Good Records Celebrates Its 8th Birthday, Record Store Day This Saturday

On Saturday, Chris Penn, C.J. Davis, and the other fine folks at Good Records will celebrate eight years in the CD-selling business. That’s reason enough for a party. Saturday also happens to be Record Store Day. Another, ahem, good reason for a shindig. There’s plenty of free swag to be had, not counting the day-long in-store concert detailed after the jump. I saw Chris putting together some goodie bags last night, when I dropped off two big boxes of CDs for giveaway. Which CDs? These. OK, concert lineup time. Let’s jump.

11 a.m. The Theater Fire

Noon. Mom

12:30 p.m. Matthew and the Arrogant Sea

1 p.m. Doug Burr

1:30 p.m. Sarah Jaffe

2 p.m. Fishboy

2:30 p.m. Mount Righteous

3 p.m. John Congleton

3:30 p.m. Astronautalis

4 p.m. Baptist Generals

5 p.m. LIONS

6 p.m. Robert Gomez

6:30 p.m. Red Monroe

7:30 p.m. Fight Bite

8 p.m. Frogboy

8:30 p.m. The Great Tyrant

9 p.m. Jetscreamer

10 p.m. Record Hop

11 p.m. Colourmusic

Midnight. The Black Angels

(John Freeman will emcee, and The Party–DJs Sober, Select, and Nature–will spin between bands, I believe.)

Tough to say when the best time would be the show up, if you can’t stay all day. (I can’t. Going to a Passover seder, so I probably won’t get to see Fight Bite, the band I want to see most on that lineup.) Record Hop has a new, really fantastic record out now. Mom is great. The Doug Burr/Sarah Jaffe stretch is solid singer-songwriter fare. There’s really just too much. So go for as much as you can, and I doubt you’ll be disappointed.