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| 2011 Record Store Day vinyl |
The original idea for Record Store Day was conceived by Chris Brown, and was founded in 2007 by Eric Levin, Michael Kurtz, Carrie Colliton, Amy Dorfman, Don Van Cleave and Brian Poehner as a celebration of the unique culture surrounding over 700 independently owned record stores in the USA, and hundreds of similar stores internationally. This is the one day that all of the independently owned record stores come together with artists to celebrate the art of music. Special vinyl and CD releases and various promotional products are made exclusively for the day and hundreds of artists in the United States and in various countries across the globe make special appearances and performances. Festivities include performances, cook-outs, body painting, meet & greets with artists, parades, djs spinning records and on and on.Forget all of that Earth Day and "Festivus" crap. For a few of us, Record Store Day truly is the holiday "for the rest of us."
This year, a dozen different Austin retailers will be participating. Last year, the crowds were mostly at Waterloo Records, so we first went down the road to Cheapo Discs where there were only a handful of shoppers and plenty of vinyl to choose from. We later made it over to End of an Ear and eventually to Waterloo, and ended up finding everything we were looking for. This year, we're still looking down the list and formulating our plan:
Antone's Record Shop
BackSpin Records
Breakaway Records
Cheapo
Encore Records
End of an Ear
Immortal Performances
Musicmania
Out of the Past Collectibles
TheScrewShop.com
Trailer Space Records
Waterloo Records
RSD Special Releases: web ][ pdf
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