So, Saturday April 18 was Record Store Day. Did anybody celebrate by picking up some of the limited edition vinyl and CDs released yesterday? I snagged some newly released stuff from Sonic Youth, Beck, Jack White, Booker T, My Morning Jacket, Pavement, the Flaming Lips, the Black Keys and others. I also saw an in-store set by Silversun Pickups. All in all, not a bad day for the vinyl geeks.

I went. Spent a couple hundred dollars, but I didn't allow myself to get distracted by the exclusives. Just went and got what was already going to be on my list anyway.

distracted? ok

I spun a classic hip-hop set @ sonic boom records in seattle. and as a "treat" i got the bernard "pretty" purdie lp "soul drums"!!!!!

Stax said:

I've started taking a list with me, because I get to a record store (or a comic shop, or a book store, etc.) and I end up wandering around picking up a bunch of stuff that catches my attention instead of what I went in looking for. Or worse, I end up getting both

woogiebear said:

errant said:

I hear you, but some of the stuff available today was limited, like 2,500 copies limited. Hard to pass that stuff up!

Stax said:

what a COOL emoticon.....THANX!!!!!

Stax said:

what was on the Flaming Lips one?

errant said:

That was one of my favorite pick ups of the day. Side one is Flaming Lips covering Madonna (Borderline), which is pretty good, but I really like the flip side, the Black Keys covering Captain Beefheart.
[Edited 4/19/09 6:19am]

Stax said:

Where at? I didn't hear about any special releases for Record Store Day, just a few "sales". Most places didn't do jack schitt.

woogiebear said:

what songs! even if you cant remember what order you played em

Cinnie said:

Really? I went to three stores yesterday and they all had some of the special releases (granted, two of the three are big indie stores, Rasputins and Amoeba).

Here is a list of yesterday's releases:

Akron/Family - 7″
“Everyone Is Guilty” b/w “Total Destruction”

Bad Religion - Original EP 7″
Reissue of 6 tracks from 1981

Andrew Bird/Loney Dear split 7″
In hand-silk screened covers

Black Kids - “Wizard of Ahhhs” 10″

Black Moth Super Rainbow - “Born on a Day” 7″

Blitzen Trapper - 7″
“War is Placebo/Booksmart”

Camera Obscura - “French Navy” 7″

Leonard Cohen - 7″
“The Future”/”Suzanne” (Live In London)

Cold War Kids - “Live at Fingerprints” EP

CSNY - Deja Vu Live 2LP

Elvis Costello - 7″
“Complicated Shadows”/”Dirty Rotten Shame”

Elvis Costello / Jenny Lewis split 7″
“Carpet Baggers”/”Go Away”

Graham Coxon - 10″ (Etched)
“In The Morning” b/w Etched Side

Rivers Cuomo “Live at Fingerprints” CD

Cursive/Ladyfinger(ne) split 10″ picture disc (1500 copies)
“Universal Shrug” b/w “Old News”

Dandy Warhols - Remix CD

Dead Weather - “Hang You From the Heavens” 7″


The Decemberists - 7″
“The Rake’s Song”/”East India Lanes”

Def Jam Records “History of Def Jam” 4xLP

Dengue Fever / Chicha Libre - split 7″ (1000 copies)

Depeche Mode - 7″
“Wrong”/”Oh Well”

Domino Records Blood on the Tracks compilation LP
Eugene McGuinness - “Fonz” / The Kills - “Night Train” / Franz Ferdinand - “Katherine Hit Me” (Blood Version) / Junior Boys - “Hazel” (Radio Edit) / Max Tundra - “Playboy” (Hot Chip) / John Hopkins - “The Wider Sun” / Juana Molina, Devendra Banhart & Vetiver - “Hay Que Ver Se Voy” / Benjy Ferree - “Grand Canyon” (Magnetic Fields) / Cass McCombs - “One Way To Go” / King Creosote - “Curtain Craft”

Dr. Dog/Floating Action split 7″

Bob Dylan - 7″
“Dreaming From You”/”Down Along the Cove” (Live at Bonaroo)

El Grupo Nuevo de Omar Rodriguez Lopez – Cryptomnesia LP (not exclusive, but 3000 copies available for RSD in advance of 5/5 street date)

Flaming Lips / Black Keys split 7″
“Borderline”/”Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles”

Flight Of The Conchords - 7″
“Pencils In The Wind”/”Albi The”

Gaslight Anthem “Live from Park Ave” 10″

Gomez - 7″
“Airstream Driver/Edit”7”

Grateful Dead - T-shirt

Grizzly Bear - 7″
While You Wait For The Others”/”He Hit Me” (Live on KCRW)

Guided By Voices - Hold On Hope reissue + 3 bonus tracks

Ben Harper 10″
“Shimmer and Shine”/”Spanish Red Wine”

Iron & Wine - Live CD
Norfolk 6-20-05

Jane’s Addiction - 7″
“Mountain Song” b/w “Standing In The Shower Thinking”

The Killers - 12″ picture disc

King Crimson - 40th Anniversary Tour Box

Jesus Lizard - 7″ Box Set

Booker T Jones - 7″
“Warped Sister” b/w “Reunion Time”

Light In The Attic - 7″ series including Sharon Jones, Serge Gainsbourg, and more

Lykke Li/Perro Del Mar - split 7″
“After Laughter”/”At Your Best”

Magnolia Electric Co. - 7″ (1000 copies)
“It’s Made Me Cry Again/Rock of Ages” b/w “The Compass, The Candle,The Bell/Protection Spell”

MC5 - 7″
“Kick Out The Jams” b/w “Motor City Is Burning”

Mastodon - Crack the Skye 180g vinyl + 7″

Mastodon - T-shirt

Tift Merritt - Buckingham Solo CD

Metric - 7″
“Help I’m Alive”/”Help I’m A B-Side”

Misfits - Walk Among Us 140g LP

Modest Mouse - 7″
“Satellite Skin” b/w “Guilty Cocker Spaniels”

My Morning Jacket - Celebración De La Ciudad Natal (Live at Ear X-Tacy & Louisville Waterfront) 2×10″ / CD
Evil Urges / Highly Suspicious / Gideon / Where To Begin / Librarian / Phone Went West / Dondante

New Order - 7″
“Temptation” b/w “Hurt” AND/OR Ceremony/Ceremony (Live)

Numero Group This LP Crashes Hard Drives compilation LP
Los Destellos - “Guajira Sicodelica” / PE Hewitt Jazz Ensemble - “Bad Que Bash” / Group Doueh - “Way Waya” / Noor Jehan - “I Am Very Sorry” / Hypnotic Brass Ensemble - “Marcus Garvey” / Pisces ft. Linda Brunner - “Sam” / The Monks - “Pretty Suzanne” / Myron & the Soul Investigators - “Cold Game” / John Heartsman & Circles - “Talking About My Baby” / Naomi Shelton & the Gospel Queens”

Oasis “Falling Down” Remix LP

Obits - 7″
“I Can’t Lose/Military Madness”

Pavement - “Live in Cologne 1997″ LP (2500 copies)

Elvis Perkins - “Lorraine Lookout” 7″

The Pretenders - 7″
“Break Up The Pavement”/Love’s…”

Queen - “Hollywood Junketboy” EP

Radiohead - “Series of 10″ vinyl EPs”
Drill, Creep, My Iron Lung, High & Dry, Fake Plastic Trees, Just, Street Spirit, Paranoid Android, Karma Police, No Surprises, Pyramid Song, 2+2=5

ROIR - So Indie It Hurts compilation
ROIR - “So Indie It Hurts” Comp
Bad Brains - Big Take Over / The Styrenes - Radial Arm Saws / Dub Trio - Not Alone feat. Mike Patton / Flipper - Ha Ha Ha / The Dickies - Hideous / Johnny Thunders - King of the Gypsies / James Chance - Contort Yourself / Bush Tetras - Punch Drunk / MC5 - Skunk (Sonically Speaking) / Mirrors - Another Nail in the Coffin / Dictators - Science Gone Too Far

Arthur Russell - “Love Is Taking Me” - 2xLP

Russian Circles / These Arms Are Snakes Split 12” (1000 copies)
“Camera Shy” / “Trix” b/w “Philios”

Sargent House compilation CD
Bygones – “Click On That, Smash The Plastic Death” / RX Bandits – No Chorizo - (Live From Glasshouse) / Red Fang – “Good To Die” / These Arms Are Snakes – “Camera Shy” / Cast Spells – “Glamorous Glowing” / This Town Needs Guns – “Rabbit” / Good Old War – “Window” (Live Acoustic) / Native – “What Are You Dylan In My House?” / Tera Melos - “Last Smile For Jaron” / Maps & Atlases -“Ted Zancha” / Love You Moon – “Screams In A Vacuum” (Live From Fingerprints) / Red Sparowes – “The Fear Is Excruiating, But Therein Lies the Answer”

Silversun Pickups - Pikul 12″

Slayer - 7″
“Psychopathy Red” b/w backwards masked version

The Smiths - 7″
“The Headmaster’s Ritual” b/w “Oscillate Wildly”

Sonic Youth / Beck split 7″ (2500 copies)
“Pay No Mind” (SY covering Beck) b/w “Green Light” (Beck Covering SY)

Sonic Youth / Jay Reatard split 7″ (2500 copies)
“Hang Them All” (JR) b/w “No Garage” (SY)

Regina Spektor - Begin to Hope LP +2 bonus tracks

Bruce Springsteen - 7″
“What Love Can Do”/”A Night From The Jersey Devil”

The Stooges - 7″
“1969″ b/w “Real Cool Time”

Talking Heads - ‘77 180g LP

The Thermals / Thao split 7″ (1000 copies)
“When I Died” (Demo) / “You Dissolve” (Demo) b/w “Cool Yourself You Are Flush Red” / “Did You Ever Have To Make Up Your Mind” (Lovin’ Spoonful)

Thrill Jockey Records Toreism compilation LP (900 copies)
Mountains - “Windows” / Tortoise - “High Class Stim Came Floating In” / Double Dagger - “Stagger Lee” / White Hills - “Eye To Eye” / Trans Am - “Wounded Monkey”

Tom Waits / Lucinda Williams split 7″
“Ain’t Goin’ Down To The Well” (Live) b/w “Bottom Of The World” (Live)

Vetiver - 7″
Wishing Well”/”Pay No Mind”

Wendy & Lisa “White Flags of Winter Chimneys” CD with exclusive artwork by Jaime Hernandez (1000 copies)

Whiskeytown - 7″
San Atone b/w Great Divide

Wilco - Ashes of American Flags DVD (non-exclusive; just early)

Wooden Shjips - Mix CD + New LP (LP is non-exclusive; just early)

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - “It’s Blitz” LP (non-exclusive, just early)

Neil Young - Sugar Mountain Live at Canterbury House 1968 2LP

Cinnie said:

I had a nerdgasam.

Cinnie said:

Star- Roots
Funky Drummer (Bonus Beats)- James Brown
Message- Grandmaster Flash & The Furious 5
Sucker MC's- Run DMC
She's Looking Like A Hobo- Malcolm McClaren
La Di Da Di- Doug E. Fresh & Slick Rick
Vapors- Biz Markie
Long Red (intro)- Mountain
Eric B. Is President- Eric B. & Rakim
The Bridge- MC Shan
The Bridge Is Over- BDP
Paul Revere- Beastie Boys
Express Yourself (remix)- NWA
It's Funky Enough- D.O.C.
I Got It Made- Special Ed
Rock Dis Funky Joint- Poor Righteous teachers
Gyrlz, They Love Me (remix)- Heavy D. & The Boyz
We Roll (inst.)- Pete Rock

I THINK that was the order.....then I had to got to work. They were gonna let me spin some more.....

woogiebear said:

Nice!

Cinnie said:

Thanx Cinnie!!!! Like I said, I could have played more a little later. But I had to work. Oh well!!!!
My set is not only classic, but represents when there were Hip-Hop ARTISTS- Not goin' 2 Mickey D's and gettin' a f-in Happy Meal, which is what Hip-Hop has been reduced to.....


TURN OFF THE RADIO!!!!! TURN OFF DAT BULLSHIT!!!!!

I missed it! But I did buy a copy of k.d. lang's new one for Tracy.

I've been buying vinyl quite a bit these days. I never buy CDs anymore (just download from iTunes or Amazon.com) unless its one of my very favorite artists.

for Record Store Day I bought Portishead's 2nd LP, and Roberta Flack's "Chapter TTwo" which I listened to, and absolutely adore.