National Record Store Day

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!

The list of exclusive releases varies from country to country, right? Cos the US website says the list isn't ready yet but here in Austria stores are already announcing things e.g. a Peter Brötzmann 7" which I need to get.

Yeah, it is different in different countries, though there is cross-over.

I want that Flaming Lips thing, for whatever reason, and 10,000-20,000 copies seems like a lot. Am I delusional? Will those be snapped up super fast?

I can't bear the crowds at Rough Trade in the morning, and my tiny local shop only gets one copy of some things. Will they be long gone by the end of the day, or the next day? It's all too stressful. I can give myself a panic attack over something I really don't care that much about. Why does shit like this work on me?!

At one point there was talk of a CD version compiling those Flaming Lips collabs, so maybe I'll just wait for that version.

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

This sounds like the most unpleasant way to buy music I have ever heard of.

It really is, that's exactly how I experience last year's RSD. Stood in line outside for a little over an hour, slowly snaking my way to the counter, then pointing to the two releases left on the list I wanted that hadn't already been crossed off. I've definitely decided I won't be taking part this year. I spend enough money at my locals throughout the year to not feel guilty in the least.

"experienced"

that's how i used to buy 45s when i was a kid. off of a top 40 list at the counter. had to ask for the record by number.

i didn't have to wait in line though.

This sounds like the most unpleasant way to buy music I have ever heard of.

Precisely. As my friend summed up RSD: "Record Store Day seems like that quintessential American activity of celebrating something by totally destroying all the appeal of it."

Would love for a store owner/clerk to be candid about how this affects their business positively.

― Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Monday, March 5, 2012 1:46 PM (Yesterday)

I have been pretty candid about how it effects us positively. We make more money in that one day than we do the whole month of Christmas. We have a blast. All of our customers who usually come in spread out over a month come in all at once and we have a big, fun party. How much more positive can it get?

yeah, i can't imagine any decent indie record shop having any kind of problem with RSD. they make money! guaranteed sales! fans come in and buy the dogshit out of things! only owner i've ever known to grouse about it was a horrible person who ran one of the most overpriced and unfriendly shops i've ever known. she was pissed cuz she overbought on the least genuinely collectible shit and didn't get rich.

Like I said, I'm glad this exists if its going to help local shops stay in business, but I'll be skipping out.

RSD doesn't have to just be about the exclusive releases. It's good to bring in casual buyers that will be likely to buy a lot of the general stock.

"I will now sell three copies of The 5 EPs by Disco Inferno."

RSD doesn't have to just be about the exclusive releases. It's good to bring in casual buyers that will be likely to buy a lot of the general stock.

― Evan

It is true. We sell so many dollar bin records that the whole thing needs to be replenished the next day. We sell a lot of every thing because there are droves of folks that love records in the store. Biggest sales of the year, so it does keep us in business.

It sounds like you run it the right way. Another disappointing aspect of the event I went to last year was that the store actively discouraged browsing. It was structured entirely to get people in the the door and up to the counter to select from the pre-printed list. You could browse a little as you shuffled along the line, but if you stepped away you lost your place. And they actually chased off two guys that started browsing in another section away from the line, telling them that they needed to keep everything "orderly". Granted, this was a pretty narrow shop, but it just seemed to emphasize that the only important thing were those exclusives and those alone.

They obviously have no idea what they are doing. Doomed to fail. If your business model is like the local grocery with the mindset that people shop there because they have to then you might as well follow fye off the inevitable cliff.