Record Store Day 2011 exclusive releases

What are you excited about?

I want the 13th Floor Elevators unreleased sixth single

i had a dream about record store day last night where they were trying to charge me $400 for the big star 3rd "test pressing".
i would probably buy that if i saw it. also maybe the television live at the old waldorf LP. i doubt i'm going to find either of those!

I will let you know if we get a bunch of them. I set aside some extra stuff last year and mailed it to some folks on ilx.

I also would like Big Star - Third and Mississippi John Hurt - The Immortal (remastered). Can't wait for the mail on Friday at the store!

ooh yeah that john hurt LP looks great.
yeah, if you have extras let us know!

Sure thing.

i had a dream about record store day last night where they were trying to charge me $400 for the big star 3rd "test pressing".

hahaha

that's the only one I want, although I guess the Elevators 7" would be cool too.

so yeah, put me on whatever list you're compiling for the Big Star please!

Ha! I am just mentally taking note in case we have leftovers of stuff ya'll are wanting.

I get so geeked out about RSD every year - it really is my favorite holiday. Hot Dogs, exclusives, live music outside. We make a big ol' event outta this.

yeah, big star 3rd and lower dens "deer knives" single. i kinda want that velvets "foggy notion" single but i'm sure it's going to be $11 or something crazy.

color me curious to hear that dB's 45.

i hate record store day. busiest, most nightmarishly chaotic day of the year for us.

that said, i am mostly interested in the International Submarine Band MONO reissue with bonus 7"
I wanted the Sandy Denny 7" but maybe it's UK only? I couldn't find anywhere to order it from.

I didn't even KNOW about the Elevators single...

i've never been to a record store day store on record store day. i lived on an island. and now i am stuck at my own dumb store all day. i don't think there are any record store day records that i need. but i would have to see the list again. maybe i'll go up to brattleboro to check out what the stores there have before i open up for the day.

i kinda wish all the used record stores would get together and have a *We Will Not Sell On Ebay For A Month Month*. and put out all the stuff they would have sold online in their stores for reasonable prices. that would be cool.

I have somehow mananged to never get Rumours on vinyl so I'm treating myself to a copy of that big honkin' reissue (45 RPM! mastered by Steve Hoffman! etc!). not really interested in anything other than that; I'll be heading to Amoeba to pick up Tomboy (hoping for clear vinyl) and the new Feelies though.

it feels a little sad to admit this, but i just don't care that much about new vinyl. i don't think i've ever bought a "reissue" 45 in my life. last week i was in a store and they had a ton of those big star alternate take 45s or whatever they are and i LOVE big star and i didn't buy one. i dig numero group and stuff like that, but they are usually so expensive that i don't spring for them. most of the ones i have i got in trade. and as far as new releases go i don't really care if they are on cd or vinyl. probably listen to them more if they are on cd. i hardly ever hold on to new vinyl that i buy. i feel like it doesn't mean as much now or something. like, a band or artist could put their stuff out on vinyl or tape or cd and it doesn't really matter in the end. i tried to get excited about nu-siltbreeze and i dug that stuff and i like tom's tastes, but i never play whatever i still have. i'm sure there are a ton of cool small labels putting out stuff i would dig, but i'm just so into old stuff that i can hardly ever justify buying one new fancy record for 20 bucks when i could ten (or even 20!) old records for the same money. but i am a high volume shopper...

i definitely think its cool that other younger people are into the new vinyl thing though! they should be. and they should be supporting other cool young people. last "new" release i bought that i LOVED was that last clockcleaner album. babylon rules. and that was years ago! i mean i loved it as an "album" on "vinyl" and i still play it and will never get rid of it. but, again, its just my own cheapness. despite the fact that i spend a lot of money on records. a lot of new stuff i take a chance on just doesn't hold up for me in the long run. i do own a vetiver album that i like. and an espers album. man, not much else. love, oldmanshakingfistatnewrecords

for new music, i kinda just prefer seeing live music every once in a while. it hits the spot. and i still get new stuff for my column. and the occasional metal promo. i guess thats enough for me. just thinking about this cuz on here and on ilm people are always talking about new stuff that i will probably never hear. and i wonder if i should feel guilty that i'm not hearing it all, but then i remember that i've hosted, like, 50 live shows in my store in the last 2 years and i don't feel so guilty!

ten new(-ish) records & affordable reissues that i like a lot:

metal mtns - golden trees (this is members of tower recordings and is very dreamy space-folk with lots of nice guitars.)

call back the giants s/t (this is Tim from The Shadow Ring, if you like them you'll love it imo.)

vernon wray - wasted (affordable reissue, licensed from wray's family, great country-folk-rock record with heavy vibes.)

gary higgins red hash reissue was great though i dunno how long ago that was and if it qualifies as 'new' for the purposes of this thread. there IS a thread on ILM where skot says he would buy a nice reissue of it!

d. charles speer & the helix - after hours (my favorite local cosmic country group; always try to go see 'em play.)

steve gunn - boerum palace and/or sundowner (two records of nice fingerpickin folk with some fuzz leads, sometimes accompanied, sometimes instrumental. good records imo.)

stupid party - s/t LP (freedom school records; SST-style sludge stoner punk!! always liked to describe them as mudhoney playing early (early early) meat puppets)

the dead c are still putting out great records. shrug. maybe not everyone needs a new dead c record, but i sure do.

zachary cale - walking papers LP (another local songwriter, more folk than country but a great drinkin' time bar band also.)

but new 7"s and 45s? sheesh, nah. half the time they cost more than $5! for two songs! yer kiddin me.)

and these are all records i don't see myself getting rid of down the line, unlike plenty of other records i buy but see as more disposable. like i like the new kurt vile record but i don't think it's gonna turn into a long-term fave or anything.

there is a saint etienne 7" boxset that is coming out for RSD but i'm sure all of those mentalist fans will snatch it up before i do and i'm not even sure it's available in the U.S.

i was hoping for the sandy denny but idk if i'll be able to track it down, having the same problem as ian.

other good recentish reissues:

- Robert Lester Folsom, "Music and Dreams" (gloriously laid-back private-press Cali folk which languished in obscurity until Mexican Summer put it out again last year. I think I've put Show Me To The Window on every mix CD I've made since hearing it. also how about that cover art.)

- Pastor T.L. Barrett and the Youth for Christ Choir, "Like A Ship Without A Sail" (AMAZING gospel record reissued by Light in the Attic complete with excellent packaging. I wish more music sounded like this.)

- Terry Riley, "The Lisbon Concert" (there's a CD version out there but IMO long meandering pieces like this benefit from being split up across multiple sides, although with a piece of music this pretty I inevitably end up listening to it straight through. beats Keith Jarrett's Koln Concert [which I also love] to a bloody pulp.)

and if we're counting all the vinyl reissues of Emeralds tapes over the last year, all of those too. expensive as fuck but totally worth it. the Imaginary Softwoods album is a particular treat; I use it to counteract my assface neighbor (dude is both a rep for Monster Cables and loves Jimmy Buffet) across the street whenever he feels compelled to crank Ten Summoner's Tales at a hellish volume (sadly, this happens a lot).

yah i love red hash. i got that reissue. i already loved that record though.

and again i love plenty of new music. just don't listen to new stuff as much i guess. i love all the promo stuff i get from utech and type. utech my fave u.s. label easily. all on cd though except for the new locrian album. which keith utech was SUPER nice enough to send me for free.

but i guess my point was that new stuff doesn't seem as permanent with me in most cases. maybe i'm past my prime. would never sell my numero vinyl though. cuz its so pretty. stupid sumblime frequencies practically forces me to sell their vinyl when it reaches 80+ on ebay. i mean if i really like it i can tape it or buy the cd.

michael morley just played here but i didn't go.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ceDh2Anf4E

I buy new vinyl and I buy limited edition new vinyl but this looks like artificial scarcity price gouge day and the list is really boring looking.

i kinda wish all the used record stores would get together and have a *We Will Not Sell On Ebay For A Month Month*. and put out all the stuff they would have sold online in their stores for reasonable prices. that would be cool.

― scott seward, Tuesday, April 12, 2011 12:21 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

record stores that don't sell on ebay or the guys are too old or lazy or technologically retarded to sell on ebay are my favorite. Unless they have big price books and can't make common sense price decisions.

I want the 13th Floor Elevators unreleased sixth single

^^^^

So, what about that 78rpm double 10" of the Beach Boys' "Good Vibrations" / "Heroes and Villains"

Artificial rarity item or what?

can't believe you ppl aren't excited about this

Phish: Two Soundchecks

i think my final wantlist is

panda bear LP
wild flag 7"
GBV tribute
sacred bones thing
maybe the african guitar things that rough guide is doing
ty segall t-rex covers album

just went through our RSD releases... we have four boxes of LPs and almost a whole box of 45s.
still waiting on a shipment from Alliance (used to be Edge) which should contain more/most/some of the major label arteests...

i found one other thing i want--the steve gunn/ilyas ahmed single. i like steve gunn. he is a very good guitar player!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzmtQbihTcc

wait, i thought you guys weren't doing the record thing this year?

NO, we do it every year. i just hate it. we didn't do the weird one in november cuz we were unaware of it.

still waiting on a shipment from Alliance (used to be Edge) which should contain more/most/some of the major label arteests...

― one dis leads to another (ian)

um. we just got a call from Alliance and somehow in the shuffle of switching from Edge, they have lost and not filled out RSD order. they said they would call us back but didn't. needless to say, we are sorta sad/pissed.

Same with us, but I don't remember if it was Alliance.

Maybe they screwed everyone?

Prurient and Lady Gaga. Kind of would love a store in New York that carried em both :/

Evan - where are y'all?

Tunes, in Hoboken.

- New Jersey

we have the prurient rekkerd whiney. we probably also will get the lady gaga picture disc, but not many copies.

(fuck this whole alliance/edge stuff btw--i think they have our order, but they didn't have the CC# and were very douchey abt the whole thing.)

Confirming it was Alliance who screwed us as well...

argh!

i would like nirvana hormoaning vinyl. but no record shop in my town and it would be sold out by the time i got into glasgow cuz all the students live near the 2 shops i go to.

GOOD LUCK OUT THERE TODAY FRIENDS & LOVERS.

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For those who got left out, I have spare copies of the Ty Segall T. Rex covers and an extra Fela Kuti 7" if anyone here wants them, we can work out a deal/trade

my first sale of the day was 30 dollars worth of classical albums. go rsd! then i went and saw a movie about the easter bunny. not a bad non-rsd rsd though. maybe next year i will sell limited soup dragons 45s or whatever they will have. show tonight though. that should be good. flaming dragons, some hardcore band, and some band from baltimore. blow dart? dart gun? something like that.

i actually ended up spending a long time in a record store today! and buying things! they had 15% off everything, I mean, ya can't go wrong. this particular store is the cutest and was busy but not too busy (weather here is rainy/snowy gross so maybe that helped). and everyone was so adorbs. also, good records.

i really like records but was in denial. no more. beginning of the end y'all.

i think i'm gonna get my head shaved :( i made a stupid deal last night that if we made over a certain amount i would do it.
also, drinking bloody marys.

uhoh

the saddest skinhead...

truly, truly the saddest skinhead. the shaving is gonna go down on monday so i can go to this show tomorrow and not raise any questions

wow wish you could all be here. improv flaming dragons of middle earth performance while entire purple rain soundtrack plays on the speakers. breathtaking.

^^ awesome

western MA is awesomeland, i'm beginning to truly believe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyBT03u0yDE

they didn't have any of the vinyl exclusive things at the record store i went to! that's ok, i probably would've seen the price tags and not bought any of them anyway. instead, dollar bin!
george winston - ballads and blues
duke ellington - anatomy of a murder
keith jarrett - koln concert
various artists - impulsively! (this one seems kind of cool, a 70s 2LP impulse records comp that focuses on like the "pop" side of the avant garde-y dudes on the label at the time?)

koln concert for a buck is a great price:entertainment value!

actually that one was $2, but still, glad to have it on vinyl

Ian! I just tried to send you a webmail via ILx but I can't tell whether it sent or not - if you haven't got anything from me, let me know!

i don't think i got anything Tim! dr.carl.sagan at gmail dot com

bought the dylan live thing and the arthur russell thing today at a store. what the hell, better late than never. television thing was way too much money for me to go for. though live television is pretty much the only television i like.

we never got any of our order, so needless to say i got nothing i wanted :(

we had a GREAT record store day at our store but it had nothing to do with exclusive releases. it had more to do with live bands, hot dogs and beer.

i was on the news talking about RSD, tho!

so we got an email and someone was selling rsd stuff after the fact and i got some limited edition hand-screened cover (they smell like paint!) bbc/demo/etc things and they are selling for, like, 17 to 20 and up right now online, but if i was being nice i would price them at 15, but do i have to be nice?

i got cure/smiths/brian eno/pixies/my bloody valentine/talking heads/boys next door LPs.

let me know what you think, america.

you guys aren't gonna help me. there's nobody here. i'm thinking 18. that's still less than 20. last time i checked.

you could price it higher and then give them a $2 loyalty discount if you feel like it, right?

america has spoken

i've never heard the talking heads demo thing. 1975. as a trio.

please be weymouth/franz/harrison

jesus and mary chain demo thing sounds like it was recorded in 1954.

What demo thing(s)?

Record Store Day 2012: Sundazed announces 9 seven inch titles

All set to go for Record Store Day, April 21, 2012. Sundazed Music has announced the 9 seven inch titles they are releasing exclusively for RSD:
(Ed. Note: All singles are in full color picture sleeves)

1 Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band~ “Double Single”
Record One: Diddy Wah Diddy b/w Who Do You Think You’re Fooling?
Record Two: Moonchild b/w Frying Pan
(uses the brown A&M records labels)

2 Gene Clark~She’s The Kind of Girl b/w One In A Million
(uses the brown A&M labels)

3 Dillard & Clark~Lying Down The Middle b/w Why Not?
(uses brown A&M labels)

4 Blues Magoos E.P.~So I’m Wrong And You Are Right b/w People Had No Faces & Wild About My Lovin’
(uses brown Verve/Forecast labels)

5 The Byrds~I’ll Feel A Whole Lot Better b/w It’s No Use (alternate versions) on CLEAR BLUE VINYL
(uses a picture sleeve that mimics the “Mr. Tambourine Man” LP on White w/ Red Text “Columbia” Promo labels)

6 Paul Revere & The Raiders~Ride Your Pony b/w (You’re A) Bad Girl on CLEAR RED VINYL
(uses White w/ Red Text ‘Columbia” Promo labels)

7 The Blues Project~(Mose Allison’s) Parchman Farm b/w (Jimmy Reed’s) Bright Lights, Big City
(uses brown Verve/Forecast labels)

8 The Chocolate Watch Band~Psychedelic Trip b/w In The Midnight Hour
(uses orange Tower Records labels)

9) The Martin Denny Orchestra~Crossfire b/w The 2,000 Pound Bee Part 2
(uses Spinout/Sundazed labels that mimic the rainbow crest logo of ‘Liberty’ labels)

here we go again!

?

RSD happens every year, yes.

p.s. I will also be bumping the thread where we talk about what our stores are each doing. Just so you are prepared.

oh I just meant something like "is it almost April already?!?"

I missed the last one b/c I was in Peru.

Oh! I thought you were being annoyed. Ha! Pardon me then.

Anything else you have heard coming out for RSD?

I'm not really into RSD as a concept, but I will heartily endorse the Kogumaza/Hookworms split 7" that is coming out for it.

I am totally into it. It is our favorite day of the year at the store. This year we are roasting an entire pig and have five bands playing outside.

I can imagine it being much more fun for people who work at record shops, and I'm sure it does bump up their income, which is only a good thing. But I'm a big grump and tend to treat it like New Year for drinkers - it's the time of the year when the amateurs come out and clog everything up for those of us who take our drinking/record buying seriously all year round. Most of the instores I've heard about are bands I don't really like, either, so that takes away probably the only aspect that could be aimed at me.

(Local instores, obviously. I'm sure there are others across the country/world that are great.)

For us, it is less amateurs and more like our regular customers all in our store all at once (which never happens).
We have hundreds of folks that love vinyl in our store and we drink and eat and laugh and listen to great music.
We do have a few people lined up in the morning that just come in, buy and get out which is fine, too.

But that is us. It is different everywhere, for sure.

for us it's ridiculously busy. just ringing people up all day and explaining that you do not have any more copies of the [insert here] 7" or LP or whatever.

i'd like to get those sundazed gene singles! love gene. light in the attic is doing a stax b-sides double LP comp and a lee hazelwood "the LHI years' 2xLP comp as well... on the fence abt buying those.. there's a black twig pickers 7" coming out which is cool but otoh, when would i listen to it???? i never listen to singles at home. it's really bad of me.

I can get you a Gene Clark single, Ian.

I don't know if our store is getting the Cleaners From Venus box, or the Medicine box, but I at least want both for myself very very badly.

don't worry nij, i'm getting all the sundazed stuff from my friend & yours tim l1ivings0ton

http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0105/4542/products/bizzare_large.jpg?8688

currently vacillating between "want want want" and "oh, but the price" with this one.

-housed in a "music box" case, that plays a snippet of "Oh Sh*t" when lid is opened
-includes (7) 7" records pressed on different colored vinyl + replica mini-jackets
-includes 5 previously unreleased tracks
-double CD with 24 rarities: 7 instrumentals, 5 acapellas, 6 remixes, and a bonus promo-only track
-21" x 28" poster + 120 piece puzzle featuring iconic cover art
-detailed liner notes by J-Swift + never-before-seen vintage photos

$59.95, that is.

that seems like a bargain!

I thought that.