Will You Go to Record Store Day? Is it Still Worth It? (My Picks)

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i wish they would release more of the albums that were only available on CD originally

Record Store Day should have been everything it isn’t now. Ever increasing price tags for things that in the long run we just never needed. All the while, there are artists, albums, labels and scores more ideas that are never brought up, accessed, discussed or touched….things that would have had me seriously considering joining in. But nope….instead we get “Rumours” picture discs and Beatles 3 inch record players. Guess my money is staying in my wallet.

I’m a bit underwhelmed too by this year’s list. I have said I won’t be bothering this year but FOMO will probably get the better of me lol. The majors are spoiling it with their usual money grabbing and also some titles go on general release after RSD and for less money which is frustrating to say the least! That said I still think it’s a great day even if you just go and watch a DJ set or a band in store and buy a record that’s not on the list. Cheers Mark! Have a good one !👍

Just what the world needed and the fans demanded: another Ringo Starr album, reissue, and more picture discs.

There are about five or so that stand out to me (the South Park one was a pleasant surprise) and one of the owners of my local record store recommended "In the Beginning" by The Slits. I start a new work schedule so won't be off on RSD so will have to resort to seeing if anything is left over on Sunday. You need more subscribers!

Remember the Sabbath, and buy a copy 😁 a dark record, but its full of classics if you don't own any others

I’ve missed RSD for the last couple of years, different reasons. I think the idea of it, was (and still is good), getting people to visit local / independent shops, but finding in recent years where people in the queue before me buying tons of stuff knowing that it’s going straight on to Ebay, many items being gimmicky now, price of items. Be interesting to see how future events shape up

I'm in the jaded-but-still-going-early crowd. This year I'm excited by a lot more items than the previous years (Gentle Waves, Snoop Dogg reissues, Scott Walker's Tilt, etc), but I also know that my small local shop won't have them all, and if so, will have few units to spare. So there you go. That's been the RSD experience as far as I can remember. edit : and just on cue, I find out that the Snoop Dogg's release has actually been removed from the list. Nice.

Big Country " Why the Long Face".....top of my list considering the price of an original press

I have four on my want list, but the one I want the most is Joe Pesci- Little Joe sure can sing.

I usually go out and pick up a few things, but seeing the prices of some of these makes me pause and think. I recently looked into how many RSD titles I have and how often I play them. It isn't often.

Found quite a few things which interest me, will get Ultravox/Midge ure rekeases, FSOL - ISDN is released on vinyl for first time I think, I will also get Sparks and Pulp albums and possibly Buena Vista Social Club. Quite a few things this year.

I was happy to get a rerelease of the Oh Wonder debut this year. Second hand you pay up to €200 for previous releases, so for those things RSD is great.

Hello Mark,Firstly i love watching your Sound Matters videos.Very imformative and well laid out.Great set up you have there.I'm always a few days behind on catching up on watching them but i do get round to it in the end.Secondly i am from the UK but now live in Slovakia where record shops are far and few between.Driving nearly 3 hours to Bratislava for RSD just isn't going to happen or worth it for me.Slovakia's selection of 2nd hand records (12",Ep's and albums)which i mainly buy (old soul,funk,disco,acid teckno,House,jazz funk and blues) for bedroom DJ'ing are not in general cheap either so i buy only from UK sellers on discogs.Prices of records on discogs from sellers on the continent are ridiculously high so i stick to good old trusted UK sellers but i have to accept the VAT and duty taxes,plus increasing delivery costs.I have never done RSD and probably won't be persuaded to either as its just over hyped quick buck and very much record company greed.However i'm sure there would be to some people a good few bargins with RSD so i won't definitely say no to it.If there were some re-presses on Soul Jazz records of the Studio one releases at reasonable prices i might be tempted.Cheers mate and keep up the good work for us vinyl lovers.😊

The whole RSD circus has careered out of control. I used to enjoy the event and would occasionally partake in it, but for the last 5-6 years it has been absolutely sabotaged by the blasted major labels who insist on reissuing the same classic albums over and over again at ever higher prices and fanciful formats to fleece the fans. This whole forced exclusivity in the name of - what exactly? elitism? oneupmanship? - is increasingly self-defeating and is not doing the reputation of those major labels any favours to be honest. I am tired of this whole lark and a lot of record store owners I know - be they in the UK or even in Europe (I love vinyl hunting in the Netherlands too) have largely agreed, saying that it's lost much of its original appeal and meaning and is now simply a scalpers' paradise and a convenient excuse for major labels to exploit the entire event and reissue any old crap from some of the naffest and most forgettable bands of yore just to jump on the bandwagon (examples - re-releasing albums by the most inessential no hoper has-beens of the pop/ indie litter of the 1980s and 1990s like Menswear, Gay Dad, Belouis Some, Naked Eyes, Flash & The Pan ....etc etc.... who cares??) RSD used to be about exclusive vinyl releases never before issued in that format - and an event to celebrate the independent record store, but now its just another massively extortionate and superficial free for all, something for trendy types to 'be seen at'.....and I wish it would return back to something a bit less OTT. After all, those of us who buy vinyl every week or month don't need one hyped up day each year to show our love of our local record stores (i.e. EVERY DAY should be record store day for crying out loud!!) so this whole palaver is just another quick-buck cash-grab ritual, like so many other annual events now, to ensnare the gullible and those who don't know any better. 2021 was the last time I ever bought anything on RSD - a Wire PF456 box set that was never issued on vinyl before - and to add insult to injury the item was available a few weeks later on Juno Records website at almost half the price - not so fkng rare and exclusive after all was it? That boiled my piss realising I was scalped on the day. So I decided from that point - 'never again'. I have kept my word since.

RSD has been a joke for years, just a gimmick for the record companies to make as much money as possible from old releases reissued and badly remastered.

i don't like to feel rushed or cramped in a store, i avoid RSD. plus, folks are rude and entitled. things i like from RSD rarely sell out here, I will get a copy of 'Buena Vista Social Club' the day after with out the stress.

Definitely not audiophile day is it?

I've never been to one for two reasons. First, there is no record I can't do without. Second, I don't do lines. I will actually show up a few days after record store day and maybe pick up some scraps. Even when shopping malls were popular I avoided them at Christmas time.