Friday, August 28, 2020

Record Store Day : Our List


Come celebrate the first of 3 "mini" Record Store Days today with the exclusive releases listed below. Thank you for supporting record stores and vinyl collecting!

The rules:
1. Please note: most of these titles are available in extremely limited quantities (we have only 1 or 2 copies of many) and are available on a first come/first served basis. No holds, sorry.
2. Our regular Covid-19 safety measures will be in place: masks must be worn, hands sterilized, and we will be letting only a limited number of customers into the shop at one time. Please be patient and respect social-distancing rules.
3. Doors open at 10 a.m.

These are the exclusive RSD titles that arrived today:

Al Green, Green is Blues
America, Heritage II
Billie Eilish, Live at Third Man
Bobby Parker, Soul of the Blues (ltd 500 copies) 
Bob Marley & the Wailers, Rebel’s Hop (2 x colour vinyl UK/Italy)
Brian Eno / Toto, Dune: Original Soundtrack Recording (spice-coloured vinyl)
Brittany Howard, Live at Sound Emporium (maroon vinyl)
Charlie Parker, Jazz at Midnight  (blue vinyl)
Cure, Bloodflowers picture disc
Cure, Seventeen Seconds picture disc
David Bowie, ChangesNow
David Bowie, I’m Only Dancing
Denzel Curry, Bulls on Parade  (ltd 1800)
Dio, Annica picture disc
Dissection, The  Somberlain (blue etched vinyl/Ltd 666)
Elton John, Elton John (2 x colour vinyl)
Emerson Lake and Palmer, Live at Waterloo Concert Field 1992 (flame vinyl)
Exploited, Live at the Whitehouse (500/green vinyl UK)
Galaxie 500, Barbue Copenhagen 1990
Glass Animals / Denzel Curry, Tokyo Drifting picture disc
Gorillaz, D-Sides
Gorillaz,  G-Sides
Hawkwind, At the BBC 1972
Hawkwind, Quark Strangeness and Charm (2 x clear vinyl)
Ike Yard, Night After Night
Jethro Tull, Stormwatch2
John Prine, The Atlantic Albums Box
Judas Priest, British Steel (picture disc)
KD Lang, Drag
Kinks, The Kink Kronikles
Kuumba-Toudie Heath, Kawaida
Linton Kwesi-Johnson, Bass Culture/LKJ in Dub (2 x colour vinyl)
Mac Demarco, Other Here Comes the Cowboy Demos (ltd purple vinyl)
Madonna, I Rise (remixes)
Manic Street Preachers, Done & Dusted   12-inch
MJ Cole, Madrugada Remixes (UK clear vinyl)
Motorhead, Ace of Spades picture disc
New Order, John Peel Sessions 1982
Paul McCartney, McCartney
Pink Floyd, Arnold Layne 7-inch
Pogues, The BBC Sessions 84-95
Pretenders, Live at the Paradise Theatre 1980 (colour vinyl)
Robyn, s/t (orange vinyl)
Ron Sexsmith, Hermitage (ltd ed 250)
Roxy Music, s/t (clear vinyl)
Second Layer, World of Rubber (500/grey vinyl UK)
Slint, Breadcrumb Trail ep (with glow-in-dark slipmat)
Spoon, All the Weird Kids Up Front (ltd 1800 copies)
Teenage Head, Drive In (ltd 500 copies)
The Freeze, Land of the Lost (700/orange vinyl UK)
The Weeknd, My Dear Melancholy EP (etched vinyl)
Trews, No Time for Later
Tyler the Creator, Cherry Bomb (red vinyl)
Tyler the Creator, Cherry Bomb Instrumentals (pink vinyl)
U2, 11 O'clock Tick Tock (blue vinyl)
Ultravox, Sleepwalk ep (clear vinyl)
Various, Pin-Up Girls (colour vinyl)
Various, Sunrise on the Blues 
Wild Tchoupitoulas, s/t
You Say Party, XXXX (ltd 200/clear vinyl)



PLUS!

Other New Arrivals:

AC/DC, Highway to Hell (180g) 
AC/DC, Back in Black (180g) 
Amy Winehouse, Back to Black 
Arcade Fire, Funeral 
Arkells, Rally Cry 
Beach Boys, Pet Sounds (mono) 
Big Star, Number One Record (180g) 
Black Keys, Rubber Factory 
Blonde Redhead, Misery is a Butterfly 
Buffy Sainte-Marie, Illuminations (50th anniversary yellow vinyl)  
Built to Spill, Plays the Songs of Daniel Johnston 
Can, Soon Over Babaluma 
Crass, Penis Envy 
Cure, Pornography 
Dr. John, Gris Gris 
Earl Sweatshirt, Feet of Clay 
Foo Fighters, Greatest Hits 
Frank Zappa, Hot Rats (180g) 
Gang of Four, Entertainment 
Green Day, American Idiot
Green Day, Greatest Hits 
Grizzly Bear, Shields 
Hozier, s/t 
Janis Joplin, Greatest Hits 
Jimi Hendrix, Band of Gypsies (red/black vinyl) 
Jonathan Richman, I Jonathan 
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Orange 
King Crimson, In the Court of the  Crimson King (200g) 
Lauryn Hill, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill 
Lawrence Arms, Skeleton Coast  
Led Zeppelin, IV (180g) 
Lemon Twigs, Songs for the General Public (ltd red vinyl) 
Leon Bridges, Coming Home 
Lizzo, Cuz  I Love You 
Mac Miller, Circles 
Meat Loaf, Bat Out of Hell (180g) 
MF Doom, Operation Doomsday (2 x silver-grey vinyl) 
Miles Davis, Kind of Blue (180g) 
Mission of Burma, VS 
Muse, Origin of Symmetry 
My Chemical Romance, Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge
Neil Young, Harvest 
Neil Young, Homegrown
New Fries, The Idea of Us 
Offspring, Ignition 
Paul Simon, Graceland 
Pavement, Slanted and Enchanted 
Pavement, Wowee Zowee 
Phoebe Bridgers, Punisher 
Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon (180g) 
Pink Floyd, Piper at the Gates of Dawn (180g) 
Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here (180g) 
Pixies, Surfer Rosa 
Queen, A Night at the Opera 
Radiohead, In Rainbows 
Radiohead, Kid A 
Rage Against the Machine, s/t 
Rage Against the Machine, The Battle for Los Angeles 
Ramones, s/t (180g) 
Sade, The Best of 
Simon & Garfunkel, Greatest Hits 
Slayer, Reign in Blood 
Snail Mail, Lush 
Sneaks, Happy Birthday
Stevie Nicks, The Wild Heart 
Stevie Ray Vaughan, Texas Flood 
Strokes, The New Normal 
Talking Heads, Remain in Light (180g) 
Tom Waits, Closing Time 
Toots and the Maytals, Got to Be Tough 
Tragically Hip, Fully Completely
Tyler the Creator, Igor 
Van Halen, s/t (180g) 
Various, Guardians  of the Galaxy ost 
War on Drugs, Lost in the  Dream 
Waxahatchee, Saint Cloud 
Weezer, Blue 
Wu-Tang Clan, Enter the Wu-Tang (yellow) 

Since 2008, Record Store Day has grown into the world’s largest single-day music event, shining a light on the culture of the indie record store across the globe. In 2020, that world is different, so Record Store Day will be too. RSD is now scheduled to be celebrated with special, properly distanced release dates on Saturdays in August, September and October.

Record Store Day will look very different this year, but supporting indie record stores may be more important than ever. We don't know what sort of rules will be in place, or what sort of gatherings people will be in the mood for this year, so we're focusing on the music and getting the really great titles on the RSD Official List this year into the stores and into your hands, in the most financially and socially responsible way.

RECORD TOTE BAGS AT ROYAL CAT



RECORD STORE DAY CANADA teams up with MUSICOUNTS!

WE ARE SELLING THESE BAGS FOR $5 ON SATURDAY!

Last year, Record Store Day Canada partnered with MusiCounts for the exclusive EP release of Kevin Hearn and Friends Present: The Superhero Suite. All proceeds helped MusiCounts put instruments into schools and communities across Canada. Thanks to YOU, we were able to raise $6.5K.

THIS YEAR, RECORD STORE DAY CANADA and MusiCounts are teaming up for the third year on Saturday August 29, 2020, and we want YOU to join us. Plus NAD Electronics will be providing you with tote bags in support of music education. All proceeds will support MusiCounts, Canada’s music education charity!

About MusiCounts:
Every year, more schools are in need of MusiCounts’ help. Last year, MusiCounts could only support 1 in 7 schools that were in urgent need of new instruments and resources. With increased government spending to help Canada weather the COVID-19 crisis, education budgets will likely be tightened, with music education being severely impacted. Music education in Canada is facing unprecedented risk and challenges but with your help, we’ll be able to support new opportunities and innovation.
Music has the power to bring people and communities together to share experiences, hardships and stories. Our schools and our next generation can’t afford to lose out on music education.
JOIN US in helping MusiCounts give kids something to be excited about when they return to school, no matter what that looks like.

Saturday, August 22, 2020

The Latest Delicious Vinyl!


It's a vinyl avalanche! Check out these new arrivals!

NEW:

Angel Olsen, Whole New Mess (clear/smoke vinyl) 
Beastie Boys, Paul’s Boutique
Beatles, Let It Be (180g) 
Beatles, Revolver (180g) 
Beatles, Sgt Peppers (180g) 
Big Star, Radio City 
Blink-182, Enema of the State 
Bob Marley, Exodus (180g) 
Bon Iver, For Emma 
CCR, Chronicle 
Cramps, Bad Music for Bad People 
David Bowie, Ziggy Stardust (180g) 
Drake, Views 
Fela Kuti, Fela’s London Scene 
Flying Lotus, You’re  Dead 
Grateful Dead, Workingman’s Dead (180g) 
Greta Van Fleet, Anthem of the Peaceful Army 
Guns n Roses, Appetite for Destruction 
Herbie Hancock, Headhunters (180g) 
Idles, Brutalism 
Jeff Rosenstock, No Dream (sea-foam vinyl) 
Joy Division, Unknown Pleasures (180g) 
Kacey Musgraves, Golden Hour
Lana Del Rey, Born to Die 
Link Wray, The Rumbling Guitar Sound of 
Megadeth, Rust in Peace (180g) 
Nina Simone, The Best of (colour vinyl) 
Nirvana, Nevermind 
Nirvana, Unplugged
Norah Jones, Come Away With Me 
Primus, Sailing the Seas of Cheese 
Red Hot Chili Peppers, Greatest Hits 
Toots and the Maytals, Funky Kingston (blue vinyl) 

USED:



Alan Parsons Project, Eve
Alan Parsons Project, Pyramid
Beach Boys, Holland
Billy Idol, Charmed Life
Billy Idol, Vital Idol
Bob Seger, The  Distance
Boston, s/t (76 CAN picture disc)
Charlie Daniels Band, Full Moon
Charlie Daniels Band, Million Mile Reflections
Chilliwack, Dreams Dreams Dreams
Cyndi Lauper, She’s So Unusual
Doors, Strange Days
Duran Duran, Seven and the Ragged Tiger
ELO, Discovery (½-speed master)
ELO, Out of the Blue (77 U.S. with spaceship + inserts)
Elton John, Greatest Hits
Focus, 3 (72 US)
Focus, Con Proby (78 CAN)
Foghat, Energized
Frank Zappa, Zoot Allures
Gary Numan, The Pleasure Principle
Genesis, Duke
Genesis, Selling England by the Pound
Gen X, Kiss Me Deadly (81 CAN)
Janis Joplin, Greatest Hits
Johnny Cash, Today (Hits)
Kate Bush, Hounds of Love
Lonnie Donegan, A Golden Age of Donegan
Madonna, True Blue
Max Webster, A Million Vacations
Max Webster, Mutiny Up My Sleeve
Michael Jackson, Thriller
Miles Davis, Bitches Brew (70 US)
Morrissey, Everyday is Like Sunday ep
Morrissey, Viva Hate (88 CAN)
Peter Frampton, Frampton Comes Alive
Phil Ochs,  Greatest Hits
Procol Harum, The Best of
Radiohead, In Rainbows
REM, Fables of the Reconstruction (85 CAN)
Sparks, Indiscreet
Split Enz, The Best of
Styx, Pieces of Eight (gold vinyl)
Supertramp, Breakfast in America
Supertramp, Crime of the Century
Supertramp, Paris
Todd Rundgren, Hermit of Mink Hollow (78 CAN)
Todd Rundgren, Utopia (74 CAN)
Trillion, s/t
Wall of Voodoo, Seven Days in Sammystown
Willie Nelson, His Very  Best
XTC, Beeswax: Some B-Sides 77-82
ZZ Top, Afterburner

Saturday, August 15, 2020

Let's Hear What's New


What's that you hear? Yes, we have new vinyl arrivals!

NEW:

2Pac, All Eyez On Me 
Alvvays, Antisocialites 
Amyl and the Sniffers, s/t
Amy Winehouse, Frank
Arkells, High Noon
BareNaked Ladies, Gordon 
Beastie Boys, Ill Communication (2LP/180g/gatefold)
Bjork, Post 
Black Keys, Let’s Rock 
Black Sabbath, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath 
Bob Dylan, My Rough and Rowdy Ways
Bon Iver, Bon Iver 
Cage the Elephant, Melophobia 
Cage the Elephant, Social Cues
Capt. Beefheart, Lick My Decals Off
CCR, Green River 
Charles Mingus, The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady 
Crosby Stills & Nash, s/t (ltd. burgundy vinyl)  
Daft Punk, Discovery 
Daughters, You Won’t Get What You Want (colour vinyl)
David Bowie, Ziggy Stardust (180g)
Death From Above 1979, The Physical World 
Denzel Curry, Unlocked
Doors, Strange Days (mono) 
Doors, Waiting for the Sun (180g) 
Drake, Take Care 
Earl Sweatshirt, Feet of Clay 
Erykah Badu, Mama’s Gun 
Etta James, At Last
FKA Twigs, Magdalene 
Fleet Foxes, Helplessness Blues
Fleetwood Mac, Mirage (violet vinyl) 
Fleetwood Mac, Rumours 
Fleetwood Mac, Tango in the Night (180g) 
Fleetwood Mac, Then Play On (extended version)
Fontaines DC, Dogrel
Funkadelic, Free Your Mind 
Funkadelic, Maggot Brain
Green Day, American Idiot
Harry Styles, Fine Line 
Highwomen, s/t 
Jack White, Lazaretto 
James Brown, Get on the God Foot 
James Brown, Jungle Groove 
Jeremy Dutcher, Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa
Jimi Hendrix, Are You Experienced (180g) 
Joy Division, Closer (ltd clear vinyl)
Joy  Division, Unknown Pleasures
Kanye West / Kid Cudi, Kids See Ghost
King Gizzard, Float Along Fill Your Lungs (yellow vinyL
Larry Young, Into Something (Bluenote80) 
Led Zeppelin, II (180g) 
Led Zeppelin, IV (180g) 
Leon Bridges, Coming Home
Lorde, Pure Heroine 
MC5, Kick Out the Jams (red-white-&-blue splatter vinyl)  
Neil Young, Harvest 
Neil Young, Harvest Moon 
Nick Cave, Skeleton Tre
Nina Simone, The Colpix Singles
No Doubt, Tragic Kingdom 
Parquet Courts, Human Performance 
Phoebe Bridgers, Stranger in the Alps 
Pink Floyd, Animals (180g)
Ramones, Rocket to Russia (180g)
Red Hot Chili Peppers, Mother’s Milk 
Replacements, Let it Be 
Rolling Stones, Sticky Fingers 
Royal Thunder, Wick 
Rush, All the World’s A Stage (200g DMM) 
Slits, Cut 
Sly Stone, Greatest Hits
Steely Dan, Aja (180g) 
Stereolab, Emperor Tomato Ketchup (expanded edition) 
Stevie Wonder, Innervisions (180g) 
Sufjan Stevens, Illinoise 
Supertramp, Crime of the Century (180g)
Tame Impala, Slow Rush 
Taylor Swift, Red 
Television, Marquee Moon (180g) 
The Roots, How I Got Over 
The Roots, Undun 
Tom Waits, SwordfishTrombones 
Tragically Hip, Man Machine Poem 
Tragically Hip, Up to Here 
Traveling Wilburys, Volume One (180g) 
US Girls, Heavy Light 
Velvet Underground, Loaded 
Violent Femmes, s/t (180g) 
Warren Zevon, Excitable Boy (glow-in-the-dark vinyl) 
White Stripes, De Stijl
White Stripes, Get Behind Me Satan 
White Stripes, Under Great White Northern Lights 
Zombies, Odessey & Oracle
ZZ Top, Eliminator 

USED:

Accept, Breaker (81 CAN) 
Accept, Midnight Highway (83 CAN) 
Accept, s/t 
Allman Brothers, The Best of 
Anvil, Hard n Heavy (81 CAN)
Anvil, Metal on Metal (82 CAN)
Armored Saint, Delirious Nomad (85 CAN) 
Armored Saint, March of the Saint (84 CAN) 
Armored Saint, Raising Fear (87 CAN) 
Beatles, Blue Album 
Beatles,  Hey Jude
Beatles, Red Album 
Beatles, Revolver 
Bloomfield Cooper and Stills, Super Session 
Bruce Springsteen, Greetings from Asbury Park NJ 
BTO, Best of (so far) 
CCR, More Creedence Gold 
Chicago, The Ultimate Collection 
Crosby Stills Nash & Young, 4 Way Street 
Dokken, Back for the Attack (87 CAN) 
Dokken, Under Lock and Key (85 CAN) 
Fleetwood Mac, Future Games (71 US) 
Fleetwood Mac, Heroes are Hard to Find (74 CAN) 
Flying Lizards, s/t 
FM, Black Noise 
Helloween, Keeper of the Seven Keys Pt I (87 CAN) 
Helloween, Keeper of the Seven Keys Pt II (88 CAN) 
Herbie Hancock, Sunlight 
Jethro Tull, Living in the Past 
Joe Farrell, Outback (CTI) 
Kinks, Greatest Hits 
Led Zeppelin, The Song Remains the Same (76 CAN)
Lee Aaron, The Lee Aaron Project 
Mad Max, Rolling Thunder (84 CAN)
Madness, Absolutely 
Metallica, Garage Days Revisited EP (87 Can) 
Miles Davis, Tutu 
Motorhead, No Sleep Til Hammersmith (81 CAN) 
Pink  Floyd, Ummagumma (70 US)
Prince, Around the World in a Day 
Quiet Riot, Metal Health (83 CAN) 
Raven, all for One (84 CAN Banzai) 
Raven, Stay Hard (85 CAN) 
Raven, Wiped Out (82 UK) 
Run-DMC, My Adidas/Peter Piper 12-inch (86 CAN) 
Rush, All the World’s a Stage 
Rush, Exit Stage Left 
Santana, Greatest Hits 
Savatage, Fight for the Rock (86 CAN) 
Savatage, Power of the Night (85 CAN)
Saxon, Crusader (84 UK) 
Saxon, Denim  and Leather (81 CAN) 
Saxon, Power and the Glory (83 CAN) 
Saxon, The Eagle Has Landed (82 France) 
Scorpions, World Wide Live
Sturgill  Simpson, Metamodern Sounds in Country Music 
Talking Heads, Speaking in Tongues 
Talking Heads, True Stories 
Tank, Filth Hounds of  Hades (82 CAN) 
UDO, Animal House (87 CAN) 
Van Halen, 5150 
Various, Kings of Rap (85 CAN) 
Yngwie J. Malmsteen, Trilogy (86 CAN) 
Yngwie J. Malmsteen’s Rising Force, Marching Out (85 CAN) 
Yngwie J. Malmsteen’s Rising Force, Odyssey (88 CAN)