Saturday 21 April 2012 marks an important date for music fans worldwide: International Record Store Day (IRSD).
Record Store Day has also helped move the needle in the right direction for vinyl.
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.
This year, Record Store Day highlights will include limited edition offerings from The Flaming Lips, Bruce Springsteen, Arcade Fire and others.
Saturday, April 16 is Record Store Day, an official celebration of the musical format and the small, typically privately owned shops that sell them.
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 latter album benefited from the fact that it was released the week of Record Store Day, an annual worldwide celebration of independently owned music stores marked by concerts, cookouts, parades and special releases like the Foo Fighters' vinyl-only covers album, Medium Rare.
In the UK a similar idea, on a smaller scale, has seen a day dedicated to encouraging people to use their local record store.
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.
The Hong Kong store opened in the last weekend of the quarter and set a company record for the highest opening day sales.
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One day in 1975, when he was twenty-two, Haggis was walking to a record store.
Michael Kurtz, a longtime music producer and technician, was sitting around with a bunch of record store owners trying to brainstorm ideas to reverse that trend when Chris Brown of Bull Moose Music suggested dedicating a day to record stores.
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