National Record Store Day

People who are against RSD seem to think it is all about the limited releases. That was just supposed to be part of the incentive, and contribution to the festivities by the labels. The stores who get it are the ones that do DJ sets all day, in-store performances, BBQs, sales on general stock, etc. This is a day to strengthen the idea of a community to support record stores. It's not Record Label Day so stop treating it that way. Few places require you to stand in line after the doors open anyway.

yeah things have a way of turning into something else. i don't recall anyone on here talking about the great live music bbq that they can't wait to go to at their local record store. nijoli seemed like the only one looking forward to bbq. which is cool. i hope she has a great day.

meanwhile, you see that phish box or that jack white liquid-filled 12 inch, make sure to snap them up!

Got the Circle, Mika Väiniö, and Springsteen. No sign of the Beefheart. Damn

actually the place by my house does have a general sale on, unfortunately everything i'd want in there i've probably bought already.

Waiting in line at my local place now, which opens at noon ET. It was 82 in Cleveland yesterday, it's 43 today. FML.

It's a good excuse to dedicate the day to browsing every store in NYC that I can. I like seeing happy store owners. I figure there's a chance that places put some effort into throwing some fresh used stuff on the shelves today, too.

im gonna celebrate by hunting for "Hard to categorize rock/jazz/'experimental' but not really fusion crossover records by jazz dudes"

Worth noting, for Londoners, that Sounds of the Universe are doing 25% off all their second hand vinyl today and 20% off all vinyl on Soul Jazz. The Studio One comps they do are fantastic.

someone came in my store and said that at the turn it up in northampton they had 4 copies of the phish box and when those were gone the crowd dwindled considerably. and everyone who comes in basically asks for the phish thing. and across the street at newbury it was mobbed with lines apparently for the phish box. so, if you are in noho go to turn it up cuz everyone's at newbury.

not that anyone here will be in noho...

but anyway phish phrenzy in 2012.

phish pheeding phrenzy

phish suck btw

had a nice day visiting intoxica, honest jons, bm, phonica, sounds of the universe. biggest queues i saw were at sister ray (round the block) and rough trade west (the same) so I avoided those. scored the Numero comp, some old jimmy webb, barry white and glen campbell vinyl. good work record stores.

Is this real? Jack White's Sixteen Saltines liquid filled or something 12" sold on eBay for $3,500.00

I just spent way the hell too much at AKA in Philadelphia- got the MC5/Afrika Bambaataa 7", School of Seven Bells Siouxsie cover 7", the Domino Smugglers Way thing, the Animal Collective and Sacred Bones LPs, a Lee Hazlewood best-of 2xLP on Light in the Attic, and the Cleaners from Venus CD box set. Apparently they never got the Flaming Lips album, which sucks, but if any of these are going to be easy to find later it'll be that one.

There is a Jack White test pressing being raffled off at Tunes in Hoboken today.

I didn't know the Cleaners From Venus box came in CD version, too.
Flaming Lips was the other big seller I think, besides Phish.

Atlas Sound is playing Criminal Records at 4 then Bradford's DJing for a while.

I didn't know the Cleaners From Venus box came in CD version, too.

Phish sucks but Junta is a good record

Well the vinyl box was available online for awhile to preorder. Now it says "unavailable," which is vague because that's also how they label not yet released items, maybe just temporary items as well. So I don't know if it is only available at stores that happened to order it. What is officially RSD exclusive though is getting the albums from the box individually.

^About Cleaners From Venus

just temporarily out of stock items as well**** I meant to say

I got XXX on vinyl, yay. Was disappointed that 2 Many DJs was a UK only thing.

I stopped by Roadrunner Records in Minneapolis

About 2 and a half hours after open

Was pretty dead but I it was crazy at open

Picked over but I bought the Patti Smith Horses reissue

man, my friend chris came in just now with the grateful dead dark star thing and i didn't even know about that one. that's the first thing i've seen that i would even want. he got his for 15 and they are going for 50 or 60 right now on ebay. but aside from that, it looks cool! new old dead for 15 bucks. now that is something i can get behind. plus, whole record of dark star. what's not to love?

he got it at the turn it up store that nobody goes to. great place to snag rsd stuff.

one in one out at monorail in glasgow. 200+ people in the building? 5 year olds dancing to albert ayler. carnival atmosphere. what's not to like?

ok, i got hooked and went in. i bought a bunch of stuff--only some of it RSD exclusives. of RSD stuff i got that nutty buck owens coloring book (why not?), windy & carl LP (limited to 250 copies! green vinyl!), a pussy galore 7", misfits "walk among us" LP ---- and, yeah, i bought one of those phish vinyl boxes. i'll flip it in a few days.

i went away happy because apparently that "personal space" comp on chocolate industries came out recently and i snapped that up. so psyched for it.

"windy & carl LP (limited to 250 copies! green vinyl!)"

to be fair though, every windy & carl LP is limited to 250 and on green vinyl.

that misfits thing is selling for a bunch now too.

and wait a couple days with the misfts thing too cuz there are only 500 of them. it will go up.

wasn't necessarily planning to flip the misfits but OK. should i wait on the phish too??

wish i could visit your store btw but i'm never in your neck of the woods.

to be fair though, every windy & carl LP is limited to 250 and on green vinyl.

― scott seward, Saturday, April 21, 2012 12:23 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

maybe. they actually made the "new age" chart recently which probably means they sell at least 1,000–2,000 of some titles...

do they still run the record store in dearborn?

"personal soul" is ace. minimal soul is the new minimal synth.

i was kinda kidding. but they are fond of limited colored vinyl. i used to have a limited green vinyl record of theirs!

did it smell like pine trees?

I just grabbed a bunch of 7-inches - St. Vincent, Deerhoof/Of Montreal, etc. - and the Mates of State and Pretty In Pink LPs. (lol 80s)

and you don't have to flip the misfits. you are allowed to keep it. but misfits fans live for limited misfits stuff. so i imagine the price will just rise.

well i already have that album in some form so yeah i guess i'll flip it. maybe i'll wait a few weeks or months?

btw i posted that buck owens thing on eBay just to see what would happen (i assumed nobody would care) but, uh, i sold it in 30 minutes for 4x what i paid for it. i'm gonna go get me some more of those.

i feel guilty typing this, but what the hell. i spent several 1,000x what the average person spends on records, so i've done my part to keep this particular economic niche going.

ok my plan has been formed. ready to go. am more interested in free shows than elbowing past greedy patrons, so my plan reflects that.

ha. i'm lucky there are only two record stores around here worth half a damn, otherwise i'd be jetting all over the place.

I'm heading out myself right now. It's funny, in years past, I actually did get up early enough on my Saturday morning to get to my closest record store (which is three blocks away from me) right around the open. This year I couldn't really be bothered. But honestly the only things I am really that excited about are the Lee Hazlewood and Greatful Dead lps. And at least in the case of the Lee, I am sure that thing is going to be around forever, so no real rush.

La Lech, what is your plan? I'm going to my local store -- Record Breakers -- right now, then over the Numero Group pop-up. Then I'm going to try to catch the first part of Otis Clay @ Dusty and then run over to Bloodiest at Reckless

yeah the lee hazlewood thing isn't a RSD exclusive. otherwise i might have grabbed that. i'll probably get it when it comes out on CD.

I'm going to Permanent to see if they still have Circle release (if so, great, if not w/e I am at a record store), then Saki for Runnies at 8, then CAVE at EB. Modest. Would love to see Bloodiest -- I missed them last night because this weekend could have yielded 4 nights in a row of shows I want to see and that's, I dunno, a bit much. I'll show (1) ounce of restraint.

Also I live far far far north side so only one trip to RSD land per day makes sense.

you could always go to 2nd hand tunes in evanston -- i bet they still have a lot of stuff that has sold out elsewhere.

Good idea! Maybe I will.