thepastinsidepressant wrote:Snufkin wrote:Jumping on all this rabbit-hole later than most. Not sure if this has been mentioned, but a big thing that seems to debunk this whole thing anyways is the fact that the records were actually bought by customers in the store, rather than staff.
I mean, come on: you're working in a record store and ONE DAY you start stocking a Boards of Canada record on a shelf... there is *no way* you're going to leave that there for customers. Staff would have bought it. In at least one shop, somewhere, a member of staff would have grabbed it up straight away.
^^ this is why I'm not excited
...yet
i thought this too, thats where its a risky marketing gimmick but you'd be surprised how many people never heard of them. if theres a few people working there chances are one of them would know about them or just that one person working there had his eyes light up with $$ $$.
Look, the rep made sure that when he brought that fucking record to that shop that it would be stocked with other records on record store day without any interference from employees... or maybe not? Who knows? My honest guess is that the rep went straight to the manager, or maybe even had a convo with the owner or whoever at the store is in charge a few days before and explained to them what was about to go down, maybe not entirely. But I believe he made sure it would be stocked and found by some random customer on record store day. BoC aren't pop music, not everyone knows who they are no matter how incredible we all know they are. I'm sure it was overlooked for a while until this person that made the video found it. Only time will tell, really...
Hell, someone even made the point earlier that it MAY HAVE WELL BEEN an employee at other music that bought the record. Could've been THE VERY SAME guy I spoke with today! That doesn't mean they weren't the ones that posted about it. There are a million different possibilities.
