Record Store Day

Today was record store day and I feel really bad I didn't go to one. This is a day designed to remind us to shop in small record stores. I know there is something I could use for my collection but I am the exact reason that a day like this exists. I am lazy. I don't go to small record stores enough and I am just part of the problem. The rest of us who don't are the other part.
It's too easy to just download now and it is killing record stores. We need record stores because it is so much easier to discover new music when in a record store than it is to troll on line for it. I can't count the number of times I have bought something at a record store because I heard it playing in the store. Sometimes it would be something new but it often was something I hadn't heard of and fell in love with while flipping through the racks.
I love that record stores are now starting to restock vinyl. The cover art is just so much better when it is on a vinyl cover. I often flip through records in Goodwills and the Salvation Army just to look for good cover art. I don't know how many old records I have just because the cover was great. I do admit to not really listening to much of them but the covers are fantastic. A CD cover just doesn't have them same elan as a vinyl disc.
So don't be me and go out and visit a record store! Even if you missed record store day you can celebrate it belatedly. Buy local!