I am going to fuck these records from the SY side.

Hmmm, I found one kind of close to me. I'll be there first thing in the morning to pick one up!

Yr inbox is full. Fancy a trip to Manchester?

Man, Rob is going to be PISSED.

UM I HAVE FACEBOOK TOO, CHRIS

but yeah, maybe, a day trip would actually be exciting

From Rough Trade:



A worldwide celebration of the humble record shop. Will include a host of live bands and dj's playing at record shops all over the UK.

EXCLUSIVE 7' SINGLES

Pay No Mind 7"
A1: Sonic Youth: "Pay No Mind" (Beck cover)
B1: Beck: "Green Light" (Sonic Youth cover)

Hang Them All 7"
A1: Jay Reatard: "Hang Them All"
B1: Sonic Youth: "No Garage"

Tom Waits 7"
Live from the Glitter & Doom Tour 2008
Side A: Lucinda / Ain't Goin' Down To The Well - 5:40 - Recorded live in Atlanta, GA
Side B: Bottom Of The World - 6:38 - Recorded live in Edinburgh, Scotland

PLUS MORE TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON.

Exclusive records will be available from 8am saturday 18th on a first come first served basis, ltd to 1 copy per person. ltd editions of 500 for the whole of the UK.

Wow. I wonder if that Bottom of the World was recorded on the night I saw Waits in Edinburgh (he played two nights, so could be the other one).

yeey, mine has it to (JJ Records, Belgium). I'm gonna ask tomorrow if there's any way to pre-order it.

been to plato in utrecht, netherlands, and the owner told me that although his store is on the site, these releases are going to be US-only. He told his distribitors are trying to get them, but he couldn't guarantee succes...

apart from utrecht, other store are added to the list aswell:

NetherlandsConcerto Amsterdam VISIT WEBSITE
Plato UTRECHT VISIT WEBSITE
Plato Apeldoorn Apeldoorn VISIT WEBSITE
Plato Deventer Deventer VISIT WEBSITE
Plato Enschede Enschede VISIT WEBSITE
Plato Groningen Groningen VISIT WEBSITE
Plato Leiden Leiden VISIT WEBSITE
Plato Zwolle Zwolle VISIT WEBSITE

as we speak, the records are shipped to the store near you.

Thanks, will try Leiden or Amsterdam. See you in a month!

Rough Trade posted these images which may/may not be the 45 covers?!#$

^these are the covers alright.

I am so excited for this! Hopefully I can hit FBC on Saturday, and uh, hopefully they've got a copy left.

waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaant to an insane degree.

More Rough Trade:

There are two exclusives for this year’s Record Store Day that are ridiculously limited. They are the Sonic Youth/Beck split 7 and the Sonic Youth/Jay Reatard split 7 and we only have a handful of each so to be fair to everyone we’ll be running a raffle.

From 10am we’ll be giving out raffle tickets (one per person), We’ll draw the raffle at 4pm and if your number is called you’ll be able to buy one of these future collectors items.



Cunts!

lol you win a chance to buy something? lame....

Is that the definative 'The Sonic Youth' I'm reading?

Lame.

I was looking forward to saturday too, but I won't even be able to buy the fucking things now.

Yeah. Very dumb idea.

The result of this draw is going to be that people who wouldn't have thought if wanting the 7" if it was sold as normal will put their names into the draw, and the basic laws of chance say that the people who actually want it (e.g. you, me and Toxic Johnny) won't get it, while people who couldn't give a shit will.

I predict that by the end of April, there will be at least ten copies on ebay selling for £30 each. As far as I'm concerned the sellers of those will be more than welcome to shove their shiny 7" discs up their grimy 1/2" orifices.