What Did You Buy on Record Store Day 2013?

Music Trader (A.K.A. Indie-Rock Central)
Purchases: Titus' Andronicus' Local Business (new, $17.99), The Motors' Greatest Hits (used, $8.99)
Store quality: Hipsterific!
Buyers' Remorse: Low on the Titus, a highlight of 2012 but medium on The Motors which is an imperfect distillation of an imperfect band.
Clerks irritated: One (out of two).





The Folk Festival Music Store (A.K.A. Your source for classic rock, folk music and zithers)
Purchases: Undertones Positive Touch/The Sin of Pride ($18.99) The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem ($21.99).
Store quality: Folktastic,
Buyers' remorse: Very low for Positive Touch, which I love more every year but higher for Sin of Pride which is a pretty tepid affair and non-existent for The Clancy Brothers since it includes their first four, and probably best albums on two CDs.
Clerks irritated: one (of one)





Entertainment Exchange (A.K.A. Where the 90s go to die)
Purchases: The Methadones - Ill at Ease [$3.99]
Store quality: Entertaining with a high quantity of the Blues.
Buyers' Remorse: Low, I mean it's my least favorite album by Dan Vapid (ex-Screeching Weasel) and The Methadones but for less than four bucks – steal!
Clerks irritated: Less than one but there really wasn't sufficient time...





White Star Diner
Food Purchased: Pulled Pork Sandwich with Bacon, Tomato and Cheese.
Store Quality: Clean, well-lit and tasty.
Buyers' remorse: Two steps closer to death...
Clerks irritated: Too hungry to tell...

(P.S. Yeah I also bought the new double-CD re-issues of the first two albums by The Boys last week from the Folk Store and neglected to mention that!)

Needless to say the albums kick-ass and are in a far better format than the old both-albums-on-one CD I used to have.





So readers, tell us what you bought on (or near) Record Store Day in the COMMENTS section!

Dan Vapid and The Cheats: S/T (2012)

Following Screeching Weasel's very public self-destruction at SXSW last year, we now get to answer the question of who put out the best post-break-up work. Well, if Screeching Weasel II's Carnival of Schadenfreude EP and Dan Vapid's self-titled LP with The Cheats are anything to go by, Vapid's just kicked Weasel's ass.

Weasel's rushed-sounding EP reeks of self-pity and petulance (see the title track or "Under the Bus" for damning evidence). On the other hand, Vapid, who's also been in Sludgeworth, The Riverdales, The Methadones and Noise By Numbers,  has picked himself up from a devastating loss and begun yet another new band, Dan Vapid and The Cheats. Vapid's new band draw on '77 punk, power pop, new wave and sixties girl group ('natch) to delirious effect. Killer tunes like "Baby Baby Get Over Yourself" and "Heartbeat" survey the wreckage of the past with steely-eyed optimism and a near-complete absence of bitterness.




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