Saturday 21 April 2012 marks an important date for music fans worldwide: International Record Store Day (IRSD).
My old friend Binky Philips, who used to help run a record store on St.
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One day in 1975, when he was twenty-two, Haggis was walking to a record store.
Record Store Day has also helped move the needle in the right direction for vinyl.
Packenham, they discovered, did not have a big enough population to support a record store.
But Kurtz says Record Store Day is still to small to be a big moneymaker for record companies.
Just half a decade later, Record Store Day has developed into a major annual event for the music business.
So in honor of Record Store Day, unplug from the iPod, take off the headphones and head to a local store.
So at age 20 he joined with a friend to buy a run-down record store in a semirural suburb called Packenham.
This thriving record store not only houses various limited release LPs, new LPs and CDs, it also hosts live music events year-round.
This year, Record Store Day highlights will include limited edition offerings from The Flaming Lips, Bruce Springsteen, Arcade Fire and others.
Barry Smith owns the Louisiana Music Factory record store in New Orleans.
Glen Hansard, lead singer of The Frames and star of the movie Once, bought Molina's first album by accident, in a record store.
There was no driving to the record store (are there even record stores any more?), waiting in line, or handing cash to a cashier.
Listeners no longer had to drive to their neighborhood record store (remember those?) to buy that new album by Norah Jones or 50 Cent.
Leipsner started in the industry in the late '80s working in a record store before he moved on to a gig at Mercury Records.
In the UK a similar idea, on a smaller scale, has seen a day dedicated to encouraging people to use their local record store.
Saturday, April 16 is Record Store Day, an official celebration of the musical format and the small, typically privately owned shops that sell them.
The rest of the content inside the file is essentially a self contained record store, with additional media you can unlock by submitting your email address.
Later, I would work in a record store and spend my entire paycheck each week on seven inch imports, a reminder of my days of collecting 45s.
Therefore, Re-Digi claims that its service is the digital equivalent of a second-hand record store, and that the sales are allowed under the First Sale Doctrine.
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It started as a jeans and record store in San Francisco and now has 3, 200 stores and five brands, including Old Navy, Banana Republic, Athleta and Piperlime.
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The next day, young master Calleja took his ready pocket money to the local record store, where he found CDs of Andrea Boccelli and of The Three Tenors.
Some are early releases exclusive for Record Store Day, including a Bob Dylan recording from 1963, others exclusive to Record Store Day and some are regional releases only.
The Hendrix poster will be limited to a run of 5000 copies and features an Ira Rosen image of the guitarist browsing for music in a New England record store.
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Mr. BARRY SMITH (owner, Louisiana Music Factory record store in New Orleans): I'm very low-tech myself, and I know as far as our customers, we still do quite well with the records upstairs.
Eventually, his love for music led him to open a record store, where in 2004 he met Black Wolf, a talented vocalist and songwriter who'd been performing in and around the Milwaukee area since the 1970s.
For instance, if a Gap wants to be near the central court escalators and nothing is available there, the REIT's leasing folks might convince a record store to give up part of its space.
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