I'm basically never participating in Record Store Day again (either of the two annual versions). It's always such a mad house. I usually work on Saturdays, anyway, but today I went on Bullmoose a few hours after the remaining records went online. A lot of stuff was already gone, but I couldn't get on earlier because I was at work. Loaded up my cart with a half dozen items, ready for checkout. Then somebody snagged the last copy of one of my items. I literally could not proceed through checkout because this one item was stuck in my basket and it was impossible to remove it.
Ultimately, I just realized it's not worth the freakin' hassle. I'm probably done with record buying in general as I gave it up towards the end of last summer due to space concerns and a career shift (as I mentioned in an earlier post), but now I can't even enjoy in getting some cool looking reissues because it's always pandemonium. The sad part is that there would be plenty to go around if it wasn't for all the idiots trying to flip stuff. You'll see like $20 Otis Redding reissues drop to $25 on Discogs and just sit there for years...like these guys are so intent on turning a profit that they refuse to let any of the inventory go for less. I say, fuck 'em.