RSD Black Friday 2023: What people DIDN'T BUY (And one that I did)  

Nice take on RSD. No wonder that those were unsold with 39-42 dollars. Crazy prices.

I have a custom on record store day. I walk into a record store and ask which record has been binned up in the bins the longest without selling, and then I buy it, and give it a loving home. Or at least a home. Last year it was The Starlight Vocal Band. Years before it was Jesse Crawford, Jesse Colin Young, Eddie Rabbit, Mink Deville, and Tennessee Ernie Ford. There was another artist likely trying to cash in on his success called Tennessee Anie Chevy. This year the homeless record in the bins the longest, that I gave a home to... was simply SRO by Herb Alpert... Do this at dog shelters also!

RSD has jumped the shark 🦈

$28 for a cassette~ yeah no

Fun idea for a video. I was glad to get the little feat too. I have the WFC in the collection but this concert they're having a good time and several extended jams. They probably had a few pints of the finest British ale. That'll loosen you up 😊. Love your videos. Greg

'Record store day" began in 2007 at a time when vinyl wasn't as trendy as it is now. In the past few years the RSD's have become cash cows for the record companies to release remastered albums which rarely match up to the originals. In other words, they feature total shite at high costs, I have gone to several and I usually look out for the used items the stores have been storing up for that day. It's usually a good haul for me on the used side. I actually can't wait until the vinyl trend is finished and record stores can go back to more reasonable prices for used items.

Nice twist on RSD / I was happy with what i picked up / the bargain was Little Feat live 3 lp set for only $50 / I also picked up John Lee Hooker & The Faces.

Current vinyl record prices are insane.

You max out your credit card and buy the RSD albums you "Have to have". Listen to them once and then they sit on the shelf with all the RSD albums of the past you've listened to one time.

I have a few thousand records, not a single RSD release. I live in Australia, it pretty much doesn't exist here and I'm not paying an arm and a leg from some flipper. To be honest there's probably only been about 10 albums I'd be interested in over the last decade anyway.

i just bought a ton of used records

Record Store Day is my favorite Holiday!

Nice one there and what a great pickup, cheers

I wish for a video of ''Jazz that Robert loves'', cause I know there is.

Happy Thanksgiving Friend! You never disappoint. I got Jerry Lee Lewis original Live at The Complete Palomino Club Recordings, years ago will probaly get it now on Vinyl! Also interested in the Stax record and The Soul Singles one looks interesting! Thanks for your hard work.

Love your vids, thanks for being you :)

I like when you sing. I caught wind the Ghost crowd took umbrage with your Jazz record comments. Ridiculous. This was entertaining. More of this please.

I had two records on my list and got one; I went to one store only. And both releases on my list were RSD firsts, so not that special. But I did get the Meat Puppets "Forbidden Places." I had X's "Ain't Love Grand" on my list, but the store was out. I don't go out until after noon.

I hope you had a great Thanksgiving Robert! Great video!

I'd say most of these RSD-BF 2023 albums in the video are still available at one of the local stores in my area, too. Gil Evans is no exception and is surprising since jazz seems to run off the shelf here (and the store owner is into jazz). All four Tuff City albums, Czarface, Motley Crue, The "Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood And Honey" and "Death Becomes Her" soundtracks, the Knack, the Monkees, C-BO, and a few others are still available.

You are cool dude. Appreciate you.

I would actually like to hear "Black Sunday" remixes. That "Judgement Night" soundtrack is awesome! "Don't Beat My Ass With A Baseball Bat" will always be my favorite Goo Goo Dolls song. Nice video! Now I have to watch the sequel. Uh oh! What cheeky thing is going on here? I'm so excited! Cheers!

Unless some spectacular issue I’m pretty much done with RSD

Nice choice! Although I prefer full concert sets on CD. Cheaper and less breaks in the flow. That Bat Chain Puller isn't bad stuff! But I'm not sure 45 dollars is worth for demos, takes etc... My choice would've been the Margo Price. I like her stuff, and no pun intended, but yeah, the price is friendly also.

At my store, Waterloo in Austin, tons of Ozzy and Steeler left. I picked up the Ahmad Jamal, killer cool jazz record. I also picked up the John Lee Hooker: Cafe A Go Go online for retail surprisingly. Outside of that most of it was not for me.

The prices are insane ,$40 for a album. That's my waterbill.

None of the participating record stores in my area had what I wanted so I had to order early this morning when all the rsd releases were available to purchase online. I ordered Kelly Finnigan's A Joyful Sound '7 box set, and D Vine Spirituals Sacred Souls story vol.3

I would have bought the Istanbul 70 comp, but it was pulled. I wasnt that interested in much else.

Love that old photo of you and the tantric singer!

I went this afternoon to Better Days and picked up Ultravox Quartet mixed by Stephen Wilson. Bought a few other non-RSD albums. Nothing else excited though.

charles Mingus and your rendition...I laughed out loud :)

the Bottle Rockets rock! Festus MO!

nice video, happy thanksgiving! you might like turnstile, they're a punk/pop-punk band and they have extremely energetic live shows

I'd be interested in the Beefheart if it wasn't $45 f@%$in dollars and I already have it on CD. I can get well done punk vinyl reissues for $18-23 so I guess that's been spoiling me.

Fraternity were a 70’s Australian rock band that included Bon Scott before he joined AC/DC 😎

Man,you play a mean air upright bass!👍

Little feat a good choice i saw them in Melbourne Australia july 08 1976 a great show and sitting in the audience 2 rows in front of me was the original lineup of the little river band

I work until 9 AM on Fridays, and the store I shop at opened at 8, so I obviously missed out on the Olivia Rodrigo. Was fairly surprised that as being in Buffalo that I was able to get the Goo Goo Dolls record without having to wait was a plus. I got the lat copies of Studio One Kings, War - The World Is A Ghetto Box, and the Digital Underground album... it might have been a flop, but if you like Sex Packets, you should give Body-Hat Syndrome a listen... the songs aren't as well known, but after a disappointing second album, the third is nearly as good as the debut.

Yea the little feat would be the only one for me.

Damnit, I got The Doors & Matt Cameron, but I forgot Little Feat! 🤦🏻

This video was incredible you should Rap in every video

Maybe the prices on some of those might have been a turn off.

I looks like they are running out of records to repress for RSD that people actually want.

That was a Spice 1 album, not Ice T. Speaking of Ice T, that Schooly D album has the track, PSK, which Ice has said inspired the song “6 in the Morning”.

Nostalgia for longboxes? 😁I've been seeing that in the metal world lately. I didn't think anything could be dumber than the cassette comeback, but I was wrong.

A big 👍🏻 from Manchester uk " Madchester rave on"

Must be the 7th or 8th year in a row I slept in. I find skipping out on this is better anyways. Not that I saw anything, or care. But our local store probably once again ordered way too many of everything again, and i bet by Christmas they will all be 25% off. Which is fine. But if you want to hold out longer. Or if you are looking for titles from the past 3 or 4 years. You can pretty much get them at cost, or below cost. It was just funny seeing $60 albums marked down to $20, and people still aint buying them. Kinda like, who was dropping, i think, $40 for that Motley Crue picture disc? Bet they still got a couple left, because they somehow managed to get 20 copies, and they just sat there for months and months. And the worst part. It was buy one, get one free all weekend. And i still didnt go. Old man me just dont really care about it anymore.

Dude, the Chico Hamilton - The Master is a Little Feat album, really.

Cool idea for a rsd video. Like it. Anyway, i bought Buckcherry, Matt Cameron, Screaming Trees, Faces, Ahmad Jamal and Bill Evans. Jerry Lee Lewis and John Lee Hooker were sold out. But i didn't go shopping until Saturday afternoon. Went to VV on Delmar and they had a lot of stock left. Now for the bad. The Buckcherry was the censored/clean version. WTF. There is already a huge backlash online. Real Gone Music really screwd up this one. Cheers.

Awesome take on RSD, these records will still be clogging our local stores for years to come. RSD now has an outlet for unsold records. Allen RSD MRKT.

Why would anybody buy a cassette is beyond me. I prefer the clean, crisp, polish sound of well mastered CDs.

Bought the Beefheart, compared to Trout Mask it's a pop record. One of my faves. Would have bought a lot of that Jazz if the price wasn't so frickin' high!

I didn't buy Scarlett Johansson. BECAUSE IT NEVER ENDED UP COMING OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! oh, and the Fraternity LP is unreleased Bon Scott tunes pre-AC/DC

🤘 all around the world, same song..

I got west Kentucky's copy of The Bottle Rockets.

I snatched a Amy winehouse CD at a thrift store for 50 cents real clean why would I spend the money on vinyl? Bargain bins are where it's at! Back in the 70s when every one was working you could snatch up record from Colombia House for 1.99 all you had to do is buy one for regular price of $6.95 😳

soul slabs vol. 3 is from rsd 2021.

That Helmet/House Of Pain track was the B-Side of Faith No More/Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E.s "Another Body Murdered, why do I know this - I brought that CD Single last week, it does feature 2 remixes of "Just Another Victim" - Best soundtrack ever made.

Fraternity is the pre Bon Scott band from Australia.

Considering why longboxes exist at all, i wouldn't be surprised to see longboxes retun.

Thats Spice 1 not Ice T haha. And yeah Skid Row is a pass. Oooh love the long boxes!

Oh, it wasn't the Gary Moore Skid Row? Good thing that I passed.

I didn't like Skid Row thirty years ago.

Goo Goo Dolls were on Metal Blade is so crazy. Metal Blade made some good money from that in the 90s tho. I would buy some of these records if they were $20 each. I hate RSD tho.

Was that a sarcastic "whoa" from the crowd at the end? At first I thought it was a natural reaction - but that doesn't really make sense.... does it? Nobody raised their hand and said "hold it for me" etc. Funny

There's several things there that I would like to have on CD, but the hell with those prices for vinyl. I swear, the modern vinyl era is a suckers game.

I completely blew off RSD. Number one, I didn't want anything. Number two, I'm sick of the lines and all the bullshit associated with it. I've converted to a Record SHOW frequenter. Every month, there are two shows in my area, which are held on alternate months. One is right across the street from the other. Great stuff - no lines, no lists, no flipping, no being turned away, no promises, what's there is there.

The cassette version of Sex Packets is the only complete version.

Holly crap that store is expensive. At my local record store those were all all $35 at most. No $42 or $45 ones. Yeah, this year was the worst of all the Black Friday RSD's ever. Sucked ass.

You make me laugh. Anyway, yes the price33s...NOT the stores fault.

One of my local shops has been clearing out old stock for $10 (and quite a few of those have been old RSD titles)! $35-45 for the couple I wanted ... nah. I'll hold out and maybe get 'em down the road at more reasonable prices. What I DID cash in on was Universals annual "just pay shipping" deal. 17 slabs @ $156.00! Rockin' holidays to ya, Robert! 🎁

Whats a post malone? 😂

Cassettes a re a fine idea, now, if there were only good quality equipment to play it on...... In the past, quality audio equipment was made to meet the demands of consumers who bought music on a certain format. The "cassette reviva;" has been going on for at least a decade yet I don't see any quality brand manufacturer - Sony, Pioneer, Technics, Nakamichi.... release anything. If you find a tape deck, it will be on Amazon. Made In China, the shittiest, cheapest quality piece of crap they can find and slap together. I hear in the near future these tape decks will be made in India. No dolby noise reduction, no Type II or Type IV from Maxell or TDK, yo' !

Ozzy only one worth buying

Kinda dismissive about that Death album. Not their best one, but I get it. You seem like a good dude. I'm way into that more than a Little Feat or Bottle Rockets? album... And a Taylor Swift cassette for $28? Ouch & yuck.

That Digital Underground album isn't that great, to be honest. All of the tracks you mentioned are all on their first album, which you probably know. There are so many other hip hop albums they need to release and repress before that one.

Record Store Day sucks. Please don't support it. I am with Record stores who stay away from it.

I really wanted that BeefHeart but there is no way im paying $50 to listen to a band play nonsense and yelp like a jack ass for ~45 minutes. Ill stream it until i can find a good used copy.

Is the whole Taylor Swift fans buying her music on vinyl and cassette supposed to be tongue-in-cheek? Like some kind of ironic statement? They seem like the type of people who would hate physical media because it's for "lame, gross, old people." And I don't mean to dump on anyone here who likes her, but her music just seems to be too shallow to be worth making the extra effort that physical media requires. Like you're just supposed to stream it while taking selfies at a party. I don't get it. But I guess that's why I'm home alone on a Saturday night watching videos about rekkids.

I can't see paying these RSD prices.I bought 6 LP's at the flea market , including a sealed 180g Arctic Monkeys for $4 total instead.

There really wasn’t anything I really wanted this rsd Black Friday so I skipped it

Rap remixes of other remixes, unknown country. color vinyl of a record you don't care about, Captain Beefheart (anything from that guy is crap), more obscure crap that no one cares about except flippers - and this time even they wouldn't touch it - hardcore punk that flopped back in 1978, compilation albums featuring forgettable crap. No hits here. Live albums, more live albums, demos, records mastered form CDs or a cassette, stuff that wasn't good enough to be released then, why should it be now? Then there are the premium top dollar prices.......

Very weak list

I love you, man, but don’t knock Ahmed Jamal.