National Record Store Day

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.

Moved from Portland, OR to Tampa this year so no record store shopping for me. Sadly, Amazon is my record store now.

Record Store Day definitely is a huge day, businesswise. 3-4x as busy as our average saturday, and getting busier each year.
it's kind of a drag to work it, honestly. the store is too busy and the employees are too busy to do much fun. it would be impossible to have an in-store. 3 years ago we had a bbq with burger and dogs and veggie stuff, but even something like that would be too hard to try to do now because of the sheer mass of ppl. last year we drank bloody marys and that helped a lot.

fyi i have done a LOT of ordering for RSD over the last few weeks, and have tried to get most things mentioned in this thread (wld love to get the brotzmann record! EU only?) but i HAVE ordered the lee perry, mclusky, flaming lips. just today i ordered a bunch of THIRD MAN crap, which people love love love and asked for all day last year, long after we sold out. so i ordered higher quanities this year. of montreal/deerhoof split, i expect to be a good seller.

i a PSYCHED about the Mynah Birds! The Rick James/Neil Young group.

there's a jimmy fallon single with his version of the reading rainbow theme song (in the style of the doors.).. skip james & mississippi john hurt reissue on vanguard..

ian are you able to order the captured tracks boxsets yet? Medicine and Cleaners From Venus? Our store isn't able to yet.

i believe you can order them direct from the label. we've definitely put in orders for them. also, superD (weird distributor i've never used until this week) had them on their list.

Just had the email about the Captured Tracks stuff last night here in the UK. Too expensive & risky for me though. They sound amazing mind.

Just put in our Alliance order. Hope we get the stuff we ordered!

http://www.katebush.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/fullwidth_image/news/RecordStoreDay.jpg

This Kate Bush picture disc single is pretty!

Oh, I had thought those Captured Tracks boxes had sold out direct from the website, but it looks like they at the time were not YET available. Got it.

as an insider fact, the CT boxes have not even been manufactured yet... guy i know is printing the artwork and he's still waiting to hear back about the proofs he sent.

Interesting! Medicine box is the most expensive but I think I may need that and CFV for myself very badly. Though I don't have the room for excessive vinyl box-sets anymore.

oh man I want that Kate Bush single!

another lovely record store day special

http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/306537_10150610961985025_690450024_9365159_415247283_n.jpg

dj food vs amorphous androgynous

17 minute version of an album track that does all the usual aa excess.

This has a link to tracks from these LPs:
RECORD STORE DAY EXCLUSIVE
March 13, 2012 – Vanguard Records is proud to announce the reissue of five classic recordings available exclusively on Record Store Day – April 21, 2012.

Back in June of 2011 Vanguard and Record Store Day asked fans to vote on www.recordstoreday.com for the five Vanguard titles to be reissued on Record Store Day 2012. Fans voted, and below are the five titles selected. These 12” vinyl LPs – newly re-mastered from the original tapes - will be limited in quantity and available EXCLUSIVELY at participating independently owned record stores on April 21, 2012. And if the past two years are any indication, these LPs will be gone in hours, if not minutes! So mark your calendars – April 21, 2012 – Record Store Day!

Larry Coryell – Spaces - This iconic jazz-fusion album features Coryell alongside John McLaughlin, Billy Cobham, Miroslav Vitous, and Chick Corea.

Buddy Guy – This is Buddy Guy - This classic live blues album features Guy at the height of his powers, tearing through a blistering and virtuosic set.

Joan Baez – Farewell Angelina – This 1965 album features Bob Dylan tunes as well as songs by Donovan and Woody Guthrie.

Mississippi John Hurt – Last Sessions – Recorded just months before Hurt’s death, this album captures the blues icon in fine, inspiring form.

Skip James – Devil Got My Woman – This 1968 release holds a dozen semi-autobiographical or entirely personalized traditional songs that attest to James’ almost unparalleled artistry.

To hear tracks from these recordings, visit www.vanguardrecords.com/recordstoreday

i love vanguard for continuing to reissue records you can still find for a few bucks almost anywhere in the country. i mean, spaces and their continuing joan baez campaign.

lol so true. you just *never* see any copies of 'Spaces' around...

skip james and john hurt always welcome, but, yeah...

what store would buy that joan baez for their store? maybe in woodstock...

every once in a while i would receive new promo vanguard releases in the mail and i liked some of them a LOT. one of them even made my pazz & jop top ten a couple years ago. nobody on earth hears them. nobody. possibly some local npr-type radio play and that's about it. which is too bad, because they really have put out decent folk-ish stuff over the last 5 or 6 years.

The store I work at (up until next Monday) is a contender for ordering the boring Baez reissues. I think we even still have the Hammond ones from last year. I loved the Hurt and Fahey ones from last year though, and am very excited about the Skip James and the new Hurt reissues, definitely.

old blues is always a winner. from a sales point of view. but if you were gonna make a list of stuff that is hard to sell in a used record store...joan would be on it.

i got a reissue of the yellow princess by john fahey at record store day a couple years ago, it's nice