Courtesy of our friends at www.pitchfork.com
Record Store Day (April 17 this year; don't sleep) is the day that bands across the universe honor the independent retailers that helped incubate many of them, releasing exclusive limited edition goods available only at those very independent record stores.
But the singles-happy hardcore bashers in Fucked Up, a band that claims to have released "more than 35" 7" singles, are doing their peers one better. As the Daily Swarm points out, Fucked Up have announced on their blog that on Record Store Day, they will release 11 different versions of the same 7", with 10 of them dedicated to specific record stores across the U.S.
The single includes three songs from Fucked Up's Daytrotter Session-- the two tracks that were included on the Couple Tracks comp ("Magic Word" and "David Comes to Life"), as well as "Crooked Head". But the real selling point here is the cover art. Fucked Up picked 10 different record stores to honor, those record stores sent the band pictures, and now those pictures adorn 10 of the single covers. (There's also a generic cover.) You can collect all 11, but trust that it's not going to be easy.
Here are the record stores represented: Wax Trax in Denver, Waterloo in Austin, Spiral Scratch in Buffalo, Speakertree in Lynchburg, Lunchbox in Charlotte, Grimey's in Nashville, Generation in New York, Fingerprints in Long Beach, Disc Exchange in Knoxville, and CD Alley in Chapel Hill.
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