Update 5: Sold out of U2, Grinderman, and a few other things. Still have Ting Tings, Dr Dog, Soundgarden and some of the others.

Update 4: We are open 10 - 10 for the sale. Usually, people start lining up 15 minutes or so before we open.

Update 3: Do not call the store and ask for us to hold RSD stuff for you. We will not do it; no exceptions. A list of titles we received is below. Limit of one copy per title per person.

Update 2: Okay, regarding moving the vinyl from the lower bins to the upper... we managed to move half of the pop/rock, which means probably 1/3 of the store's vinyl. Would love to have done more but it was strictly a shelving issue. Couldn't move the jazz or second half of pop/rock because they would have blocked a ton of other product.

Update 1: I had about a million and one calls today about the U2. Yes, we did get some--but not a lot; more than a handful and less than a dozen. I don't get the impression any store got a lot. If you're reading this and the store is open, you're probably too late. However, 50% off all used vinyl's a great reason to come in anyway.

Back to our regularly scheduled post:

I will say right off the bat that for the past month this RSD has seemed extremely disorganized and scattered. Conflicting information kept coming from different sources and as we got closer to the day rumours of delays started happening.

I am expecting a box today with the following titles. However, qty is extremely limited, even for RSD. Some things there's only one of, even though I ordered 10 or 20 times that. Some things we'll have 10 of though we ordered 50. Etc.

Here's what we're getting one or more of:

Hendrix
Grinderman
U2
Dr. Dog
MGMT
Ting Tings
Slayer
Metallica
Soundgarden
Gaslight Anthem
Stanley Turrentine

Rumour has it that the Springsteen and Black Keys are delayed at least a week (for all stores)--though it's impossible for me to confirm. The Sharon Jones and Queens of the Stone Age I'd already announced as being delayed.

I am still waiting for confirmation on Harrison, Dylan, Cee-Lo, Doors, and Iron & Wine. It's possible they'll arrive in the middle of Friday or next week or not at all.

Now for the good news:

- We're still offering 50% off all used vinyl.
- We're still the only store on the planet giving away a Third Man Triple Decker Dead Weather 12". See this post for details.

I'm also gonna bring in some out of print stuff from my personal collection and offer them on Friday only. Though I'm not to blame for the lack of official RSD stuff, hopefully some of you are looking for these limited titles and it'll be a bit of a salve. Most will be one only of each; all are new:

Grouper - Wide (ltd to 1000)
Grouper - Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill (ltd to 1000)
Mono - Gone (3LP; ltd to 3000)
Richard Skelton - Landings (2LP and CD; ltd to 500)
Svarte Greiner - Kappe (ltd to 500)
Dirty Projectors / Castanets - split 10"
Celer - Mane Blooms 7" (ltd to 500)
Bardo Pond - Bufo Alvarius (LP and CD; ltd to 1000)
Various - Light: On the South Side (w/ 45; ltd to 1000; note, we have stock on the non-ltd edition for $55)
Nadja - Radiance of Shadows (ltd to 500; 2LP)
Nadja - Truth Becomes Death (ltd to 500; 2LP)
Nadja - Touched (ltd to 500; 2LP)
Liars - "How Many Times" 10" (ltd to 500; numbered)
Jack Rose - Black Dirt Sessions (ltd to 2021 copies)
James Blackshaw - Cloud of Unkowning (ltd to 1000 I think)
Brethren of the Free Spirit (James Blackshaw and Josef Van Wissem) - The Wolf Also Shall Dwell With the Lamb (ltd to 500)
Various - I Don't Feel At Home In this world Anymore (Mississippi Records; out of print)
Triple Burner (Harris Newman and Bruce Cawdron) - s/t (ltd to 500)
Matthew Robert Cooper (aka Eluvium) - Miniatures (ltd to 2000)
Zelinople - Stone Academy (ltd to 500)
Psychic Paramount - Gamelan Into the Mink Supernatural (ltd to 1000)
Marissa Nadler - Ballads of Living and Dying (ltd to 1000)

I'll also have a few Robert Pollard/Fading Captain LPs, all of which were one-run only (500 or 1000 copies) and are of course long out of print; titles are Fiction Man (Pollard), Mist King Urth (Lifeguards), Motel of Fools (Pollard), and The Harold Pig Memorial (Circus Devils).

With purchase of each of the above, you'll also get one ticket for the Triple Decker raffle.

And we still have stock on some previous RSD items:

- Wilco 4LP box
- Pavement 2LP
- TV on the Radio - Dear Science
- Neko Case on clear vinyl
- Soft Machine - 2LP live
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs 7"
- Neil Young 7"
- Moby Grape 7"
- Mastodon - Blood Mountain (colored vinyl)
- Roky Erickson / Okkervil River
- Julian Casablancas
- Camera Obscura
- REM - Chronic Town (blue vinyl)