Breeders Celebrate Record Store Day With New EP

Posted on Apr 17th 2009 4:00PM by Benjy Eisen
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Add the Breeders to the list of bands doing exceptionally cool things for Record Store Day, which hits this Saturday, April 18. Faced with an EP's worth of tunes that they wanted to release, but not currently signed to a record label, Kim Deal figured that the Breeders should return to the DIY approach that once defined alternative music's ethos. Taking the DIY idea to heart, the new Breeders EP, 'Fate to Fatal,' will be released as a limited-edition 12-inch vinyl. The edition of 1,000 copies were all personally silk-screened by Kim and Kelley Deal. (A digital download will be available via iTunes and at the band's own website.)

"I always knew people who silk screened because they were usually the weed dealers, too," Kim jokingly tells Spinner. "This was the first time I ever pushed the ink through on an album cover before." The artwork was designed by Chris Glass, the artist behind President Barack Obama's 'American Recovery and Reinvestment Act' logo.

"The people who run the record stores say that last year was like the best business day they've had in like 10 years," says Kim, who notes that kids these days "might not have experienced what a record store is like -- getting pig-eyed by the guy with the cool haircut behind the counter who thinks you're an idiot because you just asked for the new 'Hannah Montana' CD."

Deal says that if she stops by a record store on Saturday, she'll likely head straight to the W's. "Supposedly, Tom Waits is putting out 1,500 copies of a 7-inch," she says. "Now, that's not enough and they're not going to be on the racks for the punters; come on, let's face it: any cool records on Record Store Day, you know those f----ers who work in the record store are jacking that stuff before they even hit the rack, right?"

So what you're saying, Kim, is that there's a fat chance we'll find our very own, personally silk-screened copy of 'Fate to Fatal' on shelves this Saturday? That's cool -- we can always earn cred with the kid behind the register by being the first to tell him about the rumored Pixies tour this fall. Maybe they'll be able to find an extra copy in the back after all.