Anyone interested in RSD 2025?

[eVo]

Curious to know if anyone is attending Record Store Day this Saturday?

I'm attending my first RSD and am interested in hearing if anyone has any tips or advice.

I intend to queue at 4 AM at my local that opens at 8 AM(UK), Piccadilly Records Manchester.

There are about 10 releases I'm interested in this year, and I'm hoping to bag as many of them as I can as I refuse to pay scalpers prices.

Have you been before? What was your experience? Is it over hyped?

 

[azoriusmage]

I have been several times and the queue is often good fun chatting to fellow vinyl lovers. I suspect the queues will be less crazy this years thanks to a lack of Taylor Swift release. Sound like you are going super early so you should do well but worth checking if that is too early if you can find out from someone local.

It is helpful to go with a friend so one of you can slip away for food, drink, and toilet needs

 

[eVo]

I have been several times and the queue is often good fun chatting to fellow vinyl lovers. I suspect the queues will be less crazy this years thanks to a lack of Taylor Swift release. Sound like you are going super early so you should do well but worth checking if that is too early if you can find out from someone local.

It is helpful to go with a friend so one of you can slip away for food, drink, and toilet needs

Thanks.

I'm taking food and drink with me, one of the releases I'm after is limited to 1000 and with 300 stores taking part in the UK I'm doubtful of obtaining that one.

 

[eVo]

So it went really well!!!

I arrived at 9.30 last night and joined the queue in 20th place. It was a long night but by 6 am there was about 300/400 people in the queue.

The record shop was really well organised and that handed out a tick list to everyone as they arrived so you could check off what you wanted and just hand the list in when you entered the shop and the staff would pick the order and call your name.

I was glad I turned up earlier as one of the 12 I wanted was limited to 1000 copies spread out over 300 shops, my shop of choice only had 5 copies available and I managed to get it ( Future Sound of London - Alice in Ultraworld) I also managed to get everything else I wanted so I left a tired but happy chappy.

The crowd was great and very sociable and being the the middle of Manchester on a Friday night there were a lot of drunk students milling about all night, they were full of questions on why we were there and everyone we encountered was with a positive attitude.

 

[BK308]

I went to mine this morning in South Florida. Got there first thing to get The Neverending Story. Store was only able to get one and it was already sold. Oh well I found a OG mint copy of the Spaceballs Soundtrack so I’m happy.

 

[MrA]

For five years I used to queue for RSD....

1st time ~5.30am - among the first five (remember it well, made some good 'friends')
yr+1~3.00am - almost the front of the queue (again met several of the same people)
yr+2 ~3am - at least 30 people ahead of me (only one person I knew was near me)
yr+3 midnight - even more people ahead of me, nobody I knew & too few of the releases I was after were left
yr+4 - my mate said he was going at 5.30pm THE DAY BEFORE to be sure of a 45 single he wanted. No way!

So I stopped going as that particular place near to where I live had lost the 'community spirit' and I'm not prepared to spend a freezing night filled with hope but almost empty of purchases.

.....The one LP that I still treasure was Cream triple white vinyl Royal Albert Hall (I was in that audience) on one of those earlier RDS Saturdays so that did make the whole thing worthwhile.

These days I purchase LPs I want when released via 'Hive Books' (UK) online - prices close to or lower than Amazon and a small % goes to independant UK book shops.

Amusing footnote: On one occasion before 6am an old man in a raincoat & with his dog came & joined the queue about three behind me. He stood in the rain among the growing crowd for about 20 minutes before someone asked him what records he was after. He had thought this queue (about 50 people by then) was for the next door corner shop/newsagent! A few people wrapped in sleeping bags, various flasks and even a small gazebo should have given a clue