12/11/2023 0 Comments Zia records black friday![]() "We think people coming to our store that day will want the GWAR vinyl, but the other hot items would be Brand New 'Deja Entendu,' Phish 'New Year's Eve 1995 Live at Madison Square Garden' box set, a Metallica "No Life Til Leather" cassette and U2 "Songs of Innocence." Ha? Does anyone really want to hear that U2 fershloogin' album in a format other than forced-upon-us mp3? We were able get an extensive amount of copies for our event that day." Says store co-owner April Robenalt, "The one item that we feel is exclusive to our store for that day would be GWAR's 'America Must Be Destroyed' vinyl. (GWAR will also play a show across the street at the Nile Theater Saturday night). Here's a roundup of what you can expect if you venture into the following locations on Saturday, April 18.Īsylum Records is bracing itself for ARMAGEDDON!!! The Mesa music store will have GWAR in their reopened store for a meet & greet from 12 to 3 pm. Like the cockroaches that survived a nuclear holocaust, vinyl continues to breathe life into the indie-record-store world long after the death of CDs played itself out in the big chain stores.Īnd this year's Record Store Day proves to be even bigger with hundreds of exclusives on hand by the stores that pledged, like Asylum Records, the Record Room, Revolver Records, Stinkweeds, Tracks in Wax and Zia Record Exchange. Vinyl sales also accounted for 74% of all products sold on Record Store Day. Unless, uh, you want to count that.Īll you need to know about Record Store Day is that it continues to be on the ascend and that according to figures culled from BuzzAngle Music, last year's RSD vinyl sales saw a boost of 2,042% while total sales at independent stores worldwide increased by 646% from the week prior. You're gonna hear cynical laughter about seeing a vinyl re-release of Herman's Hermits' "Blaze," an album that you can still find sealed in its original 1967 shrink wrap at most vintage record stores.īut you will not read about that here. You're gonna overhear how record store clerks hate Record Store Day because for one day of Black Friday sales figures, it's gonna make the next two weeks of record retail seem like a ghost town. You're gonna read that some of the most coveted items won't even make it to the store because they're being sold at marked-up prices on eBay. ![]() ![]() Oh you're gonna hear a lot of backlash talk about Record Store Day this year. ![]()
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