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Record Store Day is almost upon us, and I'm curious as to what albums you guys will be purchasing.  I came across this beauty the other day and might try and pick it up:


Record Store Day is a-comin’, and with it, the expected plethora of special releases that you will either find incredibly cool or incredibly gimmicky, depending on your point of view. So props to Earache for coming up with such a release that actually manages to stand out from the pack: The World’s Shortest Album, a limited edition 5″ that has thirteen songs on it, but is all of eighty-three seconds long.

You shouldn’t even need to ask how that’s possible, but in case you’re either new here or just very dense, the answer is, “grindcore,” a genre for which an eighty-three second run time is basically a double album.

Here’s the track listing, via No Clean Singing:

Side A:
01. Napalm Death – “You Suffer” (1.9s)
02. Napalm Death – “Dead” (2.7s)
03. Napalm Death – “Your Achievement” (4.2s)
04. Wormrot – “False Grind Sodomy” (2.5s)
05. Wormrot – “You Suffer But Why Is It My Problem” (4.0s)
06. Brutal Truth – “Collateral Damage” (4.0s)
07. Anal Cunt – “Howard Wulkan’s Bald” (4.0s)

Side B:
01. Lawnmower Deth – “Be Scene Not Heard” (4.7s)
02. Painkiller – “Trailmarker” (6.0s)
03. Brutal Truth – “Blockhead” (7.3s)
04. Morbid Angel – “Bil Ur-Sag #2 Lava” (6.9s)
05. Anal Cunt – “Windchimes Are Gay” (9.5s)
06. Insect Warfare – “Street Sweeper” (13.5s)

Wow, sounds great...

Too long 

We are fortunate to have two record stores in the same part of town so we will be dividing and conquering.  The list is quite long and it just fuels our addiction.

I'll be picking these up:

 

South Park

White Stripes

Puscifer

Good luck getting the Puscifer vinyl.  Only 500 available and you have to be at Coachella to get it.

badkittygothgirl said
Good luck getting the Puscifer vinyl.  Only 500 available and you have to be at Coachella to get it.


Weird, I thought that list was for Waterloo Records here in Austin.

 

badkittygothgirl said
We are fortunate to have two record stores in the same part of town so we will be dividing and conquering.  The list is quite long and it just fuels our addiction.


Any idea if Sweet Melissa Records on the square is participating? I'm actually moving to Kennesaw tomorrow, and it'd be awesome to only drive a few minutes on Record Store Day.

 

EDIT: Turns out amazing things happen when you use Google. Found the answer to my own question. See you guys out there!

Your best bet is Criminal Records and Wax N Facts.  They did not get a big selection last year and what they got was the larger run items.  The stores order but have no idea what they are going to get until they get.  Sometimes, they will get only one copy of an item.

 

Edit: Sweet Melissa's did not get a big selection.