In rotation: 3/30/16

Wax off: Bed-Stuy’s beloved Israel’s Record Store closing after 20 years: It’s the vinyl countdown. Beloved Bedford-Stuyvesant basement music emporium Israel’s Record Shop will soon close its doors after two decades of slinging one of Brooklyn’s most eclectic wax selections, and the eponymous owner says the bad news has his long-time customers in a funk…Yahuda said he found out about seven months ago that the owner of the subterranean Fulton Street haunt — and the building above it — plans to sell, and now the new owner doesn’t want to keep him on.

A Record Shopkeeper Writes: Why Record Store Day Must End: My idea for labels and artists and RSD? Use this as a day to foster better relations between shops and distros for the long term gain in sales, fans and a social music culture in UK towns. Give us old stock on Sale or Return or even better, on consignment, let us sell it for you on a day when people (everyone) will find a bargain, and understand what ‘flicking through the racks’ meant to people in the 80s. Not complicated. Find the common ground for all.

What’s happening in Birmingham for Record Store Day 2016?: Record Store Day’s ninth annual event is coming to the Birmingham area on Saturday, April 16, celebrating independent record stores in the area. A number of new and exclusive releases are due to hit the shelves for vinyl record lovers. This year’s line-up features the likes of Florence and the Machine, Bob Dylan and Fleetwood Mac. The late David Bowie has an album and a 7” single out, with The Man Who Sold The World and TVC15 from the Station to Station album.

Mount Gilead record store turns tables on local music scene: A new Mt. Gilead music store is bringing the vinyl resurgence to local residents and seeks to rekindle the love for the medium. Legend Records (a nod to the owner’s nickname, Larry “the Legend” Landis from his days playing volleyball for Kent State University) opened earlier this year and is Landis’s second location, but first in the Buckeye State. “It all started about 10 years ago when my brother-in-law and I bought our first collection, about 250 thousand records,” Landis said. “And now this store has anywhere from 8-10 thousand pieces of music on display.”

Avalanche Records closing: Just as new vinyl sales definitely started to improve but no other shop was bothered we reached a point where 70% of our sales but by no means our profit were new vinyl. At the same time HMV/FOPP considered vinyl to be a premium product so when pricing they took no heed of any discount and then in fact added a pound or two to give a “premium” price. We were often £3 to £5 cheaper. New release vinyl though sold only for a couple of weeks unlike CDs that often continued to sell for months and getting the numbers right was tricky.

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