Record Store Day
Record Store Day is an annual event, founded in 2007, held on the third Saturday of April each year to celebrate the culture of the independently owned record store. The day brings together fans, artists, and thousands of independent record stores across the world. A number of records are pressed specifically for Record Store Day, and are only distributed to shops participating in the event.
Background
Sparked by a comment by Bull Moose employee Chris Brown that something could be done along the lines of Free Comic Book Day, and with inspiration from a brainstorming session during a record store owners' meeting in Baltimore, Record Store Day was officially founded in 2007 by Eric Levin, Michael Kurtz, Carrie Colliton, Amy Dorfman, Don Van Cleave and Brian Poehner, and is now celebrated at stores across the world, with hundreds of recording and other artists participating in the day by making special appearances, performances, meet and greets with their fans, the holding of art exhibits, and the issuing of special vinyl and CD releases along with other promotional products to mark the occasion.
Record shop
A record shop or record store is a retail outlet that sells recorded music. In 2015, record stores sell CDs, vinyl records and, in some cases DVDs of movies, TV shows and music concerts. Some record stores also sell music-related items such as posters of bands or singers. Even in the heyday of the CD during the 1990s, people in English-speaking countries still used the term "record shop" to describe a shop selling sound recordings such as CDs. During much of the 20th century, record stores only sold records, until the availability of tape-based recordings and then, in the late 1980s, CDs.
Prior to the 2000s, more record shops were privately run, independent businesses, meaning that prices could differ from town to town and store to store. In the 2000s, record shops are largely chain-owned and thus prices are fairly similar in different towns. In the United Kingdom the national chain style of selling records and tapes developed with Our Price, itself originally a small independent business founded in the early 1970s that expanded nationwide.
Record Store
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Heard you're working eleven days a week
I used to know just where you're coming from
I used to know but with that I'm done
I got a job at a record store
Three days a week, no more than four
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Sometimes you got to slow things down
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You're looking at your office wall
I'm walking around like Marlon Brando
You're sitting down, not walking at all
Don't know what you're thinking
I don't work no overtime
Working at the record store
Look at me, I'm doing fine
Yeah, I'm doing fine
I see you're working on the weekends now
I guess, Mondays aren't such a shock
I spend my time just sitting around
I listen to that old punk rock
I take my time and never hurry
You use your time as best as you can
I'm acting like Billy Murry
You're acting like your dead in the sand
Don't know what you're thinking
I don't work no overtime
Working at the record store
Look at me, I'm doing fine, yeah
Got a job at a record store
Three days a week, no more than four
Sometimes you got to take a look around
Sometimes you got to slow things down
Looking out my bedroom window
You're looking at your office wall
I'm walking around like Marlon Brando
You're sitting down, not walking at all
Don't know what you're thinking
Don't work no overtime
Working at the record store
Look at me, I'm doing fine
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I don't work no overtime
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