RSD Special!!

It's that time of year again, when Millennials with more money than sense - that is to say, all of them - camp overnight outside indie record stores to grab that limited edition RSD collectable investment! Fevered hipsters will be hungry to snap up this 10-inch from Gap Year Records. It's on 845gsm brown vinyl sourced from shade-grown sustainable polymers, and the sleeve is printed on recycled homeless dwellings, with inks made from vegetarian body waste. That alone is enough to ensure its investment value, even at 2,995 bucks a pop!

The music is something special, too! The Miserable Bastard Brits Play Non-Stop Party Hits! is a compilation curated by Paul Morley [who? - Ed.] featuring exclusive covers by Elvis Costello, Nick Drake, Polly Jean Harvey, Jim Kerr, Roger Waters, Richard Thompson, Morrissey, Shawn Ryder, John Lydon, and Amy Winehouse. From Paul Morley[who? - Ed.]'s sleeve notes:

"Back in the Golden Age Of Pop (around November 3rd, 1983), involuntary celibacy, medication, and tinnitus were the sex, drugs and rock n' roll of an entire generation of "a certain kind of creep" (as Elvis Costello famously described his fans). The posters on their bedroom walls - they still lived at home, so Sellotape was banned! - featured the musicians on this record. Musicians who caught the zeitgeist of the UK in all its rain-soaked glory, and who now re-imagine the pop hits of the day. Only a Jim Kerr could see the inherent existential despair of Matchstalk Men And Matchstalk Cats And Dogs, or a Morrissey capture the Proustian melancholy of Agadoo-Doo-Doo (push pineapple, shake the tree). Polly Harvey's re-imagining of Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep is at once a meditation on loss and the politics of the liberated vagina. The discovery of an early demo tape by Nick Drake - an anguished cover of Ken Dodd's hit "Happiness" - is the icing on the cake."