BUY STUFF, GET FREE STUFF: LIMITED-EDITION DECEMBERISTS LITHOGRAPH, SOCIAL DISTORTION STICKER/BUTTON SET, RADICAL WEEZER STICKER SET!

At The Record Exchange, you give a little, you get a little, and we have tons of free stuff to give away when you slap your dirty money down on the barrelhead.

NEW FREEBIES THIS WEEK:

• Limited-edition color lithograph with purchase of The DecemberistsThe King is Dead (only $9.99 first week of release).
• Extremely limited sticker/button set with purchase of Social Distortion‘s Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes.
• Career-retrospective sticker set (all album covers and other images) with purchase of any Weezer album!

OTHER RECENT FREEBIES:

• Limited-edition color lithograph with purchase of Cage the Elephant‘s Thank You Happy Birthday.
• Hand-numbered, extremely limited-edition color lithograph with purchase of Tapes ‘n TapesOutside.
• CD single featuring a collaboration with The Cure’s Robert Smith with purchase of Crystal CastlesCrystal Castles.
• Fall 2010 Anti- Records sampler CD with purchase of select Anti- titles (on sale for $9.99 each).
Nobunny/Jacuzzi Boys Scion A/V 7-inch absolutely free — just come in and ask for one. No strings attached!
Band of Horses “Dilly” movie poster with purchase of Infinite Arms.
• CTI 40th Anniversary sampler CD with purchase of one of four 180-gram vinyl CTI Black Friday reissues (Deodato Prelude, George Benson White Rabbit, Freddie Hubbard Red Clay, Stanley Turrentine Sugar).
• Psychiatric ward ID bracelet with purchase of Disturbed‘s Asylum.
• Black and white 8×10 lithograph with purchase of Bruce Springsteen‘s The Promise — indie store exclusive!
• Large, two-sided color poster with purchase of Underoath‘s O (Disambiguation).
• 7-inch with purchase of Matt and Kim‘s Sidewalks.
• Remix EP with purchase of N.E.R.D.‘s Nothing.
• Color lithograph with purchase of Good Charlotte‘s Cardiology.
• Button pack with purchase of Four Year Strong‘s Enemy of the World.
• T-shirt with purchase of Rise Against‘s Another Station: Another Mile DVD.
• 7-inch (two non-album tracks) with purchase of Belle and Sebastian‘s Write About Love.
• Turntable mat or lithograph with purchase of Slayer‘s The Vinyl Conflict box set or any Slayer catalog title!
• T-shirt with purchase of David Bowie‘s Station to Station Deluxe Edition.
• Postcard set with purchase of Soundgarden‘s Telephantasm.
• 7-inch with purchase of Jimmy Eat World‘s Invented.
• Poster and button pack with purchase of The PosiesBlood/Candy.
• 7-inch with purchase of Salem‘s King Night.
• Plastic beer cup and paper koozie with purchase of Billy Currington‘s Enjoy Yourself.
• Puffy sticker set and red balloon with purchase of Maximum Balloon‘s self-titled debut.
• 7-inch (two live tracks) with purchase of Matt Costa‘s Mobile Chateau.
• 7-inch with purchase of Les Savy Fav‘s Root for Ruin.
• Yep Roc/Bella Union CD sampler with purchase of Jukebox the Ghost‘s Everything Under the Sun or The Acorn’s No Ghost.
• Lithograph with purchase of Serj Tankian‘s Imperfect Harmonies.
• Numbered, appropriately psychedelic lithograph with purchase of The Black AngelsPhosphene Dream.
• Jean jacket-ready button with purchase of Of Montreal‘s False Priest.
• Extremely limited cloth wall banner with purchase of Justin Townes Earle‘s Harlem River Blues.
• Two-track 7-inch with purchase of The Walkmen‘s Lisbon.
• Lanyard redeemable for a free mix CD with purchase of Cloud Cult‘s Light Chasers.
• Lithograph with purchase of The Drums‘ self-titled album.
• Autographed poster or CD booklet with purchase of The Gracious Few‘s self-titled album.
• Rare single — one side vinyl, one side CD/DVD (no kidding) — of “Impossible,” featuring an unreleased track and video, with purchase of Anberlin‘s Dark Is the Way. Light Is a Place.
• 45 adapter with purchase of limited-edition 45-rpm vinyl version of Interpol‘s new self-titled album.
• 4-song 12-inch vinyl EP (including Four Tet and Born Ruffians remixes) with purchase of The Acorn‘s No Ghost.
• Button pack with purchase of Jenny & Johnny‘s I’m Having Fun Now.
Arts & Crafts sampler CD with purchase of any Arts & Crafts title.
• Calendar with purchase of Hey Monday‘s Beneath It All.
• Hand fan with purchase of Katy Perry‘s Teenage Dream (extremely limited).
• Lithograph with purchase of Disturbed‘s Asylum.
• Free split 7-inch featuring Cheap Time and Bad Sports, courtesy of Vice Records and Scion AV — no purchase necessary, just come in and ask for it!
• 7-inch with purchase of Ray LaMontagne and the Pariah DogsGod Willin’ and the Creek Don’t Rise.
• Lithograph with purchase of Brian Wilson‘s Reimagines Gershwin.
• Limited-edition 7-inch (with non-album tracks) with purchase of The Budos BandsIII.
• Out-of-print Casual Nostalgia Fest Sub Pop 20th anniversary live compilation with purchase of any August Sub Pop Sale title.
• Sassy large-sized lithograph with purchase of Queens of the Stone Age‘s Rated R Deluxe Edition.
• Sticker with purchase of Los LobosTin Can Trust.
Range mixtape (hosted by DJ Drama) with purchase of any hip-hop title.
• Lithograph with purchase of Sky Sailing‘s (Owl City) An Airplane Carried Me to Bed.
• Mixtape with purchase of Capone-N-Noreaga‘s The War Report 2.
• Magnet with purchase of Wolf Parade‘s Expo 86.
• Full-sized movie poster with purchase of Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse‘s Dark Night of the Soul.
• Free pink vinyl 7-inch featuring two versions of “XXXO” (the album cut plus a Blaqstarr remix) with purchase of M.I.A.‘s Maya (only $9.99!)
• Hand-numbered lithograph with purchase of Paul Thorn‘s Pimps and Preachers.
• Autographed CD booklet with purchase of Jackie Greene‘s Till the Light Comes.
• 7-inches with purchase of Sleigh BellsTreats or Tokyo Police Club‘s Champ.
• Autographed lithograph with purchase of Local NativesGorilla Manor — seriously limited quantities!
• Lithograph with purchase of Derek Trucks Band‘s Roadsongs.
• Indie-exclusive numbered lithograph with purchase of Ozzy Osbourne‘s Scream.
• Sticker with purchase of The Chemical BrothersFurther.
• Lithograph with purchase of Nas and Damian Jr. Gong Marley‘s Distant Relatives.
• Indie-exclusive lithograph with purchase of the Iron Man 2 soundtrack.
• Postcard set with purchase of The Gaslight Anthem‘s American Slang.
• Poster with purchase of The Cure’s Disintegration Deluxe Edition.
• Limited-edition concert poster with purchase of Grace Potter and the Nocturnals‘ new self-titled album.
• Etched blue vinyl 7-inch with purchase of Jack Johnson‘s To the Sea.
• White vinyl 7-inch with purchase of The FutureheadsThe Chaos.
• Lithograph with purchase of Marina and the DiamondsThe Family Jewels.
• 3D lenticular poster (5×5 for CD buyers, 12×12 for vinyl buyers) with purchase of Widespread Panic‘s Dirty Side Down.
• Limited-edition lithograph with purchase of LCD Soundsystem‘s This is Happening.
• Button set or laminate card with purchase of The Dead Weather‘s Sea of Cowards.
• Two-sided color poster with purchase of Everest‘s On Approach.
Record Exchange exclusive autographed Josh Ritter CD booklet with purchase of So Runs the World Away.
Togetherness 7-inch, featuring three covers of songs by the Detroit band Outrageous Cherry, with purchase of The New PornographersTogether.
• Limited-edition autographed poster with purchase of Minus the Bear‘s Omni.
• Limited-edition autograph poster with purchase of Plants and AnimalsLa La Land.
La Blogotheque: A Take Away Show Barcelona, Spain limited-edition DVD with purchase of Josh Rouse‘s El Turista.
• Whoopee cushion — that’s right, a whoopee cushion — with purchase of comedian Brian Posehn‘s Fart and Wiener Jokes. Whoopee!
• 12-inch, six-track EP with purchase of The Apples in Stereo‘s Travellers in Space and Time.
• 7-inch with purchase of Freelance WhalesWeathervanes.
• Numbered lithograph with the purchase of MGMT‘s Congratulations.
• Numbered lithograph with purchase of Coheed and Cambria‘s Year of the Black Rainbow.
• Lithograph with purchase of Rogue Wave‘s Permalight.
• Lithograph with purchase of LiarsSisterworld.
MVD Visual DVD sampler with purchase of any new music DVD or Blu-ray disc.
• Poster with purchase of John Butler Trio‘s April Uprising.
• 7-inch with purchase of Sharon Jones and the Dap-KingsI Learned the Hard Way.
Gorillaz postcard set with purchase of Plastic Beach.
• Lithograph with purchase of FlobotsSurvival Story.
• Lithograph of original Jimi Hendrix artwork with purchase of Valleys of Neptune.
• Lithograph and sticker with purchase of Johnny Cash‘s American VI.
• Mixtape CD (choose from two) with purchase of RDJ2‘s The Colossus.
• 7-inch with purchase of Hot Chip‘s new album One Life Stand.
• Digital download card for a free bonus EP (“Mistake” remixes) with purchase of Moby‘s Wait For Me.
• Many more — just ask an RX clerk!

THE RECORD EXCHANGE BARGAIN BIN: KILLER BUDGET CD/DVD SAVINGS AND POST-CHRISTMAS DEALS UP TO 50% OFF!

January in the retail world means deals, deals, and deals, and The Record Exchange is no exception — except we’re an exception because our clearance items aren’t a bunch of plastic crap you don’t want.

Here’s a sampling of some of our current clearance sales:

• All $2.99 used CDs are 3 for $5 or 6 for $10

• Select red tag used DVDs are 2 for $5

• Select Christmas CDs are buy 2, get a third for $1

• 30% off body jewelry

• 50% off 2011 calendars

• 50% off Christmas wrapping paper, gift bags, bows and boxed cards

GIVE THE GIFT OF MUSIC AT THE RX: HUNDREDS OF TITLES $9.99 OR LESS THROUGH JAN. 31; GREAT V-DAY GIFTS!

Yes, Christmas is over. But it’s not too late to Give the Gift of Music at The Record Exchange — if you act fast, in fact, you could get your Valentine’s Day shopping done early and save mad bank.

Now through Jan. 31, The Record Exchange has hundreds of new CDs, including dozens of 2010 best sellers, sale-priced at $9.99 or less. See, 10 bucks still does go a long way.

Here’s a partial list of Record Exchange Give the Gift of Music titles:

Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
Avi Buffalo – Avi Buffalo
Bobby Bare Jr. – A Storm, A Tree, My Mother’s Head
Barenaked Ladies – Barenaked for the Holidays
Beach House – Teen Dream
Best Coast – Crazy For You
The Black Angels – Phosphene Dream
The Black Keys – Brothers
Black Mountain – Wilderness Heart
Blitzen Trapper – Destroyer of the Void
Blonde Redhead – Penny Sparkle
Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago
The Books – The Way Out
Bright Eyes and Neva Dinova – One Jug of Wine, Two Vessels
Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan – Swim
Caribou – Swim
Charlatans UK – Who We Touch
!!! (Chk Chk Chk) – Strange Weather, Isn’t It?
Colour Revolt – Cradle
The Dead Weather – Sea of Cowards
Deerhunter – Halcyon Digest
Devo – Something for Everybody
Dum Dum Girls – I Will Be
Dungen – Skit I Allt
Everest – On Approach
Flying Lotus
– Cosmogramma
Grizzly Bear
– Veckatimest
Merle Haggard – I Am What I Am
Hey Marseilles – To Travels and Trunks
Ingram Hill – Look Your Best
Sarah Jaffe
– Suburban Nature
Jenny and Johnny
– I’m Having Fun Now
Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
– Greatest Hits
Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings
– I Learned the Hard Way
Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings
– Naturally
Jonsi
– Go
Les Savy Fav
– Root for Ruin
The Living Sisters
– Love to Live
Local Natives
– Gorilla Manor
Maps & Atlas
– Perch Patchwork
Janelle Monae
– The ArchAndroid
The National
– High Violet
Of Montreal
– False Priest
Phoenix
– Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Phosphorescent
– Here’s To Taking It Easy
Grace Potter and the Nocturnals
– Grace Potter and the Nocturnals
Josh Ritter
– So Runs the World Away
She & Him
– Volume 2
Spoon
– Transference
Superchunk
– Majesty Shredding
The Sword
– Warp Riders
The Tallest Man on Earth
– The Wild Hunt
Trampled By Turtles
– Palomino
Underworld
– Barking
Vampire Weekend
– Contra
Various Artists
– Daptone Gold
Versus
– On the Ones and Threes
Paul Weller
– Wake Up the Nation
Wolf Parade
– Expo 86
The xx
– XX

CAKE AND OTHER RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE RECORD EXCHANGE!

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Only Cake’s John McCrea could coax a song with the fuddy-duddy title “Federal Funding” into such witty existence. The opening track to their sixth studio album starts with some crud-covered guitar and the deadpan lyric, “You’ll receive the federal funding; you can add another wing.” It’s a cocky strut made for those thankless academics lobbying for grant money. University proles, congrats! Cake has elevated your career to the same status as the swaggering pimp in gangsta rap.

Its first album since 2004, Showroom of Compassion finds the Northern Californian outfit in toned condition, turning out polished compositions that could fit in with its classic catalog (strong with hits like “Short Skirt Long Jacket”) but updated with a few new twists. Also, the same notion of edginess that blessed and cursed other ‘90s bands like Soul Coughing (ahem: the semi-spoken vocals thing) has been nicely mellowed out. As ever before, Cake romps with whatever genre — pickled ska, roughshod country, even a rare snippet of Chopin-like classical piano — in its indie folk mash.

Recorded in the band’s own solar-powered studio in Sacramento over a period of some two years, each song on Showroom of Compassion sounds nurtured into its ideal state. The positive-minded “What’s Now Is Now,” with its chirping birds, strings and synth burbles, has almost a utopian, ‘70s AM rock glisten to it. Could a song developed off the city’s energy grid, literally soaked in sunshine, sound any other way?— Los Angeles Times

OTHER NEW CD RECOMMENDATIONS:

Tapes ‘N Tapes Outside
British Sea Power Valhalla Dancehall
Lynyrd Skynyrd Skynyrd Nation
Abigail Washburn City of Refuge
N.E.R.D. The Best of N.E.R.D.
Louis C.K. Hilarious
Alter Bridge Live from Amsterdam
Lee Dorsey Absolutely the Best
Shackleton Fabric 55
Zyklon Storm Manifesto

NEW DVD/BLU-RAY: SOCIAL NETWORK NOW AVAILABLE ON DVD AT THE RX!

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They all laughed at college nerd Mark Zuckerberg, whose idea for a social-networking site made him a billionaire. And they all laughed at the idea of a Facebook movie — except writer Aaron Sorkin and director David Fincher, merely two of the more extravagantly talented filmmakers around.

Sorkin and Fincher’s breathless picture, The Social Network, is a fast and witty creation myth about how Facebook grew from Zuckerberg’s insecure geek-at-Harvard days into a phenomenon with 500 million users. Sorkin frames the movie around two lawsuits aimed at the lofty but brilliant Zuckerberg (deftly played by Adventureland‘s Jesse Eisenberg): a claim that he stole the idea from Ivy League classmates, and a suit by his original, now slighted, business partner (Andrew Garfield).

The movie follows a familiar rise-and-fall pattern, with temptation in the form of a sunny California Beelzebub (an expert Justin Timberlake as former Napster founder Sean Parker) and an increasingly tangled legal mess. Emphasizing the legal morass gives Sorkin and Fincher a chance to explore how unsocial this social-networking business can be, although the irony seems a little facile.

More damagingly, the film steers away from the prickly figure of Zuckerberg in the latter stages — and yet Zuckerberg presents the most intriguing personality in the movie, even if the movie takes pains to make us understand his shortcomings. Fincher’s command of pacing and his eye for the clean spaces of Aughts-era America are bracing, and he can’t resist the technical trickery involved in turning actor Armie Hammer into privileged Harvard twins (Hammer is letter-perfect). Even with its flaws, The Social Network is a galloping piece of entertainment, a smart ride with smart people … who sometimes do dumb things.

MORE NEW DVD/BLU-RAY RELEASES:

Black Metal: The Music of Satan DVD
Goth Vampire Nation DVD
Louis C.K.: Hilarious DVD
Powwow Highway DVD
48 Hours/Another 48 Hours DVD
Greg Osby and John Abercrombie Solos: The Jazz Sessions DVD
Punk Attitude DVD
Army of Shadows Blu-ray