Record Store Day should be everyday!
photo from the treehouse records site - can’t you smell the vinyl?
So I have been hearing the buzz about Record Store Day, which will be tomorrow Saturday the 19th of April. We are lucky in Minneapolis, with a few indie stores still in business. It’s really amazing the way music is disappearing in it’s physical format. The corporate record chains are all but gone and retailers like Best Buy are cutting their inventories way back.
We should all plan to take a trip to a local record store and get a CD or record. Rumor has it Electric Fetus is having food and prizes all day tomorrow even though I couldn’t find it anywhere. A friend from work told me, and he knows what is going on locally and musically.
Electric Fetus and Cheapo are the obvious record stores in town, but make sure you remember Treehouse Records (which is having a sale tomorrow), Roadrunner Records, Extreme Noise (for your punk and hardcore) and also Fifth Element (hip hop and more).
Each of these places have a local music section as well, and there are some great local musicians and bands in town. So go on now and support your local record store.
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I am indeed very happy to have these indie music stores kicking around our fair city. I will be venturing into at least one of them tomorrow to celebrate.
As an aside, my inner 8-year-old can’t let me let one aspect of the photo go un-commented upon: I am greatly amused that the only two words that are legible are "butthole" and "exit." The Butthole Surfers have done so much to bring the level of maturity in this country up!
Hooray for physical record stores! I heard Mark Wheat on KNOW this morning talking about how wonderfully approachable Bob and staff are at the Fetus — nothing like Jack Black in High Fidelity at all. That mirrors my experience, and I totally agree. And while Pandora and Amazon do an okay job of pairing you up with artists you may like, there’s nothing like baring your soul to a musicophile who will hand you the perfect record on an otherwise bleak shopping trip.