Saturday, April 17, 2010

RECORD STORE DAY



What is Record Store Day?

The original idea for Record Store Day was conceived by Chris Brown, and was founded in 2007 by Eric Levin, Michael Kurtz, Carrie Colliton, Amy Dorfman, Don Van Cleave and Brian Poehner as a celebration of the unique culture surrounding over 700 independently owned record stores in the USA, and hundreds of similar stores internationally.

This is the one day that all of the independently owned record stores come together with artists to celebrate the art of music. Special vinyl and CD releases and various promotional products are made exclusively for the day and hundreds of artists in the United States and in various countries across the globe make special appearances and performances. Festivities include performances, cook-outs, body painting, meet & greets with artists, parades, djs spinning records and on and on. Metallica officially kicked off Record Store Day at Rasputin Music in San Francisco on April 19, 2008 and Record Store Day is now celebrated the third Saturday every April.


Participating stores in Wisconsin.

2 comments:

Harvey Finkelstein said...

Record Store Day Rocks. Scored some nice things yesterday - Boss 10'er; Doors, Stones, Elvis Costello, Neil Young, Lennon 7"ers; Hendrix, Velvet Underground, Sex Pistols, Sonic Youth and R.E.M. 12"ers.

Buy your music at an independent record store!

Mary said...

Absolutely.