National Record Store Day

& yeah, prices are why I got into vinyl in the first place way back in the mid 90s. I could get the new matador or merge LP for $8 as opposed to $13 for the CD.

― tylerw, Tuesday, April 22, 2014 11:06 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah, my tastes were built in part on what was available for cheap in the 1990s. that includes not just all manner of vinyl, but lots of used classical, world, etc. CDs. but above all i started buying vinyl because you could get, i dunno, the complete albums of neil young for cheaper than buying three of his CDs new.

Agreed but but guys this road only leads to us getting depressed that we didn't spend the 90s scooping up private press weird folk records for $1 :(

some of that stuff was worth money even then, it was just harder to know about it and harder to find someone to buy it.

but yeah. :(

yeah just think about the rare stuff i ignored while checking out the new butterglory album in 1994 :'/

but seriously that's why it's rare and coveted now, because nobody gave a shit about it before. so if we had all bought a copy of "cowboy jim's tone poems" in 1994, it might not have ever scaled the heights of collector nerd-dom and eventually won the grand prize of being reissued by numero group with lengthy liner notes about cowboy jim's sad end in las vegas printed in 4-point type.

RIP Jim.

ramble on, you psych-country-kraut-rock pioneer
http://www.cowboyrudy.com/Jim%20Davis.jpg

i heard that jaki liebezeit was vacationing in oklahoma city and ended up playing drums on about half that album. you can tell, too, at least when you can hear the drum parts over the amplified melodica.

Lmao

Man I bought this rare "loner folk" private press "classic" at a record sale... Turned out to be some sub-Dan Fogelberg sadsack covering Rainbow Connection by the Muppets

All the folks I know who buy way too many records avoid RSD like the plague.

― Internet Alan,

Aye but that Breadwinner album got me. Even if it had been available in the UK RSD I wouldnt have gone anyway. Too busy for me. Luckily it wasnt one of the most sought after releases and I got the album cheap (shipping = killer though) Glad the indie shops do well n that with RSD but its not for me. I do think if the most popular items werent so limited the shops could do really well after RSD with ppl like us. Instead they get left with aerosmith reissues or whatever.

Vinyl has gotten a lot more expensive the past few years + shipping from the USA has really shot up. That wont change but I look forward to vinyl being out of fashion so I can pick up stuff cheap 2nd hand again.

some sub-Dan Fogelberg sadsack covering Rainbow Connection by the Muppets
ysi?

Hahaha I'll try to find it

Man I bought this rare "loner folk" private press "classic" at a record sale... Turned out to be some sub-Dan Fogelberg sadsack covering Rainbow Connection by the Muppets

new board description

also basically that is like 75% of private-press folk records

i went to school with dan fogelberg's nephew. yes, you are in the (virtual) presence of royalty.

goddamn you guys actually had me googling for a Cowboy Jim Numero Group release. assholes. :)

u just been RSD-rolled

haha, i mean, "psych-country-kraut-rock pioneer" just sets off like a Pavlovian response in me, "MUST FIND RECORD"

thanx for the DN tyler!

Discogs sucks because a clueless store employee can look up that Archie Shepp record instead of throwing it in the $2 pile

― dollar rave club (upper mississippi sh@kedown)

too true!

Hah yeah psych country kraut sounds too good to be true.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgdJ8GRTc1Y

ha well, none other than whiney says william tyler "finds common ground between the churn of contemporary country blues and the driving rhythms of krautrock."

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/pictures/10-new-artists-you-need-to-know-april-2014-20140410/william-tyler-0109280#ixzz2zdswx7wG

i'm not sure what "contemporary country blues" means though.

trust me, you don't wanna know.

i don't think it means what i think whiney thinks it means, in any regard.

it means keb' mo.

william tyler's music scans as super-American to me, which probably distracted me from any euro-influences.

Glad the indie shops do well n that with RSD but its not for me. I do think if the most popular items werent so limited the shops could do really well after RSD with ppl like us.

― Scooby Doom (۩), Tuesday, April 22, 2014 11:06 AM (49 minutes ago)

living in seattle, i'd begun to avoid RSD due to the crowding, gouging, weirdly distasteful nature of the thing. but out here in the sticks (styx), there isn't much interest, so i actually had a pretty good time. got there early, only about 10 people in the store, mostly dudes my age desperately clutching pearl jam / r.e.m. boxes. had plenty of time/space to dig around.

course, i spent WAY too much money on stuff i didn't need (what i spent for that not-otherwise-unobtainable jb's reissue being a real crime), but i suppose i'd have done the same if i were buying used albums for $5.

xp tyler covers michael rother on his new EP so that's the direct link -- his stuff is definitely very americana overall imo.

amazon's list of best-selling "blues" albums is... interesting

http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/music/31/ref=sr_bs_1

ohim in no doubt if there was a record shop in my town id go down, if there was something i really wanted i may even head down an hour early but sadly its about 15+ years since we had an indie shop and not long after that our price/sanity entertainment buggered off. But im not spending a fiver on the train into glasgow to queue/squeeze into shops only to find what I want they didnt get/sold/ overpriced (£29 for the built to spill album? no thanks). I can still get that on discogs for that price but not paying it. And the thing i really wanted was £48.99. Im not spending that on 3 spacemen 3 12"s.
The breadwinner lp coming from the usa with high shipping is still way cheaper than both.
But hey, ppl enjoy it and shops do well, they arent gonna miss me. I just wish i could get into glasgow more often for record shopping to make up for it. I know there will never be a record shop in my town again nevermind a good one.

RSD, making a difference:

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2014/04/kims_video_music_closing.php

Eh RSD can't change the fact that there will be nothing cool or quirky in NYC left in 10 years because of rents etc

Oh, Mondo Kim's? Thought that'd gone a while ago..

mondo kim's disappeared years ago. read the article.

Fwiw the folks I know in MPLS that work at or own places say it's the best day of business all year, and some years biggest day of business in the history of the stores

Oh, if I have to..

:-)

Yeah, that's the one I remember buying various life-changing things, the one time I was there. The Monks' CD for one..

i'm skim skim skimming this thread and then i saw the word jaki and screeched -- is this for real or is this a joke i don't get?

i heard that jaki liebezeit was vacationing in oklahoma city and ended up playing drums on about half that album. you can tell, too, at least when you can hear the drum parts over the amplified melodica.

― espring (amateurist), Tuesday, April 22, 2014 12:58 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

it's ok if it's a joke i don't get, just wondering!

Kim's has a pretty significant mark-up on the list price for their new stock so I'm not surprised they're not able to stay in business.

xp just a little joke about holy grail private press items. not real.

tyler, we are no longer blood brothers.

Kim's has a pretty significant mark-up on the list price for their new stock so I'm not surprised they're not able to stay in business.

― Evan, Tuesday, April 22, 2014 4:26 PM (37 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

do they actually markup from list or just actually charge list? i've seldom known a non-super-shady business to mark up above list.

"The Moles album showed up on Spotify (I'm just living with that at the moment). I guess I have to get the CD when it comes out, didn't realize how different some of the songs would be from what's on the Flydaddy Untune. Surf's Up, in particular, is just huge on the new one. I need their discography sorted out for me as far as different versions go, which I hope the reissue does in the liner notes."

the moles rsd thing is 2 vinyl albums and 2 CDs.

yeah, the two original Lps are on the two vinyl discs and the first CD, the second CD includes lots of rare stuff/singles/EPs that isn't on the vinyl. IIRC.

kind of weird way to package it. i think the CDs will be available separately, in a non-limited manner. don't know about the vinyl. for a run that was supposed to be just 300 copies I saw an awful lot of these locally. if anyone wants one for $42 plus shipping let me know.

i finally went record shopping in a real record store and i got the best stuff! and everything i got was cheaper than a ghostbusters picture disc:

https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/t1.0-9/10253909_10153001959692137_7431847576988946516_n.jpg

https://scontent-b-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/t1.0-9/10151196_10153001959777137_7783125994182030189_n.jpg

https://scontent-a-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/t1.0-9/1907302_10153001959817137_4332843591413595645_n.jpg

https://scontent-a-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/t1.0-9/10167932_10153001959957137_4574584218719546640_n.jpg

https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/t1.0-9/10292149_10153001961807137_7769039417623254196_n.jpg

https://scontent-a-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/t1.0-9/10256910_10153001962307137_6312094334586319385_n.jpg

https://scontent-a-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/t1.0-9/10154981_10153001962967137_1298522873639125518_n.jpg

(i got a ton more but i don't want to bore everyone...)

omg those are my kinda records!

okay just a few more...

https://scontent-b-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc1/t1.0-9/10268632_10153001962017137_8099634643684045443_n.jpg

https://scontent-a-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc1/t1.0-9/1926775_10153001962157137_8091893407951883731_n.jpg

https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc3/t1.0-9/10176117_10153001962232137_4507650373560851048_n.jpg

https://scontent-b-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/t1.0-9/1010197_10153001962757137_8582832403826656559_n.jpg

https://scontent-a-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/t1.0-9/10155175_10153001962812137_8087346007814298134_n.jpg

https://scontent-b-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/t1.0-9/10308167_10153001963082137_8202243608058449369_n.jpg

lol I own 4/6 of those, go team PGR

that pgr record is beautiful. so is the gum one in its way.

is that all industrial stuff?