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liebzz


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Just got back from 5 hours of record shopping across NYC.  This year, I hit up J&R (the staple of my record buying experience), Kim's Music and Video (almost bought 2 Nirvana 7" bootlegs with tons of rare stuff, but put them down for a reason I can't quite explain), walked past Other Music and Generation Records (both of which had lines too long to bother waiting), Bleecker Records, Disc-O-Rama, and Academy Records (12th Street and Ave A Annex).  I also managed to bump into a music stand at a street fair on University Place by Union Square.

Pretty good experience.  I am drained.  But I managed a decent haul:

Jimi Hendrix - Valleys of Neptune 7" - "Valleys of Neptune" b/w "Cat Talking to Me"
Rolling Stones - Plundered My Soul 7"
Soundgarden - Hunted Down 7"
The Doors - People Are Strange 7"
Neil Young - Heart of Gold 7"
Bruce Springsteen - Wrecking Ball 10"
The Black Keys - Tighten Up 12"
Jimi Hendrix Experience - Live at Clark University
R.E.M. - Chronic Town EP

I should note that every store I went to there was a line to get in, and this was a much crazier year than last year, so I guess the whole thing is gaining much more momentum as the vinyl market soars.

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Listening to everything. So far the winner is the Springsteen single. I was at Giants Stadium for "Wrecking Ball" but that version of "The Ghost of Tom Joad" is beyond incredible. Go Tom Morrello.

All the singles and releases I got have been really awesome so far. Listening to the Live at Clark University release now. Awesome stuff as always from Mr. Hendrix.

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Ahhhh, if I'd seen this, I would've included it in the running shenanigans yesterday. That's a "fail" for me.

I'm calling that Soundgarden single the surprise winner of Record Store Day. Two songs I've already heard, but I didn't expect to see it, and I was taken aback by how excited I got when I listened to it. Very, very pleased.

My final tally, for what it's worth:

7 singles:
- Soundgarden - Hunted Down/Nothing To Say (orange vinyl)

10 singles:
- Them Crooked Vultures - Mind Eraser, No Chaser/Hwy 1 (picture disc)
- Queens of the Stone Age - Feel Good Hit of the Summer (picture disc)

12 singles:
- The Black Keys - Tighten Up/Howlin For You

LPs:
- The Flaming Lips/Star Death and the White Dwarfs - The Dark Side of the Moon (green seafoam vinyl)
- Roky Erickson with Okkervil River - True Love Cast Out All Evil
- Joe Strummer - Streetcore


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I didn't walk away with any LP's, but I was happy nonetheless

7" Singles
-Built to Spill "Water Sleepers"/"Linus & Lucy (Live)"
-Soundgarden "Hunted Down"/"Nothing to Say"

10" Singles
-Bruce Springsteen- "Wrecking Ball"/"The Ghost of Tom Joad"

12" Singles
-The Black Keys "Tighten Up"/"Howlin' for You"

EP
-The Jimi Hendrix Experience- "Live at Clark University"


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We all ended up with some interesting stuff for sure. The Hendrix EP is awesome too!

I have not heard the Soundgarden yet, mostly because I am gonna snag the mp3s instead of playing the nice colored record (no, that was not a racist statement).

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It only would've been racist if it were a Ben Harper record.

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Matt wrote:

It only would've been racist if it were a Ben Harper record.



 is he the one that looks like lennie- um, eh-never mind...



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No, no. It would have been racist if the Ben Harper album was gray. Get it straight.

In the meantime, if you want to take an airplane from Georgia to New York City, J&R still has most of the exclusives available in the store (including the REM EP and Lennon singles, but not Them Crooked Vultures or Bruce Springsteen). I picked up the Lennon singles and the Sharon Jones single this afternoon on my way to the $6 falafel deal downtown ($6 gets you something like 10 falafels, hummus, hot sauce, tahini, baba ganoush, salad, and pita).

So Record Store Day keeps giving, as does Ben Harper (but really, the live album is pretty epic if you haven't heard it, including a cover of "Red House" that is just insane).

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you know, reading some of these posts inspired me... not to break out my old turn-table (with a nirvana 7" still on the turn-table...) but to listen to Soundgarden...

i broke out two of their CDs and cranked them up on my way to work- a commute than come sometimes take 20 minutes and other times 50 minutes... i listened to one CD on the way down to work and then the other on the way back (i always forget the names of CDs but one was definately the one with 'black hole sun' on it...)

here is what i determined:

i don't like Soundgarden... i really don't. i probably never did and i probably only got 'into them' because i felt like i had to and was not quite confident enough in my musical taste to simply say "'meh, no thanks..." i remember barely listening to them 'back-in-the-day'- just enough to say i liked them and just enough to hum their songs in public in order to be accepted...

but driving the other day i finally ejected the disc and stopped the charade, feeling damn good in doing so... chris cornell can sing really well and hey, wow, matt cameron is in pearl jam! but other than  that, 'meh...

i fully admit the fact i am now 38 and not 24 likely plays a major role in this but i remember feeling this luke-warm response back then too...

i thank-you all for forcing me to revisit this issue and coming to this conclusion.

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dtrain wrote:

one was definately the one with 'black hole sun' on it...)



"The mere fact that you call Superunknown "the one with 'black hole sun' on it" tells me that you're not ready." -Michael Bluth



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