Record Store Day 2019

[Jim_Goodwin]

From: https://twitter.com/sigurros/status/1101192437308026882

on april 13th record store day will be celebrated around the world - for this year’s event SIGUR RÓS will release two exclusive vinyl albums: 22° LUNAR HALO and VARIATIONS ON DARKNESS

Sigur Rós - Record Store Day 2019

This is both exciting, and nerve-racking. I kinda hate RSD.

[Pie1862]

My local store opted out of rsd a while ago. No chance of these then!

[Seq225]

great. another 2 SR albums I will never obtain unless I spend $100+ dollars on Discogs months after its release.

[darren]

this doesnt help those who want physical copies - but we'll have digital versions online too most likely.

[Jim_Goodwin]

WOW. I just saw the first listing that gives an idea of the price... £25.99 for each, and that is if you are lucky to pay retail. YIKES.

[Pie1862]

Any idea on numbers? (No, not digital numbers....1001101011010101011010)

[darren]

UK/ROW allocation similar to last years RSD.
US/CA more than last year

[einstein812]

My local record store here in the states ordered four of each and he knows I really want these and will hold them for me.

[Thanisch]

They’re already out there (as preorder) for about 136 $.

[Seq225]

the watermark...

[breakbeat]

report them, I remember a few years ago RSD was clamping down hard on this, and they will ban the stores preselling/selling on ebay (they're not allowed to sell online until after RSD) from taking part

[Seq225]

considering someone above in this very thread has already managed to get a record store to "hold" one for him. I am under no impression someone doing a presale on Ebay will get stopped.
I mean, the ebay seller could just be another person that is having a record store "hold" copies for him. I think its a shame - the whole thing with RSD is that they are not supposed to be "held" for anyone ahead of time. It was designed to get people to GO and support their local record stores on that day.
Why should any of us even bother to go and try and line up if records are being held for people ahead of time?

RSD isn't going to care about some unknown person on ebay claiming he is sure he will get one.

[breakbeat]

Yeah I'm taking the above person's statement with a pinch of salt.

I mean the record store can request as many copies of a record as they like, it's RSD who determine how many copies and where. Case in point last year my local shop requested 10 of each of the SR releases (based on requests from customers) and got allocated 3 of each - unfortunately for me, 3 other fans turned up to queue before 5am

[Jim_Goodwin]

Bull Moose just tweeted that the US release of the Sigur Ros RSD releases has been cancelled, with no word on whether there will still be a UK release.

[Seq225]

Its not on the official site for the US RSD list, just checked.

[darren]

we'll have an update soon - the releases are still planned for the april 13th for US/CA folks, just not as part of RSD US/CA.

RSD for the rest of the world is still going ahead.

[Pie1862]

That probably means US/CA will have more chance to actually own them at normal prices.

[Seq225]

Well, last year if you recall the 4 releases weren't part of RSD US and that meant that for us in the US, it was a scheduled online purchase through that matador site, and the site was instantly overwhelmed with too many buyers for the stock on hand and we ended up with a frozen site, records in our cart - check out problems, then no records in our cart, and much of us ended up with nothing despite trying the sale the moment it started.

But a LOT of very kind and gracious people have made those records available to us fans throughout the last year on various reselling sites for 4 times the cost. :\

[Pie1862]

That's true I'd forgotten that.

[Jim_Goodwin]

I have to think they have learned how to avoid that now.