Musicians and fans alike will be getting involved with one of the orginal social networking scenes, record buying in shops.

The days of grumpy and intimidating record shop owners are things of the past as the shop retail part of the industry continues to suffer at the dawn of download revolution. Nobody thought (or didn’t want to think) just how many shops would disappear; Mole Jazz and Reckless Records to name just two.

Undeterred by their Radiohead experience or my recent visit to purchase the Lupen Crook 7”, Rough Trade East are entering into the spirit of thing with varied day of activities planned (see details below) but any Record Store is in need of a visit tomorrow; even HMV (but try and keep it independent).

Even if you can’t buy some of the Hectic top five, you can always order them in person and have a good old flick at the vinyl. You know you want to.

1. V/A - Frost & Wagner Remixes (Best Seven) Cat. No. SBCD0009 Release date: 5th May 2008
2. Os Ipanemas - Call Of The Gods Cat. No. FARO127CD Release Date: 7th April 2008
3. V/A - Spiritual Jazz - Esoteric, Modal And Deep Jazz From The Underground 1968-77 (Jazzman) Cat. No. JMANCD 020 Release date: 11 April 2008
4. Lyrics Born - Every Where At Once (-Anti)
5. James Pants - Welcome (Stones Throw)

Links
www.recordstoreday.com
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www.roughtrade.com
AT THE UK’S BEST RECORD STORE, ROUGH TRADE EAST!
NEWSFLASH! NEWSFLASH! NEWSFLASH! NEWSFLASH!
NO WRISTBAND OR GUEST LIST NEEDED, JUST COME DOWN ON THE DAY
12.00 - 12.20 / VIRGIN PASSAGES
12.35 - 12.55 / EUGENE MCGUINNESS
1.10 - 1.30 / IDLE LOVERS
1.45 - 2.05 / JASON MOLINA
2.20 - 2.40 / THE METROS
2.55 - 3.15 / VEILS CANCELLED
3.30 - 3.50 / LYKKE LI
4.05 - 4.25 / MAKE MODEL
4.40 - 5.00 / BALTIC FLEET
5.00 - 6.00 / SCHMIDT & KUMO
6.00 - 6.40 / BILLY BRAGG
6.40 - 8.40 / FLYING LOTUS VS PIVOT DJS VS WARP DJS