National Record Store Day

Wanted to get the F Lips LP but my local store was out by the time I got there. Just heard a few tracks and was bummed to hear that it sounds
a bit distorted/over modulated the same way that "Embryonic"'sounded. Glad in retrospect
that I didn't drop 40.00 on it.

cuz i spent $25 on the first two albums

err, make that $35. prices were fair, but not that fair.

Was going to say... between that and the Unrest set everyone here is giving me a little buyers remorse. If you're saying the 3 Cleaners LPs were $52.00 all together if bought individually than I guess I spent $14 on a pin, a photo, and an outer box.

Because I think it was $66 with tax

yeah, it doesn't seem like a bargain. otoh, it'll almost certainly appreciate in value more than the LPs or the CD box, which aren't limited editions

is that Circle going to get any other kind of release?

This dude from Jackass came into our store

http://i44.tinypic.com/1zwg7lv.jpg

I got the only thing I really wanted for RSD (well, except the Medicine box), the Tangerine Dream "Alpha Centauri" 7". Pretty happy!

That's the guy who shits himself all the time.

Yeah. He was a nice dude, though, and lives in the area. And the cup is now in our permanent collection.

Not sure jon - I wouldn't necessarily expect so, at least not in the immediate future.

http://sickmouthy.com/2012/04/23/record-store-day-2012/

jfc that blog you link to there

black musicians don't use record stores, instead releasing their music in the form of mixtapes, therefore anyone still buying music in physical formats is racist

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Yeah, there's some BIG assumptions and not much evidence in there...

Not sure jon - I wouldn't necessarily expect so, at least not in the immediate future.

Didn't think so. Very disappointing. I mean, keep the vinyl as an exclusive thing, but I'd love a digital release or something. This is why I get frustrated by limited releases of brand new music that is solely available on RSD, here I am a willing customer wanting to throw money at you, but I can't.

Did anyone get the Mynah Birds 7" BTW? They had a RSD special from the "Mynabirds" on Saddle Creek, which I'm guessing is something completely different.

ordered mynah birds, did not get :( one of things i was most bummed not to get.

St. Vincent 7", what up?

Guess that little pseudonymous Oneohtrix Point Never record flew under the radar as well.

i bought the orig of that unrest box like 6mo ago for $40 :-|

the dead LP and destroyer and nobunny are vvg otherwise whatever i have junta on CCD

lol CCD

We had one of that Spectrist, but my boss thought it was the Chuck Prophet record (which we then managed to miss, ironically)...

http://www.resident-music.com/image/cache/data/rsd12/sft0127-500x500.jpg

Wait, there was a Chuck Prophet record too? Okay, that's pretty funny.

I'm a sucker for the lock groove. No way I could have made it into any shop over the weekend due to work, so I fess up to sourcing my copy on the net. I don't feel any guilt whatsoever tho, since - for reasons probably already mentioned in this thread which I've not read entirely - someone's record store made the sale initially, and I personally celebrate record store day about 30 times annually.

cool spin article where they find links to listen to a bunch of stuff online:

http://www.spin.com/articles/listen-best-record-store-day-2012-online?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=042412

including the flaming lips thing

http://www.redscrollrecords.com/

you can mailorder a lot of RSD leftovers from these guys, including that 8 trails one path record.

Those guys are great dudes.

i never stop in connecticut, it is just a drive-thru state for me. i guess maybe i should.

Yeah their store is in a pretty random seeming suburb, though relatively close to New Haven. They have a pretty nice selection usually. I last saw them with a table at Novembers WFMU record fair. I was helping Todd (booker for Maxwell's and Bell House in Brooklyn) with his table.

isn't mad mike's still around?

sleeve, I got you the 'Eight Trails' lp (hopefully you didn't already get it elsewhere!), will drop you a line about trading for the Dead thing

i got some extra buck owens coloring books if anyone's innerested

Stormy you rule!!! xp

yeah get in touch with me soon, most excellent.

Stormy, sent you an email through here but haven't figured out where i'd receive a reply yet. haven't done correspondance through the site before...anyway, i'm eager to pay you for picking up the Lee Perry for me. send me an invoice on paypal (b g e o g h a g a n) at hotmail or let me know how you want payment. thanks!

hey bld, I did send you an email on monday, to:

b-g-e-o-g-h-a-g-✧✧✧@h-o-t-m-a-✧✧✧.✧-o-m

sent from my gmail account. Weird that you didn't receive it -- maybe in your spam folder?? I didn't see the email you sent through ILX until now, because it is linked to an account I don't use as often. But I'll email through ILX as well

found a copy of the circle album this afternoon. black vinyl. haven't listened to the whole thing yet, but i did spin "here come the warm jets" four times really, really loud.

My loot:

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I love that Buck Owens coloring book most of all.

From Paste newsletter piece (by Taylor Kane) on National Record Store Day x Black Friday releases/specials:

The Rolling Stones are set to release their first EP on 7”, which will include “Bye Bye Johnny,” “Money,” “You’d Better Move On” and “Poison Ivy (version 2).” My Morning Jacket is set to release the It Makes No Difference live recording on 10”, which was recorded at the Newport Folk Festival Tribute to Levon Helm. The recording features Brittany Howard of Alabama Shakes. The White Stripes are set to release three singles including “Hotel Yorba (Live at Hotel Yorba)” b/w “Rated X”, which is set to be pressed on opaque red vinyl. “Rated X” is a cover of a 1972 Loretta Lynn song. The Lumineers are releasing a 10” EP titled The Winter, which will follow up the band’s debut.

“Five years ago when Record Store Day helped, and guided, the re-launch of vinyl we had no idea where it was going. Looking at this year’s wonderful vinyl offerings, youcan see just how far we’ve come. There are some real treasures in here,” said Michael Kurtz, co-founder and organizer of Record Store Day.

The event expects to announce more releases as the event gets closer, so keep checking back for more details. Black Friday falls on Nov. 23 of this year.

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Legendary Japanese trio Boris announce a limited edition split 7" with recent tour mates Asobi Seksu available as a Record Store Day exclusive release on Black Friday, November 23, 2012. Additionally, Boris post new headlining tour dates in the UK and EU, as well as appearances at All Tomorrow's Parties in the UK and State-X New Forms Festival in Holland. See dates below.

The forthcoming split single features each band covering a song by the other. Asobi Seksu takes on Boris' majestic "Farewell" off of their Pink album, while Boris reworks "New Years" from Asobi Seksu's Citrus album here as "Neu Years", a churning dream pop gem. The vinyl edition includes a download card with 4 additional classic songs from both bands.

Iconoclast trio Boris are widely known for their ability to breach styles and stretch sonic boundaries of all that is heavy, psychedelic, droning and downright cathartic. Their last three albums -- Attention Please, Heavy Rocks and New Album, all released in 2011 via Sargent House -- are perfect testament to the band's vast abilities. Over the span of two decades, the trio, bassist/vocalist Takeshi, guitarist/vocalist Wata and drummer/vocalist Atsuo has issued nearly 20 studio albums, as well as numerous collaborative albums -- including projects with Merzbow, Sunn0))), Ian Astbury and Michio Kurihara of Ghost (who also currently tours with the band as second guitarist) -- EPs and singles on various labels throughout the world.

American dream pop band Asobi Seksu is widely known for their shoegaze influenced effect-laden sound. Since their beginning in 2001, the band led by vocalist/keyboardist Yuki Chikudate and guitarist/vocalist James Hanna has released four albums and various singles. Their most recent album, Fluorescence (Polyvinyl) hit shelves on Valentine's Day 2011 to much critical acclaim. Asobi Seksu toured supporting Boris in the fall of that year, cementing the friendship between the two bands leading up to this endeavor of mutual admiration covering each others' songs.

BORIS WINTER TOUR 2012
12/04 Brighton, UK @ Coalition
12/05 Manchester, UK @ Islington Mill
12/06 London, UK @ Scala
12/07 Rye, UK @ All Tomorrow's Parties @ Camber Sands
12/08 Leeds, UK @ Brudnell Social Club
12/11 Cork, IE @ Cyprus Avenue
12/12 Bristol, UK @ The Fleece
12/13 Birmingham, UK @ The Rainbow Warehouse
12/14 Hasselt, BE @ Kunstencentrum Belgie
12/15 The Hague, NE @ The Hague - State-X New Forms Festival
12/16 Karlsruhe, DE @ Jubez
12/17 Lausanne, CH @ Le Romandie
12/18 Munich, DE @ Feierwerk e.V.
12/19 Dresden, DE @ Beatpol

i was thinking re seeing the bristol show given my recent discovery of the pink album ..

this makes that decision all that more easier ...

Now if only both bands would collaborate on a track, or live--might not work, but I'd like to hear them try.

Years ago someone told me that 1,200 high school kids were given a survey. A question was posed to them: Have you ever been to a stand-alone record shop? The number of kids that answered "yes" was... zero.

Zero? How could that be possible? Then I got realistic and thought to myself, "Can you blame them?" How can record shops (or any shop for that matter) compete with Netflix, TiVo, video games that take months to complete, cable, texting, the Internet, etc. etc? Getting out of your chair at home to experience something in the real world has started to become a rare occurrence, and to a lot of people, an unnecessary one. Why go to a bookstore and get a real book? You can just download it. Why talk to other human beings, discuss different authors, writing styles and influences? Just click your mouse. Well here's what they'll someday learn if they have a soul; there's no romance in a mouse click. There's no beauty in sitting for hours playing video games (anyone proud of that stop reading now and post your opinion in the nearest forum). The screen of an iPhone is convenient, but it’s no comparison to a 70mm showing of a film in a gorgeous theater. The Internet is two-dimensional…helpful and entertaining, but no replacement for face-to-face interaction with a human being. But we all know all of that, right? Well, do we? Maybe we know all that, but so what?

Let's wake each other up.

The world hasn't stopped moving. Out there, people are still talking to each other face-to-face, exchanging ideas and turning each other on. Art houses are showing films, people are drinking coffee and telling tall tales, women and men are confusing each other and record stores are selling discs full of soul that you haven’t felt yet. So why do we choose to hide in our caves and settle for replication? We know better. We should at least. We need to re-educate ourselves about human interaction and the difference between downloading a track on a computer and talking to other people in person and getting turned onto music that you can hold in your hands and share with others. The size, shape, smell, texture and sound of a vinyl record; how do you explain to that teenager who doesn't know that it's a more beautiful musical experience than a mouse click? You get up off your ass, you grab them by the arm and you take them there. You put the record in their hands. You make them drop the needle on the platter. Then they'll know.

Let's wake each other up.

As Record Store Day Ambassador of 2013 I’m proud to help in any way I can to invigorate whoever will listen with the idea that there is beauty and romance in the act of visiting a record shop and getting turned on to something new that could change the way they look at the world, other people, art, and ultimately, themselves.

Let's wake each other up.

http://www.recordstoreday.com/NewsItem/3405

UGGGGGGH. So insufferable. I love the White Stripes but GOD just SHUT UP!!! Yes the romance and beauty of records. If you like records so much why don't you marry records?

Mainly i'm jealous, cos obviously who wouldn't want their own record plant? Stuff like those x-ray records is exactly what i was trying to figure out how to do 2-3 years ago but JW beat me to the punch.

But really i just can't help taking this guy down a peg from his high horse. Videogames are bad because they detach you from other people? Perhaps JW has never played multiplayer, or visited an arcade? While we're there you may as well make the argument that RECORDS detach you from other people. Unless you hang out in a record store all day, you are probably going to buy the record and then take it home and listen to it by yourself. Shockingly, this is about the same amount of real human interaction that will happen with the consumption on a videogame. Finally there is the matter that a record is a simulated experience with another person. You are not seeing the musician beyond the album cover. You do not get to interact with him anymore than you get to interact with the designer of a videogame. If videogames are a false experience of the real world then recorded music is a false experience of musical performance.

Totally agree with you. Jack White is so full of himself, it is nauseating sometimes. I guess when your whole schtick is vinyl and producing/recording, you can't see the benefit of other forms of media having the same effect on people as records do i.e. video games.

discs full of soul that you haven’t felt yet

So why do we choose to hide in our caves and settle for replication?

Yes thank god the records Jack White sells are all individually hand-cut.

Jack White married a Son House 78 last year, but he broke it on the honeymoon.

The sights smell, texture and sound of a live performance; how do you explain to that teenager who doesn't know that it's a more beautiful musical experience than a plastic disc?

Mainly i'm jealous, cos obviously who wouldn't want their own record plant? Stuff like those x-ray records is exactly what i was trying to figure out how to do 2-3 years ago but JW beat me to the punch.

wait, does he own United now?

No he doesn't, and he should just buy a record plant, cos he's probably the reason everyone's waits are so long these days.

"Years ago someone told me that 1,200 high school kids"

some hard evidence right there. "i knew a guy who knew a guy..."