Tag: Record Store Day
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Records to buy on Record Store Day (that aren’t RSD releases)
April 23rd 2022 marks the UK’s fifteenth Record Store Day, a day set aside to celebrate the culture of the independently owned record store, and to hopefully keep them in business. It is still the busiest day of the year for your local shop, despite the frustrations that are associated with the event, which for…
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Never Mind The Covid* It’s Record Store Day! (*Actually We Still Need To Mind The Covid)
As eagerly anticipated by record collectors globally as the release of the Autumn/Winter Argos catalogue was when we were kids. Or, if you are as old as me (and if you collect records there’s half a chance you will be), the Peter Craig or Freeman’s catalogue. Record Store Day, usually scheduled in April of each…
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Record Shops Facing Tipping Point in 2019…
The Vinyl Revival may have seen an increase in record shop numbers, but record buyers can ill-afford to take their local record shops for granted… In case you have been distracted by other, less important political issues such as Brexit and volatile US presidents, it won’t have escaped your notice there has been a miraculous…
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Why We Still Need Record Store Day
Record Store Day seems to be a day of doing things you wouldn’t normally do. You rise earlier than you would for work. (Motivation may have something to do with this…) You happily stand in a queue outside a record shop although you get apoplectic with rage waiting for more than thirty seconds at the…
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Is He Having An Affair? Or Is It Just Record Store Day Anxiety…
There are a number of warning signs that you can look out for to see if your middle aged husband is having an affair….** These include: a) increased irritability, b) mind often elsewhere, c) regularly distracted, d) increased covert use of smart phone. However, be careful before you unleash hell and take his philandering record…
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Ten reasons why record flippers are in league with Satan
Traditions. We have a number of traditions in the UK, and many are wonderful. Afternoon tea. Cricket. Moaning about the weather. And there are those that are less wonderful. Queueing. Apologising to the person who has just bumped into you. X-Factor. Add to that list the traditional post-Record Store Day look at eBay. There’s that…
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Don’t Panic! The Secret To Investing On Record Store Day
Don’t Panic! Those “hot” new Record Store Day releases may not be as essential as you think…. As Record Store Day looms ominously like a looming, ominous thingy, and the first flurry of tents begin forming queues outside the nation’s record stores in the same way Eastern European Migrants do outside the UK in the…
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The Worst Ten Records You Must Avoid This Record Store Day
You know what it’s like. You’ve been camping overnight on the street outside Rough Trade East. You are sleep deprived. For the last hour you have been listening to a record dealer talk to a hipster as they swap tales of limited edition versions of obscure Nigerian goat flute music. It has started to rain,…
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Ten Reasons Why People Who Sell Record Store Day Records On eBay May Not Be Evil, Mercenary Scumbags
Life’s bad guys are pretty well defined. Tax collectors are pretty unpopular, as are traffic wardens and traffic policemen hiding behind hedges holding speed guns. But we all know these are not inherently evil people. It’s the job that is evil. The people who choose to do these jobs may well, when they remove their…
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Record Store Day Gets Metal
The Record Store Day 2014 Announcement has revealed some exciting releases this year for rock and metal fans. Mastodon lead the pack with a vinyl and DVD release of “Live at Brixton”. Green Day has announced an album of demos and out takes available on LP and cassette. On the re-release side, there’s Motörhead’s self…
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Bowie, Nirvana, Tame Impala, Damon Albarn: The Pick of Record Store Day 2014 Releases
So what do you make of this year’s Record Store Day List of Releases? There are already a few lists doing the rounds, and the official announcement is at 4pm today. (the official announcement will be found here at RSD HQ) The annual announcement is as widely and eagerly anticipated amongst the vinyl loving fraternity…
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Cassettes: A Newbies Guide For Cassette Store Day
The exciting prospect of Cassette Store Day has got many of us very excited. Just two years after I sold all my cassettes believing the format to be as relevant as a Phil Collins greatest hits laser disc, here’s a grass-roots movement to try to ensure that, like Gordon Brown selling the UK’s Gold Reserves…
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Everything You Need To Know About Cassette Store Day
“Music sounds great on cassette. I have a big collection of original albums on cassette from artists like Dylan , The Rolling Stones, The Byrds, MC5 & Suicide. I also have great compilation tapes I made to play on Primal Scream tours. Cassette is a cool medium to listen to music on. Warm and fat.…
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Rock Stars in Comics: Coldplay, McCartney, Elvis and Kiss
Despite the obvious merits of the comic books I enjoyed many years ago such as Sin City, Watchmen, The Dark Knight Returns and so on (I lost touch with things in the mid-nineties) comic books have unfortunate baggage that accompanies them. If you ever look up the word “Geek” in the dictionary, there tends to…
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Look Out For…Sweet Billy Pilgrim: Download Their Album For Free. Yes. Free.
Regular readers will know that my favourite album of last year was Sweet Billy Pilgrim‘s “Crown and Treaty”. I wasn’t the only one. Mojo Magazine slotted it neatly into their Top 50 albums, calling it an instant five star classic, and it made many other end-of-year lists. Simply put, it is a towering work of…
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