Record Store Day 2014 (April 19)
 

Leaving aside reissues and "First Release" titles that will be more widely available later, I'd have to say my two picks are Chris Forsyth & The Solar Motel Band's Solar Live 11.15.13 and J Spaceman & Kid Millions' Live at La Poisson Lounge. Murphy's Law dictated, of course, that the former should belong to the "Limited Run / Regional Focus Release" category, which means I'll be lucky if I find it on eBay or Discogs as my plastic money dissolves into the ether...

I also wouldn't say no to:

Deerhoof/Ceramic Dog split - Deerhoof & Ceramic Dog
Townes: The Basics - Steve Earle
"Brightside"/"In The Picture" - The Julie Ruin
American Beauty - Bruce Springsteen
The Garden Spot Programs, 1950--Extended Play - Hank Williams

http://recordstoreday.com/

I can't be bothered with RSD this year, it's got too big. I'll wait for the stuff I want to come up on Discogs and then pay over the odds for it.

my request list
ALVARIUS B/SIR RICHARD BISHOP/IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT-DON'T!



AGITATION FREE/SHIBUYA NIGHTS



BARDO POND/LOOKING FOR ANOTHER PLACE



DEERHOOF & MARC RIBOT'S CERAMI/SPLIT 7'@7 INCH SINGLE



JONES,GLENN/WELCOMED WHEREVER I GO



ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER/COMMISSIONS I



PASTORIUS,JACO/MODERN AMERICAN MUSIC… PERIOD! THE CRITERIA SESSIO@LIMITED EDITION PRESSING OF 3,000 COPIES



VAN VLIET,DON/SON OF DUSTSUCKER (THE ROGER EAGLE TAPES)



XIU XIU/THERE IS NO RIGHT, THERE IS NO WRONG

Here is my list:

Joy Division - An Ideal for Living
Dinosaur Jr & Cure - Just Like Heaven
Flaming Lips - 7 Skies
Nirvana - Penny Royal Tea
Flaming Lips/Devo Gates of Steel Side By Side
James Williamson Open Up And Bleed/Give Me Some Skin
Sonic Rendezvous Band City Slang b/w Electrophonic Tonic

All great stuff (well, The Cure I don't like, but that's a mighty Dino take :)); I just didn't list them because they're reissues. Not that I haven't bought a billion reissues before, mind you...


I don't believe I see this one on the website's list.
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Mine is all This Heat's records but apparently they're all getting the reissue treatment, which is nice. Hopefully Camberwell Now reissues on vinyl will follow.

On vinyl, you mean? I have the 2006 CD reissues of This Heat, Health And Efficiency and Deceit and they sound great. I should've gone straight for the Out Of Cold Storage box though...

By the by, was "Graphic/Varispeed" originally meant to be played at, well, various speeds? On the CD, the track is called "Graphic/Varispeed (45 RPM)". If I extract the audio, does anybody know how to make the file play at 33 RPM? And 78 too, whynot!

Gunna spring for the Die Kreuzen reissue.

I meant on vinyl. I don't really buy cds because they get on the way of my erotic lifestyle. All these reissues are bootlegs and are subpar to the way the band wanted the records to be heard. It's a gay world, I know.

I'm too cool to even know what record store day is.

Japan has some releases I want, so I"ll probably spend friday night saturday morning trying to find some copies of Kyary's Ninjari Bang Bang 7" and Seiko Oomori's pressing of her album.

Record Store Day is where the consumer gets fooled into over-paying for new "limited release" shit that will be worthless in 6 months.

Kyary's 7" ARE limited release.....they don't release Jpop on vinyl...so that's what I'm savin' up for...that is....if I am able to buy that stuff online....like from the stores, not some jagbag.

Agreed. It's a shit day for music. Occasionally they re-release some great records for the day, obviously, but why beg people to go into record shops if they only want to download mp3s on the internet? Their loss. Musicians should get more precious about their craft and expect to treat some of their own so-called fans with contempt, if necessary. Having 3 fans has never stopped anyone with a bit of talent doing what they like to do, and besides, fans are now the people who often do the most talking about music and reveal themselves to be pretentious bores with a knack for nihilism with no direction or real interest in anything. Just the time it takes to make your own failures as a human being that little more public in the midst of billions of words. Another way to say your taste doesn't appreciate the taste of such and such because you find it distasteful. What a waste of time if that's all there is to you.

waiting in line at RSD is the worst. At least several years ago I managed to snag an extra copy of Hits r for squares after overpaying for my copy. I sold that shit on the ebay quick fast in a hurry.

The two sonic youth splits, with Jay Reatard, and Beck (the wrong guy died) are fairly boring and I never play them...

I think RSD should focus more on things that are currently out of print. That would be cool, and they do not have to be 180g audiphile vinyl. Just a plain old reissue of the good old shit will do.

There are so many things out of print and unavailable on illegal downloads.

i don't know, surely it's better to let as many people hear your music as possible?
it shouldn't mean that you stop making the music that you want to make but once you've made it let people have it

I agree, but begging people to buy your records is the worst, if you're in the business of creating music and would like to sell it. It's uncool and ultimately shows you as a music merchant, rather than an artist. Getting your work out there and advertising it's on sale is fine, and it doesn't mean you have to emphasize its limited edition status in order to make it appealing to a potential record-buying public. If one doesn't want to shell out for it, it's obvious they haven't got that much interest in music anyway. Unless you, the artist, make it available for free.

I just wish it wasn't all treated like we are buying some rare boutique items.

They never list prices until you get to the record store. That Dinosaur/Cure split will likely be $15-$20 for 2 songs, which I already own both versions, original and cover, on vinyl which I found at a record convention for $5 each.

It is a cool idea, and I LOVE record stores, but RSD does not mean people browse the record stores, which is like the whole fucking purpose right? People just buy what they choose off a list, some fuck takes it out of boxes and hands it to you, then you leave after paying at least double what it is worth.. I would say that describes 90% of everyone I see at RSD events.

i liked the idea of it - i dont have a record store near me, not even a chain

but it seems like it's more about rinsing nerds of their money rather than promoting record stores

One of the reasons for this is people buying these limited editions, re-presses etc to sell them to some clueless idiot on Ebay or Discogs. That's another story. I can imagine a lot of people end up with records they assume, wrongly, to be worth much more than they do in a few months' time. Hardly the original RSD idea, is it?

I am gonna go browse the local houston record stores this weekend and give them my hard earned money before RSD!

http://www.soundexchangehouston.com/

http://www.vinaledge.com/

http://blackdogrecordstx.com/

http://screweduprecords.com/

This place is in Stafford, and open only on the 1st Sat of each month.

 

8. BOB RICHERSON'S WAREHOUSE
Okay, so this is technically in Stafford and it's also technically not a record shop. But Bob's warehouse is a manifestation of a digger's dream. A former record-convention organizer -- and a longtime attendee as a dealer before that -- Richerson retired after being diagnosed with throat cancer. He opens up his 3,000-square-foot warehouse on the first Saturday of the month, making his literally hundreds of thousands of pieces available to customers. There's no Web site, but a quick Craigslist search for "Stafford records" will turn up his ad fairly fast. A longtime associate of Huey Meaux, Bob was given the opportunity to buy up the Crazy Cajun catalog when Meaux was arrested. His collectible Beatles and Elvis sections also run quite deep, and there's some other memorabilia scattered among the rooms that are stacked to the ceiling with records.
Oh, and Bob's always got free coffee, Cokes, water and doughnuts on hand for his loyal customers. Be sure to bring cash, though.
335 Staffordshire 4-A, Stafford

I have not been here though
www.heightsvinyl.com

That place looks amazing.

Wow, I could spend weeks wading through that lot!

to those who care, I read today that the new Pixies album will be pre-released on RSD, in a limited special edition

Thurston Moore said the Pixies are boring college rock

Yet they recorded with one of them...

Thurston was NOT in that video! and anyone can do a voice over through a phone line! Just stating T's thoughts. I love the Pixies.

I'm excited for Numero's Dinosaur Jr. Single reissues, Sun Ra, and Jason Pierce/Kid Millions. Hopefully these things aren't too expensive.

That's one of my must-haves, as I mentioned, and he happens to have another track for RSD, this time on the various artists Space Project compilation...

http://www.recordstoreday.com/SpecialRelease/7022
http://www.recordstoreday.com/SpecialRelease/7023
http://www.recordstoreday.com/SpecialRelease/6899

...on which he took part because he's "flat broke", apparently!

http://www.nme.com/news/spiritualized/76469

Thurston Moore thinks the world needs to hear Chelsea Light Moving

I can't remember which magazine, and it's a long time ago since I read it. He said that both the Pixies and The Cure are terrible. At that time The Cure were going to play some shows at Madison Square Garden, if I'm remembering it right. I like the Pixies myself but they are no Sonic Youth for sure.

Kim Deal is fantastic and the only talented person in the Pixies. It's no wonder she got to sing on a Sonic Youth record.

My biggest pet peeve about RSD (aside from its inaccesability to the average consumer and its complete neglect of those without turntables) is how many utterly wasteful, unwanted releases they crank out for it.
Crap like Katy Perry 10" records or 7" reissues of singles that no one asked for... all way overpriced. It's depressing how much RSD runoff winds up sitting around the record store for what seems like years because no one wanted it in the first place.

I hear it's a tad bit overpriced and mostly geared towards the Urban Outfitters crowd.

We're all a little sad there will be no J&R Music World this year. They gutted their music and video staff and have pretty much gotten rid of all of it. Its the end of an era as we move into the total control digital economy. The music industry is planning on getting drunk and coked out again on streaming, their plan to make you pay for each time you listen to a song. Those of us who walk upright will continue to buy our records as long as we can.

Or not: https://twitter.com/officialSpzd/sta.../photo/1/large
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Indeed. I still see sealed crap from RSD that NO ONE wants

Well, I managed to get 'em both. :) Oddly enough, Solar Live 11.15.13 cost me about a third of the amount I paid for the Spaceman 12". Such is the capitalist reality within the Interhole, huh.

By the by, Chris Forsyth & The Solar Motel band will be opening for Lee & The Dust this Thursday, April the 24th, at the Union Pool in Brooklyn, NY. Hopefully both sets will be taped-and-shared, and it'd be mighty BITCHEN if they did a number or two together! HOO-WAH!