Record Store Day 2019

For those of us who collect or collected 3” 8-ban records from Japan, there hasn’t been much news since the White Stripes released their last 3” record in early 2006. That’s why it was so exciting in January 2019 when the Crosley RSD3 was announced at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) with the promise of new 3” releases in the style of 8-ban (with the same spindle holes which means the new releases will also play on an original Bandai 8-ban record player).

New 3” Record Releases

U.S.

• Epitaph Blind Box available at RSD participating stores:
  • Bad Religion - My Sanity (1000)
  • Culture Abuse - Dip (1000)
  • The Interrupters - She’s Kerosene (1000)
  • Rancid - Ruby Soho (1000)
• Third Man Blind Box:
  • The Dead Weather - Be Still (2000)
  • Jack White - Love Interruption (2000)
  • The Raconteurs - Store Bought Bones (2000)
  • The White Stripes - Candy Cane Children (2000)
• Third Man Records retail location exclusives (1000):
  • Let’s Shake Hands
  • Lafayette Blues
  • The Big Three Killed My Baby
  • Hello Operator
  • Lord, Send Me an Angel
  • Conquest
• Foo Fighters - Big Me (5000¹)

Japan

• Artist 3776 released a three-record set, limited to 100 copies, along with another hardware variant of the Crosley RSD3 mini turntable:
  • DISC 1 “Goodbye Primary School Students-Radio Edit-”
  • DISC 2 “Sakura Sakura”
  • DISC 3 “Completed in Tokyo and Ballad dedicated to all at-home-Radio Edit-”
• Artist Masaka Sakasama released a custom RSD3 turntable along with a pack-in record, also limited to 100 copies.
• Kyu Sakamoto - Sukiyaki (1000)

All-told there will be at least 24,000 new 3” records being produced and sold for Record Store Day, making RSD 2019 the single most signficant day in the history of the 3” format since Bandai’s original 8-ban release in 2004.