Fitter Stoke
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Edited Mar 11, 2015, 18:01
Form an orderly queue - here we go again...
Mar 11, 2015, 17:56
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http://recordstoreday.co.uk/events/rsd-2015/
Then again, you could always visit your local indie record shop at any other time of the year and buy something you really want instead. Leave the endless queues, overpriced one-offs, avarice and unpleasantness to the eBay exploiters with no interest in music, and stay at home on the day. Most of the releases will still be in the racks for weeks afterwards anyway, if previous years are anything to go by. And there'll be very little genuinely new music on offer, just variants on what we've already got.
A record store is for life, not just for April 18. I love (most) independent record shops, but I despise Record Store Day.
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thesweetcheat
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Re: Form an orderly queue - here we go again...
Mar 11, 2015, 19:17
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I've plugged them before, but the Factory Benelux/LTM label has some actual "new product" to release, rather than major label cash-in reissues of Bowie or Springsteen that will just go straight to ebay.
Crispy Ambulance album:
http://factorybenelux.com/compulsion_fbn54.html
The Wake 7":
http://factorybenelux.com/clouds_disco_fbn94.html
Section 25 7":
http://factorybenelux.com/mirror_fbn73.html
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thesweetcheat
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Re: Form an orderly queue - here we go again...
Mar 11, 2015, 19:19
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...plus a 7" by Marnie from Ladytron:
http://lesdisquesducrepuscule.com/wolves_twi1165.html
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spencer
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Re: Form an orderly queue - here we go again...
Mar 11, 2015, 21:57
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Three King Crimson live sets out on CD on the day and for a limited time thereafter, two very tasty soundboards, Marquee '71 - the Islands band - and Guildford '73 - the LTIA band. Normally these sets are only downloads from DGMLive.
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Lawrence
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Re: Form an orderly queue - here we go again...
Mar 12, 2015, 03:42
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Don't blame ya.
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thesweetcheat
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Re: Form an orderly queue - here we go again...
Mar 12, 2015, 20:56
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Well worth a read:
http://www.soniccathedral.co.uk/why-record-store-day-is-dying/
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veneta1
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Re: Form an orderly queue - here we go again...
Mar 13, 2015, 12:48
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Fitter Stoke wrote: http://recordstoreday.co.uk/events/rsd-2015/
Then again, you could always visit your local indie record shop at any other time of the year and buy something you really want instead. Leave the endless queues, overpriced one-offs, avarice and unpleasantness to the eBay exploiters with no interest in music, and stay at home on the day. Most of the releases will still be in the racks for weeks afterwards anyway, if previous years are anything to go by. And there'll be very little genuinely new music on offer, just variants on what we've already got.
A record store is for life, not just for April 18. I love (most) independent record shops, but I despise Record Store Day.
Can I say that it wouldn't be possible for me to agree with you more.
Over the last few years I've developed a pavlovian, knee-jerk reaction towards RSD and go out of my way to avoid it like the plague. And this comes from someone who spends far too much time in independent record shops.
However, without wishing to play devil's advocate, perhaps we, as music fans and customers, are missing the point of RSD and, perhaps, the clue is in the title.
It's called 'Record Store' day, it's not called 'Record Buyer' day. This is a day that is designed for indie record shops to amass as much revenue as possible within the space of one day and, in providing a platform for this, it does it admirably. We, as punters however, get right royally shafted in the process, paying over the odds for stuff that you'll still be able to find in the racks years later. I wonder how many record shops still have copies of the Goat remix 12"s from a couple of years ago.
Ask anyone who runs a record store what they think of RSD and they will tell you that it's the best thing since sliced bread. True music fans and supporters of independent record shops for the other 364 days of the year, however, are becoming more and more disillusioned with the whole idea.
Yes, there are a couple of things being released on RSD that I fancy having but I'll see if they're still available after RSD, and if I miss them I miss them. I'll survive.
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Fitter Stoke
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Edited Apr 17, 2015, 20:39
Re: Form an orderly queue - here we go again...
Apr 17, 2015, 20:19
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Apparently the eBay bandits (if I'm not being biased) are already queueing outside Sound It Out in Stockton. So much for any hopes of landing Kip Of The Serenes (500 copies worldwide) on my part for much less than an original would cost. Watch that - and anything else half desirable - magically appear on eBay tomorrow for five times its price.
I repeat: I fucking HATE Record Store Day.
If indie shops could introduce some sort of loyalty point scheme for those of us that shopped in them all year round, I might've stood a chance of getting a record I really wanted. As it stands, it's a profiteering farce for people with no interest in music. I applaud RSD's benefits for record shops; I abhor everything else about it.
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Squid Tempest
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Re: Form an orderly queue - here we go again...
Apr 18, 2015, 00:12
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Fair points.
Our local store pretty much survives on it, so, despite the downside, I can't complain about RSD and will be there in the queue tomorrow for the Heads album :)
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Fitter Stoke
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Re: Form an orderly queue - here we go again...
Apr 18, 2015, 08:12
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Key 'Record Store Day 2015' into eBay's Search box and see how many of today's exclusive releases are already listed for vastly inflated prices. And the shops have only been open a matter of minutes as I type this.
Corruption, exploitation and greed is all.
A great day for staying in and downloading, I think!
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