While all the yahoos over at the mall are opening at 5 a.m. to sell Snuggies and bad sweaters, The Record Exchange will be celebrating Black Friday like badasses, extending the insanity to a full weekend — staying open until 10 p.m. on Nov. 26 and 27 — and offering you killer deals all over the store plus a sleigh-filling assortment of vinyl and CD exclusives.
Call it Record Store Day 2.0. Black Friday exclusive releases include titles from Metallica, U2, Bob Dylan and many more artists we don’t need to list in this paragraph because they’re listed below. Keep scrolling past that and you’ll find the first round of Metal Club releases we’ll have on Tuesday, Nov. 23 and Black Friday.
Before you peruse the lists, take note of these other Black Friday specials The Record Exchange will be offering all weekend long:
• $7.99 CDs (through Sunday, Nov. 28) from The Black Keys, Mumford & Sons, Weezer, Michael Franti and Spearhead, Jack Jackson, Lady Gaga, Rolling Stones, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Anberlin, Ryan Bingham, Guster and Jimmy Eat World.
• $99.99 turntables — choose any deck regularly priced $109.99-$159.99 (through Sunday, Nov. 28).
• 20% off Skull Candy headphones (through Sunday, Nov. 28).
And now, we give you the list of Black Friday exclusives:
Metallica Live at Grimey’s CD and double 10-inch LP
U2 Wide Awake in Europe 12-inch (3 live tracks, including 1 previously unreleased)
Bob Dylan red vinyl 7-inch (“The Times They Are A-Changin'”/”Like a Rolling Stone” 2010 mono version)
Bruce Springsteen 7-inch (“Save My Love”/”Because the Night” from Darkness at the Edge of Town reissue)
Jimi Hendrix Merry Christmas/Happy New Year green vinyl 10-inch (“Little Drummer Boy”/”Silent Night”/”Auld Lang Syne”)
The Doors The Doors mono vinyl LP (first time mono version is available outside of box set since the 1960s)
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers 7-inch (“Nowhere”/”Surrender” previously unreleased tracks)
George Harrison All Things Must Pass numbered vinyl reissue
Soundgarden 7-inch (“The Telephantasm”/”Gun” live, previously unreleased tracks)
The Black Keys Brothers vinyl LP with bonus 10-inch (6 unreleased tracks)
Iron and Wine Walking Far From Home CD single and 12-inch (2 tracks from forthcoming 2011 album, 1 exclusive track)
Cee-Lo Green F**k You CD single and 7-inch (vocal version/instrumental version)
Black Crowes 10-inch picture disc (“Say Goodnight to the Bad Guys”/”Remedy” acoustic)
Drive-By Truckers 10-inch (“The Thanksgiving Filter”/”Used to Be a Cop” from forthcoming 2011 album Go Go Boots)
Cage the Elephant 7-inch (“Shake Me Down”/”Aberdeen” from forthcoming 2011 album)
Roky Erickson and The Black Angels Night of the Vampire DVD (live video of Erickson performing 13th Floor Elevators songs backed by The Black Angels)
MGMT 7-inch with 20-page storybook (“Congratulations”/”Congratulations” remix)
Deodato Prelude CTI 40th Anniversary 180-gram vinyl LP
George Benson White Rabbit CTI 40th Anniversary 180-gram vinyl LP
Freddie Hubbard Red Clay CTI 40th Anniversary 180-gram vinyl LP
Stanley Turrentine Sugar CTI 40th Anniversary 180-gram vinyl LP
The Ting Tings orange/white colored vinyl 7-inch (“Hands”/”Hands” remix)
Dr. Dog double 7-inch
Grinderman Heathen Child 12-inch
Gaslight Anthem 7-inch (Rolling Stones cover “Tumbling Dice”/”She Loves You”)
Clem Snide Your Favorite Music baby blue colored vinyl LP
Matisyahu Two limited-edition 7-inch
Badly Drawn Boy It’s What I’m Thinking vinyl LP
Killing Joke Absolute Dissent 2CD Deluxe Edition
Parlophone Record Store Day 7-inch box set featuring Blur (first new track in eight years, recorded exclusively for RSD!), Hot Chip, Kylie Minogue, Eliza Doolittle and Tinie Tempah
Frank Sinatra A Jolly Christmas vinyl LP reissue
KT Tunstall Have Yourself a Very KT Christmas CD
Sick Puppies 7-inch (“That Time of Year Again”/”Odd One” acoustic)
METAL CLUB (AVAILABLE NOV. 23 OR BLACK FRIDAY)
Slayer red vinyl 7-inch (“World Painted Blood”/”Atrocity Vendor” explicit version)
Queens of the Stone Age Queens of the Stone Age double vinyl LP
Pantera Cowboys From Hell Demos vinyl LP
Mastodon Crack the Skye CD/DVD tunnel book
The Sword hexagonal vinyl picture disc (“The Night Sky Cried Tears of Fire”/”Farstar”)
Anthrax Live at the Sonisphere 10-inch picture disc
Job for a Cowboy Ruination 10-inch colored vinyl box set (3LP)
The Damned Things (members of Anthrax, Fall Out Boy, As I Lay Dying) CD single and color vinyl 7-inch (“We’ve Got a Situation Here”/”Ironiclast”)
Monster Magnet Mastermind CD/USB stick
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