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Record Store Day
&
Black Friday

Record Store Day was conceived in 2007 at a gathering of independent record store owners and employees as a way to celebrate and spread the word about the unique culture surrounding nearly 1400 independently-owned record stores in the US and thousands of similar stores internationally. The first Record Store Day took place on April 19, 2008. Today, Record Store Day is celebrated at independently-owned brick-and-mortar record stores around the world.

This is a day for the people who make up the world of the record store—the staff, the customers, and the artists—to come together and celebrate the unique culture of a record store and the special role they play in their communities. Special vinyl and CD releases and various promotional products are made exclusively for the day. Festivities include performances, cook-outs, body painting, meet & greets with artists, parades, DJs spinning records, and on and on. In 2008 a small list of titles was released on Record Store Day and that list has grown to include artists and labels both large and small, in every genre and price point. For several years, 60% or more of the Record Store Day Official Release List came from independent labels and distributors. The list continues to include a wide range of artists, covering the diverse taste of record stores and their customers.

For more information regarding Record Store Day, and the organization and folks behind it all, visit their website at www.recordstoreday.com.


How We Handle Record Store Day
2026 Record Store Day
April 18, 2026

In the past, we conducted a Virtual Line Drawing for placement in a line for entry into the Record Store Day Event.  Last year, we did not
conduct a VLD for RSD Black Friday.  Instead, we left it open for customers to form a line when they felt like getting into line whether it be
beginning with the night or day before, or early Friday morning.
However, for the "April RSD Event", entry will be determined by what we are calling our Virtual Line Drawing
in which those wanting to participate:
(1) Send an email to Kiss The Sky at stevewarrenfeltz@gmail.com;
(2) Put the letters RSD VLD in the email's subject line;
(3) Put your full name in the body of the email.
A return confirmation email is not sent. Sorry. Perhaps that will change in the future but life is quite busy and hectic these days.

On the Sunday just prior to Record Store Day, we will conduct a randomizer based drawing and assign each entrant a number that will be
their place in line. Entry into the store will be conducted according to each person's assigned number and we will base how many people are 
allowed in at a time on what the store can handle without people crawling all over each other. The initial number is typically about 15 to 25
people. As people do their thing and then leave, we will let others in. Things typically move along pretty fast and there's a constant flow
of people entering and leaving and entering.

It's a good idea to get to the store no later than by 7:45am if you are in the Top 50 and by 8:30 if you are in the 50 to 100 group and so on.
However, there are factors that could impact how long it takes to go through the line and get to your position thereof, so a little earlier is
better than being late.

The results of the drawing are posted here on the Website. It's the PDF file located on this page right below this statement or at the page bottom on some cell phones.
We hope to also post it on Facebook and Instagram.







As a side note, we can tell you that we have placed an order that includes pretty much every title being released specifically for Record Store Day. The quantities ordered for each item vary of course. How many is dependent upon what we think our demand is going to be.
And what we end up getting is something that we won't know until the week of The Event, and is based upon how many of each item
is being produced versus what is being ordered by the 1,400 some odd record stores that are participating.
Some items DO get allocated due to the fact that demand is greater than supply.

If there are any further questions, do not hesitate to stop in the store and ask or shoot us an email. I would stay away from
contacting us via Messenger.

Hope to see a bunch of ya here on Record Store Day.
 
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