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So What Will They Be Selling on Cassette Store Day?

Alan Cross 2 Comments

The first-ever Cassette Store Day will happen September 7.  This is silly given that cassettes are a piece of 50 year-old technology that deserves to go the way of the 8-track and 78 RPM shellac record.  But as manufactured as this bit of nostalgia seems to be, a lot of people apparently want to buy into it.  Fill yer boots, I say–but I won’t be participating.

If you still pine for those wretched, poor-sounding plastic things, here’s what you’ll be able to buy. Further details (if you must) at Spin.

  • Fucked Up – Hidden World (SEXBEAT)
  • Los Campesinos! – A Good Night for a Fistfight Live Album (Kissability)
  • The Proper Ornaments – Demos (Suplex Cassettes)
  • Fair Ohs – Jams Volume 2 (Suplex Cassettes)
  • Lets Wrestle – Demo’s (Suplex Cassettes)
  • At the Drive-In – Acrobatic Tenement (Transgressive)
  • At the Drive-In – Relationship of Command (Transgressive)
  • Pulled Apart by Horses – Pulled Apart by Horses (Transgressive)
  • Pulled Apart by Horses – Tough Love (Transgressive)
  • The Flaming Lips – The Terror (Bella Union)
  • Suicidal Tendencies – Debut (Burger)
  • Twink – Think Pink (Burger)
  • Molly Nilsson – The Travels (Night People)
  • The Pastels – TBA (Domino)
  • Deerhunter – Monomania (4AD)
  • Hard Skin – On the Balls (Wichita)
  • Hard Skin – Why Do Birds Suddenly Appear (Wichita)
  • V/A – Faux Discx Compilation (Faux Discx)
  • Haim – Forever EP (Polydor)
  • Efterklang – Tripper (Blood & Biscuits)
  • Mum – Smilewound (Blood & Biscuits)
  • Dolphinz – Pagan Dating (Tye Die Tapes)
  • Fear of Men – Early Fragments (Kanine)
  • The Blow – The Blow (Kanine)
  • V/A – Bleed In Gold – The First Three Years if Art Is Hard (Art Is Hard) 
  • Teen Suicide – Waste Yrself (Birdtapes)
  • V/A – Heart Throb Compilation (Heart Throb)
  • Animal Collective – Sung Tongs (Fat Cat)
  • His Clancyness – Covering Up (Fat Cat)
  • JJ Doom – Keys to the Kuffs Butter Edition (Lex)
  • Younghusband – Silver Sisters (Sonic Cathedral)
  • Guided by Voices – English Little League (Fire / Bad Paintings)
  • Refrigerator – Live at the American Legion Hall (Shrimper)
  • Xiu Xiu – Women as Lovers (Bad Paintings)
  • Rolo Tomassi – Astrea (DPLR)
  • Volcano Choir – Repave (Jagjaguwar)
  • V/A – Compilation (Hate Hate Hate)
  • Potty Mouth – The Spins (Marshall Teller)
  • TBA – TBA (Where to Now?)
  • The Casket Girls – The Casket Girls (Graveface)
  • Peter Broderick – Float (Erased Tapes)
  • Bright Light Bright Light – Make Me Believe in Hope (Self Raising Records)
  • Playlounge / YRRS / Birdskulls – Sick of Hits Vol. 1 (Reeks of Effort)
  • Sur – Dog Daze EP (Mirror Universe)
  • Spakkiano – Spakkiano (Mirror Universe)
  • Lame Drivers – Live & Rare (Mirror Universe)
  • Laraaji – Cosmic Tape Experiments 1979 – 1987 (All Saints)

Alan Cross

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2 thoughts on “So What Will They Be Selling on Cassette Store Day?”

  • Unlike record store day no big names. Looks like smaller bands trying to do something to get noticed. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

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  • iamsuperdan
    August 10, 2013 at 2:28 pm
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    There's a Suicidal Tendencies cassette! I'd go buy that. I doubt any store in Edmonton would participate.

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