What lil store is yours? Sound Garden? That's my place, for sure.I want the Pink Floyd, hope my lil store has it
What lil store is yours? Sound Garden? That's my place, for sure.
It's called Celebrated Summer http://celebratedsummerecords.blogspot.com/
Why does the watermark over each picture say "Support Indie Record Stores... Not Flippers"?
Perhaps, for RSD, they could print more than 1-5 copies per stores so that people could buy what they came for, and not have to resort to flippers. They created their own flipping market by massively limiting the number of items they release.
Why does the watermark over each picture say "Support Indie Record Stores... Not Flippers"?
Perhaps, for RSD, they could print more than 1-5 copies per stores so that people could buy what they came for, and not have to resort to flippers. They created their own flipping market by massively limiting the number of items they release.
You're probably right. However, without the limited market that they create, there wouldn't be a flipper market. It's ironic that some of the "Indie" stores become the flippers because they can. Album art really isn't that hard to get and I bet you'll see some of these watermarked pics on ebay as well.Probably to screw with the flippers who steal the artwork from the website and list things for sale before they even have them in hand.
This, for me. I don't have a desire to fight someone for one of 2 copies of something I like, let alone have to stand in line for an hour or two before the shop opens to "hope" to get a release. Then to have people muscle and elbow around a 4' square unit trying to get something. I also feel for the stores that, reportedly, have to buy "X" amount of RSD inventory, and much of it isn't the extremely limited releases that people want, it's the units that will end up sitting on the shelf for the better part of the year.That's one thing I have against it. It supports a "collector's" culture or mentality instead of record buying for the enjoyment of music. I have mixed feelings, though. I know it helps the independent stores that I enjoy having around... or does it? One record store owner I know thinks it's become such an expectation that he can't risk not doing it. He said he dislikes the sort of "Black Friday" shopping frenzy it creates as well as the "specialness" of the releases. He also claims that many of those special releases stay in his inventory, because after RSD comes and goes, his regular customers aren't interested in them.
I only wish that they would take the limited release from the year before and then pump up the volume and release it the next year. People would have still gotten the item the year before as the "collector" item (which doesn't cost any more/less than any other release), and customers would finally get what they showed up for the year before. Besides, with the extremely limited amount of certain presses, have they really put much wear and tear on the stampers? Surely a mass-produced second or third pressing would still be great.I think it has its merits. For me, personally, it's a bit antithetical to everything I go to record stores for. I enjoy the quiet browsing through the bins, and I enjoy the surprise, coming across something you didn't expect you'd want. I also enjoy going into a store to buy music -- the LP just happens to be the format of my choice. In other words, I don't go hunting for rarities or special issues. I go into record stores looking for music I enjoy listening to. RSD, for all its good aspects, unfortunately also brings this frenetic collector's mentality into the whole thing that I find quite off-putting. I haven't gone to an RSD or Record Store Black Friday a few years, and I'm unlikely ever to go again. I have plenty of "record store days" of my own the whole rest of the year.
And that last, by the by, brings up another sore point for me -- I don't see how RSD rewards us regulars, those of us who haunt our local shops monthly, weekly, daily, (hourly?), and who drop a significant part of our disposal income in these places. If anything, it seems to turn against us.
One mans crap is another mans choice.Some good stuff and some crap. Like always I will spend more than I plan and get less than I want.... but that's how it goes.
Oh, yeah. I've been there. Is it geared more toward metal and punk?
One mans crap is another mans choice.
Yea, it's pretty much geared towards punk, because I think the owner use to be in a punk rock band, but he does have other stuff, quite a bit of jazz and soul