Record Store Day (commonly abbreviated to RSD, not to be confused with Robot Selling Device) is an annual event inaugurated in 2008 and held on one Saturday every April and every "Black Friday" in November, intended to "celebrate the culture of the independently owned record store".
In recent years, special releases (including a growing number of reissues and archival releases by The Residents) are pressed in limited editions on vinyl specifically for Record Store Day, with a list of special releases for each country, which are only distributed to shops participating in the event.
The event began in the United States and remains headquartered there.
The Residents and Record Store Day[]
Leftovers Again?!, released Record Store Day 2021
According to the liner notes accompanying the 2021 Record Store Day release Leftovers Again?!, The Residents have no idea what Record Store Day is. Despite this, The Cryptic Corporation have been issuing Residents material on vinyl for Record Store Day since 2015.
From 2015 to 2017, The Residents' Record Store Day vinyl releases - then limited to reissues of previously released material - were handled by Music On Vinyl. Since late 2017, when a retiring Hardy Fox sold his stake in Cryptic to Cherry Red Records, MVD Audio and New Ralph Too, The Residents' Record Store Day vinyl releases were handled by those three labels.
Leftovers Again?! AGAIN?!, released Record Store Day 2024
From the inauguration of The Residents' pREServed reissue campaign in 2018, Record Store Day was often used as a means of issuing previously unreleased material on vinyl, beginning with their 1971 demo recordings The W***** B*** Album and B.S., in 2018 and 2019 respectively. In 2021, they released Leftovers Again?!, a collection of 1970s outtakes and demos.
In 2022, The Residents concluded the "Residents, Uninc." trilogy with Warning Uninc., a collection of (mostly previously released) experimental live and studio material from 1971 and 1972. In 2023, The Residents released their 1992 album Our Finest Flowers as a limited edition double LP. In 2024, they released Leftovers Again?! AGAIN?!, a sequel to their 2021 Record Store Day release.
List of Record Store Day releases[]
Music on Vinyl (2015 - 2017)[]
- Intermission 12" EP - April 18th 2015
- Clear vinyl, limited edition of 1400
- Please Do Not Steal It! LP - April 16th 2016
- White and pink vinyl, limited edition of 1500
- Diskomo/Goosebump LP - April 22nd 2017
- Red, blue and yellow vinyl, limited edition
Cherry Red / MVD Audio / New Ralph Too (2018 - present)[]
- The W***** B*** Album LP - April 21st 2018
- Limited edition of 1500
- B.S. LP - April 13th 2019
- Limited edition of 1400
- Icky Flix (The Original Soundtrack Recording) 2xLP - September 26th 2020
- Limited edition of 1500
- Leftovers Again?! LP - June 12th 2021
- Limited edition of 1300
- Warning: Uninc. 2xLP - April 23rd 2022
- Limited edition of 2000
- Our Finest Flowers 2xLP - April 20th 2023
- Limited edition
- Leftovers Again?! AGAIN?! LP - April 20th 2024
- Limited edition