Metallica Record Store Day Vid; Watch Lars Cheese Off For The Camera/Fans

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Metallica
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Ride the Lightning
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Ride the Lightning

The days of record store are numbered. Slowly, but surely they're giving way to the looming horizon of the ring-tone market, itunes and other less tangible commodities.Example: Tower Records.

On October 6, 2006, Great American Group won an auction of the company's assets and commenced liquidation proceedings the following day, which included going-out-of-business sales at all U.S. Tower Records locations, the last of which closed on December 22, 2006. The Tower Records website was sold separately.

But the old guard isn't going to just roll over that easy, in fact, they're prepared to go kicking and screaming.Last Saturday(April 19) Metallica rallied support for the old ways. While they didn't perform, they participated in the first annual Record Store Day, yet cheers rang out, tears fell and metal reigned during an epic six-hour marathon of autograph-signing, chatting and pictures. 400 fans assembled at Rasputin Music and DVDs in Mountain View, CA near San Jose opened its doors at 10:30 a.m. to give away hundreds of RSD commemorative posters, T-shirts, and CDs. Songs from ??Master of Puppets??, ??Kill Em All?? and ??Ride the Lightning?? played. Metallica's James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett and 2003 addition on bass Robert Trujillo arrived individually by black towncar at 2 p.m. to commune with the black-clad throng, assembled from as far away as Australia and Japan.

??But is it too little too late?????Moggers???

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DenRA says Tower records was awesome! I miss cruisin their massive collection!

Permalink posted 04/21/2008
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funoka says Where to start? I miss Tower, I miss Kemp Mill, I miss the Wax Museum, and I miss some of the great indepedents that have gone by the boards since we've all started downloading and streaming music. I guess what I miss the most is high quality sound, and its my own doing since I buy so few CDs these days. I have a mid-end stereo in my living room, plus a high end surround sound system in my family room. I am really blown away by SACD and DVD Audio, both formats sound terrific at my house, but they've died already. I cherish the DVD-A's I was able to get my hands on before they just kind of went away. Streaming Rhaposdy through either system just does not deliver the same punch as CD, DVD-A, SACD, or LP. But its just easier to pull something up on Rhapsody than dig out one my 1100-plus CDs or buy everything I think I might want. Listening stations and all the stuff they tried can't beat doing at home 24/7 -- sorry, I helped kill record stores as much as anyone.

Permalink posted 04/21/2008
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dachmo says An album or record album is a collection of related audio or music tracks distributed to the public. The most common way is through commercial distribution, although smaller artists will often distribute directly to the public by selling their albums at live concerts or on their websites. The tracks on an album may be related by subject, mood or sound, and may even be designed to express a unified message or tell a story (as in the case of a concept album), or the tracks may simply represent a convenient grouping of recordings made at one time or place, or recordings whose commercial rights are controlled by a single record label. A group of audio tracks is considered to be an album if it has a generally consistent track list (often with minor differences or bonus tracks in different territories, or if the album is "reissued" at different times). An album may be released in a single format, such as on compact disc, or in multiple media formats, ranging from physical ones such as CDs, DVD audio, cassettes and vinyl records, to digital ones such as MP3 and AAC files or streaming audio. The term "record album" originated from the fact that 78 RPM Phonograph disc records were kept together in a book resembling a photo album. The first collection of records to be called an "album" was Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite, released in April 1909 as a four-disc set by Odeon Records.[1][2] It retailed for 16 shillings — about £56 (US$101) in 2005 currency. In 1948, Columbia produced the first 12 inch, 33⅓ RPM microgroove record made of vinyl.[1] With a running time of 23 minutes per side, these new records contained as much music as the old-style album of records and, thus, took on the name "album". For many years, the standard industry format for popular music was an album of twelve songs, originally the number related to payment of composer royalties. for the rest of the article goto: "ALBUMS":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albums at Wikipedia

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GarageRock says I'm absolutely shocked that only 400 people showed up! We had Nada Surf play Saturday at a huge local indie store here (Vintage Vinyl in N.J.). Sadly, the indies are disappearing quick....that stinks.

Permalink posted 04/21/2008
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mitchy says It's the same situation here in Australia-The independents have all but gone and the others only carry top 40/FM radio fodder. It seems to me (as the owner of two high quality home stereos with turntables) that the best place to find music is at garage sales(yard sale) or flea markets. Hard to come by vinyl or cds are a lucky find. I don't mind going to the trouble of turning the record over.

Permalink posted 04/21/2008
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earthman says Well all I can say we are letting them do it, mind you taking into account that things change then I suppose it had a fairly long life on todays terms. Nothing beats a live performance in my mind. I once saw a aboriginal artist who thought it was bizare that people were paying mega bucks for his artwork which was done on bark and stuff. He couldn't understand why they would want the by-product when they didn't see him do it because thats where the action is. He also bought everyone in his village a new 4x4. Anyway things will be what they will be. It wasn't that long ago when you had to leave your house to to hear someone else playing music, maybe 3-4 generations. I liked it the way it was before downloads but "you cant always get what you want babe"

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Augusts1 says Cool, thanks for posting about this Adam.

Permalink posted 04/21/2008
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Vtshome says I just bought my first album from iTunes this past weekend. Now I'm feeling guilty.

Permalink posted 04/21/2008
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Lighter Dusk says While I thouroughly welcome the new all-digital music acquisition process, I also realize that there are going to be a few side effects. 1.) Record stores (is that an antiquated term??? CD Stores sounds kind of...stuffy) are going to lose a lot of profits...ditto stores that specialize in video formats (i.e. Suncoast Video, Media Play, Etc.), and many of them will go under in favor of on-line purchases...eventually they will be obsolete. 2.) Used CD stores, on the other hand, appear to be doing better. Most anyone who gets a CD these days is happy to burn it on to their computer, then pawn it for three bucks. It also follows that music lovers would rather pay five bucks for a CD...it beat's iTunes prices...so that they can import it and sell it back for three bucks. Either way, the used CD market will exist for a pinch longer than the "new" stores. 3.) Probably most sad...the concept of the "album" as a whole will slowly vanish. It will only make more sense for bands eventually to release their songs one hit at a time, let people download it until they burn it out, then release another single. This is the only aspect that bums me out. I don't know where I would have been without some albums, beginning to end, taking me on the artists unique journey (really listen to Green Day's American Idiot and you can see how the whole can be more than the sum of it's parts). 4.) Record companies are going to make a whole lot less money as artists begin downloading direcly from their sites, giving them 90% or more of the profits, and cutting out distributors, materials and cuts for executives plugging the band on TRL... ...so I guess it ain't all bad. -Dusk

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brittanybf says whoa tower records flashbacks

Permalink posted 04/26/2008