor O’Brien (Villagers) and Jon Hopkins; photography from Jana Hunter (Lower Dens), and an original arranged score of music by Owen Pallett. Bjorn Copeland of Black Dice designed the cover and Rob Carmichael at SEEN is responsible for the art direction and layout.

Flexi Disc Tracklist

Dirty Projectors – “You Against The Larger World”
Real Estate – “In My Car”
Cass McCombs – “Teachers”
John Maus – “No Title (Molly)
Villagers – “Shards”

• Tangerine Dream Ultima Thule 7” (1000 copies, each numbered)

ahhh fuck i want that

Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. will be releasing a special Detroit-themed 12" for Record Store Day. The EP will feature "We Almost Lost Detroit," a Gil Scott-Heron cover that also appears on their full length debut It's A Corporate World, as well as two covers of songs by fellow Detroit artists Madonna and Sixto Rodriguez and three remixes by Detroit-based artists. The 12" is a limited pressing of 2k standard black vinyl units and will be available for $16.98 exclusively on Record Store Day on 4/21.

We Almost Lost Detroit EP (Record Store Day exclusive 12")

Side A

We Almost Lost Detroit (album version)
Like A Prayer (Madonna cover)
I Think Of You (Sixto Rodriguez cover)

Side B

We Almost Lost Detroit (Stepdad remix)
Morning Thought (Phantasmagoria remix)
Simple Girl (Chuck Daniels remix)

Ok but I also think of it as, say, your casual customer who isn't gonna come in every weekend. They probably "build up" to RSD and spending a lot of money, then they won't come back for months and months. So, yes, it's gonna be your biggest day but what is it like 2 or 3 months down the road? Is that guy that only comes in a few times a year and just spent $300 in April gonna be coming back? I also think about the exclusive/limited releases that no one wants, just sitting in cut-out bins after six months.

The Flaming Lips with Heady Fwends

A1 2012 (You Must Be Upgraded) with Ke$ha
A2 Ashes in the Air with Bon Iver
A3 Helping the Retarded to Find God with Edward Sharpe
A4 Children of the Moon with Tame Impala

B1 The Supermoon Made Me Want to Pee with Prefuse 73
B2 It's Not My Trip (Hippy Goes Out with Violent S&M Vampire Gal) with Jim James
B3 You, Man? Human? with Nick Cave

C1 I'm Working at NASA on Acid with Lightning Bolt
C2 Do It! with Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band
C3 Is David Bowie Dying? with Neon Indian

D1 The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face with Erykah Badu
D2 Thunder Drops with New Fumes
D3 I Don't Want You to Die with Chris Martin

Limited to 10,000-20,000 copies, pressed on random mixed psychedelic vinyl.

To commemorate Record Store Day, Disturbed will be releasing their definitive vinyl box set edition, The Collection on 4/21 (Record Store Day), but you can pre-order it now.

A five album, six disc offering of the band's complete studio album discography featuring:
The Sickness - 2000
Believe - 2002
Ten Thousand Fists - 2005
Indestructible - 2008
Asylum released in 2010.

Release Date: 4.21.2012

For this box set each album has been carefully mastered for The Collection and pressed on 140 gram vinyl for the very best in audio quality. Each album has been meticulously showcased in a stunning art presentation that is unique and exclusive to this release.

Price is $129.98

i don't think black friday is a good idea for retailers either but it's apparently worth it. financially anyway.

not totally sure what MFB is driving at here

obv it would be preferable if $300 RSD man spread his purchases out more evenly across the year but no-one can figure a way to get him to do that at this stage in the game, so this is what they've come up with in the meantime

Just thinking of theoretical $300 RSD man coming in 4 - 5 times a year instead of feeling he has "done his work" on RSD. Each visit is a time to browse the used new arrivals, get hipped to something he didn't know, etc. Like RSD provides the mental satisfaction of "I supported my local record store" when it's really just a one-off big purchase of, like, a Wilco boxset or w/e. I just don't think that RSD, in the form that I have experienced, really supports my idea of the value of a neighborhood record store.

that Disturbed one is priceless in every sense

Each turd has been carefully polished, varnished and encased in a deluxe presentation box which also includes a turd-shaped USB flash drive and limited, numbered art prints depicting the turd from various angles.

OOOOH WAH-AH-AH-AH

I want the Mclusky Do Dallas vinyl. That's the only thing I need on RSD.

Well the Flaming Lips one I'm definitely keeping for myself.

Yeah, that Flaming Lips things looks awesome, but I refuse to even get my hopes up for it.

want those lips, plan to stand in line for hours and will buy all available copies within moments of the opening bell. will then sell them to all ilxors for fifty hundred dollars cheap rare OOP L@@K!

is there the full list of stuff online yet?

not yet.

scott have you seen anything on arthur russell vinyl? they've done one record each year so far

i find that most of the stuff i really want gets restocked by the more on-the-ball shops a few weeks down the line anyway.

like all the previous arthur russell releases, for instance. got them all weeks if not months after they initially appeared.

ah i like going out and i've always managed to get the russell ones at this bigger store even late in the day cuz all the yuppies are boner'd up about foo figthers and radiohead shit

haven't seen any arthur mentions yet. one of the few rsd things i ever bought i think! i think it was for rsd. i saw it months later in some store. it hadn't sold.

i don't buy tons of stuff but i bought world of echo and also television - live at the old waldorf last year and wow that television record smokes and was a great pressing

so happy w my rsd copies of world of echo and calling out of context

yep i got both those and also love is overtaking me is kinda amazing too just imagining he had devoted himself to being an oddball indie folk singer songwriter

been operating on the assumption that this year they would reissue the world of arthur russell on vinyl, hope i'm not disappointed

i have an old vinyl copy of world. was that soul jazz that put that out? somebody like that.

please don't tell me that the soul jazz version sells for like 400 dollars or something. i like my copy.

Yeah, that was already done for Record Store Day a couple of years ago was it not?!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Qb3Ow98eWQ&list=UUKIt8fDu2w44UqNOVtt1F0g&index=1&feature=plcp

^^^ never going to find that now am i.
thankfully, i'll be happy enough with the cd edition.
but still, does look good.

oh, and i've heard that the DJ Food vs AA/FSOL 12" is going to be a RSD special.
2 versions - limited marble vinyl and standard black vinyl.

This year is all about Hydra Head's new Circle album for me!

When was that Lee Perry one?

Actually, that reminds me.. (tiptoes away to revive other thread)

the lee perry one is out this year ..

from the label :

Lee "Scratch" Perry, King Tubby, The Upsetters - Blackboard Jungle Dub, Deluxe 10" Boxset ! ONLY AVAILABLE in BRICK AND MORTAR record stores on #RSD12. Limited to a strict 2000 pieces world wide!