Ode to the Record Store

Today was the first annual Record Store Day. No - I'm not talking about Best Buy, Wal-Mart or Amazon.com but real independent record stores. They are an endangered species though good ones can be worth their weight in gold for music lovers. Alas, most have gone the way of the Dodo bird. Kind of like the old Hot Dog Records from Jonesboro which has actually fared much worse than the fabled dodo.

Folsom, CA has one record store left - Dimple Records. I try to get in there at least monthly and was able to sneak away today to celebrate Record Store day. I snapped up a good variety of discs so it was a successful trip. The odds of being able to make a similar trip in a few years don't look all that promising though.

Here's what I snapped up today:

The Deluxe Version of The Rolling Stones Live Disc - which is the soundtrack for Shine a Light, a Scorsese film on the Stones...
The Eels Useless Trinkets which includes B-sides, soundtrack tunes and other unreleased stuff. 50 tracks worth of off-beat eels.



Then I also snapped up E=MC^2 - the new Mariah Carey disc, Elton John's classic Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, a Yes classic 90125 and a weird unathorised disc by Depeche Mode - Songs of Faith and Devotion: Strange Versions.

Happy Record Store Day!