record store day!

it's like christmas only better.

whuuuuuu?

you've never heard of it?

yeah, me neither.

then i married brad.

let me tell you a little bit about records, or long play albums, or LP's --- all the same.  

see how educated i have become?  

first of all, they {records} are still around.

nashville happens to have a few really great record stores, grimeys being our favorite.  once a year, labels release certain albums (literal records like your daddy used to have, not compact disc) on this day that everyone wants.  this year brad had five albums he wanted and got everything but one.  the one he didn't get, there were only eight copies available at our nashville store.  

and since we got in line at 6:30 am instead of 6:30 pm the night before, well.

did you catch that?  yep, folks start lining up the night before to get music.  this year we got in line a little before 7 am with a hot coffee in each hand, fully charged cell phones and each other.  and about five hundred of our other best friends while we waited for the clock to chime ten am.

it is a fun day.  once you get in the store, it's organized chaos and you get and grab whatever you are looking for as quick as possible and then get in line to pay as quick as possible.  at least i think that is what we do.  maybe brad is browsing and this is all conjured up in my head.  

either way, it's a fun day.

i like to think of it as the opening to festival season and being outside for good music.
and who doesn't love a pretty day and some good tunes?

record store day 2012.

so if you are among the crazies awesome that think getting up and standing in line in the cold and rain for three hours previous to the record stores actually opening on record store day, well i bet you had a really cold, wet morning in nashville but then when you got all those coveted albums that you were in line for...it didn't matter that you were wet and cold.

there's that.

then there's people like me who think that being with my husband is so darn fun that i will brave the elements as well even though there is not one record i want.  call it love.  call it dumb.  i think it's a little of both.

call it a blog.  because that's what it is.  and i have pictures to prove.

record store day in nashville happened for us at grimeys.  and brad happily walked away with all the records on his list.

i walked away with this really cool canvas bag that they put his records in.
i told him i wanted aqua.
he picked yellow.
i like yellow.