April 20, 2010

Last year, I showed up at Sound Garden, in Baltimore's Fells Point, about an hour after they opened.There were a few people in there and some of the more desirable titles had sold out, but I walked right in and found a lot of what I was looking for with no crowds and no hassles.  This year was a different story.  I got down there right before they opened and the line ran for about two blocks outside of the store.  When I finally got in the store about an hour later, there was still probably 30 people waiting to get in behind me.  Sure, I would have loved to have walked right in, but the bottom line is that Record Store Day was a much bigger event this year than last year and that alone more than made up for the wait.