Adventures of Record Store Day 2015

Record Store Day 2015! I hit 6 stores, made purchases at 5 of them, and even discovered a new store to add to my list this year (Barney's Music in Woodland...nice guys). Thanks to Mo and Jen for scouting out places in the bay area and helping out! My record collection thanks you!

Dimple Records on Arden had significantly nicer crowds this year than last year. Absolutely no elbows being thrown; most people remembered their manners. Bonus points for letting the 1 guy bring his dog into the store while he shopped for records!

You can tell by the bins that it's incredibly difficult for the stores to predict which items will sell well. Either that or the stores just get screwed by the RSD distributor. Endless piles of un-purchased Mumford and Sons 7-inches everywhere.

Every year I plan to start in Sacramento and make it all the way to Rasputin Music in Fairfield. I never seem to get that far. Hunger, exhaustion, and an empty wallet always win out beforehand. Next year! Still, I made out pretty good. This year's haul looks like so:

  • Clutch – From Beale Street to Oblivion, 12” double vinyl
  • Dead Milkmen – Beelzebubba, 12” vinyl
  • Paul McCartney – “The Family Way” soundtrack, 12 vinyl
  • The Replacements – EP, 10” vinyl
  • OFF! – Live from the BBC, 10” vinyl
  • DRI – Live at CBGB's 1984 – 12” vinyl
  • The Jesus and Mary Chain – Barrowlands Live, 12” vinyl
  • MDC – Smoke Signals, 12” vinyl
  • MDC – Live at CBGB's 1983, 12” vinyl
  • The Wrestling Album / Piledriver: The Wrestling Album II, 12” red and yellow vinyl
  • The Rocky Horror Picture Show – Let's Do The Time Warp – 10” red vinyl
  • Manic Street Preachers – The Holy Bible 20, 12” picture disc
  • The Hold Steady – Heaven is Whenever, 12” vinyl
  • The Hold Steady – Boys and Girls In America, 12” purple vinyl
  • Erasure – The Violet Flame Remixes, 12” red vinyl
  • Sugar Hill Gang – Best Of, 12” vinyl
  • Gameface – Every Last Time, 12” colored vinyl
  • Mastadon – Atlanta, 12” picture disc
  • Joan Jett & The Blackhearts – Flashback, 12” vinyl
  • Violent Femmes – Happy Near Year, 12” champagne colored vinyl
  • Venom – From The Very Depths, 12” red vinyl
  • Brian Eno – My Squelchy Live, 12” vinyl
  • Syd Barrett / REM – Dark Globe, 7” purple vinyl
  • Grandmaster Flash / Stiff Little Fingers – The Message, 7” vinyl
  • Braid – Kids Get Grids, 7” vinyl
  • Citizen Dick – Touch Me I'm Dick, 7” vinyl
  • Johnny Marr – I Feel You, 7” vinyl
  • Mystery Record Store Day 7” (I'm told this is Husker Du / Ramones)
  • Adam And The Ants – Ant Music / Kings of the Wild Frontier, 7” vinyl
  • Lemonheads / Gram Parsons – Brass Buttons, 7” pink vinyl
  • Slim Dunlap – The Old New Me/Times Like This, 2xLP vinyl
  • Billy Joe Armstrong – Live Freaky Die Freaky, 7” picture disc
  • David Bowie – Changes, 7" picture disc
  • David Bowie/Tom Verlaine - Kingdom Come, 7" colored vinyl
  • David Bowie – Sue / Tis A Pity She's a Whore, 10” vinyl
  • Slayer – When The Stillness Comes -- 7" Picture Disc

I also stumbled across a few rad yet not RSD-related 7 inches that couldn't be passed up...

  • Jawbreaker – Busy, 7”
  • Fifteen – Ain't Live a Drag, 7”
  • Fifteen – Liberation / Sweet Valentine / Devotion / Imagination, 7”
  • Tilt – Addiction / Redemption / One Day / Locust, 7”

-nolan

(pic courtesy of Maurice.)