What I will do is to maybe keep an eye out for whatever ends up in the discount bins or the cheaper second-hand trade-ins that come back.

But for curiosity's sake, let's look at what I would pick up if I had a few hundred dollars and sharper elbows.




This has the obvious David Lynch themes and a few less obvious ones (City of Lost Children, Comfort of Strangers), and comes in "translucent red" vinyl.




A small obscurity from the 90s, this band, side project from session drummer Matt Chamberlain (Fiona Apple, Tori Amos) is a lot more experimental and funky.  First time on vinyl, in "tangerine".  Features the classic "Bill Gates" which I dropped on many a mixtape.




Twin sets from Byrds and Buffalo Springfield.  Neil Young had famously left in a huff, leaving David Crosby to fill in for both groups.  Fortunately, he only spends the Byrds set railing about the Kennedy assassination.  Hugh Masakela also sits in for "So You Want to Be a Rock and Roll Star".  In the future, how about a full vinyl Monterey box set?




Since it's hard to find a good condition original (and I don't believe it was ever re-pressed), why not grab a spanking new one on purple vinyl?




A single LP selection of performances from the Band of Gypsies Fillmore shows, I'll have to assemble the tracks to see how it sounds as a sequence, since I already have all of these.  It could be a nice novelty on blue or "violet swirl" vinyl.




I'm an unabashed fan of early Al Jarreau, and already have his studio work from the time (they remain quite cheap and easy to find).  Given his jazz roots, this live set has a lot of promise, even if he chose to waste time and talent on something like "Fire & Rain".




I have a digital copy of this from when it came out, Scarlett Johansson does a very respectable and sultry service to songs by Tom Waits, focusing on his many ballads, including favorites like the title track and "Who Are You?".  David Bowie even shows up.




Not sure if this has ever made an appearance on vinyl or not, but is being released, like the above Scarlett record, by Asbestos Records.  I'd like to have all of the early King Missile on vinyl, including Mystical Shit and Way To Salvation, but this is a good one, their breakout in fact, with "Martin Scorsese", "Detachable Penis" and the lovely title track.  The group tends to get shoved into the "spoken word" bag because of John S. Hall's delivery, but it's remarkable how musically interesting the band always was.




This is one of the rare "underground" rap albums that got released on vinyl back in 1999 when the format was far less popular outside of DJ circles.  I wouldn't mind at all finally getting a copy.




I like these kinds of proto-albums, works-in-progress.  This all comes from an upcoming box set, but this might make a nice alternate LP.




First time on vinyl, and I'd grab it for a good price, but slim on classics.




Craft Recordings reissue of the mono.




They're saying this hasn't been issued on vinyl since the original run, but I dunno.  Maybe I'm confusing it with last year's release of Scott-Heron's Winter in America, but I don't think so.  Anyway, now on 2 LPs with bonus tracks and white and gold vinyl.




Two volumes of these looney looney looney classics have been issued on CD, but never before on vinyl.  Of course, I'd like a 2LP edition.




I've heard people complain that there's always some new Sun Ra show released for every Record Store Day.  What's the goddamn problem?




Sun O))) is a special band, some call it "ambient metal", and I guess that starts to get at it.  Droney, dark and ultimately psychedelic.  I don't know if this would be my first choice for theirs to get on vinyl  - maybe their collaboration with Boris, Altar - but I would not shun.




1974 is the sweet spot for a Tangerine Dream live show, still very kosmisch but not too into the soundtrack weeds yet.  On blue and yellow vinyl, I might want to sample before picking up.




This is just curious.  The vinyl release is the double LP Nefertiti, The Beautiful One Has Come, but it is being presented here under the original truncated cover and title.  The performance is great either way, but a strange decision.




Anything from jazz labels like Black Lion and Strata-East are sought after, but ths appears to be a brand new tape of a 1973 performance rather than a reissue.  I expect some solid jazz nonetheless.




Another 90s curiosity is the mighty Elephant 6 collective of bands - Neutral Milk Hotel, Olivia Tremor Control, Apples in Stereo, etc -  and this is the soundtrack to a documentary that I'll also have to track down, not so much an introduction or "greatest" whatever but with little marginal items and spreading the love to other bandmates like The Gerbils and Elf Power.  Most intriguingly, the description lists the OTC material as from their "forthcoming third and final record" but founding member Bill Doss died in 2012.  Not sure what that means.



An interesting collection of early Curtis Mayfield productions for ex-Impression Jerry Butler and some other Chicago soul artists from the early 60s, also from Craft Recordings.




Am I too good for an alternate take version of Yes' Fragile?  No.  I am not.
 

Hm-mm.




I haven't yet heard the new David Gilmour album, from which this 12" draws from, but I just wanted to point out that Romany, David's daughter, is a very lovely young woman.




I also haven't seen The Other Hell, but I'll buy any Gobln sight unseen, and on "clear fuschia".




But seiously, this is one I'll almost have to buy, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci's Barafundle.  I'm not sure if any Gorky's has ever been released on vinyl, at least not in the US.






The first of these is more compelling, a 10" egg-shaped vinyl that comes in five different colored vinyl.  The second one has session outtakes from what apparently was a Guaraldi/Peanuts box set, which might make more sense to pick up, but this comes in sky blue vinyl as well.




I'm usually not impressed with picture discs, and this would be quite an indulgence, but who wouldn't want a "zoetrope" edition of All Things Must Pass?




Hell yeah.  It's remarkably hard to find a number of Hooker LPs from the late '60s, and Hooker's discography is a notorious mess anyway.  This 3 LP set, recorded in Paris, was issued as a rare disc, I Feel Good, which has since been re-released under a number of different names on a variety of semi-bootleg labels, but the entire sessions have never been completely available.  Also has Lowell Fulson on lead guitar.




I guess someone at the Blue Morocco, a Bronx club, has also been sitting on tapes, because, along with the above Kenny Dorham, this is another 1967 set, featuring Hubbard with among others the mighty Bennie Maupin.




Kind of a fun goof, apparently Brendon Small (Metalocalypse) got together with Anthrax axeman Scott Ian to record a soundtrack fro a new edition of the classic pinball game, Black Knight.  Personally, I'd rather play the game, but I don't know how much pinball machines go for these days.




I already have these, James' early original recordings, but not on vinyl, and what promises to be in "dramatically improved new fidelity".




Well what do you know?  Jesus Lizard is still working.  This is an EP of extra tracks from last year's album.  I should probably try to get that one instead.
 

Apparently Panda Bear has a new record out, which I should pick up instead of this special single taken from that.




Doc Pomus is a legendary early rock'n'roll songwriter (This Magic Moment, Save the Last Dance For Me), but damn if I don't think I've ever heard him sing before.  That makes this intriguing, even if his classics aren't here, which is mostly music from Elvis' "movie years".




A shelved unreleased alternate recording of the first PiL album.




Queen's 1971 demos for their first album.  I assume these were all released on last year's box set of that album, but who knows?  Worth a listen at least.




A collection of live tracks from the spring of '93 when they were still in young monster form.




I guess if you absolutely need to have Metal Machine Music on vinyl, this version on "metallic silver" vinyl is probably cheaper than tracking down an original at this point.




The Residents are always fun, but it's hard enough to keep up with their regular stuff, much less on vinyl, than to worry about this third collection of "left-overs".  I can't imagine the insanity it must take to be a Residents completist.




I still have a mono original I liberated from my dad which is just beat to hell and back.  I must say it's tempting to consider a brand new 180-gram pressing on clear vinyl.




My god, man.  Pharoah Sanders' only release on Strata-East, while he was still on Impulse, Izipho Zam is another impossible to find in the wild record which simply has to justify some quality file-sharing skills.  (Just checked, and an original goes for a median $250 on Discogs.)  Killer fucking band, with Sonny Sharrock, Lonnie Liston SMith, Cecil McBee, Sonny Fortune, Billy Hart and yodel-master Leon Thomas.  All of it, reportedly, remasted straight from the original analogue tapes.  At only 1500 copies, my elbows couldn't be less sharp.  Walk away, buddy.  It's easier for us both.  Just walk away.




This year's Gil Scott-Heron reissue is from his slightly lesser-appreciated early '80s period (aka his freebase/crack years), but this one is pretty good as he incorporates electronics and reggae.




The Actuel label was as respected then as it is now rare.  This Archie Shepp set has never been reissued since its first Actuel release  Now it's on orange and brown vinyl.




Another forgotten '90s band.  This is their best-known album, and has a few truly amazing cuts.  Singer Craig Wedron (who's gone on into movie soundtrack work, especially for ex-members of The State) has a voice which some consider to be an acquired taste, but I think it's more his pasturing that puts people off. 




Slint's Spiderland is now commonly considered a post-rock classic, but their earlier Tweez is still pretty obscure.  This RSD release is pretty superfluous though, being a standalone of the remix which was featured in the double-LP 35th anniversary reissue last year, which obviously is the more desired product to pick up.




Well well well, wonders never cease.  This very early unearthed Sly and the Family Stone concert is over a year earlier than their previously earliest known concert recording from Paris '68.  This is a delightful discovery, although it seems packed with cover versions (but led by original "I Ain't Got Nobody").  Hopefully this will get the ball rolling for any and all other vaulted live Sly recordings, such as that Paris '68 show, or maybe even the full set at Summer of Soul, or how about Isle of Wight '70?  Seriously, why are these executives still waiting around for Sly to die?






Of course every Record Store Day has to have some new issues from the ever-sporous back-catalogue of Sun Ra.  The top one has some "unissued electronic peregrinations", which sounds like fun, but the bottom one is pretty epic, a 6-LP box set of the complete two-night concert Nuits de la Fondation Maeght, originally released in two volumes on a French label, Shandar.  This will be the first time that both shows in their entirety will be available.




Sun O))) is a tremendous "drone metal" band, and this is a 2006 EP recorded as accompaniment for an art exhibit.  It would be nice to have on vinyl, but they should have sweetened the deal by also issuing the CD bonus track, the 45-minute "Helio)))sophist".



 

Don't know how I never noticed that Carl Stalling from last year RSD. But because no one has any taste, my record store still had a copy left over which I was able to scoop up.