Record Store Day 2020
dizzybull
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I've never been out on Record Store Day. In fact I pretty much stopped buying records after my second kid. The 'record room' became her room and my records got stored in boxes in the garage for a decade. But now we got a new room addition and the raers (read: turds) have been dusted off and shown the love i could never show my real children (read: turds). Just kidding I love them. My records I mean.
Anyways, its time to face the world. Its time to face the record shops. I made a few coy dips onto discogs and it was nice. But nothing like the real thing, baby. Nothing like supporting local shops instead of sending messages to random sellers on discogs asking if the have breakbeat fast and raer of DJ Leacy just to see if they are strutteurs. So far I am not doing so well. But I did click on a record and see that it was on a list that our own yemsky had made. Something about the Soulstrut 100. Whatever that is, amiright?
So it's tomorrow. I'm a little nervous. I have money now. Time has gone by and I'm old now. I can afford to buy this shit I want. I haven't smelled the weird thrift store smell in a long time (i listened to a podcast that said that smell is really just the smell of people's sweat and grime that can't be washed out of the old clothes they donated). Tomorrow I face it. That intimidating sight of row after row of records knowing deep down that i don't really know shit. I'm that dude that has to listen to each one because i don't have them all memorized. I don't know what's good!
Here is the thread. Tomorrow I will report back. The first store opens at 8. The second one at 9. My mind is telling me i'll be out at 8. My 44 year old body that is drinking the local craft whisky (i told you, i buy real shit now - grown man Jay-z style) says I'll be lucky to make 9 o'clock. If all goes well I won't cry in angry frustration.
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Anyways, its time to face the world. Its time to face the record shops. I made a few coy dips onto discogs and it was nice. But nothing like the real thing, baby. Nothing like supporting local shops instead of sending messages to random sellers on discogs asking if the have breakbeat fast and raer of DJ Leacy just to see if they are strutteurs. So far I am not doing so well. But I did click on a record and see that it was on a list that our own yemsky had made. Something about the Soulstrut 100. Whatever that is, amiright?
So it's tomorrow. I'm a little nervous. I have money now. Time has gone by and I'm old now. I can afford to buy this shit I want. I haven't smelled the weird thrift store smell in a long time (i listened to a podcast that said that smell is really just the smell of people's sweat and grime that can't be washed out of the old clothes they donated). Tomorrow I face it. That intimidating sight of row after row of records knowing deep down that i don't really know shit. I'm that dude that has to listen to each one because i don't have them all memorized. I don't know what's good!
Here is the thread. Tomorrow I will report back. The first store opens at 8. The second one at 9. My mind is telling me i'll be out at 8. My 44 year old body that is drinking the local craft whisky (i told you, i buy real shit now - grown man Jay-z style) says I'll be lucky to make 9 o'clock. If all goes well I won't cry in angry frustration.
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BUT. I have a baby to look after all day every day. So it's all mail-order shit for me.
So thanks Electrode, billbradley and others for posting real-life finds for me to vicariously live until my life settles down and hopefully a store or two is still in business. And post up yer RSD shit dizzybull!
I'm holed up in a pre-Confederation cabin near Lake Erie this weekend doing some writing, so not going out today, but on my way in yesterday, I picked up these three classics for a twenty at an antique shop.
I actually didn't have a copy of Meddle (or do I...) or Tres Hombres before. I don't know why I keep buying copies of One when I haven't sold at a show in years. Is that mean?
https://www.instagram.com/p/CEd9Cu-pCag/?igshid=1leacvgos06c8
It's great to hear that you have the bug again Dizzy. I too took a 5 year break from 2010-2015 and the landscape changed dramatically in that time. The hipster millennials brought back vinyl and the price and demand went through the roof. Great for my Discogs collection portfolio bad for my pocketbook. I suddenly had to be ok with shelling out for good shit instead of finding raers in flea markets on the cheap.
I do a hybrid of Discogs and real world digging ATM. If you have a healthy wants list in Discogs and check the marketplace 20 / day like I do, deals can be had. I'm still finding great shit for cheap. It takes a lot more persistence but it does happen.
The flippig of a “Limited RSD Release” doesn’t always work
https://www.discogs.com/Pat-Thomas-3-Introduces-Marijata-Pat-Thomas-Introduces-Marijata/release/11886876
100+ copies for sale on Discogs since RSD 2018. No (!) sale in 2019
I am still trying to find a more hoarded RFSD release (and this one actually contains good music....)
Interestingly ten sales in 2020, but not a good ROI for anyone who stashed this away two years ago.
Oh push push was there alright but there is some kind of latent subconscious homophobia that prevents me from looking directly at it.
anyone else think the woman on the mexican poster in the background looks like ::Salma Hayek::?
https://community.soulstrut.com/discussion/54723/the-tres-hombres-record-and-food-related/p1
So no Michael Henderson Slingshot hard filed?
Only a white label.