- Fri Apr 18, 2014 8:19 am
#15766
Record store day: or how to p*ss of record buyers.
I buy music every week, and over the last month have picked up Halloween II and III soundtracks as 'impulse' buys in HEAD in Leamington Spa. (And the soundtrack to Emmanuelle in the second hand section was a find I'm particularly pleased with.) Not to mention vinyl from HMV, CDs from HMV and a vinyl edition of City of the Living Dead from an online store. Oh, and the new Ian Anderson album in a somewhat large box that will be filed away in a box somewhere (I wanted to discs, not a bloody coffee table book - another annoyance. Why can't I just get the discs?)
But this Record Store Day thing is annoying, especially when it's stuff that I'd buy anyway if I saw it... Not because it's some sort of limited edition, but because I buy stuff by Nico Fidenco and co. and quite often can be found in the attic slumped over a word processor while a Fabio Frizzi record clicks away on the final grooves. Not only is it annoying because I probably won't get out in time (Kids!) to get the one copy they may (Or may not) have, the rest will be sold onto to some subscription that you can't join easily... I just it for the music. Has everyone forgotten that? No doubt these'll pop up on ebay the following day for hugely inflated prices...
I think I'll wait until Beat in Italy releases this stuff on CD. (Just received two Fidenco soundtracks, Zombi Holocaust and Porno Holocaust from them).
Talk about taking all the fun out of record buying, a mad scramble through the great unwashed who are strangely absent most saturdays when I'm buying music. Record (And CD) buying is all about leafing through racks and finding those unexpected gems (Like Halloween III & II, or the jazz reissues from Japan on CD, or the new album by some obscure band who I long thought had split up.).
I buy music every week, and over the last month have picked up Halloween II and III soundtracks as 'impulse' buys in HEAD in Leamington Spa. (And the soundtrack to Emmanuelle in the second hand section was a find I'm particularly pleased with.) Not to mention vinyl from HMV, CDs from HMV and a vinyl edition of City of the Living Dead from an online store. Oh, and the new Ian Anderson album in a somewhat large box that will be filed away in a box somewhere (I wanted to discs, not a bloody coffee table book - another annoyance. Why can't I just get the discs?)
But this Record Store Day thing is annoying, especially when it's stuff that I'd buy anyway if I saw it... Not because it's some sort of limited edition, but because I buy stuff by Nico Fidenco and co. and quite often can be found in the attic slumped over a word processor while a Fabio Frizzi record clicks away on the final grooves. Not only is it annoying because I probably won't get out in time (Kids!) to get the one copy they may (Or may not) have, the rest will be sold onto to some subscription that you can't join easily... I just it for the music. Has everyone forgotten that? No doubt these'll pop up on ebay the following day for hugely inflated prices...
I think I'll wait until Beat in Italy releases this stuff on CD. (Just received two Fidenco soundtracks, Zombi Holocaust and Porno Holocaust from them).
Talk about taking all the fun out of record buying, a mad scramble through the great unwashed who are strangely absent most saturdays when I'm buying music. Record (And CD) buying is all about leafing through racks and finding those unexpected gems (Like Halloween III & II, or the jazz reissues from Japan on CD, or the new album by some obscure band who I long thought had split up.).