http://www.recordstoreday.com/

Last year we made a day trip to Philly to enjoy the day to max. It was cool, had a nice away day, came back with a standalone Peanuts/Charlie Brown record player.

This year I was on the fence and probably going to sit out. Went way too hard last night (damn liters of beer) https://instagram.com/p/1lxV9LCEa-
and just didn't really feel like going out today. But I was going through the internet this morning and saw that a Dilla Record was dropping. A cut of Fuck the Police in the Shape of a badge. Gimmicky? Yes. Necessary? Abso - fucking - lutely.

So I hopped on my bike, sped over to Joe's in Silver Spring and they didn't have much at all. Just one box to thumb through. But in that one box I scored a KMD: Black Bastards ... DOOM
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They told me that they don't really participate and to check out Record Exchange next to the Fillmore. It's a small space. Had vinyls as the floor and there were people already going through the small space.
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I impatiently waited my turn only to be rebuffed through the initial crate searches. But to my surprise and pure dumb luck, everything I looked for and some things that I wasn't were in a side box.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Time Warp in blood red vinyl
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Soundtrack to Spike Jonze's I'm Here with it's iconic promo scene pressed on the cover
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Black Star: Fix Up (single) shaped in the form of a black star
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And the winner for me had to be J Dilla: Fuck the Police
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All in all I'm a happy man. Pockets are a little lighter, but you get money to save and spend. Sometimes you spend.
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>So I hopped on my bike, sped over to Joe's in Silver Spring
>and they didn't have much at all. Just one box to thumb
>through. But in that one box I scored a KMD: Black Bastards
>... DOOM
>https://instagram.com/p/1n2Rh_iEUG
>

That's all I wanted from the list this year. Happy I was able to get it.

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Falcons, Braves, Bulldogs and Hawks

Geto Boys, Poison Clan, UGK, Eightball & MJG, OutKast, Goodie Mob

wish i still had em.

walked right into Access when it opened at 11 & picked up BlackStar.
The dude right in front of me got the last Dilla so I walked down the block to Cow & picked up the last one.
Walked in the first store at 11, was done shopping at 1115.
Way easier than the last few years & I got all I wanted so I can't complain.

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brewerytown in philly didn't have it but I grabbed a bunch of used vinyl for 15% off.

repo records on south st in philly had a line out the door so I skipped them

There wasn't anything I could force myself to buy this year anyway, but I may see if turntablelab gets some leftovers.

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Yes! She's on the drugs. (c) BoHagon

but i can't be bothered to go out for rsd anymore, toronto spots get ridiculous with the lineups and i can't get downtown early enough, and i'm usually okay with stuff 'blowing up' over time and whatnot but the crowds get annoying for more reasons than they're just being a lot of people, like they didn't know record stores still existed.

and yeah pockets are too light as is. and part of me misses it the past two years.

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Hardest thing to find was the MC Lyte album...had to go a Newbury Comics outside of my area...20 minute drive...

Showed up to Newbury Comics in Providence an hour before opening and there was a line...was able to get the other 5 things there...

Man, I couldn't make it to any stores until later and got nothing.

I had Jimi, Otis, Sly and P-Funk on my list and they were all gone.

The upside is that since RSD is a real "thing", I got an afternoon hall pass from my wife and kid to go record shopping for a few hours.

I was able to check out several stores in the East Village and bring home a nice haul of regular, non-RSD stuff.

2 gig yesterday. one all vinyl. didn't grab records out until yesterday morning for the afternoon

then i spent the other half of the day trying to dress for the night gig

all manner of stores doing great stuff. there was a record fair w/ some indie labels i like and i missed it all!

and i had so much fun spinning vinyl (im rusty!) that i really wanted to buy more records to practice on. lol.

i like digging and there's a fair or two coming up so i'll try to get some gems then

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