RECORD STORE DAY
Record Store Day is an annual event inaugurated in 2007 and held on one Saturday every April to “celebrate the culture of the independently owned record store”. The day brings together fans, artists, and thousands of independent record stores across the world. A number of records are pressed specifically for Record Store Day, with a unique list of releases for each country, and are only distributed to shops participating in the event. The event began in the United States and remains headquartered there. Record Store Day has official international organizers in the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Australia, and Spain. (More from Wikipedia)
Since then, I have gotten an acclaimed album, Hollis Brown Gets Loaded that is a cover of every song (but played in reverse order) on the Velvet Underground album, Loaded, including classics like “Sweet Jane”, “Rock & Roll”, and “Head Held High”. The album was released in honor of Record Store Day 2014. A fourth album came out this year called 3 Shots.
(May 2015)
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I have purchased recent vinyl pressings of the other two Stooges albums, but not Raw Power; and my copy of that record has not yet surfaced among the hundreds of albums that I have cleaned up from Hurricane Katrina. There was, however, a limited vinyl edition of Raw Power that came out on Record Store Day 2012 that featured one disc with the original release of Raw Power using David Bowie’s 1973 mix, and another with Iggy Pop’s 1996 remix of Raw Power, along with a 16-page commemorative booklet. I’m keeping my eyes open.
(September 2017)
