Buckle up record collectors, music lovers, and hipsters! Record Store Black Friday is upon us! While the list is long, these albums will almost only be available at your local record store, and the process of getting these records varies from store to store, this is a great way to get some rare vinyl to add to your collections. Check out our top picks for this years’ event, and see the entire list below
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Top Picks:
Iwrestledabearonce – It’s All Happening
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Event: Black Friday 2023
Release Date: 11/24/2023
Format: LP
Label: Brutal Planet Records
Quantity: 500
Release Type: ‘RSD First’ Release
One of the most important albums of the last 20 years and best debut metal albums of all-time. A must pick up for fans.
The Bottle Rockets – Bottle Rockets (30th Anniversary)
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Event: Black Friday 2023
Release Date: 11/24/2023
Format: LP
Label: Real Gone Music
Quantity: 1850
Release Type: ‘RSD First’ Release
An essential Americana/Country-inspired rock release and a forerunner of many of their peers that would follow.
Carter Burwell – Blood Simple (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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Event: Black Friday 2023
Release Date: 11/24/2023
Format: LP
Label: Varèse Sarabande
Quantity: 1500
Release Type: ‘RSD First’ Release
The classic 1980s score to the Cohen Brothers neo-noir flick. Burwell would go on to score fifteen more movies by the directing broes in his career. We’ve heard this one early, and it sounds terrific!
Coheed And Cambria – Live At The Starland Ballroom
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Event: Black Friday 2023
Release Date: 11/24/2023
Format: 2 X LP
Label: Legacy Recordings
Quantity: 4900
Release Type: RSD Exclusive Release
With a fan base that snaps up pricey boxed sets and rare product like crazy online, this release of 4,900 limited pieces may not be enough for the best Coheed live album to date.
Collective Soul – Live At The Print Shop
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Event: Black Friday 2023
Release Date: 11/24/2023
Format: LP
Label: Fuzze-Flex Records
Release Type: ‘RSD First’ Release
One of the many special releases hinted at by Will Turpin in our recent interview with him, this is a short but great set of hits and a few deep cuts aimed at die-hards.
The Doors – Live In Bakersfield
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Event: BLACK FRIDAY 2023
Release Date: 11/24/2023
Format: 2 x LP
Label: Rhino/Elektra
Quantity: 7500
Release type: RSD Exclusive Release
If you are a Doors fanatic, this may not impress since there are so many bootlegs out there onj Discogs and eBay. However, Rhino/Elektra takes great care with every legacy reissue and exclusive release, so we suspect this is going to sound great!
The Flaming Lips – Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots – Live At The Paradise Lounge, Boston Oct. 27, 2002
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Event: Black Friday 2023
Release Date: 11/24/2023
Format: LP
Label: Warner Records
Quantity: 4500
Release Type: RSD Exclusive Release
We will forgive the misnaming of one of the most famous venues in Boston music history (it’s The Paradise Rock Club, you jabronis) for this amazing concert. Definitely an important live document of one of the bands’ most crucial works. A must buy vinyl.
Cypress Hill – Black Sunday Remixes
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Event: Black Friday 2023
Release Date: 11/24/2023
Format: 12″ Vinyl
Label: Legacy Recordings
Quantity: 3100
Release Type: RSD Exclusive Release
Cypress Hill remains as vital today as when their breakthrough album Black Sunday came out 30 years ago. Essential for completists and weed enthusiasts alike.
Gary Hoey – Hark! The Ho Ho Hoey Hits!
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Event: Black Friday 2023
Release Date: 11/24/2023
Format: LP
Label: Surfdog
Quantity: 1000
Release Type: ‘RSD First’ Release
A compilation on vinyl for the first time of shred master Gary’s holiday hijinks!
Napalm Death – From Enslavement To Obliteration
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Event: Black Friday 2023
Release Date: 11/24/2023
Format: LP
Label: Earache Records
Quantity: 900
Release Type: RSD Limited Run / Regional Focus Release
Earache Records has been killing it with their own vinyl reissue series. This is as limited as their routine series so this will be an absolute sell-out. Also, the second album from the band and the last with Lee Dorian and Bill Steer.
Nas – I Am… Autobiography
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Event: Black Friday 2023
Release Date: 11/24/2023
Format: 2 X LP
Label: Legacy Recordings
Quantity: 4100
Release Type: RSD Exclusive Release
Another Hip-Hop classic that makes the mythical mix-tape/demo/rarirties release of the most the most anticipated must-buys in the genre this year.
SS Decontrol – The Kids Will Have Their Say
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Event: Black Friday 2023
Release Date: 11/17/2023
Format: 12″ Vinyl
Label: Trust Records
Quantity: N/A
Release Type: Out now
OK, we fess up. This is a cheat since this album is out already, but one of the most important documents of East Coast Hardcore ever has come around to be re-pressed on vinyl for the first time since 1982. Also, the band will come together to play a release show at Newbury Comics on Record Store Day Black Friday! No karate in the pit, kids!
Billy Strings – “California Sober” Featuring Willie Nelson
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Event: Black Friday 2023
Release Date: 11/24/2023
Format: 12″ Vinyl
Label: Reprise Records
Quantity: 5000
Release Type: RSD Exclusive Release
Normally, an 12 inch vinyl single or double single-only is a auto-pass for us. However, Billy Strings being a rising star across several genres of guitar nerds/fans and the grand poo-bah of Outlaw Country Willie Nelson, makes this worthy.
U2 – Under A Blood Red Sky
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Event: Black Friday 2023
Release Date: 11/24/2023
Format: LP
Label: Island
Quantity: 7000
Release Type: ‘RSD First’ Release
While we are not the biggest U2 fans in the world, their 2023 dominance at the Sphere in Las Vegas, and the importance of this important early nineteen eighties live album, means this album is buy for most fans. For the causal fan, this is an education of when they were briefly a legit “greatest in the world type” of band.
Various Artists – Judgment Night Soundtrack
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Event: Black Friday 2023
Release Date: 11/24/2023
Format: LP
Label: Legacy Recordings
Quantity: 3150
Release Type: RSD Exclusive Release
Neither limited or rare with many pressings to be has online, the movie soundtrack that fully capitalized on Nu Metal’s rise and 2023 return with Helmet/House of Pain, Faith No More/Boo Yah Tribe, Biohazard/Onyx, Sonic Youth/Cypress Hill, Living Colour/Run DMC, and Slayer and Ice-T among other bangers providing the highlights. This is indeed, a key 1990s release worth having on the neat Red vinyl variant.
Various Artists – Punk Goes Christmas
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Event: Black Friday 2023
Release Date: 11/24/2023
Format: 2 X LP
Label: Craft Recordings
Quantity: 2600
Release Type: ‘RSD First’ Release
Another album we have been lucky enough to preview with an advance LP, if you bought tickets to When We Were Young, miss Vans Warped Tour, or think NOFX is calling it quits too soon, and you love love love Christmas; this is essential. Big time tracks from Yellowcard, All Time Low, and Set It Off, and many others on this one.
Wendy O. Williams – Maggots: The Record
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Event: Black Friday 2023
Release Date: 11/24/2023
Format: LP
Label: Bfd
Quantity: 1500
Release type: RSD Exclusive Release
Not the Punk princesses masterwork, but this Thrahs Opera was an attention grabber when it came out. There is also not an over-abundance of her material on vinyl that sounds great these days, so this is for Wendy-O-philes!
Rob Zombie – Lunar Injection Kool Aid Eclipse Conspiracy
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Event: BLACK FRIDAY 2023
Release Date: 11/24/2023
Format: LP
Label: Nuclear Blast
Quantity: 2200
Release type: RSD Exclusive Release
Rob Zombie’s solo career seems to be riding a wave of late. While his solo albums have been uneven since the early ones, this is one of the better ones, and Nuclear Blast does a great job on vinyl pressings, even if a picture disc is overkill.
X-COPS – You Have The Right To Remain Silent
DETAILS
Event: BLACK FRIDAY 2023
Release Date: 11/24/2023
Format: LP
Label: Brutal Planet Records
Quantity: 500
Release type: ‘RSD First’ Release
Another first time on vinyl and serious contender for best RSD Punk Rock release. What if Reno 911 or Archer were punk bands? Or better yet, what if GWAR made a punk rock side-project with their legendary sardonic humor and chops? This actual GWAR side-project features Dave Brockie (RIP) on a track as well.