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A Pretentious Record Store Guy Lexicon

In order to fully submerse yourself in the world of Pretentious Record Store Guy, it helps to know the lingo. To help out all those wannabe hucksters, hipsters and scenesters, we here at Pretentious Record Store Guy have decided to educate the coalition of the willing in the vernacular of PRSG. Enjoy.
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Pretentious Record Store Guy #1 Now Available

Every journey has a beginning, every story has a start and every record store has a Pretentious Record Store Guy. This is his story!
When you’re Pretentious Record Store Guy, you’re life is pretty much made in the shade right? You get to see all the cool shows, pick through all the good music and […]

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Fuck Seth Cohen

If youre like me then youre 510, rail thin, ridiculously good looking and your hair is the elixir from which dreams are made. Youre also a pretentious music fan, an aficionado of the underground, the litmus test by which any band who is anyone will be judged and blogged by before their fist single […]

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Pitchfork’s Guide to Record Store Day

Happy 4-20! To celebrate you should go to a record store. And you shouldn’t go to any old record store, but an independent record store filled with Pretentious Record Store Guys like me. Seriously, why go to a mall and pay $20 to buy from a pimple faced high schooler […]

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Why Today’s Music Sounds Like Crap–The Death of High Fidelity

Vinyl is way better than CD.  When you listen to a record it’s warmer and has much more body than a CD, causing it to sound much fuller.  It’s like a nice, fine wine as opposed to a boxed pink wine.
Whether or not you spin the black circle you can at least admit it to […]

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Barack Obama: Agent of C.H.A.N.G.E.

Next Tuesday Feb. 5th is Super Tuesday, so the Parade of Freaks wanted to remind everyone to go out and vote in the primaries.
Who has won the Parade’s admiration and vote this season? Why, none other than Mr. Barack Obama. Why? Because he is an Agent of C.H.A.N.G.E. What is C.H.A.N.G.E.? […]

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PRSG’s 50 All New Cool Band Names I Just Came Up With

What did you do today?
I listened to The Magnetic Fields 69 Love Songs in its entirety (Stephin Merritt should win a Nobel Peace Prize or something) on vinyl while drinking a Starbucks Caramel Frappacino and then, because all my fans demanded it, I came up with 50 All New Cool Band Names. […]

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Development Hell selected to Zuda Comics December Competition

I know I haven’t posted a new Pretentious Record Store Guy comic in a little while, and for that I apologize, but the truth is that I have been gearing up for Zuda Comics.
What exactly is Zuda Comics? Zuda Comics is D.C. Comics new online webcomic site. They just opened their doors in […]

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Pretentious Record Store Guy’s 30 Most Underrated Albumns of the Last 10 Years

30 Most Underrated Albums of the Last 10 Years
What do critics know?  Nothing or else they would be in a band making music.  Fuck the critics, especially rock critics.  Most of them are thirty to forty year olds, predominantly male, slighlty balding, potential pedophilles who live in their parents’ basement and have little to […]

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Pretentious Record Store Guy’s Handy Dandy Guide to Naming Your Band

Everything you need to know about a band you can find in their name. Naming your band may be the most important thing you’ll ever do in your entire life. Give your band a shit name and people will automatically think you’re shit.

Example: Audioslave–great pedigree, great musicians, shitty band. […]

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