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shenmue

(38,506 posts) Fri Jul 10, 2015, 12:04 PM Jul 2015

New music release days switch from Tuesdays to Fridays

CBC story here

From the article:

Starting July 10, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, the global organization representing the recording industry, has dictated that the new reality worldwide will be New Music Fridays.

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New music release days switch from Tuesdays to Fridays (Original Post) shenmue Jul 2015 OP

I saw that earlier Blue_Adept Jul 2015 #1

That's a big change. Heck for decades I went to record stores on Tuesdays to see the new releases. Hoyt Jul 2015 #2

Blue_Adept

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1. I saw that earlier

Reply to shenmue (Original post)

Fri Jul 10, 2015, 12:20 PM

Jul 2015

when I was in my local Newbury Comics. I don't buy music much at all anymore and certainly not on release day. But I was curious as to the reason for the switch.

I distrust the RIAA more than most anything else, but the actual sense of it works with regards to a more coherent single day system due to the international aspect of it. But I also agree that Friday's suck because A) you lose that midweek hardcore group coming in and B) you can't restock quickly for the weekend.

Hoyt

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2. That's a big change. Heck for decades I went to record stores on Tuesdays to see the new releases.

Reply to shenmue (Original post)

Fri Jul 10, 2015, 12:40 PM

Jul 2015

Even stood in lines of one to get new releases by the likes of the Gene Clark, Flying Burrito Brothers, Steve Earle, Jimi Hendrix, CrosbyStills&Nash, etc.

I think the closest thing to a new artist CD I've bought in the last 10 years is some Ben Harper. I have bought some downloads from new groups.

Nowadays, it's just easier to check them out on-line. But I miss Tower Records, and browsing Peaches Records on Peachtree Street in Atlanta at Midnight in the 1970s.

Oh well, them were the days.

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