Record Store Day 2014

After havin' a blast at Record Store Day 2013, (a day that included some real nice weather and some nice finds) I was pretty eager for Record Store Day 2014. So eager that I booked the day off work 4 months in advance. I didn't even book my birthday off, to put that into perspective. ANYWAY here are some photos I took and some tales of the day:

HUGE QUEUE! Much longer than the same time last year

Bit of shoe admiration to kill some time (on a side note I'm really not a fan of the super long laces on Converse)

ROUGH TRADE IS IN SIGHT (within 20 seconds of taking this I fell over)

I KNOW WE'VE COME SO FAR BUT WE'VE GOT SO FAR TO GO*

Toy!! Soundchecking Left Myself Behind which is one of my favourites

Photobooth #banter

Compulsory Pizza Hut Meal. We were at the same table we sat at after we saw Drowners which made us a bit #EMOTIONAL

I had no idea this was on Berwick Street that's pretty cool

Despite walking around clutching Parquet Courts' Sunbathing Animal for like an hour I ended up not buying it. Instead I got a non RSD release, "Y.O.U / I Come Undone" by Violet. I'd never heard it but for £2 can you really go wrong? Reaaaally? Not really. It was quite good actually.

BRING ON RSD 2015 WOOOOOOP

*I'm sorry for the inevitable Hairspray reference. But then again, I'm not really.

Addressing the real questions, obviously. I had just caught up with two month's worth of unread magazines (disgraceful, I know) and after seeing a Vogue editorial full of sequins and in particular the Saint Laurent piece with the red sequinned lips it occurred to me that no form of embellishment interests me more than sequins. 

Better LEFT Invisible

Today I waltzed into WH Smith (and not to weep over / sneakily read the magazines either) with the intentions of purchasing a new pair of scissors. I take cutting things out very seriously. I bought a blue and white striped pair incase anyone was wondering. 
Upon glancing at the selection of scissors before me, I was somewhat mortified and outraged to see a left handed pair of Maped scissors priced a lot higher than the identical right handed pair. Like, literally furious. The funny (it's not really funny it's really sad) thing is, I don't even use left handed scissors. Yes, I am left handed, but you remember those wooden blocks with the scissors in from primary school? Well the yellow and green pairs were rarer than a Mcdonald's instant win on Monopoly (probably not THAT rare to most people but I never get them, sad right) and so out of necessity I taught myself how to use right handed scissors instead. At the time lefty scissors were a rare sighting in shops too, so I ended up using right handed ones both at home and at school. All in all this means that I can't actually use left handed scissors at all. But this won't stop me from getting riled over an overpriced pair of lefty scissors. At the end of the day it's not just scissors is it? It's everything.
So what if only 11% of people will use these scissors. So what if it's a niche market. Is that my problem?? Did I miss the part where left handed people automatically have more money than right handed people?? What I don't get is that these scissors were literally identical, just with the blade flipped over. Yet they were priced for so much more than the right handed ones. In what world is it fair to charge one person more than another for the same thing? Ah yes as the lefty, the more creative person, I will just use my creative powers to cut this piece of paper with my mind. I already have to suffer with ink down the side of my hand when I write and the trauma of being shoved on the end of a desk in the corner during handwriting classes in primary school so I wouldn't bump elbows with other people, now people are trying to make money out of me because I am part of a minority. #:(
This annoyed me so much that I even started writing an email to WH Smith customer service, I would have written it by hand but like, that ink on the side of the hand thing. (I got a bit too angry and saved it to my drafts and wrote this instead) like, nothing annoys me more than left handers inequality. Except maybe hangers that don't turn at the top and people who try to make money from the shipping on ASOS Marketplace. Okay the hanger one maybe not as much as the lefty thing. Why does like no one take me seriously when I talk about #leftyproblems? People seem to think I'm joking but it's a genuine issue. They also think I'm joking when I say I still love S Club 7 but I'm 100% serious about that too.
Shoutout to my lefty homies: