With coronavirus cases rising in Wisconsin -- though not Dane County -- Strictly Discs owner Angie Roloff is doing her best to stay positive as she plans for RecordStoreDay 2020.
We're fortunate and thankful, but when you talk about COVID generally, our state is definitely trending in the wrong direction. When we talked last, we were quote-unquote trending poorly, and now we're in the group of 19 states that is classified as having uncontrolled spread. On the positive, at least, [Dane] County has seen cases going in the right direction at least for the last week, which perhaps is due to more people wearing a mask. I'm hopeful for that.
Correct. As I think is typical of our industry, we have a lot of people who stop at record stores when they're traveling. And we've had a few people call to confirm both our hours and also what's required of them to shop with us. And when they say,"Do I have to wear a mask?" and I say,"Well, actually you do in all of Dane County," still a lot of people are surprised by that.
, is on it, so I'm sure it will draw in fans in Wisconsin all around. But I haven't gotten a ship date or a firm street date on it.It just feels like everything with Taylor Swift is choreographed in a last-minute sort of frenetic way. I'm sure it's hard for her to keep things secret with the rabid fan base that she has, so I'm sure there's lots of reasons for it. It certainly keeps people coming back for more.We always tend to sell her releases quite well on vinyl.
We do a couple things that impact how used collections ebb and flow, and one of them is direct mail marketing that we do targeting sellers. We've done a couple of those that have hit recently, so it's hard to pinpoint exactly whether it's economic concern or just opportunity that's driving that, but we have had a lot of used collections come in.
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