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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Leftovers Again!? AGAIN!?!?!?
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    Residents
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  • Jesus Wept
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    P.M. Dawn
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Virtual Crate Dive

  • Saint Cloud
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    Waxahatchee
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    $19.99 USD
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  • Glory
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    Perfume Genius
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    $29.99 USD
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  • Rushmere
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    Mumford & Sons
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    $35.99 USD
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  • Future Nostalgia (5th Anniversary)
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    Dua Lipa
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    $64.98 USD
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  • Dan's Boogie
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    Destroyer
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  • Forever is a Feeling
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    Lucy Dacus
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    $34.99 USD
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  • Ash Ra Tempel Starring Rosi
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    Ash Ra Tempel
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    $45.99 USD
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  • Infinity on High
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    Fall Out Boy
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    $42.99 USD
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  • Folie À Deux
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    Fall Out Boy
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  • MARIANNE FAITHFULL'S GREATEST HITS
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    Marianne Faithfull
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    $31.99 USD
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  • The Exit Papers
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    Low
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    $28.00 USD
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  • To All Trains
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    Shellac
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  • Summer 1999
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    X-Cetra
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  • For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)
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    Japanese Breakfast
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  • Our Two Skins
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    Gordi
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  • Reservoir
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    Gordi
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  • Clever Disguise
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    Gordi
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    $15.00 USD
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  • After the Gold Rush
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    Neil Youg
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    $29.98 USD
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  • Talking Book
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    Stevie Wonder
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  • FULFILLINGNESS' FIRST FINALE
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    Stevie Wonder
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  • Innervisions
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    Stevie Wonder
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  • Fishmonger
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    underscores
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    $39.98 USD
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  • Live Undead
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    Slayer
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    $32.99 USD
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  • Hell Awaits
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    Slayer
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  • Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse
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    Skinny Puppy
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