It's the fourth birthday of Record Store Day, so you need to celebrate by going out to your favorite independent music distributor and getting yourself a little present. By doing this, you are also giving a present to music shops everywhere by showing your support retailers that cater to the record collector (guilty!), the indie snobs (guilty!) the vinyl junkies (2 out of three, oh well!). If you do transport yourself to your local record store, the effort will be rewarded by a shit ton of exclusive releases that you aren't going to find at FYE, Target or HMV. These aren't just a couple of indie bands that are releasing records--there are those too--the Bouncing Souls, Flogging Molly, Gogol Bordello, Beach House and the Magnetic Fields all have exclusive contributions to Record Store Day 2010. But there are plenty of major artists of all different ilks that are releasing vinyl today. The White Stripes, Neil Young, the Flaming Lips (a front to back cover of Dark Side of the Moon complete with an appearance by Henry Rollins), Dave Matthews, Soundgarden and Devo are just a few of the artists participating. So go get yourself some new music, support independent business and pump a few bucks into the economy.
Win Win Win.
Record Store Day
2 comments:
Trying to imagine what that Flaming Lips "Dark Side of the Moon" cover would sound like, and all I can picture is "awesome." Although technically Record Store Day was yesterday, I might take tonight's tips down to Jack's to pick that one up.
yeah, i think that it would probably be pretty cool too...don't know if it is only available on vinyl or not...i picked up a beastie boys record that has no writing on it other than their name--no record label, no date, nothing...so i have no idea what is on it...all i know is that there are only 1000 copies...my record player doesn't work, so i can't listen to it until we come home next...boo...let me know if you pick up the lips...i would be interested in knowing how it sounds
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