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Record Store Day 2023 / SDE Video Preview No 2

Record Store Day in 2023 is this coming Saturday, 22 April. As usual there’s a wide array of product available and so let SDEtv be your guide as in the second of three video previews we look at some of the albums/artists from the 1980s era.

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  1. Last year for the first time I bothered to go out and stand in line at the local record store. Then the following day I drove an hour to go to the Princeton Record Exchange, arguably the best record store in NJ + NY area. I spent a ton thinking I had a great score. It is now a year later and all the albums that I thought would be super rare (based on popularity of the band, number of units printed and beautiful presentation) can be easily bought on Discogs for no money! Jesus Jones Scratched 2x vinyl, only 2000 printed, beautiful green and blue marbled vinyl sealed for $13! Simple Minds 5×5 live, 2000 units, 3 colored vinyl $29.99 sealed, Sheena Easton The Definitive 12” singles, 2000 units, 2 pink vinyls, $25 sealed. Erasure RE:EP colored vinyl and CD, 2850 unites, $15 sealed. Why stand in line if you can get it a year later for less than I paid for in the store??? All the colored, marbled, etc vinyls look great but none of it is particularly rare. There is absolutely no need to rush to the record store. I thought RSD releases were super rare but that is not true at all.

    1. I too make the calculation every RSD, is it worth the bother standing outside my non local UK record store (Sheffield) & the early morning drive there & back. This year I will in the queue for overpriced ? & limited Vinyl. I also wonder if the numbers printed / quoted are for a particular country ?

      As for the UK pressed TFF Saturine Martial & Lunatic CD, discogs sells it for around £12.

      I am tempted by the police 7″ EBYT & purchased the original (2x 7″ gatefold) 40 years ago from a Sheffild Market Stall (God I am old)! I also purchased the RSD Roxanne 7″ back in 2018 for £16, five years later discogs sells it for around £20, so not everything matures well with time.

      1. Yeah, I love RSD with the gorgeous colored vinyl releases but don’t expect it to be rare or increase in value. Most of the stuff is widely available a year later for less than you bought it at RSD day.

    2. To be perfectly frank, the releases you mention would never be super rare…there just isn’t 2,000 Jesus Jones fans needing to buy coloured vinyl at full price, or 2,000 Sheena Easton devotees wanting a 12″ collection. These acts, no matter how good one thinks they are, have just never had the collector’s interest, nor the vital cache to catch a younger market over the years. Halving the units would suffice for most of the vintage acts these days.

      1. Perhaps true but Ian Gair’s example of the double 7” by the Police doesn’t bode much better for fans of more popular bands. Also, the McCartney III colored vinyl releases (non RSD releases) are now quite cheap on Discogs. White, red, blue, green, yellow, orange are maximum $35 but mostly under $30. It seems that the supposedly rare vinyl releases are very popular at first and go for lots of money but then a year later the market for these releases has imploded and prices are much lower.

    3. You never know, some items do become scarce so I usually try to get what I want the morning of at the stores. A couple examples:

      I tried to get the Duran Duran – As The Lights Go Down (Live Oakland Coliseum ’84) 2xLP in April 2019 and it was gone at the store I went to by the time I got in. Saw someone else in the store with it so I was just too late. It has sold for a significant sum online since that day and I still don’t have a copy.

      The Dee Gees / Foo Fighters – Hail Satin LP from July 2021 has sold online for >$100 since day one (~$175 online now).

    4. They may well be “super rare”, but the question is: does anyone want them? and further, do they want them at that price? I’m worried that if people are buying lps at £40-60 then that will become the norm for future “regular” vinyl releases (as aren’t they all “limited”?).

  2. Loved watching that – thanks Paul. The Belinda Carlisle looks a good purchase and I definately want the Police 7″. I love Tears for Fears but have that album on CD already (with the funny sleeve notes). However, I’d really recommend it for anyone who hasn’t got it. (Especially as the CD version usually goes for about 30 quid 2nd hand these days) ‘New Star’ is as good as anything on it’s parent album, Pharaohs is wonderfully hypnotic (the shipping forecast over chilled music) and there are so many other great tracks.

  3. Hi Paul, thanks for the previews. Apart from The Cure, Tricky and some SJR releases there isn’t a lot of interest to me this year.
    By the way, as a little bit of a Violent Femmes fan, I think you should check your pronunciation of the band name ;-)

        1. I’m probably getting far too pedantic here but I would say if they were called Femmes Violentes, yes, but as it is your pronunciation would be fine. There doesn’t seem to be any consensus on this on the internet anywhere.

  4. I spent way too much on RSD last year, so I’m trying to be more restrained this year. I wouldn’t mind the TFF album, but it would be good if this were due a CD re-issue too. They did that last year with the live album. Although sod’s law I missed out on the CD and ended up with the vinyl. Any insider knowledge if a CD re-issue is planned?

  5. Thanks Paul. I wish were getting the Police and Tears For Fears in the U.S. Conversely, I wish you had also unboxed the Duran Duran, U2 and Motley Crue. I see those will be available in the UK too.

  6. Will be in the queue at my local vinyl emporium, Slide Records in Bedford. Hopefully will pick up Mike Oldfield, A Flock of Seagulls, The Police and U2. Good luck to all and hope you are successful in getting the vinyl you want. Love the unboxing vids thanks Paul.

    1. I was just thinking the Police one looks good, but having only picked up Roxanne on a previous occasion I wasn’t going to bother. But I just checked and I did get MIAB too, so I may have to keep the collection going and see if I can pick this up. But yes, U2 also, I’ve really liked their RSD output…apart from the rather naff Fire picture disc!

    2. I was at Slide a minute after 10. Probably at the counter at about 1020. Unfortunately they had nothing left on my list (Tears for Fears, Mike Oldfield, Future Sound of London, Amorphous Androgynous and xPropaganda).
      So I took my money to Oxfam where I picked up some 2nd hand but mint Public Serivce Broadcasting LPs in coloured vinyl.

      1. Hi Mr Magnetic Ghost, was a lot busier at Slide this year. I was no.42 in the queue at 06:30, queue started around midnight. Managed to get all on my wishlist, sorry including Mike Oldfield. Good atmosphere in line, and well organised.

  7. On holiday in Folkstone, found a cracking wee record shop in the creative corner, vintage & vinyl..owner Steve great guy and was getting set up for record shop day!! Amazingly he had never heard of S D E so filled him in,, picked up the Japan quiet life SDE for £32 good price ,he also has a couple of grates of unsold record store Day from the past buy 1 get 1 free !! Might be worth calling him??

    1. So, with the release of Every Bomb from Spitting Image. Could Stings “Sending Our Love Down a Well” from The Simpsons be far behind? LOL.

    2. I do remember the Spitting Image thing, wasn’t it more about Thatcher and probably Reagan? Anyway, I didn’t realise it was Sting, I thought it was someone just impersonating him.

          1. Credit to the person who took the time to create this, not me, but it certainly puts this brilliant song in to perspective. And still so very relevant in 2023, 40 years later.

            Every bomb you make, (Ronald Reagan)
            Every job you take, (Margaret Thatcher)
            Every heart you break, (Arthur Scargill and Ian MacGregor)
            Every Irish wake, (Ian Paisley)
            I’ll be watching you…

            Every wall you build, (Erich Honecker)
            And everyone you’ve killed, (Robert Mugabe)
            Every grave you’ve filled, (Fidel Castro)
            All the blood you’ve spilled, (Colonel Gadaffi)
            I’ll be watching you…

            Oh, can’t you see? (Erich Honecker)
            You belong to me. (Idi Amin)
            There’ll be a bill to pay, (Leonid Brezhnev)
            On that judgement day… (Adolf Hitler)

            For every empty plate, (Indira Gandhi)
            And every word of hate, (Ruhollah Khomaini)
            Those who subjugate, (P.W. Botha)
            Those who violate, (Konstantin Chernenko)
            I’ll be watching you… (Death)

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