RSD 2014: What did you pay?

Wow. That Cake box set was $249 CAN at my local (but online) store. Too rich for me to justify. I would've been all over it for $139 US. Regardless, they only had 2 sets and both sold quickly.

 

I went to my local shop on Sunday afternoon and spent $40 on the new St. Vincent album (CD), and a Rough Trade copy of The Smith's Meat is Murder. Got 10% off since it was their RSD weekend sale. I left quite pleased.

 

If the exchange rate doesn't justify it.. Contact Cake through their facebook page. I don't know what they'll do but they seemed very curious when somebody mentioned they paid $240 US.. They wanted the name and address of the shop.

 

Here's what I paid at the Amoeba in the Haight-Ashbury:

Haim - Forever 12" $8.98
Henry Mancini - Pink Panther S/T $24.98
Garbage 10" $11.98
Ramones 10" $13.98
Tears for Fears 10" $11.98

I couldn't find the Neko Case 7" and really wanted it, so I paid $20 on eBay.

There were also people scooping up copies of VU-Loaded that were on display, so I paid $16.98 only to get home and realize it was the regular Rhino LP and not the RSD version. Oh well.... live and learn.

 

What is that?Why it's
One of a kind unpressed green wax 7" vinyl. This could have been anything! Use your imagination. This is what records are made of. So cool.



Record Store Day 2014. Extreme rarity. Buy now or cry later.



http://www.ebay.com/itm/Unpressed-7...ord-Store-Day-Cake-REM-Liars-Oi-/221422026655

 

B-Side Records, Ashtabula
Johnny Cash - $28
Otis Redding - $26

Record Den, Cleveland
Sun Record Company - $14
Sam Cooke - $20
Cage the Elephant - $8

Record Archive, Rochester
Meade Lux Lewis - $16
Albert Ammons - $16
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - $10
Ronnie Spector - $10
Kings of Leon - $6
Sonics/Mudhoney - $8

The Bop Shop, Rochester
The Allman Brothers - $35
Credence - $20
Jimi Hendrix (Monterey) - $25

Anyone see a price for The JB's, "Food For Thought"?

 

Judging from the titles mentioned here and the amounts spent I can really see that RSD does a lot to promote new music to potential new customers. I am sure that in the long term the industry will be saved by this event.
Next idea: an event that caters to stamp collectors. I am sure there is a lot of overlap.

 

I paid AUD38!

 

Uh,well all I bought was some used stuff about $5 each and Weird Science inside a Gold Mine from The Doors! haven`t looked at the price yet.I was just glad I found one!I left so much stuff it`s ridiculous.

 

The exchange only brings it up to $155 or so. However, I don't know what extra shipping charges there may have been to get it to them. I also like dealing with them and would prefer not to cause them any grief.

Thanks for the suggestion, though!

 

One of my local shops had the JB's for $29.98. I think it was on Bull Moose for $31.97 or $34.97... something like that.

 

Devo-Butch Devo & The Sundance Gig Picture Disc $31.99
Tears For Fears 10" $12.99
R.E.M Unplugged $89.99
Zang Tuum Tumb Box Set The Re-Organization of Pop $79.99

No Cake to be found

 

All I was really interested in was the Rush/Love - 7 and 7 is split single. It was $6.99.

 

Anyone able to tell me what the Songs Ohia 7" box set was going for instore.

 

Yeah.. on the Cake RSD post.. I've been talking about it.. Cake set a price at $125 US. They want people to report when it was more than $129. I can't rat my store out for $10 over Cake's set price.. my store is good to me. If your people are good.. then leave it alone..

 

RSD pledge states stores can not charge more than 20% over stated list price, DMB was a $79.99 list, this is way above the 20% allowed by RSD , if this is true you should send RSD an email asking them to check on this price practice

 

lots of people enjoy the line, they meet people make friends, talk about music, why make fun of people enjoying RSD and supporting their local store

 

Well said, there are lots of other expenses, do we evaluate all business and their mark ups the same way

 

Thank you for the info. I haven't been able to find one except on Ebay. Last night I found a "buy it now" for $36 maybe I should have jumped on it.

 

Thank you for the information.

 

There's plenty of violation of the RSD rules going around and I have never heard of any repercussion ever being handed down.

 

I only wanted Mark Mulcahy's LP "Fathering" but House of Records weren't able to get a copy. I found it listed on eBay starting bid .99 and won it for $1.25 this morning! Super happy about! On actual RSD I went to a shop that doesn't order RSD releases and but brought in a dozen unpillaged $1 bins and found 9 awesome LPs, including REM's Murmur and Reckoning, Steely Dan's Royal Scam and Aja, The Squeeze's Babylon and On, and some other killer stuff. Total spent on RSD including my eBay victory:$14.25 (that includes S/H for the Mark Mulcahy disc)

Does anyone know how much that Ghostbuster's 10" was and how many were pressed? I'm just curious. People on eBay are asking a lot for them.

 

Wouldn't participate. I LOVE record retail....but, every SINGLE year I've called for RSD, it's been the same story--they didn't order any of whatever I wanted, which ends up being some .01% of RSD releases not being into shoegazing alt rock....so, here's the deal--you don't carry anything but hipster releases? You will get nothing but hipster business. Which means you won't grow. Ever. This has been the issue with TINY mom&pop stores since I was in record retail some 25 years ago...you had the John Cusack lampooned reality of the hipster indie places...contrasted to the "let me look it up in the computer for you" robot ordering/hirings/staffing big boxes...what this world needs is an ACTUAL record retailer back that knows there's value in both those attitudes towards stocking...