Vinyl Record Sale yesterday

I had the first vinyl record sale of the year yesterday; capitalizing on it being National Record Store day, to set up in front of the Sound Exchange, in an gesture of symbolic support for their being the bastion of independent music store, and used music sales in the community. Thanks to Shelley and Kim for helping lug the boxes of records, that was a HUGE morale boost, as that gets to be a tedious part of the event. There was a great flurry of activity at the beginning of the sale, and lots of eager browsers. It was great to have Tim Peacock from Stuart's over in Nelsonville make the trip over to browse, along with Matt. It was heartening to have them find alot of stuff; knowing they are true music lovers and have great collections themselves already. Tim wants to come back and look at the "big collection" in the basement of Latrobe St. so that will be fun. Several other "regulars" were fun to re-connect to; and some good conversations among music lovers as always is the highlight for me. Hearing about Jerry's Music store in Pittsburgh is always fun. With some advance sales here at the office, the sale made $268. So that's alot of records sold. Hopefully some happy buyers and future connections, too. Adam Phillips had been over to Haifa's in Athens, and they were celebrating National Record Store day in a bigger way over there, as well as a store down in his town of Charlotte North Carolina. Well, someday we may be better connected to those national efforts to honor music stores. I think NPR was having a story about Billy Bob Thornton talking about the record store of his youth on the news yesterday.