National Record Store Day

I still dropped like 300 bucks ( to be fair this also included time at a RECORD FAIR, with DEALERS and so forth ... but also totally my indie shop peeps)

i think it's a pretty rad event. and xhuxk, c'mon man, be real.

fun day. arrived when the store opened, bought fever ray vinyl & jesus lizard singles, store owners saved me a jay reatard/SY and then gave it to me, received huge grab bag full of various samplers and singles they were giving out, played some music, ate a bunch of pizza, and hung out the rest of day w/ friends while various other local bands played. A+ day. also bought 10 albums in the 50 cent bin that looked semi-promising. heard the bjork album but only a couple tracks from the others

AMP - astralmoonbeamprojections (awesome cover, KRANKY records)
the juan mclean - give me every little thing 12" w/ a bunch of remixes
the curse of singapore sling
bjork - debut
be your own pet - s/t
the geraldine fibbers - butch
a-frames - black forest
the third eye foundation - ghost
the stills - oceans will rise
wharton tiers - brighter than life

Scriabin - Complete Etudes, Piers Lane
Twelve Songs by Charles Ives - Theo Bleckmann & Kneebody (arrangements w/ computers & a Rhodes, should be interesting)
Charles Ives - The Three Orchestral Sets
Conrad Schnitzler - Context
Max Morath plays The Best of Scott Joplin
Kick that Habit DVD - Sound Movie by Peter Liechti w/ Voice Crack

Ameoba was hoppin' today

Milton, man, I really want to see that Voice Crack thing .. was it discounted at all? I mean, I will surely buy it eventually .. just curious if there was a 'record store day' deal. The one time I saw Voice Crack remains one of those top 20 or 25 shows :)

what's the deal w/ the Joplin thing? He supposed to be a good interpreter?

$10 used promo copy but it's going for $16 new just about everywhere... I've seen it before, it is one amazing DVD, I envy you getting to actually see them

my favorite Joplin is the Rifkin because that's the one I grew up with, but I'm looking for other performances and the Morath was repped by a friend. it's aiming for period arrangements, piano banjo & guitar, more lively than Rifkin who plays him like spacey Bach I'm loving it so far.

okay, i'll post what i bought today here too:

carmen - fandangos in space (1974 - paramount)

john jacob niles - i wonder as i wander (carols and love songs) (tradition)

voivod - dimension hatross (1988 - noise)

incredible string band - hard rope & silken twine (1974 - reprise)

blue oyster cult - imaginos (1988 - cbs)

diva gray and oyster - hotel paradise (1979 - columbia)

crumbacher - incandescent (1985 - broken) (i couldn't resist. 80's xian synthpop!)

kracker - "kracker brand" (1973 - abc)

ayers rock - big red rock (1974 - a&m)

steel river - a better road (evolution)

jeanie greene - mary called jeanie greene (1971 - elektra)

100% whole wheat - s/t (1977 - avi)

raven - rock until you drop (1981 - neat)

richard & mimi farina - memories (vanguard) (totally minty replacement copy for my old copy)

rockin' foo - s/t (1971 - uni)

jamme - s/t (dunhill)

lalo schifrin - marquis de sade (verve)

sonoma - s/t (1973 - abc)

amazing blondel - england (1973 - island)

punch - s/t (a&m)

l.a. jets - s/t (1976 - rca)

creation - s/t (1974 - atco)

tom cora/david moss - cargo cult revival (1983 - rift)

dantzig twist - marquis de sade (1979 - emi)

carl oglesby - going to damascus (1971 - vanguard)

frost - early frost (1978 - vanguard)

marty thau presents 2x5 (1980 - red star) (red star comp. bloodless pharaohs, comateens, revelons, fleshtones, student teachers)

the bridge - the bridge in blue (1972 - buddah)

the rose of avalanche - always there (1986 - fire) (i really liked the song "velveteen" in 1986. the rest of tha album hasn't aged so well. or isn't as good, anyway.)

even though i didn't buy them in a record store.

i'm keeping that tom cora album. it's rad. the rest will be store stockkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk.

Magma - Attahk
Shinehead - Rough & Rugged
Sabbath - Heaven & Hell
Gaslight Anthem - Record Store Day exclusive live 10"
some japanese fusion band i've never heard of

i stopped by two of my local record stores today. i guess i got there too late for the best of the record store day stuff (i hit my first store around noon). honestly i was mostly reminded how dull the local stores are. stock always seems to be the same, half of the time i look for something offbeat (even a new release) they're unlikely to have it.

though granted i'm a bit jaded as far as record stores are concerned. if i could find a record store that carried lots of used congolese LPs, i'd be excited.

i guess i just live in a boring part of the country for records. :-(

bought mostly older stuff today... the newest album i picked up was tokyo police club's elephant shell (for $5.99). not that interested in most of the RSD "exclusives" but perhaps i'll poke around tomorrow and see if i can find the pavement thing.

This made me really angry about Rekid Store Day:

Established last year with the intention of celebrating the unique culture of independently owned record stores, the event has turned slightly political this year with the involvement of the Australian Music Retailers' Association. As Australia's larger chains such as JB Hi-Fi, Sanity and Virgin are aligned with the group, the AMRA was informed they could not participate with Record Store Day celebrations because the event is held specifically for indie stores.

Instead, AMRA have announced Record Store Day Australia will also be held this Saturday, which the indies argue diverts attention from their event.

As a result, most big chains and indies will host events over the weekend.

As my partner said - JB HiFi? EVERY day is record store day for them, they have tons of customers, they dont NEED any promotion!

So we have indie bands at the little stores... and Cheech and Chong at JB HiFi or someplace. I wish I was kidding.

lolllllll sanity is barely even a record store any more.

i DJ'ed at my local shop. they had a smoke machine and everything! also much free beer. i got arthur russell 'world of...' (recent-ish repress) and the poplife sucks mix.

don't know if any of the hott xxxxclusives upthread made it to melbourne, maybe i'll have a snoop around (hearnow - where i played - is dance music predominantly).

I wanted to boycott the store in Barkly st (PurePop?) because my bf wrote them an email asking to do a gig there, which they'd been positive about. Until he mentioned the fact he'd like to start his own cafe cum record store/book store, and the guy replied with 'well that what every loser wants to try' with no other comment. Ugh!?

tbf "I'd like to compete with you" is not an endearing thing to say to someone doing you a favour, and 'guy' is v v likely otm, imagine how often he does hear it!

So psyched for National Video Store Day.

We wandered in to Jerry's Records in Pittsburgh, quite by accident :) thinking Record Store Day had already passed. Husb. got 3 45s of the Tornadoes/Telstar, one label of which he didn't already have...I just wandered around and browsed.

I have never bought a record, tape or a DVD/CD in my life. I have had a few bought for me but I refuse to give these so-called pop stars/singers any of my money. There is the radio for listening to music and that is as far as I take it.

I know of people who spend £40-£50 per month on music - quite frankly they are such sad people.

I have never even been to a music concert nor downloaded any music on the web. My money is for ME and not for others to live like lords on it.

Bob Jackson, Newport

http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thread.jspa?sortBy=2&forumID=6356&edition=1&ttl=20090419165919&#paginator

Bob Jackson otm

why is he posting on that? bob jackson is a cunt

I bought:

2 Maria Callas records
Yvonne Elliman
Kim Wilde
Frankie Valli is the Word
Louise Huebner's Seduction Through Witchcraft

bob jackson stole his radio from the windowsill of an orphanage

ps i missed smog at other music and want to cry

I didn't know that forty to fifty pounds a month was a lot of money to spend on music!

it was in 1950.

i bought the "this lp crashes hard drives" wotsit

wotsit is right! i read what was in that thing and i got dizzy. i totally would have bought one if i had been around a record store. i love overstuffed junk.

i missed smog at other music and want to cry

Bill's probably cried for you by now

I was at Waterloo last night and some NRSD stuff is still available:

THIS LP CRASHES HARD DRIVES
Various artists Records Toreism
that Arthur Russell thang
I'm sure I'm forgetting others but the 7" singles seem to be all gone.

So check your local haunt if you missed out on Sat.

local shops finally received the New Order 7". printing of the sleeve is pretty shit compared to the Factory original. not sure i should have bothered.

Local store told me it was one of their top 4 sales days ever. My friend said "it was like the early '90s all over again."

there was a line to get into Other Music. To shop! I didn't wait in line so I didn't get the pavement live lp. sux.

It'd be funny if "Bob Jackson" was the Bob Jackson at right in this photo:

http://badfinge.ipower.com/Badfinger/82TomAdamMikeBob075.jpg

The record store where I work is having lunch together today to come up with what to do special for this year's RSD. Last year we had a blast, ate pizza, had dj's play outside and drank beers. This year, the tattoo shop next door is giving out free tattoos of the 45 adapter. What are your stores doing?

We're grilling outside I think like we did last year--free hot dogs, burgers, potato chips etc while supplies lasts. last year we gave away grab bags of old dollar records & 50c 45s. lots of exclusive crap from labels etc.. we should try to have a band play i guess?? but it will probably be too busy/crowded to make that feasible.

So, in the UK, Blur are releasing their first single for *ages*, The Beatles are reissuing Paperback Writer, and there are repressings for the first Bloc Party album, and there's an Amorphous Adrogynous remix 12" of Paul Weller.

http://www.indierecordshop.org/?p=316

So, in the UK, Blur are releasing their first single for *ages*, The Beatles are reissuing Paperback Writer, and there are repressings for the first Bloc Party album, and there's an Amorphous Adrogynous remix 12" of Paul Weller.

― Mark G, Monday, April 12, 2010 12:30 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark

ysi?

Large retailers getting in on the act and trying to screw the little guys here:

http://www.recordstoreday.com/Australia

^ Real site

http://www.recordstoreday.com.au/

So psyched for National Blacksmith Day and International Year of the Chimney Sweep.

we should try to have a band play i guess?? but it will probably be too busy/crowded to make that feasible.

― ian, Sunday, April 4, 2010 6:55 PM (1 week ago)

our bands play outside in the neighbor store's parking lot. they are closed weekends so it works perfectly. i wonder if our exclusive stuff has arrived yet or not? I haven't seen it.

Blur are releasing their first single for *ages*, The Beatles are reissuing Paperback Writer, and there are repressings for the first Bloc Party album

One of these things is not like the others...

i've been trying to repress the the first bloc party album for ages -- REPRESS FROM MY MEMORY

hoping for a miracle imo

i wish i wasn't such a party pooper and cared about this thing. but i don't. every day is record store day! but i'm sure it is fun for people less misanthropic than me. and that's nice.

I don't care about the event itself much but I guess I care about the fact it genuinely seems to get people through the doors and increases revenue for an institution I like. Even if it is kinda ridic that you now need a bunch of carrots to get people to bring themselves to visit a damn record store

Some of those carrots is stuff that they SHOULD BE SELLING ANYWAY!!!

(last year I got a nice Stooges single of "1969" with pic sleeve, right in NY)

Will I make it in time to get the nice Neu! 12" single?

Probnot.

maybe for some stores its the only day when they have any good stuff. hahahaha!

Is there any limit on how much of this stuff you're allowed to buy if you do turn up in time? I wd quite like the Pavement thing and the Neu! and Harmonia things, and maybe the Fall thing which I know a friend will want a copy of anyway, and and and. But it may look kind of vulgar to buy armfuls of it.

(There are like 60 Muse things which I will not be buying, however. Plus I've no idea how much they're going to jack up the prices for this stuff, don't really plan to spend more than a fiver on a single even if it is rare and fancy etc, esp not if I have the tracks already)

PS I hope to go and haven't been to a record shop in ages, but this is because I'm in the slightly weird situation of being in a city which doesn't have a record shop while a tiny market town an hour's bus ride away apparently still has one. Which I went to a couple of times and the content was mostly former Pop Idol contestants etc but I did get myself that Wire On The Box DVD cheap, presumably because most of its customers had no idea who Wire were.

Anyway I do keep meaning to go back but the bus ride costs as much as the postage to order records online and there's nothing else to do there so I've been lazy.