Record Store Day started in 2007 as a pretty modest idea cooked up by a handful of independent record store owners in the U.S. who wanted to celebrate the places that kept music physical, local, and human in an increasingly digital world. The first official Record Store Day took place in April 2008, with Metallica showing up at Rasputin Music in San Francisco, and that surprise moment set the tone: this wasn’t just a sale, it was a party.