Record Store Day 2023

I am sure all the Colemine fans will be interested in this.

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Definitely would buy: Jason Isbell, Billy Joel, Black Keys, and Sigur Ros, Archie Shepp (both his album and the one with Max Roach)

Not "must own but probably would buy": Muddy Waters, Pearl Jam, Howlin Wolf, and maybe Rolling Stones (not sure about reissues of popular albums like that)
 
i literally just bought an og copy of the pearl jam give way cd a few months ago. it has been a white whale for a looong time.

i worked at best buy in the music/movies/software department at the time, and we got the give way cds in the store a couple weeks before the promotion, which was giving a free copy of the give way cd to anyone that bought a vhs copy of single video theory. i did a lot of the sorting in the back room and could listen to music back there. i knew i was going to be buying the video, so i opened a copy that i would just then take home on the release date. so give way was in the player pretty much every day i was in the back- this was a couple years before pearl jam started releasing live shows, and yield was only six months old or so at this point so this was the first release that had any of those songs played live. a day or two before the release, my supervisor comes up to me and tells me i need to give the cd back, that the entire stock was going to be collected and destroyed and if we were short any copies the store was going to get fined a LOT. so i did, and i never saw a copy again until i finally threw down a good chunk of money to acquire one a few months back.

apparently best buy didn't have permission from sony to do this promotion, which never made any sense to me at all- there's just no way best buy goes through all of this without one of the biggest band's and/or biggest label's knowledge and approval. plus the cd was professionally produced and is still the best sounding version of this show. i've always suspected that the decision for pearl jam to do live on two legs came after any agreement with best buy was made - single video theory was released in august 98 and pearl jam was smack in the middle of the yield tour and were recording these shows - and the band/sony decided there was more money to be made rather than giving away a free live show because someone bought a $15 video, and so best buy took the fall. because the give way cd had already been advertised and promised, best buy ended up having to give away any single cd of the customer's choosing if they bought single video theory.
 
Poe and Tori definitely have my attention in addition to the above.

Looking forward to spending more time with the list later. Some exciting stuff for sure.

Not the best tracklist for the Tori collection. I was hoping it'd more or less just be the "More Pink" bonus disc from the Australian tour edition of Under The Pink. Would have loved Daisy Dead Petals, Honey, Sister Janet and especially the cover of A Case Of You.

That said -- I'm so excited for this.
 
Beach House EP, Magnetic Fields "I", and Prefab Sprout for me - and then I'll need to do some listening homework on some of the live albums before I commit.
 
Gotta figure out what I'm going to do on this RSD given the presence of a Taylor Swift record. Might just cross my fingers and go a couple hours after stores open to avoid the chaos.
 
Lotta good stuff, no slam dunks for me but will definitely grab at least half of these:

Beach House Become EP
BSS You forgot it in people
PJ Give Way
Weiland 4 bar blues
Swift folklore sessions
Cranberries wake up and smell
Dismemberment plan change
SAC Incense and Pep
Verve Pipe Villains
 
At first glance… definitely Tori & Orville Peck (I’d been meaning to get Bronco for a while now), maybe Stephen Sanchez (I really like Until I Found You) & Todd Rundgren (haven’t heard that album yet)
 
I was all ready to get PM Dawn then realized the Bliss Album does not include Set Adrift On Memory Bliss.

My current list in order of want.

1. PJ
2. Orville Peck
3. The Temptations
4. Wilco
5. Macho Man
6. The Black Keys
 
French list

 
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