Disquaire Day (Record Store Day) 2012

Arcade Fire and St. Vincent RDS exclusives.

I've usually bought Record Store Day exclusive records every year I've gone to Coachella but since I'm studying abroad and didn't go to Coachella, this became my first year actually going to record stores on Record Store Day or Disquaire Day in France. For those who don't know about RSD, it is "the one day that all of the independently owned record stores come together with artists to celebrate the art of music."


Just like with any music related thing I've gone to in France, it seems like there really isn't a target age group. This kind of event in the U.S. (or at least at Coachella) is usually associated with pretentious hipsters but here you even had people in the 40's and 50's buying records and early in the morning too. Doors opened at 10h00 in some places and there was a good amount of people browsing the selection. It was kind of hard to browse since record stores aren't as big as let's say Amoeba back in L.A., but unlike the U.S. here they let you browse in peace. I could take my time looking at each record without having someone ask me if I needed any help. The French really like their music and it was great seeing people of all ages excited to buy records.

My goal was to find the SebastiAn and St. Vincent records and luckily I found them but I ended up getting some other things as well (like always). Here are the my RSD2012 purchases!

I got records by SebastiAn, St. Vincent, of Montreal/Deerhoof, Arcade Fire, and two purchases from France's independent music label, Stand Out Records.

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