My response to the Quietus article : "Why Record Store Day Must End"

There was a pretty negative piece published in the Quietus this week:
http://thequietus.com/articles/19946-record-store-day-2016-shops-bad-reissues-bleugh
In an attempt to provide some positive balance, this was my response:

"I run a record shop. 
I've taken part in RSD for the last 8 years. 
RSD is not perfect, but I really don't recognise, or agree with, a number of the points raised in this piece. 
Every year there are crap releases, that I think are cynical and exploitative - so I don't stock them. 
Every year there are fantastic releases, that I would queue up and buy for myself if I wasn't lucky enough to run a record shop...this year is no different. 
RSD is the busiest day of the year for me - yet I'm happy if I can break even on the RSD stock itself, where I make some money is on the huge range of used vinyl that I'm lucky enough to have, and which customers are delighted to find and buy on the day. Records that they didn't even know they wanted before they pitched up on Record Store Day and had a browse- and that's why I run a record shop, and that's why I love going to record shops. 
Most importantly RSD is great fun...I'll have a string of regular customers doing DJ sets through the day...they'll play some great records, they'll have a great time, so will I and luckily so will my customers. 
The way RSD is run can always be tweaked and improved, but I suspect that I wouldn't have survived without it, and the resurgence in vinyl that has resulted from it, and I don't think I'm alone."

SALE! SALE! SALE! SALE! SALE!

In order to make room for the arrival of this years Record Store Day titles, we're having a SALE! on some of our old RSD albums and singles.
These have been reduced by up to 40% and include records by The Fall, The Replacements, The 101ers, Grace Jones, Jake Bugg, John Cale, The Flaming Lips, Pulp, Lemonheads, The Ramones, Syd Barrett, T.Rex, Garbage, The Wedding Present, Tim Burgess, Dandy Warhols, Field Music and many more.

Record Store Day 2016

Record Store Day 2016 takes place on Saturday April 16th.
The RSD banner is up, and all orders have now been placed for this year, updates will follow as stock arrives.
Next week we'll have a sale of previous years RSD product.
In the meantime take a look at this years list on the Record Store Day site:
www.recordstoreday.co.uk/exclusive-releases/rsd-2016

What does a Record Shop owner get for Record Store Day...

...there have to be some perks to running a record shop, and being first in the RSD queue is one of the best. This year was a bumper crop for yours truly:
Serge Gainsbourg et le Cinema - collection of early soundtrack work
Rainbow Ffolly - Sallies Forth - Psychedelic classic I will never be able to afford an original pressing of Pt.1
Tomorrow - Tomorrow - Psychedelic classic I will never be able to afford an original pressing of Pt.2
Goldfrapp - Felt Mountain - Long overdue re-issue of the first Goldfrapp album on vinyl.
The Zombies - R.I.P. unissued tracks from the late sixties.
V/A - Shirley Inspired - 3xLP set of covers of songs associated with the great Shirley Collins (Includes Trembling Bells/Alasdair Roberts/Belbury Poly etc). Probably the most beautiful RSD release this year.
Anne Briggs - Anne Briggs - Folk classic I will never be able to afford an original pressing of.
Iggy Pop - Shot Myself Up - US Radio station session with Bowie on keyboards.
The Stooges - Have Some Fun:Live at Ungano's - Rough and ready live set.
Ennio Morricone - My Name is Nobody. Orange vinyl Spaghetti Western soundtrack.
Animal Collective - Prospect Hummer - 12" EP featuring Vashti Bunyan.
Roxy Music - Ladytron - Extended 10" version.
Shirley Collins - English Songs 7" EP - There's our Shirl' again.
Gert Wilden - Schulmadchen-Report - 7" EP German Sexploitation soundtrack
Trembling Bells - Hallelujah / Wah Wah 7" - Trembling Bells covering George Harrison
Righto lets get these beauties on the turntable then...

It's All Over Now

Thanks for everyone who came down to In The Groove on Saturday for Record Store Day. It was definitely the best RSD yet. Special thanks to all the superstar DJs who put in a shift behind the decks and provided so much musical gold.
We are open today and have plenty of RSD stock left, so before you dive onto eBay and pay over the odds pop in and see what we have.

Final List of RSD titles available.

Here is the final list of RSD 2015 titles available at In The Groove, as ever a number of titles that we wanted to stock siimply weren't available, and others are very limited, but there'll be at least one of the following available at 10:00 am on Saturday;

From Genesis to Revelation 3xLP
Various Artists Shirley Inspired  3XLP
OST / Frank Soundtrack LP
Amorphous Androgynous A Monstrous Psychedlic Bubble LP
Anne Briggs - Anne Briggs LP
Biffy Clyro Puzzle LP
Bob & Ron Copper - Traditional Songs LP
Brian James  The Guitar That Dripped Blood LP
Brian Reitzell 30 Days of Night OST LP
Cinerama Torino LP
Dandy Warhols Dandys Rule Ok LP
Dexys Midnight Runners Don’t Stand Me Down (Purple Vinyl) LP
Dr. Strangley Strange Kip of the Serenes LP
Ennio Morricone - Il mio nome è Nessuno (My name Is Nobody) LP
George Ezra - Wanted on Voyage Picture Disc LP
Goldfrapp - Felt Mountain LP
Grizzly Bear Horn of Plenty LP
Heads - Nobody Knows LP
Heartbreakers Live At Max's Kansas City Volumes 1 & 2 LP
Ian Dury - New Boots & Panties  LP
Jethro Tull Live at Carnegie Hall LP
Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers L.A.M.F LP
Lee Perry - Holiness Righteousness LP
Linda Jones Hypnotized LP
Linval Thompson Dreadlock Sessions  LP
Martin Carthy - Martin Carthy LP
Michael Prophet - Gunman LP
OST / Utopia Series 2 / Cristobal Tapia De Veer LP
Pulp Freaks LP
Pulp It  LP
Pulp Separations LP
Rainbow Ffolly Sallies Fforth (Mono) LP
Sandra Wright Wounded Woman LP
Serge Gainsbourg - et Le Cinéma LP
Slowdive / Blue Day LP
Stooges Live at Ungano's LP
Suede - Dog Man Star Live LP
Sun Ra - Planets of Life & Death LP
Tamikrest - Taksera LP
The 101ers Elgin Avenue Breakdown (Revisited) LP
The Animals We're Gonna Howl LP
The Doors Strange Days (Mono) LP
The Gods Genesis (Mono) LP
The Saints Eternally Yours LP
The Wedding Present Take Fountain LP
The Wonderland Philharmonic Shogun Assassin 1990 OST LP
Tomorrow Tomorrow (Mono) LP
U2 Songs Of innocence LP
Ukrainians - A Short History of Rock Music LP
Various - Northern Soul OST LP
Various Soho Scene ‘62 - Jazz Goes Mod  LP
Wedding Present - Plugged In LP
White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan LP
Zombies - RIP LP
Lee Perry / BlackBoard Re-Vision 12"
Animal Collective Prospect Hummer 12"
Bardo Pond Is There A Heaven  12"
Blancmange I Want More 12"
Courtney Barnett - Kims Caravan 12"
ESG The Moody EP 12"
Florence and The Machine What Kind Of Man 12"
Frnkiero & The Cellabration - Live At The BBC 12"
Grace Jones I Need A Man 12"
James Curse Curse Remixes 12"
Joanne Shaw Taylor - Feels Like Home 12"
Little Dragon Pink Cloud 12"
Metronomy Boy Racers 12"
Nina Persson Animal Crossbreed 12"
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds In The Heat Of The Moment (Remixes) 12"
Pop Group Versions Galore 12"
Pulp Dogs are Everywhere 12"
Pulp Little Girl (With Blue Eyes) 12"
Pulp They Suffocate at Night 12"
Residents / Intermission 12" 12"
Rose MacDowell - Don't Fear The Reaper 12"
Sigmatropic Every Soul Is A Boat 12"
Sleaford Mods Tiswas EP 12"
Test Dept Tested Product 12"
The Lemonheads 12"
Tim Burgess - Track of my Life 12"
Todd Rundgren / Hans Peter Lindstrom - Put Your Arms Around Me 12"
UK Decay Rising From The Dread 12"
Violent Femmes Happy New Year 12"
Wu-Tang Clan Protect Ya Neck (Split Yellow & Black Vinyl) 12"
Rory Gallagher / City Hall In Session 10"
Flaming Lips Bad Days 10"
Flaming Lips Brainville 10"
Flaming Lips This Here Giraffee 10"
Gaz Coombes Detroit 10"
Holger Czukay - 11 Years Innerspace 10"
Holger Czukay - Hit/Flop 10"
Jah Wobble Merry Go Round / Let's Go Psycho 10"
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark Julia's Song (Dub Version) / 10 To 1 10"
Robert Plant More Roar 10"
Roxy Music Ladytron 10"
Tess Parks & Anton Newcombe Cocaine Cat 10"
The Replacements Alex Chilton 10"
Waterboys - Pucks Blues 10"
Young Knives Something Awful 10"
Gert Wilden / Schulmadchen Report 7"
OST / Psycho 7" 7"
Air Playground Love 7"
Alex Chilton Jesus Christ 7"
Alex Harvey Midnight Moses / Jumping Jack Flash 7"
Art (Spooky Tooth) What's That Sound (For What It's Worth) / Rome 7"
Betty Wright Man Of Mine 7"
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Weapon Of Choice / Need Some Air 7"
Black Star (Mos Def & Talib Kweli) 7"
Charlatans - Sinkane / Laura Cantrell 7"
Chvrches Get Away / Dead Air 7"
Cobra Skulls Live At The BBC 7"
Cypress Hill The Phuncky Feel One 7"
David Bowie Changes 7"
Deep Purple Black Night / Speed King 7"
Dire Straits Honky Tonk Demos 7"
Fotheringay Bruton Town / The Way I Feel 7"
Gemma Hayes - Palamino 7"
GOBLIN - Chi?  7"
Hawkwind Back On The Streets / The Dream Of Isis 7"
Imagine Dragons I Bet My life- Bastille Remix 7"
J Dilla - Love 7"
Jagaara - In The Dark 7"
Johnny Marr I Feel You 7"
Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart 7" Picture Disc 7"
Kristin Hersh - Sundrops 7"
Laura Marling False Hope  7"
Len Price 3 Walking On Your Head 7"
Marnie Wolves 7"
Matt Berry & Mark Morris - This is The Lie / October Sun 7"
Mumford & Sons Believe/ The Wolf  7"
Orlando Julius - James Brown Ride On 7"
Pretty Things EP 7"
Python Lee Jackson In a Broken Dream EP 7"
Residents - Satisfaction 7" 7"
Robyn Hitchcock / Emma Swift - Follow Your Money 7"
Ryan Adams - Come Pick Me Up 7"
Section 25 Mirror 7"
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings Little Boys With Shiny Toys 7"
Sic Kidz Rhythm Girl 7"
Simple Minds Waterfront (Picture Disc) 7"
Supergrass Sofa (Of My Lethagy) 7"
SXS - David Bowie/Tom Verlaine Kingdom Come 7"
SXS - Death Cab for Cutie/Freedy Johnston Bad Reputation 7"
SXS - Dionne Warwick/The Stranglers Walk On By 7"
SXS - Gram Parsons/Lemonheads Brass Buttons 7"
SXS - Mystery Artists Mystery 7"
SXS - Syd Barrett/R.E.M Dark Globe 7"
The Black Tambourines - No Action 7"
The Dils I Hate The Rich 7"
The Dwarves Fun To Try 7"
The Inca Babies - Panthers 7"
The Liminanas Time Will Tell / Alicante 7"
The Monte Cristos Love Missile F1-11 7"
The Pre New  Speed Queen 7"
The Prodigy Ibiza 7"
The Spaceape (Ft Kode9 & The Bug) 'Ghost Town' / 'At War With Time' 7"
The Subways Taking All The Blame 7"
The View - Marriage 7" 7"
The Who Be Lucky (Coloured Vinyl) 7"
Trembling Bells - Hallelujah 7"
X Adult Books 7" 7"

Soundtracks-A-Go-Go

Half a dozen slices of cinematic deliciousness:
Northern Soul
My Name Is Nobody
Serge Gainsbourg et Le Cinema
Utopia 2
Shogun Assassin
30 Days of Night