Vinyl just continues to become more and more popular, recent figures (via LA Times) “released by Nielsen SoundScan indicate that overall U.S. vinyl sales will once again set a benchmark in 2009, with sales up 50% through the first five months of the year. SoundScan predicts vinyl sales will reach 2.8 million units in 2009, up from 1.9 million in 2008, a record since SoundScan began tracking sales data in 1991. Already in 2009, vinyl sales have topped 1 million. At this point last year, vinyl sales stood at 701,000 copies.”

If you are reading this, you’re probably already partly responsible for these good-looking numbers, but you also have a great chance tomorrow to play a further role in the continued vinyl resurrection, as tomorrow is the first Vinyl Saturday! It’s a new project from the Record Store Day people, which means it includes a lot of limited edition vinyl exclusively available at independent record stores.

Tomorrow you will have the chance to get your hands on Modest Mouse’s new Autumn Beds / Whale Song single and Wilco will offer up a 7″ of the Wilco (The Album) track “You Never Know”, with the unreleased song “Unlikely Japan” on the B-side. “Unlikely Japan” is an early version of the Sky Blue Sky track “Impossible Germany”.

Other exclusives includes a  7″ of Green Day’s  single “Know Your Enemy”, a 7″ with material from Scarlett Johannson and Pete Yorn’s Break Up, and new material from Wolves in the Throne Room, Al Green, Patterson Hood, Earth, The Woggles and Those Darlins

Tags: Independent record stores, Modest Mouse, Record Store Day, Vinyl Saturday, Wilco

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