This Friday, November 29th, is Black Friday, and there's nothing more pleasing than the rich grooves of black vinyl that you can score at record stores this week Record Store Day Black Friday!
Just like the annual Record Store Day event in April, this Friday, you can score some exclusive, limited-edition releases at your local mom-and-pop record stores. It's a great opportunity to kick off your holiday shopping, AND help independent business move sales into "the black," as they say. KEXP spotlights some of our highlights below, but check out the complete list in this 2014 Shopping Guide PDF.
• First Aid Kit - America 10" • Fishbone - Truth and Soul 12" (2900 cherry red and 100 random green copies)• The Flaming Lips - Imagene Peise--Atlas Eets Christmas 12" • Game Theory - Pointed Accounts of People You Know 10" EP • Game Theory - Distortion 10" EP • Hüsker Dü - Warehouse: Songs and Stories 12" LP• Jenny Lewis - Pax-Am Sessions 7"
• J. Mascis - Fade Into You/Outside 7"• Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Fire/Morning Light (duet with Patti Smith) 7"• Mother Love Bone - Hold Your Head Up 7"• New Order - 1981-1982 12"• Peter Murphy - Mr. Moonlight Tour 35 Years of Bauhaus 10"• Conor Oberst - Standing on the Outside Looking In/Sugar Street 7"
• Outkast - Player's Ball 10"• Ra Ra Riot - Two Hearts Beat As One 7"• Joey Ramone - Christmas Spirit... In My House 10"• The Ramones - Morrissey Curates The Ramones 12"• Run DMC - Christmas In Hollis 7"
• St. Vincent - Pieta 10"• They Might Be Giants - Flood 12"• Johnny Thunders - Looking For Johnny 12"• Johnny Thunders - Real Times EP 1978 10"• The Velvet Underground - Live MXMXCIII 12"• Wham! - Last Christmas 12"• Jonathan Wilson - Slide By 5-song EP, including a track recorded here at KEXP!• Wu Tang Clan - C.R.E.A.M. 10"
It's the most wonderful time of the year: Record Store Day! Now in its eighth year, this annual event to acknowledge your local independent record shop has become a colossal celebration, now organized in partnership with the Alliance of Independent Media Stores (AIMS) and the Coalition of Independe…