Pretentious Record Store Blog

Chinese Democracy will finally arrive! Long delayed and highly anticipated (in the 90s and early 2000s), Guns N’ Roses (or whatever passes for Axl Rose and company’s rotating bandmates these days) opus nearly 15 years in the making is finally hitting stores a month from today. The bad news is that the CD is a […]

Not to be outdone by Guitar Hero World Tour, Rock Band 2 released their set list.  Checkmate. 1960s Norman Greenbaum – “Spirit in the Sky” The Who – “Pinball Wizard”   1970s AC/DC Let – “There Be Rock” Allman Brothers – “Ramblin’ Man” Bad Company – “Shooting Star” Blondie – “One Way or Another” Bob […]

So Guitar Hero: World Tour released a list of their official set list for the game and it looks like Rock Band II is in for some strong competition.   Check it out: Guitar Hero World Tour setlist, alphabetically: 311: “Beautiful Disaster” 30 Seconds To Mars: “The Kill” Airbourne: “Too Much Too Young” The Allman Brothers […]

Look at us, we formed a comic book columnist.  Pretentious Record Store Guy is pretty excited at the addition of Art Brut’s Eddie Argos taking on a biweekly Comics column at Playback:STL.  As St. Louis’ own son Nelly would say, Fo’ schizzle.   Apparently this annoucement has set the blogosphere on fire with no less […]

1) A Tribe Called Quest –Low End Theory 2) Black Star –Mos Def and Talib Kweli are Black Star 3) Hieroglyphics –Third Eye Vision 3a) Souls of Mischief –93 ‘Til Infinity 4) Common Sense –Resurrection 5) Notorious B.I.G. – Ready to Die

How many times have you found yourself trapped on a broken down bus going nowhere fast, completely surrounded by a smörgÃ¥sbord of the craziest freaks, geeks, weirdos, aliens, robots, cavemen, megalomaniacal midgets, dinosaurs, buddy cops, giant mutant monsters, dysfunctional couples, depressed artists, ninjas for hire, poli-sci majors, sit down comics and one messed up kid […]

The Parade of Freaks/Pretentious Record Store Guy is hitting the road, folks! June 27th-29th we setting up shop at Wizard World Chicago. We are extremely excited since this is our first official convention outing. We will also have the very first issue of Pretentious Record Store Guy miniseries for sale as well as the Wizard […]

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. Pretentious – characterized […]

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 […]

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 even […]

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 with a smock when […]

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 […]

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.? Change is Citizens […]

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. I would […]