The annual Record Store Day (RSD), which is celebrated from San Francisco to Paris, has gone a long way toward re-establishing vinyl as the go-to medium for music after a lull during the ’80s and ’90s — and Seattle is one of its hotbeds, with about 25 stores participating this year. (San Francisco, by comparison, has only 12.)
RSD, taking place Saturday, April 16, began in 2008 as a way to drum up business for independent record merchants and pay homage to vinyl-collecting culture.