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PrintA Diggin' the Crates Weekend Special: Today is Record Store Day!
News Type: Event — Sat Apr 19, 2008 2:58 PM EDT
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Today is a very special day for record collectors. Saturday, April 19th: Record Store Day. Today, independent record stores across North America are celebrating the wonders of the digging lifestyle with sales and special in-store performances.
It's also an opportunity to boost flagging sales of physical media - especially your favorite and mine, VINYL!
From the NY Times:
Among the highlights: Metallica will be greeting fans at Rasputin Music in Mountain View, Calif., and Regina Spektor is to perform at Sound Fix, a four-year-old shop in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, that like many has learned to get creative, regularly offering free performances. At Other Music, a capital of underground music on East Fourth Street in Manhattan that faces a shuttered Tower Records, a roster of indie-rock stars will be playing D.J. all afternoon, including members of Tapes 'n Tapes, Grizzly Bear and Deerhunter.
One-day-only record releases will also be part of the event. Vinyl singles by R.E.M., Death Cab for Cutie, Vampire Weekend, Stephen Malkmus and others are being sold on Saturday, and labels big and small are contributing sampler discs and other goodies.
A list of participating venues is available at the official Record Store Day website.
So, get out there! It's Spring, the weather is great, and the records are plentiful. The closes store to my house has everything 20% off and a live in-store performance by Marshall Crenshaw.
After you scratch the itch, be sure to stop in and let us know what you picked up.
Cross-posted from the new ListenInMusic.com.
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{"commentId":1711296,"authorDomain":"emix"}
Sadly, I'm too broke to make it out today. If you know me (and my record habit), you know just how broke that is.
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#1 - Sat Apr 19, 2008 3:05 PM EDT{"commentId":1711434,"authorDomain":"deatienza"}
My haul is up.
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#2 - Sat Apr 19, 2008 3:56 PM EDT{"commentId":1713025,"authorDomain":"kymlee"}
Tanya and I had fun at Record Store Day. Oh yeah...
Should I let her talk me out of becoming a vinyl collector?
{"commentId":1713025,"threadId":"252579","contentId":"1440904","authorDomain":"kymlee"}
- 2 votes
{"commentId":1712642,"authorDomain":"thevineofhob"}
Too bad I didn't read about this earlier, I would have headed into Princeton on this wonderfully weathered day.
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#3 - Sat Apr 19, 2008 11:22 PM EDT{"commentId":1712911,"authorDomain":"pobox522rlyeh"}
Uh Vinyl? Like records? I thought thought they put a bullet in the head of that particular technology years ago...
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#4 - Sun Apr 20, 2008 1:06 AM EDT{"commentId":1712990,"authorDomain":"spiffie"}
People still take pictures with film, too. Seriously, who knew?
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{"commentId":1713030,"authorDomain":"kymlee"}
Smiling Jack there were a bunch of people digging in the crates at Fingerprints. They had all sorts of stuff including one of the best emcees you've never heard of album in the tiny hip hop collection. It was pretty cool.
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{"commentId":1714259,"authorDomain":"pobox522rlyeh"}
People still take pictures with film, too. Seriously, who knew?
I was deliberately being a bit silly. But film actually makes more sense then Vinyl at this point, it isn't anywhere near as obsolete.
The reason I say that, is that very few digital cameras approach the resolution that film offers, and there are many things that people can do in a darkroom when they understand the craft that it's difficult to achieve in photoshop.
On the other hand, there is no lack of quality on computer media, and you can instantly share MP3's with anyone. Vinyl still exists because there are a lot of people who've invested money in huge collections, and the nostalgia is a relevant factor.
But frankly, it is obsolete; film isn't, yet. Eventually it will be gone too.
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{"commentId":1713772,"authorDomain":"MarxistMonkey"}
Both Used Kids and Magnolia Thunderpussy in Columbus were more busy than I had seen them in years. Both places were packed. UK had a noise electronica duo performing. The place stank with unwashed record desire. I bought mostly used cds* but one lp--Lester Bowie's The Great Pretender. Then at Magnolia's a dj was spinning. T-shirts were on sale, so everyone in the family got new ones. Plus a Wolfmother CD for the daughter.
Both stores used heavy plastic bags that read "Make Every Day Record Store Day"--a sentiment I could agree with. But I still tried to refuse the bags. And they wouldn't let me; the clerks insisted that I take one at each store. It was raining, so I did not put up much of a fight.
*list of cds purchased: Velvet Underground 2 cd reissue of Live at Max's Kansas City; Rhino compilation of Laurie Anderson material; Vashti Bunyan's Lookaftering; Club d"Elf, Perhapsody; and Nik Bartsch's Ronin, Holon.
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#5 - Sun Apr 20, 2008 11:41 AM EDT{"commentId":1713832,"authorDomain":"emix"}
{"commentId":1713849,"authorDomain":"deatienza"}
It's a pretty good store. Columbus actually had a lot of participating locations. Ace in the Hole was running something-or-other (it's up in the Kenny Center on Kenny south of Henderson) and Lost Weekend was running something too (never made it to this place but apparently it's in Clintonville.)
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