Crib Notes

Over the weekend Thrill Jockey announced that the label’s contribution to this year’s National Record Store Day (April 18) is a deluxe, handmade compilation LP titled Records Toreism. The LP is limited to 900 copies and features a drawing by Posttypography on one side. The flipside features a photo silk-screen by Crosshair. Both images portray record stores of the future, one shows the fruitful vision of what happens if you support these long-standing community institutions. The other portrays what will happen if you don’t.

Click below to view the track list and the rest of the cover art and more info regarding contributors.

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For some reason, it’s been all very hush-hush, but Criminal Records is planning to expand its L5P mini-empire with a satellite location dedicated to vinyl. We’re told Criminal will soon take over the Euclid Avenue storefront that recently housed R. Land’s Summerland art show, filling it with new, and possibly used, records.

Details are sketchy because, for unknown reasons, the fun-loving Criminals have been tight-lipped about their plans. What we hear is that the move will allow the original store to expand its selection of comics, magazines and toys. We don’t know where the CDs will be housed.

But we do know that vinyl is in the midst of a consumer boom as young’uns raised on mp3s are gradually discovering that the LP is the most bad-ass recorded music format God ever created!

How does neighboring Wax ‘N Facts feel about the additional competition? The ever-perky Victoria told us the folks there are looking forward to the company, the more the merrier, and all that. If anything, the new outlet will help promote the supremacy of vinyl, which may boost everyone’s business.

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Criminal Records
466 Moreland Ave.
404-215-9511

Top 10 best sellers for the week ending 09/15/07

1. Black Lips Good Bad Not Evil
2. Animal Collective Strawberry Jam
3. Kanye West Graduation
4. Okkervil River The Stage Names
5. Minus the Bear Planet of Ice
6. M.I.A. Kala
7. Pinback Autumn of the Seraphs
8. New Pornographers Challengers
9. The Go! Team Proof of Youth

Decatur CD
356 West Ponce de Leon Ave.
404-371-9090

Week ending 09/20/07

1. Kanye West Graduation
2. Mark Knopfler Kill to Get Crimson
3. Ben Harper Lifeline
4. The Coathangers The Coathangers
5. Pinback Autumn of the Seraphs
6. Brandi Carlile The Story
7. Pink Floyd The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (three-disc deluxe reissue)
8. Mary Gauthier Between Daylight and Dark
9. Liars Liars
10. Akron/Family Love Is Simple

Earwax Records
565 Spring St.
404-875-5600

Week ending 9/18/07

1. Kanye West Gaduation
2. 50 Cent Curtis
3. Common Finding Forever
4. Emily King East Side Story
5. Talib Kweli Eardrum
6. Ledisi Lost & Found
7. Self Outside Project Jewels
8. Madlib Beatconducta 2
9. Christine Michelle I AM
10. Ne Yo Because

Wax N’ Facts
432 Moreland Ave.
404-525-2275

Week ending 09/17/07

1. Tiger! Tiger! The Kind of Goodnight
2. Donny Hathaway Collection
3. The Coathangers The Coathangers
4. Kanye West Graduation
5. Minus the Bear Planet of Ice
6. Animal Collective Strawberry Jam
7. Great Northern Trading Twilight for Daylight
8. 50 Cent Curtis
9. Pinback Autumn of the Seraphs
10. Simple Kid 2

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