Avenue Records co-owner Sam Stoffelen discusses the value of Record Store Day. Video by Aaron Smith (16/4/24)
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00:00 We're hoping for like probably 20, 30, maybe even 40 people lining up on the door
00:04 before eight o'clock on the open. We have about probably 80 to 100 individual titles
00:09 specifically for records today, about 250 secondhand records and a bunch of new records going out
00:14 and just kind of to garner some excitement about record shops around the world. Something that's
00:21 sort of like the last frontier of these sort of small stock shops in Launceston so it's nice
00:27 to be able to come in and line up and sort of get caught amongst the excitement of like what you
00:31 could get and hopefully get a few things that people want as well. Christmas and Boxing Day
00:37 is like a month lead up with like gift cards and people buying presents for that but in terms of
00:41 the one day this would be the biggest day of the year for sure. Memories are attached to albums and
00:45 people are still looking for that memory maybe a certain time in their life and for younger people
00:49 especially I would say is a huge part of identity attached to music. People are represented by their
00:55 artists, they dress accordingly, they listen to certain music and they put the album up on the
00:59 wall to associate with who they are. So I think when you think about identity and memory these
01:04 are things that are sort of like pretty natural to us. So although it's a surprise they might be
01:08 coming back in this way I think when you think about why people are buying them it makes a lot
01:12 of sense. Music is a huge part of who you are and identity so I'm not surprised that it's come back
01:18 in that sense I suppose. We kind of made a bit of a few renovations in here and maybe focused a
01:23 little bit more on new music trying to funnel some younger people in with the new albums whilst
01:28 trying to simultaneously hang on to like the old collectors that have come in looking for the
01:31 secondhand stuff more of the rare stuff. So it's I guess about a balance of finding the mainstream
01:37 stuff like your Taylor Swift's that you need to have but also your more collectible stuff that's
01:41 the classic kind of record collector can come in and tell for. So I guess it's a bit of a tightrope
01:46 but we're managing to walk it quite well at the moment.
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