National Record Store Day

now*

So I am extremely upset! The Snapper record I got the hole is too small for the spindle, and I may be paranoid but I'm nervous they won't have a replacement at the label. They definitely don't at the store I bought it from.

uh, this is something you can correct w/ a pocketknife and a bit of rotary force

lol, xp exactly!

Yeah well at first it seemed way way off so I didn't consider that simple solution. then I looked closer and realized it would work fine.

gaye bykers on acid's debut lp, drill you own hole, allegedly came undrilled, so that you'd have to, uh, yeah, do that. drill it yourself. never seen an undrilled or even a hand-drilled copy, so i wonder...

I feel like that is a good way to get it to crack all the way across? Or maybe it is easier than it sounds.

fuckers can take a lot more abuse than you'd suspect

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/4vsB-oxHMRw/0.jpg

I never had a problem with holes being too tight but I recently got a new pro-ject turntable and have run into a bunch of old records that are a really tight fit. I think some brands are making their spindles too big these days.

so is numero group eventually going to be reissuing the whole husker du catalogue?

the RSD EP thing is pre-SST material so I doubt it. not sure who has the rights to it now but all those songs are/were on Rhino's CD reissue of 'Everything Falls Apart' so maybe them

I never had a problem with holes being too tight

disappointed by malkmus's precise enunciation of damo's lyrics. i'll never hear "spoon" the same again. but otherwise 'ege bamyasi' is a treat

Good for him, good for all the stores, but if RSD means 7" singles will cost $10, I probably won't be making a special trip again next year.

otm

There's also something kind of sad about how a lot of those record store day limited releases go straight to eBay.

omg this conversation
i was gonna say something about whittling the hole but i see you all got right to it

one of my sources found a copy of the josephine foster 10" and it's $30! what? and yet, i am still considering buying it because i want to be a bronze level donor, i guess?

crying bitter tears @ missing the Snapper EP reissue, also at living 75 miles away from any kind of cool record store

saul wright tho, I don't own a record player so the purchase wouldve been ornamental

omg this conversation
i was gonna say something about whittling the hole but i see you all got right to it

― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Sunday, April 21, 2013 9:31 AM (58 minutes ago)

Yeah I feel dumb now, but it really did seem way to small for that kind of fix. An illusion until I measured it.

all those songs are/were on Rhino's CD reissue of 'Everything Falls Apart'

not Writer's Cramp!

too*

Yes. Not "writer's Cramp." The only reason I purchased the single actually.

you are correct of course yes. all pre-SST stuff nonetheless. ftr that 2x7" (which could have fitted onto one 7" without much trouble) appears to be going for £15 in the UK. reel 'em in

15 British Pound Sterling equals
22.85 US Dollar

I just paid $15.99+ tax for it. Not exactly a huge profit margin, at least not yet.

I went to the princeton record exchange for NRSD and bought a bunch of non-record store day stuff, including Centipede HZ on vinyl. It was cool to see the place packed like that though. There was a guy there with Super Bowl tattoos on his face standing off in the corner and mocking record collector types to his girlfriend, who sort of silently nodded along. "Fucking records, who gives a shit," I remember hims saying. I could have done without this guy, but otherwise this was a good day at my favorite record store.

I spent hours on Friday rummaging through my friend mike's store. haven't seen him in years! so nice to catch up. and just like when I lived on MVI I found lots of nice stuff. nothing new though. on record store day I was on a boat in the ocean with family saying final goodbyes to maria's grandmother. a kid watched my store on Saturday and he said it was busy. despite the fact that I don't get the phish reissues and all that. here's what I bought at mike's store for myself:

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burton greene - presenting burton greene (columbia) (excited to find this. great copy.)

blues magoos - gulf coast bound (abc) (also never see this one.)

fraser & debolt - with pleasure (columbia)

jay bolotin - s/t (cur) (great stuff!)

bert jansch - rosemary lane (reprise)

eddie lang & lonnie johnson - blue guitars (parlophone) (60's u.k. comp of 20's stuff. sounds amazing.)

produkt der deutsch-amerikanischen freundschaft (warning records) (never seen this one.)

iron butterfly - scorching beauty (mca)

cochise - swallow tales (ua)

possum river - s/t (ovation)

lazarus - s/t (bearsville) (don't think i've ever seen it. nice record.)

redeye - one man's poison (pentagram) ( I love redeye.)

barefoot jerry - watchin' tv (monument) (thought I had all the records, but it turns out I didn't.)

uri geller - s/t (Columbia)

king pleasure sings/annie ross sings (prestige)

force of nature - s/t (tommy records)

heartsfield - the wonder of it all (mercury)

soul flutes - trust in me (a&m) (would pay double for a sealed copy, but this one sounds nice.)

eleventh hour - hollywood hot (20th century)

I will be at Long In The Tooth in Philly later today...

― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Saturday, April 20, 2013 8:47 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh snap, my bro Perry works there. How was it?

Wait, I read your follow-up post. That sucks.

I got the Double Dagger "333" mini-LP from Repo Records, which is all I really wanted, which was kind of pricey ($23.99 for a 6-song/24 minute record + a DVD) but not terribly pricey (like all the 7"s they had for $7.99).

There were a few ten dollar 7"s at my local shop. DNW.

The owner of Long In The Tooth told me that every 7" was at least $9.99.
Maybe he forgot some cheaper ones but every 7" I wanted was at least that much.

I mean, look at this:

http://s.recordshopx.com/cover/big/3/35/351645.jpg?7

This is literally all you got if you purchased the Atmosphere 7" since it came in a generic clear plastic sleeve. No artwork, not even a sticker. Not even much to look at on the label!

$9.99.

Yeah these things were really pricy - didn't go on the day because I didn't think my small town would get in the more obscure stuff I was interested in and I didn't feel like queuing, but I looked through what was left today: £25 for the Nick Drake LP, £18 for the Soundgarden 10", £12 for the two-song Eno/Grizzly Bear Jaar remix 12", £8 each for the 7"s

(£10 is currently a little over $15, so that Nick Drake was $38 and the 7"s were $12)

if it helps record shops stay alive then I'm all for it but it seems to be mainly only worth it for people who want to buy an armful of stuff to flip the next day on eBay

or people with a serious consumer fetish jones

the whole thing is completely ridiculous to me, esp. since 75% of record store day "exclusives" are just old music in new packages. "never before on vinyl." "never before on 180g vinyl." "never before on cassette." "now with a shitty chess game." "now on orange vinyl."

who gives a shit?

i have no compunction about buying stuff to flip at a modest profit. it's not like i'm flipping some essential like baby food or water. if people want to pay a lot to get something on confetti-infused purple vinyl then who am i to stop them?

i also got some stuff to keep, almost exclusively stuff that hadn't been released before.

Anybody listen to that Codeine live album yet? How is it?

well I used to buy p. much any 10" I saw just for the novelty value, I've bought a few vinyl reissues of stuff to sit unplayed on the shelf and look nice while I listen to the mp3s I'd already paid for, so I should be target audience for stupid consumer record fetishism, but it's out of my price league, and like you say it's almost all old stuff in slightly different but generally not wildly exciting or noticeably "deluxe" packaging anyway

but if someone's buying it on RSD at $38 and someone's buying that when they flip it on eBay for $70 and this combination is keeping record shops going then fine, I guess. and if they'd had the Conny Plank, Bardo Pond, Antoni Maiovvi records in I'd probably have bought them and then hated myself when my bank statement came in, so eh

Everyone pretty much otm. If I could buy a vinyl repress of some psych classic I first bought ten years ago on CD for roughly the price i originally paid for the CD then I'd be more inclined to do that. But $30 for a single LP, you are pretty much taunting me to go right home and pirate this re-re-re-repressing out of spite.

7"s all too expensive for me, always, especially 12" singles if there were ever one I wanted for some reason.

LPs that are the most overpriced seem to be the more major label stuff. Joan Baez and Taj Mahal records that are already in the used bin a few feet away for $3 each or less don't need to be reissued (probably from digital sources, too) for RSD with $35 price tags.

I found the smaller label stuff to be priced not much worse than new records on any other day so I was happy. At least the stuff I really wanted.

7"s on RSD that is.

I bought that mono Van Dyke Parks Song Cycle for $25 just because I felt like I should buy something but I feel like a sucker for it. I could get an original pressing on ebay for not much more, and I didn't notice any difference in the mono mix.

i bought that too and feel stupid about it too.

i have to admit the kill rock stars cassette box was pretty nice-looking but c'mon

A friendly shopowner in StL is getting the Bardo Pond covers record for me. That is nice.

Wasn't there a fancy reissue of The Glove's Blue Sunshine? One store I went into had the original in the new arrivals bin for $11.99. That's the kind of o_O I saw a lot of. I also saw a Triumph cassette being sold for $5 and I don't get that either.

Mostly it was an excuse for me to go around to different record stores for a morning/early afternoon, which I realize I could do any old day but I kind of enjoyed being in crowded record stores. That in itself was pretty fun.

i hit up amoeba the day after, choosing to avoid the insanity. but apparently lots of other folks had the same idea, it was a madhouse! everything i would have wanted was long gone with the exception of the copy of 'you can't hide your love forever' by orange juice that i picked up.

missed out on imaginational anthem 6 of course

Maybe this was talked about pre-day-of I can't remember and didn't bother to look but the least likely to have sold to anyone in the world was the Avenged Sevenfold - Call of Duty Black Ops picture disc single.

Maybe the one 13 year old who loves the ultimate "bud-lite"(s) of video games and hard rock and simultaneously has a record player, $20 to spend on nothing else in the world, and enough delusion to think it will appreciate bought it. MAYBE. This one kid probably almost purchased it but went for a Rockstar Energy hoodie instead.

at vintage vinyl in evanston, the guy will track RSD exclusives on eBay AND ACTUALLY CHARGE AN INFLATED PRICE AS THE DAY GOES ON. like, some 7" with a sticker price of $7, he'll sell for $70 by the late afternoon on RSD if he thinks he can.

that guy is a turd, and I hope people google this.

you guys should have been stocking up on the DMB thing. the big winner of 2013.

http://www.ebay.com/csc/Records-/176985/i.html?_sop=3&_from=R40&_nkw=rsd+2013&LH_Complete=1&LH_Sold=1&rt=nc

i've never met anyone who actually bought or listened to jam band vinyl but it always goes for a ton. pearl jam too!

My friend bought that Dave Matthews- he is a rare being that places DMB a few spots away from Swans in best-of lists. I think the list was $149. I wonder the percentage of in-store purchases of that were for flip vs. enjoyment.

UPR is having a special (maybe cos of RSD orders?) where they knock a lot of cost out of pressing records if you don't mind having them pressed in randomly mixed colored vinyls. The cost for 7" is about 35 cents per. And this is for small orders.

whoa, we should also press up 7"s and sell them as a set!