National Record Store Day

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

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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.

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.

― scott seward, Monday, April 12, 2010 2:48 PM

We just act like it is a holiday and have a big store party, so it is pretty fun even though we are surrounded by records every day of our lives. Also, we make about ten times as much money that day as we do any other day, so it keeps our doors open.

I didn't participate last year because I think I had bought a huge amount of stuff like a week before and couldn't afford to do anything. This year I'm just going to get two 12"s I've passed on in the past since they'll be on sale. I've heard that it has reminded people of record shopping in the days before napster, etc. which is something I hope will be the case.

Looking forward to that Justin Beiber/Eyehategod split.

Is it true that the sonic youth starbucks compilation "hits are for squares" is going to get a 2xlp release?

Is there anything that anyone's particularly psyched for?

http://recordstoreday.com/Page/836

the 7" single by The Fall, and the Arthur Russell "Calling Out Of Context" reissue with extra tracks. other than that, not really.

I've only got one participating store I can hit up tomorrow because just about every retail place that sells cds either is a chain store (and F.Y.E.s are going under all over the place here), or closes at 7 pm. :/

I'm not seeing a Fall 7" on that list. Not Harmonia or Neu! releases. Is this another list I'm missing?

this = there

I think there are US and UK lists.

Is it true that the sonic youth starbucks compilation "hits are for squares" is going to get a 2xlp release?

y, along with Confusion Is Sex and EVOL on 180g vinyl.

UK "top" list:

RECORD STORE DAY RELEASES
Lily Allen - Back To The Start (limited edition vinyl)
The Beatles - Paperback Writer / Rain (7" vinyl)
Blur - Fool's Day (previously unreleased 7" vinyl)
The Flaming Lips - Dark Side Of The Moon (coloured vinyl with free CD)
Goldfrapp - Head First (cassette)
Jimi Hendrix - Live EP (7" vinyl)
MGMT - Siberian Breaks (coloured vinyl)
Pet Shop Boys - Love Life (previously unreleased 7" vinyl)
Stone Roses - TBC (individually numbered vinyl album with gold foil artwork)
Tinie Tempah - Pass Out (limited edition vinyl)
Paul Weller - Andromeda remixes (previously unreleased)

there are some gems in the US record store day releases,

hoping to snag a limited to 500 pressing of "The Yellow Princess" by John Fahey and maybe the Soft Machine 1971 live album

eh, where's the soft machine live album?

hmm...i may be mistaken there, i swear to god i saw something about a 71 live album by them that was unreleased.

am i dreaming about non-existent unreleased soft machine albums? i need counseling.

I think the Soft Machine thing is UK-only. There's a link upthread somewhere.

so it's unreleased? some of the early 70s live Soft Machine I have is super awesome.

somebody buy the fela ten inch and then, um, give it to me.

might pick up the arthur russell calling out of context if it's not too spendy

So that Fall 7" is UK only. :(

So I decided to check out the documentary I Need That Record - streaming on P4k right now & the opening shot is a pan of my hometown favorite shop, Encore Records in Ann Arbor, which was planning on stopping by tomorrow anyway! If u live in NYC, LA etc, I guess it is par for the course when that kind of stuff happens, but not so much out here in the rust belt.

so i'm dumb. where is the list of record-store-day (in USA) stuff? like, what might be available if you get there early?

honestly the record stores around here suck (ok, one is decent) so i'd only go if i could snatch up some interesting stuff.

list of USA stuff:

http://www.recordstoreday.com/page/836

yeah, it is kind of amazing/depressing how far I'd have to drive to get to an indie record store tomorrow. what in the heck.

Today, post your successes.

I don't understand why they don't do their best efforts to market the CD instead of marketing music on obsolete formats from the 80s or earlier. More than anything else, the existance of the record store depends on people's willingness to buy CDs rather than downloading mp3's.

Geir: CD sales are reducing in the face of downloads, although they are still good for all-encompassing 'collections' with books, box sets, etc.

LP format is becoming the 'hardback' to the mp3's paperback/pamphlet.

That's why.