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.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Monday, 22 April 2013 15:16 (eleven years ago) link
Anybody listen to that Codeine live album yet? How is it?
― Evan R, Monday, 22 April 2013 15:20 (eleven years ago) link
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
― susuwatari teenage riot (a passing spacecadet), Monday, 22 April 2013 15:28 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 22 April 2013 15:37 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Evan, Monday, 22 April 2013 15:55 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― wk, Monday, 22 April 2013 16:02 (eleven years ago) link
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
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Monday, 22 April 2013 16:16 (eleven years ago) link
A friendly shopowner in StL is getting the Bardo Pond covers record for me. That is nice.
― Trip Maker, Monday, 22 April 2013 16:32 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Monday, 22 April 2013 16:55 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Monday, 22 April 2013 16:57 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Monday, 22 April 2013 17:00 (eleven years ago) link
missed out on imaginational anthem 6 of course
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Monday, 22 April 2013 17:01 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Evan, Monday, 22 April 2013 18:06 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Monday, 22 April 2013 19:14 (eleven years ago) link
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
― scott seward, Monday, 22 April 2013 19:27 (eleven years ago) link
i've never met anyone who actually bought or listened to jam band vinyl but it always goes for a ton. pearl jam too!
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Monday, 22 April 2013 19:42 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Evan, Monday, 22 April 2013 19:54 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 22 April 2013 20:01 (eleven years ago) link
whoa, we should also press up 7"s and sell them as a set!
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, 23 April 2013 01:35 (eleven years ago) link
was at a record store today, and the employees were picking over the remains, considering a $45 issue of the last waltz vs. a $25 copy of the dazed and confused soundtrack, or maybe that phish reissue, the south park picture disc 45. so somebody apparently wants whatever crap they churn out.
i bought the repo man blu-ray and felt p good about it.
― I have many lovely lacy nightgowns (contenderizer), Tuesday, 23 April 2013 01:40 (eleven years ago) link
Last waltz is flippable based on eBay history, not sure about the others.
― Evan, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 01:53 (eleven years ago) link
due fairness, the last waltz was #2 out of howevermany thousand
― I have many lovely lacy nightgowns (contenderizer), Tuesday, 23 April 2013 01:54 (eleven years ago) link
the south park picture disc 45
jesus christ
― brimstead, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 02:35 (eleven years ago) link
I don't have a problem with the prospect of RSD getting more comicbooky/cartoony, it just seems really cynical. "How much crap tangentially related to music can we press onto vinyl"?
― brimstead, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 02:38 (eleven years ago) link
tbh if that record was "Uncle Fucka" b/w "Kyle's Mom Is A Big Fat Bitch" I might consider buying it.
― my mental killfile seems to be working (sleeve), Tuesday, 23 April 2013 02:54 (eleven years ago) link
Ha yeah I forgot that SP does get down with original songs regularly. I guess "tv/movie ---> music records" tie-ins have been going on forever. I do have a neat old 6 million dollar man lp.
― brimstead, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 02:59 (eleven years ago) link
South park 45? Didn't you hear about the call of duty 12"?
― Evan, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 04:14 (eleven years ago) link
Again- $20, Avenged Sevenfold, 12" single with instrumental, picture disc visually equal to a promo flyer from GameStop...
― Evan, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 04:18 (eleven years ago) link
SPark 45? You know they made no 1 over here?
― Mark G, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 06:10 (eleven years ago) link
I've heard that in the UK the record companies send a few secretaries out during their lunch break to buy ten copies each and that puts the song at number 1.
― nickn, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 06:30 (eleven years ago) link
― Evan, Tuesday, April 23, 2013 4:14 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Yeah that's pretty nteresting... I know avenged sevenfold is huge but it's interesting to have call of duty there as the co-brand, are there many serious collectors of call of duty merch? enough to press a few thousand copies i guess. major labels going hard on record store day,
― brimstead, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 07:17 (eleven years ago) link
xpost pity those secretaries that got sent out the week between Christmas and New Year just to ask for "ten copies of Chocolate Salty Balls please.."
― Mark G, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 08:37 (eleven years ago) link
Captured Tracks web store has a few copies of the Snapper and Bats records that they co-released with Flying Nun, if anyone is still looking. I (hopefully) got one of the Snapper 12"s.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Wednesday, 24 April 2013 18:58 (eleven years ago) link
You can quantify your cynicism in dollars and cents:Still Sealed: Record Store Day 2013's Highest Earning eBay Flips
Dave Matthews BandRelease: Live Trax Vol. 1 vinyl box setSold for: $525.00
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the DarkRelease: English Electric Collectors Tin Limited Edition 7-inchSold for: $275.00
Between the Buried and MeRelease: Parallax Vol. 1 & 2 vinyl box setSold for: $249.00
Paul WellerRelease: Sonik Kicks Sonik Kicks The Singles Collection 7-inch vinyl box setSold for: $229.99
Emerson, Lake & PalmerRelease: The First Five: A Picture Disc Collection box setSold for: $222.22
The Notorious B.I.G.Release: Ready to Die 12-inch vinylSold for: $205.02
PusciferRelease: V Is for Vagina 12-inch vinylSold for: $202.50
Phish/Trey Anastasio/Page McConnellRelease: Lawn Boy Deluxe 12-inch vinyl (Phish)Blue Ash and Other Suburbs 7-inch picture disc (Trey Anastasio)Unsung Cities and Movies Never Made 12-inch vinyl (Page McConnell)Sold for: $200.50
RodriguezRelease: Cold Fact 12-inch vinylSold for: $197.50
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 16:07 (eleven years ago) link
What... was there a special version of that for RSD? Because that's still in print.
― You can fondle the cube but it will not respond. (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 9 May 2013 02:58 (eleven years ago) link
Rodriguez, that is.
― You can fondle the cube but it will not respond. (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 9 May 2013 02:59 (eleven years ago) link
apparently rodriguez rubbed his testicles on the RSD copies?
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Thursday, 9 May 2013 03:13 (eleven years ago) link
Oh, I think it was a clear vinyl version or something...
― Evan, Thursday, 9 May 2013 04:25 (eleven years ago) link
So, the shops around me started doing something this year to sort of combat this: anyone buying Record Store Day stuff had to open the shrink wrap in order to buy the item.
Thoughts?
― Austin, Thursday, 9 May 2013 04:29 (eleven years ago) link
As someone who works in a record store, my first thought it "Ha! Awesome." But we only got like 20 or 30 titles this year and tbh people seemed to be more interested in just record shopping in general than the hyped stuff.
― You can fondle the cube but it will not respond. (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 9 May 2013 05:08 (eleven years ago) link
anyone buying Record Store Day stuff had to open the shrink wrap in order to buy the item
That'll knock a fiver off the price on ebay..
― Mark G, Thursday, 9 May 2013 10:40 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, that's a great tactic. People who make a fuss will quickly give themselves away as ebay leeches.
― Evan, Thursday, 9 May 2013 12:46 (eleven years ago) link
anyone buying Record Store Day stuff had to open the shrink wrap in order to buy the item.
was there like some line before you purchased items where you had to line up to shame-facedly strip each album of its shrinkwrap in front of a two-man inquisition?
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Thursday, 9 May 2013 12:47 (eleven years ago) link
if it weren't for ebay leeches record store day probably wouldn't be a "thing" in the same way
which would be good maybe
Well yeah, it would be exactly what it was meant to be!
― Evan, Thursday, 9 May 2013 13:36 (eleven years ago) link
I thought it was about getting more people and more profits into record stores? In which case I'm all for store guy upthread who was increasing the price depending on how much they're going for on ebay.
― food and boardgames and minimal techno (NotEnough), Friday, 10 May 2013 13:49 (eleven years ago) link
Symbol: Zaireeka (lp box). Share price: 87.20 % Change: -0.06 % Change: -0.30Buy: 45.20Offer:90.25Volume: 12 Prev close: 70.50Shares issued: 1,000 (numbered)52 week high: 475.90
Share price: 87.20 % Change: -0.06 % Change: -0.30Buy: 45.20Offer:90.25Volume: 12 Prev close: 70.50Shares issued: 1,000 (numbered)52 week high: 475.90
― Mark G, Friday, 10 May 2013 13:55 (eleven years ago) link
I like to imagine that if there *weren't* assholes selling shit on eBay, then the stuff wd be bought anyway by other fans that were farther back in line and it wd still be just as successful.
― siouxsan sarandon (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 10 May 2013 14:24 (eleven years ago) link
That probably is true in this magical world where ebay doesn't exist.
― food and boardgames and minimal techno (NotEnough), Friday, 10 May 2013 14:26 (eleven years ago) link