Several interesting releases that appear to be exclusives for indie record stores will be available on Friday.  I have no idea if this happened last year or not, but this is something I’m looking forward to.  The entire list is available on the Record Store Day site, but here’s a few that I’m interested in.

Metallica, Live at Grimey’s

A live album (obviously) of the set they played for 150 people prior to Bonaroo.  I’ve already got a bunch of live Metallica stuff but it still sounds interesting.

Anthrax, Live at the Sonisphere

This one I have to think about.  I’m a big Anthrax fan but I wasn’t impressed with their set on The Big Four and I’m concerned that this might be more of the same.

Frank Sinatra, Jolly Christmas (vinyl reissue)

Jimi Hendrix, “Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year” single

Crap.  If I buy these two that will make three Christmas albums I bought this year when I vowed that I wouldn’t buy any.

The Black Keys, Brothers Double

A 12 inch of the album and a 10 inch of live tracks.  This may be too good to resist.

I’ll be going to the fabulous Love Garden Sounds here in Lawrence to see what they have.  It’s going to be tough making it between Half Price Books’ usual sale and a possible used CD sale as Hastings.

According to allmusic, there are two Anthrax releases today:  a deluxe edition of Among the Living and a live album, Caught in a Mosh:  BBC Live in Concert.

The BBC album sounds great - two shows from the Among the Living tour, one from the Hammersmith Odeon and their performance at the Donnington Festival.  There’s obviously some overlap between the two shows but there should be a different vibe between the two and it could turn out to be a great album.

The thing about Among the Living is that I’m not quite sure if I have it on CD or not.  I had it on cassette at one point and I’m fairly certain I bought it used on CD somewhere along the way.  It’s my favorite of the Belladonna-era stuff with a lot of strong songs.  The new edition comes with a live DVD and some outtakes but I think I”ll pass unless I can verify that I don’t own it already.

Joey Belladonna:  Are they any [KU] students in the crowd tonight?

<silence>

Joey:  Yeah, that’s what I thought.

- from the January 15, 2006 Anthrax show at the Granada