Rough Trade Sale coming May 21 ...

Rough Trade's daily email went out today. It says:

"Keep your eyes peeled for hundreds of new titles getting added to our Cheap Thrills sale on Saturday."

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Rough Trade NYC Record Store Is Moving From Williamsburg… to 30 Rock - Variety

As an aside, Rough Trade's new midtown Manhattan store opens on June 1. Record Store Day is June 12 and I will be in Manhattan for the sale.

I won't stand in line for RSD, but I will be able to beat the crowd that waits online to buy from Rough Trade when they release their unsold items the next day. If anyone here is missing something from RSD, LMK that afternoon. I plan to visit the store two or three times on June 12.

 

Figured one of these would be coming pre-move.

I also ordered some exclusives from their UK shop that have been sitting in Chicago without moving for well over a month now. Starting to think I just kissed that money goodbye. The package doesn’t even show up in my USPS Informed Delivery feed. Bummed.

 

I see that Rough Trade has already added many many new titles to their Sale Box as of this morning. I was hoping for bigger discounts, maybe those prices are to come later? Still there's lots of exclusives there that are pretty recent with improved prices. Rough Trade raised their free shipping level to $75 this week.

 

New titles have been added. Good sales prices but not great sales prices...

 

Rough Trade is having a 'Flash Sale' on "100's" of items. I haven't counted.

Lots of Record Store Day 2021 leftovers, and more. This is not the blow-out style sale, but $5 - $8 off.

https://www.roughtrade.com/us/s/on-sale?_=1629555741129&region_id=2&sort=created_at_desc

 

2LP RSD Creation is $10 off, $24.99

2LP Who : Face Dances RSD $26.99

 

Rough Trade has added 200+ titles to their Sale area. These aren't huge markdowns but there are many Rough Trade exclusives included.

https://www.roughtrade.com/us/s/on-sale?_=1638570768714&in_stock=in-stock&sort=new

 

Thanks!... Trees box set ordered.
https://www.roughtrade.com/us/trees/trees

 

Thanks for the heads up. I didn’t see this.

 

Wow! Man! Boffo!

Dozens (hundreds?) of new markdowns at Rough Trade's US site. Great, great stuff. Belly's "Bees" 2LP set for $18.00. Joan Shelley's reissues for $11.50. Olafur Arnalds' autographed CD for $10.50.

Just be careful with the formats and such when ordering. Not all formats are on sale.

Check it out! Wow!

Here's what I ordered. I will probably return tomorrow. Free Shipping + no sales tax (shipped to California).

Old Flowers, Courtney Marie Andrews, LP+
Indie Exclusive.
$14.00

Milkwhite Sheets, Isobel Campbell, LP+
Indie Exclusive.
$14.00

Folk, Ultramarine, LP+
w/ Insert Containing Interview and Archive Photographs
$15.50

Magic Mirror, Pearl Charles, LP
Clear Vinyl
$12.50

EP III, Yumi Zouma, 10"+
$8.00

Unknown to the I, Drab Majesty, 12"+
$8.50

Unarian Dances , Drab Majesty, 12"+
$9.50

Electric Ursa, Joan Shelley, LP+
Deluxe Tip-On Jacket
$11.50

Gingko, Joan Shelley, LP+
$11.50

The Breath of Infinity, Cabaret Du Ciel, LP
$15.00

Some Kind Of Peace, Olafur Arnalds, CD+
Autographed
Housed in Reusable PVC Printed Sleeve
$10.50

Exorcist II: The Heretic , Ennio Morricone, LP
$16.50

Female: Ennio Morricone Selected by Alessandro Casella, Ennio Morricone, LP
$12.00

Dark Star (Expanded & Remastered), John Carpenter, LP + 7"
$19.99

Wilde Winter Songbook, Kim Wilde, LPx2
$13.00

 

These titles and many more are in stock at this hour:

Harold Budd - I Know This Much Is True 2LP RSD 2021 16.00
Tanya Donelly and the Parkington Sisters 13.50
Nils Frahm - Graz 15.00
Lost Horizons - In Quiet Moments (Simon from Cocteau Twins) 2LP 15.00
Natvral - Tethers (Pains Of Being Pure At Heart guy) $12.50
Charles Lloyd - Manhattan Stories RSD 2LP 28.00
Chvrches - Screen Violence 14.00 black or 14.50 red
Inoyama Land Commissions: 1977-2000 Japan electronica, nice! 2LP 18.50
Big Star - In Space 12.00
Windy and Carl - Allegiance and Conviction 10.50
Beck - Hyperspace 2020 DELUXE 25.00
Kings Of Leon - When You See Yourself 14.00 black or 15.00 colored
Buffalo Springfield - Retrospective 2021 180gr 12.50
Meemo Comma - Neon Genesis: Soul Into Matter on silver 13.00
Tim Story - Threads (Windham Hill label piano guy) on orange 11.50
Mercury Rev - Hello Blackbird score - short songs - 15.50
Piroshka (ex Lush) - Love Drips and Gathers colored 19.99
Lacuna Coil - Live From Apocalypse 2LP+CD 19.50
Abba - Voyage reunion album 13.00
Belly - B's 2LP hits 18.00
Lana Del Rey - Chemtrails 18.00
Fleetwood Mac - Live Super Deluxe 50.00
Metallica - S&M2 4LP on colored 40.00
New Order - Power Corruption Lies deluxe box 70.00

 

A lot of stuff has come-and-gone overnight.

Spiritualized - Pure Phase on colored - sold out
Chromatics - Fading Light - sold out
Halsey - latest on colored - sold out

Still there:

Chrysta Bell - sings The Cure - she's David Lynch's muse
Mercury Rev - the Bobbie Gentry album 17.00
Killers - Pressure Machine - 14.00
Marissa Nadler - Strangers on silver 11.50
Ryuichi Sakamoto & David Toop - Gardens 17.50
Menswear - Extra Material 2LP RSD 2021 -
Dave Depper - Europa - from Death Cab For Cutie 11.00
Devendra Banhart - the 2LP ambient album on colored - 17.00
Philip Glass - Itaipu / The Canyon 20.00

 

We had a jump start on the sale. A number of hot titles have already sold out.

But, Rough Trade's formal email to their newsletter subscribers just went out now.

Don't delay!

 

Thanks! Lots of great stuff but man alive their site is cumbersome to use. Even attempting to filter by format does no real good. Guess it's a good thing I don't have any meetings this morning...

 

Thankfully (for my wallet) I haven't heard of a lot of these artists. But I did order these 3

Hyperspace 2020 (Deluxe Edition), Beck, LPx2
Manhattan Stories , Charles Lloyd, LPx2
I Know This Much Is True (Music From The HBO Series), Harold Budd, LPx2+

 

I got the Fall - Live at St Helen’s for 21.50 (the price it should have been to begin with, really) and the Coathangers debut for $12.

 

I’m both grateful to and mad at you @DapperGentleman . I promised myself I was going to take a break but wound up getting a bunch of stuff I’ve had on my vinyl list.

John Coltrane - Blue World
Buena Vista Social Club - Ibrahim Ferrer
Tom Petty - Finding Wildflowers
Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time OutTakes
Badly Drawn Boy - Banana Skin Shoes
The Kinks - Percy

 

Highly recommend "The Seduction of Kansas" by Priests, on sale for $10. Genius album & a good pressing to boot! I'd buy it myself but alas, I already own it!

My purchases:

Feel Your Feelings Fool! - The Regrettes
Useless Coordinates - Drahla
Just Look At That Sky - Ganser
The Kluster Rooms Sessions - Big Joanie and Charmpit

 

Don't stop now! Rough Trade has put up another 100+ records, including:

Kristin Hersh - Wyatt at Coyote Palace 2LP RSD 2021 16.50
Brad Mehldau & MTB - Consenting Adults jazz 2LP RSD 2021 20.00
Noctorum with Marty Willson-Piper of The Church - RSD 2021 13.00
Iron & Wine - Archive Series 5 on black 11.00
Verlaines - Dunedin Spleen 2LP comeback album 16.50
Black Keys - Delta Kream 2LP on black 14.00 (out of stock)
Liz Phair - Soberish on black 10.50
Opeth - Blackwater Park 20th Anniversary 2LP on silver 19.50
Matthew Dear - Preacher Sigh on yellow 11.50
Garbage - No Gods No Masters on greenb 15.50
Sara Bareilles - Live AT Hollywood Bowl 3LP 19.50
kd lang - Makeover dance remixes LP on turquoise 13.50
Glen Campbell - Live From The Troubadour 2LP 13.00 (out of stock)
Son Volt - Electro Melodier on opaque tan 11.00
Islands - Islomania 10.50
Carla Bruni - Best Of 12.50
The Clean - Unknown Country reissue 10.00
The Clean - Mister Pop reissue 10.00
Joey Molland's Badfinger - No Matter What on tri-color 18.00
... guests Todd R., Rick Wakeman, Ian Anderson, Matthew Sweet etc
Annette Peacock - X-Dreams reissue on gold 13.50
Annette Peacock - The Perfect Release reissue on red 13.50
Birdy - Young Heart female vocals pop 13.00
Young Fresh Fellows - Toxic Youth 11.00
Maggie Rogers - From The Archive - 2LP on green 15.00
Dutch Uncles - Cadenza - UK art pop, really catchy on blue 12.00
Fratellis - Half Drunk Under A Full Moon on black 14.00
John Hiatt & Jerry Douglas Band - Leftover on blue or on black 14.00
Mick Fleetwood Celebrates Peter Green 4LP 35.00 or 7LP 80.00
Telex - This is (the 2LP we were talking about the other day) 16.00
Fleetwood Mac - Pious Bird reissue 11.50
Fleetwood Mac - Mr. Wonderful reissue 11.50
Apparat - Soundtracks 4LP box 50.00
Antlers - Green To Gold on gold 11.50 (out of stock)
Amanda Whiting - After Dark jazz harp 15.50 (out of stock)
Chills - Scatterbrain on marble 16.00 (out of stock)\
Tindersticks - Distractions on blue 12.00
Ani DiFranco - Revolutionary Love 2LP 2020 14.00
LNZNDRF - II - (The National side project) on clear 10.50

 

My first order was # 178680x
and my most recent order tonight was 179011x

.. implies 3,300 orders (at least) in the last 24 hours.

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More:

Muse - Simulation Theory box set 63.00
Steve Perry - Trace Alternate Versions (8 acoustic songs) 13.50
Margo Price - Perfectly Imperfect live 2LP on clear splatter 14.50
Jethro Tull - Isle Of Wight 2LP live 11.50
Kamasi Washington - 'Becoming' soundtrack 12.50
Tanya Tucker - Live From The Troubadour 2LP 2020 14.00
Pretty Things - Bare As Bone 14.00
Doves - Universal Want 13.50
Bats - Foothills

 

https://www.roughtrade.com/us/bruce-springsteen/the-album-collection-vol-2-1987-1996

Bruce album collection vol 2 for $135 free shipping.

 

I waited too long and most of what I wanted was gone from my cart before I checked out. Finally made up my mind and lost another one. Saved a bit of money by getting nothing...

 

Not into vinyl, but I did find the Paul McCartney Flowers in the Dirt SDE for $75 and the a-ha Minor Earth Major Sky and Lifelines 2-CD deluxe editions for $13 each.

 

I wound up with a mix of vinyl and CD, dropped about $150. Might go back for a second dip to see what’s left later once the dust settles.

 

https://www.roughtrade.com/us/loma/loma

https://www.roughtrade.com/us/loma/don-t-shy-away

One of my favorite bands, all formats on sale (aside from the Loser Edition that's out of print). Try them, you'll like them!

And I have to agree that shopping for this sale stinks. I can't believe you can't sort by artist name. That's ridiculous!