![]() On your marks… get set… door-bust.įleetwood Mac, “The Alternate Collection” Here’s a selection of titles we’ve picked out from the ’22 crop, with notes on the number of copies available, what color the vinyl is (actual black being very outre for Black Friday), and whether the releases are being classified as true RSD exclusives (i.e., not destined to be repressed for general release in this form) or “RSD First” (meaning likely to get a wider release, if probably not in the same color variant). (That’s not to say that the rainbow-foil-embossed new cover of Eilish’s “Happier Than Ever” wouldn’t add a nice shine to anyone’s shelf.) We also have mostly left you to fend for yourself in lookin the many straightforward repressings of individual albums, whether they be straight reissues of classic titles by Mingus, Monk, the Monkees and some Motown classics or recent albums by Billie Eilish, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and the Weeknd that differ from the standard editions only in cover art or packaging. We haven’t included here, for instance, any of the usual titles from RSD mainstays David Bowie and the Grateful Dead. (A search form for participating stores and locations can be found here.)Īs always, Variety has perused the list and reviewed some advance copies and come up with a shortlist of desirable titles, which by no means exhausts all the good stuff. Still, even without marquee stars, there is something for just about every taste on the full list, which you can find in handy, printable PDF form here or in more expansive, clickable web format here. ![]() In fact, the lineup of about 170 exclusive vinyl releases is nearly free of current pop superstars, which will no doubt be fine with some of the usual semiannual RSD customers who have armloads of relative obscurities they want to pick up and don’t care for single-minded newbies blocking their path. The lines may not be half as long as they were for the main edition of RSD back in April, not just because it’s colder, but because… no Taylor Swift. ![]() There may or may not be tent cities popping up outside your nearest independent record shop, but rest (or don’t rest) assured that lines have formed nearly everywhere new records and cassettes and, God forbid, CDs are sold, queuing for the Black Friday adjunct of Record Store Day. Unless, that is, you are a fan of music on vinyl, in which case: no sleep till Brooklyn. Over the past few years, “doorbusters” have become a thing of the past on Black Friday, as America has shifted back toward staggered online shopping and marked the day after Thanksgiving as a day to sleep in, again.
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