(You can scroll to the bottom for a list of what got delayed, as well as a complete rundown of everything that has been delivered to stores.)įor our selective guide to some of Record Store Day Black Friday 2021’s most wanted, we start with two previously unreleased recordings from 1971 that are finally seeing daylight 50 years later.Īerosmith, “The Road Starts Hear: 1971” (10,000 copies on LP, 2,000 on cassette) What will customers be thankful to find the day after Thanksgiving? Variety checked in with Colliton - the director of marketing for the Department of Record Stores, a nationwide coalition of indie record shops - about some of this weekend’s most anticipated titles, with digressions on everything from the odd cassette renaissance to thwarting supply-chain issues. But I think people on either side of the counter are a little bit excited about the idea of shopping for the holidays face-to-face, and having that moment of: ‘Oh man, I’m so psyched to buy this record. Colliton says that during the pandemic, “Stores did a wonderful job of figuring out ways for their customers to feel comfortable - either online or curbside or appointment shopping - and as we head back towards quote-unquote normal, there are a lot of stores who still are doing appointments, even though they technically don’t have to, and that is fantastic.