Re: Record Store Day April 21, 2012 - Discussion thread and poll
 

It seems that a lot of them grabbed the White Stripes stuff, especially the liquid-filled single. One of them sold for $3500, for, what? A $15 single?

-jason

Re: Record Store Day April 21, 2012 - Discussion thread and poll
 

Well of course. That's why there's 100+ copies of the Flaming Lips album on eBay still SEALED.

I'm going to wait it out. There are 10,000 copies of it and the price will come down to earth. I saw a copy of last year's white vinyl Television album in the used bin for about what it went for last year.

Re: Record Store Day April 21, 2012 - Discussion thread and poll
 

I was on vacation this year in Fort Lauderdale and decided to not pass up on RSD. I should have. The store I was in opened at 9 and literally let in the entire line of 100 people at the same time who were literally fighting each other for releases. I picked up a few and gave up.

This year there were way too many 7" and not enough 12".

I picked up Junta until I saw the price tag. $79.99. I handed it to a Phish head who was second in line but didnt get a copy because he couldnt find it fast enough.

I walked out with Pretty in Pink, The Breakfast Club and a Cure live album. There were a bunch more I wanted but couldnt brave the crowd.

Last year in New Jersey was WAY more organized even if Scotty's jacked up the retail price and was selling things for eBay prices.

Re: Record Store Day April 21, 2012 - Discussion thread and poll
 

Had a blast. Bought like 20 records. Got all the exclusives I wanted. Went back to talk to the owner of my local shop today and he said he made enough money on Saturday to pay his rent for the next 8 months - that alone justifies the day for me. Good for those small owners.

Re: Record Store Day April 21, 2012 - Discussion thread and poll
 

One of the local stores said it was their second best day of sales ever. So that is good, yes.

Re: Record Store Day April 21, 2012 - Discussion thread and poll
 

I actually like the fact that some record store owners are wising up and charging closer to market prices for some of the records if it allows them to stay open longer. There are obviously people out there who will pay crazy prices for some of this stuff. It is better for the store owner to realize that margin than the guy selling on ebay IMO.

Re: Record Store Day - April 21, 2012
 

Clubdevo.com managed to get some copies and are selling them for retail price ($24.99) + shipping.

Re: Record Store Day - April 21, 2012
 

Thanks, ordered one. That's what I most wanted. Probably could get it for just about the same price (with the $8 shipping they are charging) from ebay, but less hassle this way.

Re: Record Store Day April 21, 2012 - Discussion thread and poll
 

Vintage Vinyl in NJ sells them for retail. The amount of eBayers on line are far fewer than the people going to buy records for their own use. The point of RSD is to support the record store yet on RSD the owners decide to jack up the prices to make more money? Sorry, I don't agree with you on this one. I am all for supporting the record store, and I frequent them throughout the year. Taking advantage of me because of limited releases is a slap in my face.

Re: Record Store Day April 21, 2012 - Discussion thread and poll
 

I have no idea what the % of ebayers is vs. fans. Also, I don't know what the margins are on the limited releases. I understand that it sucks for people who actually want the releases at more reasonable prices, but I blame those who create an artificial scarcity by making such limited runs of titles they could easily sell 3 times as many copies for that.

Re: Record Store Day April 21, 2012 - Discussion thread and poll
 

It's a chicken-egg thing for me. Are the records artificially scarce because of the eBayers? Look at the listings on eBay now for "record store day 2012" - there are tons of items up there, many with no bids at all because of the high starting prices. If the eBay crowd left RSD alone, there would be plenty of supply to go around, I think, even with the limited print runs. Well, for most titles - 1250 copies of a Sigur Ros record is pretty dumb.

I mean, Radiohead's King of Limbs was by far the highest selling new record last year and even then it only moved 20,000 copies of vinyl.

Vinyl is popular now, but it's still a very very small chunk of the market.

Re: Record Store Day April 21, 2012 - Discussion thread and poll
 

There was only one record store in my area that was even participating in Record Store Day. We got there late, but there weren't many exclusives I was interested in. They had the live Grateful Dead that I wanted, but they wanted $75 for it! It would have been less because it didn't include the 25% off discount. The store was having a 25% off new records, 50% off used sale on that day, but that was still too rich for my blood.

I still ended up making some purchases, though. I bought 3 records: Fugazi - Repater, Subhumans - The Day the Country Died, and Janis Joplin - I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again, Mama. Only the Fugazi one was new. I was pretty excited about the Janis album. I can usually find Pearl or a greatest hits collection but hadn't come across that one.

:thumbsup:

Re: Record Store Day - April 21, 2012
 

Great, I'm glad I posted the info. They tweeted yesterday that they were sold out already.

Re: Record Store Day April 21, 2012 - Discussion thread and poll
 

Yep, we did very well in that department at all three of our stores.