Record Store Day, April 17, 2010
For the third year in a row, Record Store Day, will be celebrated this coming weekend. Wait! You’re going to ask: what is a record store? This is the part where I die a little on the inside. With the world shoulder deep in the digital age, some see it archaic to have to leave their home, get in a car, drive, park, enter a store and begin looking through racks for an album they need to own. Who wants to do that? ME! That’s who.
Record Store Day is the celebration of neurotic folks, like myself, that still believe in purchasing physical albums to play in Walkmans, record players, stereos and what have you. It is on this day, musicians show their gratitude to independent record stores across the country and release limited edition material to the foaming masses.
With big box stores reducing the size of their music selections, independent record stores have a chance to start winning folks back. Since Wal-Mart, Target or Best Buy have limited offerings, you can take a trip to the small store and really find what you want or be convinced to purchase something else that you wouldn’t otherwise think to pick. Not that I’ve ever done that to someone before, but it does happen to some unsuspecting victims.
To really get in the spirit of the event visit their website to see what stores are participating, what releases are offered and some all around general music news. Many stores have live music by local artists, and tons of free samplers. As the day nears, check the site for updates about releases and locations. Some of us have the Super Bowl, the rest of us have Record Store Day.
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