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  • ROAR Holiday Gift Guide - 2022

    A few years ago I saw a gift guide blog post on a woodworkers’ shop page while I was shopping for gifts for my brother. I liked that the woodworker wasn’t pushing products, just listing things he found useful throughout the year. Some were as little as $5 (a nice pencil) and some were in the $1,000 plus category. Given that record collectors are particularly hard to buy for (who can keep up with their loved one’s collection?), this list includes items that are *not* records at various price points. Rather, these are things that I’ve found make for a great listening experience and I think other record collectors will enjoy them. There are no referral links or anything like that. Since this is a casual gift guide, everything is under $225, with most items in the <$50 range. Nearly everything I’m recommending I acquired myself this year, so it’s fresh on my mind. 

     

    The following is my guide for this year!

Record Store Day Titles!

  • Wha'ppen? (Expanded Edition)
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    The English Beat
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    $34.98 USD
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  • LEX HIVES & LIVE FROM TERMINAL 5 (2LP) (RSD)
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    Republic of Athens Records
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    $43.98 USD
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  • Zappa For President
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    Frank Zappa
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    $37.99 USD
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  • Wake
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    Voivoid
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    $42.98 USD
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  • Even More Dazed And Confused (Music From The Motion Picture)
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    Various Artists
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  • Genius Of Love 2001 Remixes
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    Tom Tom Club
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    $26.99 USD
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  • Have A Little Faith (Deluxe Edition)
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    Mavis Staples
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    $39.99 USD
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  • PUNK 45: Kill The Hippies! Kill Yourself! – The American Nation Destroys Its Young: Underground Punk in the United States of America 1978-1980
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    Soul Jazz Records Presents
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    $39.99 USD
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  • Hits Are For Squares
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    Sonic Youth
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  • Harvest Time / Love Will Find A Way (Radio Edit)
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    Pharoah Sanders
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    $17.99 USD
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Virtual Crate Dive

  • Miss Anthropocene
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    Grimes
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    $24.99 USD
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  • Art Angels
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    Grimes
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    $28.99 USD
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  • Got A Story To Tell
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    Thee Sacred Souls
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  • The New Sound
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    Geordie Greep
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    $32.00 USD
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  • Distant Call - Collected Demos 2000 - 2005
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    Broadcast
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  • Selected Ambient Works Volume II (Expanded Edition)
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    Aphex Twin
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    $54.99 USD
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  • Cutouts
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    The Smile
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    $29.99 USD
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  • The Hard Quartet
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    The Hard Quartet
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    $32.99 USD
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  • Freedom
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    Neil Young
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    $34.98 USD
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  • Summerteenth
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    Wilco
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  • Wha'ppen?
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    English Beat
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    $24.98 USD
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  • Moon Music
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    Coldplay
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    $31.00 USD
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  • Fever to Tell
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    Yeah Yeah Yeahs
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  • Definitely Maybe 30th Anniversary Deluxe
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    Oasis
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    $89.00 USD
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  • Slif Slaf Slof
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    Mermaid Chunky
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  • At the Copa
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    Sam Cooke
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    $30.00 USD
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  • Always Happy to Explode
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    Sunset Rubdown
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  • Highway Prayers
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    Billy Strings
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    $48.00 USD
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  • SOPHIE
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    SOPHIE
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    $41.00 USD
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  • Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides
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    SOPHIE
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    $28.00 USD
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  • Samurai Champloo Music Record: Departure
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    Nujabes & Fat John
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    $70.00 USD
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  • my anti-aircraft friend
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    julie
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  • Storm Corrosion
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    Storm Corrosion
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    $42.00 USD
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  • Synchronicity (Super Deluxe)
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    The Police
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    $174.99 USD
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  • Substance (2023 Reissue)
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    New Order
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    $34.98 USD
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