It's the 10th Annual Record Store Day! I have to admit this is the first year I'm celebrating the day by going out to my local store today, Inner Groove Records I'm not one that goes crazy over owning rare and limited editions. Now back when I use to DJ I would've been all over them. But those were different times and before you can just about find any song online. You wanted to be the DJ with the albums first or rare remixes.
When I'm home or driving music is pretty much on all the time. I listen to my iTunes playlist which consists of "7 months worth of songs". CD's are still the best and clean sounding by far. The least common way I listen to music is streaming but it is how I find new music. Vinyl there is something about vinyl. About once a day if I'm making dinner or cleaning up I usually turn up the volume and listen to a record. Many of them are my parent's combined collection with some of my own favorite albums.
My photo set of Record Store Day
via the official Record Store Day website
Record Store Day was conceived in 2007 at a gathering of independent record store owners and employees as a way to celebrate and spread the word about the unique culture surrounding nearly 1400 independently owned record stores in the US and thousands of similar stores internationally. The first Record Store Day took place on April 19, 2008. Today there are Record Store Day participating stores on every continent except Antarctica.
This is a day for the people who make up the world of the record store—the staff, the customers, and the artists—to come together and celebrate the unique culture of a record store and the special role these independently owned stores play in their communities. Special vinyl and CD releases and various promotional products are made exclusively for the day. Festivities include performances, cook-outs, body painting, meet & greets with artists, parades, DJs spinning records, and on and on. In 2008 a small list of titles was released on Record Store Day and that list has grown to include artists and labels both large and small, in every genre and price point. In 2015, 60% of the Record Store Day Official Release List came from independent labels and distributors. The list continues to include a wide range of artists, covering the diverse taste of record stores and their customers.