Record fair - Arlington VA

[spartanmanor]

http://www.thevinyldistrict.com/2011/02/the-washington-dc-record-fair-returns/

Right down the street from me. See you there!

This Sunday.

 

[Rygen]

I'm going to try to make this. Thanks man.

 

[similost]

You know I'm there! I'll do the early bird too and beat some of the crowd.. I wish they would bump up the price though on the earlybird to cut down on even more people..

 

[spartanmanor]

What time are you guys planning on being there? FYI parking is free at the garage at the Artospheare. They validate, other wise it can be a real pain in the ass.

 

[grillebilly]

has anyone ever gone to one of these and give us the lowdown?

 

[spartanmanor]

Went to the one in DC a couple of years ago. It is like going to 15 record stores in one shot. Everything from $1 records on up.

 

[vinyl1]

Went to the one in DC a couple of years ago. It is like going to 15 record stores in one shot. Everything from $1 records on up.

The big difference is the prices are lower. Each seller has to pay for his table, and lug heavy cartons of records, and has only a few hours to make sales.

While a record store would be quite happy to sell 1% of its stock a day, a record show seller aims to sell 10-20% of what he brings. He is also competing with many other sellers in the same place. That requires aggressive pricing.

 

[similost]

I went with David the last time too.. Lots of great LP's but the place was small and crowded..

Squirrelnest and I will probably driving in together... Just waiting to hear back from him... Can't wait for this..

I"ll talk with you a little later about it at Todd's Rick..

 

[spartanmanor]

Bump for those who did not see this.

 

[grillebilly]

heading out in a few....see ya there

 

[spartanmanor]

Picked up 9 albums. It was getting too crazy after a point.....lots of people. Somehow I got in with the dealers before the show opened. I had a nice 45 minutes before the crowds showed up.

 

[similost]

Yeah you got lucky... I stopped with my 4 albums... It was nice to finally get some new sealed vinyl again. I thumbed through a lot of the used stuff, but I just kept seeing LP after LP I already had, but did see a lot of other stuff too. It was just too much work to try and check the condition with that many people crowded around you.

 

[grillebilly]

picked up a handful of rekids. Yeah, got crazy pretty quick. Found 3 that I have been looking for, got a few surprises, spent too much but got some very nice vinyl. The used stuff was just like new.

 

[Rapidan]

It figures. A chance to meet a few members and thumb through some vinyl, but I'm in Florida! Oh well, glad you guys found some stuff - I'll see you at the next one!

One of these days, I'm getting a table at one of these deals - hopefully move some of these crates for the last time!

 

[similost]

You didn't miss much really.. well.. other than meeting a few of us, but we can do that anywhere, any time... Hell.. drop one of us a note, we all pretty much like to meet up..

Having a table would be a good thing, because the place is so damn crowded and vinyl flying outta the boxes. But when you have to stand 4 or 5 people deep 30 minutes after the place opens just to wait your turn to look, it's really not much fun.

The place was bigger this time, but there just aren't near enough dealers for the amount of people that attend... Because of that, you spend a lot of time standing around waiting your turn to look... If you geat there first in the door, you get about 30 minutes of fairly decent looking.. then it's downhill from there.

 

[vinyl1]

Man, that sounds like a great show for sellers.

Around here, the complaint is that not enough customers come.

 

[spartanmanor]

It was packed. Glad I had the time to look before everyone got there. I found a few good albums. Most priced well under Goldmine pricing. It is always nice to be able to quickly fill in some gaps in the collection. I am sure I could have found a lot more if I had felt like staying.

 

[GreatTone]

Oh man, I missed it. Couldn't have gone anyway -- I was committed to taking my daughter to Tyson's for her birthday. She just turned 12, and for her present she wanted to go shopping. I shocked her and got 2 t-shirts at Aeropostale (2-for-1 sale). I liked Hollister the best. Lots of sofas and surfing mags. I'd like to meet up with some AK'ers at some point. I'm in Falls Church.

 

[similost]

hhhmm.. Maybe might be a reason to meet up at the Thai and blues place there in TC for some some dinner and tunes for some of us.. Kind of central for some of us..

 

[grillebilly]

I went to Bangkok Blues in FC a couple weeks ago on a Saturday night. No tables available until around 11.