Today Is Record Store Day. Go Buy Something.
Saturday April 17th is Record Store Day – a celebration of all that is good about indie record stores and indie music. Record stores are struggling and as convenient as it is to buy music online, we need these stores. They're filters pointing us towards hidden musical gems and gathering places for our tribe of music lovers. Just as there is no substitute for a live show, there is nothing like examining a CD or discussing it with a frighteningly informed store clerk or fellow customer.
Go visit your local record store today. To get warmed up, share your favorite record store experiences here. (Nirvana in a performing in a parking lot? Joey Ramone asking you where the bathroom is?)
HAPPY RECORD STORE DAY !
GO CELEBRATE.
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Reminds me of an Onion headline: “NHL hosts Fan Attendance Night”. Ridiculous.
unfortunately record store’s are dying as is a lot of other things (and job’s) thank’s to the net. check out your record store while it’s still there.
Am I the only Hypebot reader living in a city (Springfield, IL, pop 111,000) where the only remotely “independent” music stores are selling used CDs and DVDs?
I mean, this is an awesome and necessary idea, but nobody within 100 miles of here carries a f’ing thing I’d want to buy in the first place. The battle is already lost, on way, way too many fronts.
Upon reflection, this comment might be more about how I Need To Move than the state of the record store industry…but I think it’s pretty relevant.
I live in a college town about the size of Justin’s, and my situation is mostly similar: there is one remaining new-CD store selling a very narrow slice of “indie rock,” and all other non-chain outlets are used stores. The nearest comprehensive old-style CD stores are 45 and 75 miles away, and even those are about 1/3 used product, maybe more. Out here in the flyover states, Record Store Day is pretty pathetic. To quote from the SNL skit: Wait, that record store is a Jamba Juice now.
For us oldsters looking for blues, jazz, classical, world, folk, etc: Record Store Day really should be called Indie Rock Day.