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Artist: SONIC YOUTH Title: Daydream Nation
Format: 4xLP Catalog
Number:		 GOO013LP
Price: $29.00 Label: Goofin'
Release
Date:		 7/9/07
*** Daydream Nation was Sonic Youthis sixth album, their first double LP, and their last for an indie label before signing with Geffen. Widely considered to be their watershed moment, Daydream Nation catapulted them into the mainstream and proved that indie bands could enjoy wide commercial success without compromising their artistic vision.

The original 1988 album has been remastered under the bandis supervision. The bonus platters begin with previously unreleased live performances from the Daydream Nation Tour. Culled from performances at CBGB in New York, The Paradiso in Amsterdam, and several other primo venues, iLive Daydreami includes live versions of every song on the original album. Added to that are four studio bonuses: iWithin You, Without Youi (a Beatles cover from the NME-sponsored charity Beatles tribute album Sgt. Pepper Knew My Father), iComputer Age,i from the Neil Young tribute album The Bridge, iElectricityi from the Captain Beefheart tribute album Fast And Bulbous, and a cover of Mudhoneyis iTouch Me, Iim Sick,i originally released as a Sub Pop 7-inch single. Lee Ranaldois original demo of iEricis Tripi concludes the album.

  • The postpunk milestone reissued with unreleased live material and hard-to-find covers

  • Includes a 16-page booklet with liner notes and unpublished photos

  • The album to be performed in its entirety at select shows in North America and Europe
Artist: SONIC YOUTH Title: Destroyed Room: B-Sides And Rarities
Format: 2xLP Catalog
Number:		 GOO012
Price: $13.00 Label: Goofin'
Release
Date:		 3/26/07
***New York's most influential avant-garde rock band, Sonic Youth, follow up their critically acclaimed 2006 release, Rather Ripped, with a special set sure to please fans and completists.

The Destroyed Room: B-Sides And Rarities, a collection of near-hidden Sonic Youth gems hand-picked by the band, brings together songs from throughout the band's tenure at Geffen Records. Focusing on tracks previously available only on limited-edition compilations, vinyl-only releases, or as b-sides or international singles, The Destroyed Room also features material that has never before been released. This deluxe, double-vinyl LP edition is being released on the band's own Goofin' Records imprint with a CD version available via Geffen.

Artist: SONIC YOUTH Title: Dirty 4 Lp Box Set
Format: 4xLP Catalog
Number:		 GOO05
Price: $29.00 Label: Goofin'
Release
Date:		 8/25/03
***Sonic Youth's landmark 1992 album Dirty was re-released in a double-CD deluxe edition package by Universal Records in April, making it part of a series that includes classic albums by Marvin Gaye, Bob Marley, and The Who. The corresponding quadruple-LP box set on the band's own Goofin' Records imprint includes: the original 15 album tracks; nearly two dozen bonus tracks culled from B-sides ("Genetic," "Hendrix Necro," "The Destroyed Room," "Is It My Body," "Personality Crisis," "The End Of The End Of The Ugly" and the eight-minute epic "Tamra"), outtakes ("Stalker," "Youth Against Fascism" and "Wish Fulfillment"), and rehearsal tapes from the period (the previously released "Little Jammy Thing" and previously unreleased songs "Lite Damage," "Dreamfinger," "Barracuda," "New White Kross," "Guido," "Moonface," "Poet In The Pit" and "Theoretical Chaos"); an eye-watering trove of full-color artwork; and essays from Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo and journalist/co-conspirator Byron Coley.

The band's eighth official album, Dirty reflects the influence of touring partners such as Mudhoney and Nirvana; indeed, the team behind Nevermind -- producer Butch Vig and mixer Andy Wallace-- helped to craft an explosive, intense yet melodic rock album which would become arguably the band's most commercially and critically successful work to date.

Rock has never seen a band quite like Sonic Youth. Dirty is a great Sonic Youth disc ... among the band's most unified and unforgettable recorded works.... The aura of insurgency provides a charged context for the disc's more personal songs, upping the intensity and the emotional stakes and fusing a collection of diverse tracks into a scorched and scorching whole. Dirty is a burner. --Robert Palmer, Rolling Stone

  • The ultimate Dirty set features more than 20 previously unreleased and hard-to-find B-Sides, outtakes and demos
  • Photos, artwork and liner notes from Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo, and Byron Coley
  • A classic from the year punk broke
Artist: SONIC YOUTH Title: Goo
Format: 4xLP Catalog
Number:		 GOO07
Price: $29.00 Label: Goofin'
Release
Date:		 9/19/05
***The Deluxe Edition of Sonic Youth's 1990 album Goo includes thirty one songs: the original album remastered; remixed and remastered versions of the band's 8-track demos; the album outtake "Lee #2" (previously unheard with vocals); rehearsal outtakes "Tuff Boyz" and "Isaac"; "Can Song" (a never-before-heard demo of "The Bedroom"); the Beach Boys cover "I Know There's an Answer"; "Dr. Benway's House," the band's contribution to William Burroughs' Dead City Radio; B-sides "The Bedroom" and "That's All I Know Right Now" (the latter a cover of the Richard Hell/Tom Verlaine pre-Television group Neon Boys); and the promotion-only "Goo Interview."

A 16-page book is included with an interview-essay by Byron Coley, an essay by Mark Kates, and never-before-seen photos.

Track listing: 2. Tunic (Song for Karen)
3. Mary-Christ
4. Kool Thing
5. Mote
6. My Friend Goo
7. Disappearer
8. Mildred Pierce
9. Cinderella's Big Score
10. Scooter and Jinx
11. Titanium Expose
12. Lee #2
13. That's All I Know (Right Now)
14. The Bedroom
15. Dr. Benway's House
16. Tuff Boyz
17. Tunic
18. Number One (Disappearer)
19. Titanium Expose
20. Dirty Boots
21. Corky (Cinderella's Big Score)
22. My Friend Goo
23. Bookstore (Mote)
24. Animals (Mary-Christ)
25. DV 2 (Kool Thing)
26. Blowjob (Mildred Pierce)
27. Lee #2
28. I Know There's an Answer
29. Can Song
30. Isaac
31. Goo Interview Flexi

  • Deluxe four-record boxed set featuring album out-takes, remastered demos, rehearsal performances, a couple of covers and a promo-only band interview
  • Includes 16-page book with essays by Byron Coley and Mark Kates and neverbefore- seen photos
Artist: SONIC YOUTH Title: Murray Street
Format: LP Catalog
Number:		 GOOFIN04
Price: $12.00 Label: Goofin'
Release
Date:		 6/24/02
***Sonic Youth have turned 21 years of age in 2002. The apprenticeship is over. They are now legal to fully rock on. Murray Street is where it gets interesting. The name comes from the street where Sonic Youth create rock'n'roll. This album was written by Sonic Youth with newest member Jim O'Rourke, who helped engineer and did the mixing under the watchful eye and baffling behavior of the original SY members. The cover is a photograph taken by Monique, two children secured by webbing, at one with goddess earth. Inside are photos by Milanese lensman Stefano Giovaninni.

There are seven songs:

1. Disconnection Notice - about the loss of questionable power to moldy fig authority
2. The Empty Page - a song lifted from the journals of John Cage one sun-filled summer day in Paris, 1968
3. Rain On Tin - about the heraldry of camaraderie in the face of political insanity.
4. Strawberry Patch - about Kim
5. Karenology - about Lee
6. Plastic Sun - a song which reaches out with an olive branch soaked in scum for the N'Sync- and Durst-addled record industry
7. Radical Adults Lick Godhead Style - about adult culture as the new underground

  • Indie vinyl of Sonic Youth's major label CD
  • The first Sonic Youth rock studio album following the assimilation of Jim O'Rourke
  • Gatefold sleeve est trés prog rocque, non?
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    Artist: SONIC YOUTH Title: Rather Ripped
    Format: LP Catalog
    Number:    		 GOO011
    Price: $12.00 Label: Goofin'
    Release
    Date:    		 6/5/06
    *** Sonic Youth was birthed in 1981 in downtown New York City. Their eponymous debut followed in '82 and burned holes in bins at any record store crazy enough to carry it. For the next twenty-five years the group has continued to release beyond-category documents of sonic death-rock for discerning freak lovers everywhere.

    Rather Ripped was recorded through the waning hours of 2005 into the dawn sunshine of 2006 at the venerable Sear Sound Studios in NYC's fading theater district. Mixed at Sear Sound and at Hoboken, NJ's Water Music by the golden ear of John Agnello, the album exhibits SY in positive vibration mode. Rather Ripped features twelve songs of forward motion and harmonic/melodic surprise with vocals shared by the frontline of Thurston Moore, Kim Gordon and Lee Ranaldo with Steve Shelley gluing the rhythms to the floorboards. The band bursts out o' the barn with "Incinerate," contemplates holy war mind games on "Do You Believe in Rapture?" and keeps cruising strong through track after track of risk-laden rock, finally floating away with the curious "Or." This is a straight-up Sonic Youth field on fire, with a compact potency of rock 'n' roll enlightenment. Rather ripped, indeed.

    • Exclusive vinyl edition of Sonic Youth's latest monsterpiece
    • Recorded and mixed at NYC's Sear Sound Studios, Hoboken's Water Music, the band's downtown Murray St. studio and at J Mascis's house in Amherst, MA
    • Vinyl-only cover art by artist Christopher Wool
    Artist: SONIC YOUTH Title: S/T
    Format: LP Catalog
    Number:    		 GOO08
    Price: $13.00 Label: Goofin'
    Release
    Date:    		 3/13/06
    ***Sonic Youth's eponymous debut EP, reissued in a deluxe double- LP edition on the band's own Goofin' imprint, was recorded in late 1981 at Radio City Music Hall in NYC and originally released on composer Glenn Branca's Neutral label. The album is loosely based on compositions the newly formed group had performed at that year's week-long Noisefest event (and remains the only recorded document of an early line-up featuring actor Richard Edson on drums). The newly remastered vinyl also features extra live material from a 1981 gig, and a track from a previously unheard studio session.

    TRACK LISTING

    1. Burning Spear
    2. I Dreamed I Dream
    3. She Is Not Alone
    4. I Don't Want to Push It
    5. The Good and the Bad

    Live Bonus Tracks:

    6. Hard Work (I Don't Want to Push It)
    7. Where the Red Fern Grows (I Dreamed I Dream)
    8. Burning Spear
    9. Cosmopolitan Girl
    10. Loud and Soft
    11. Destroyer
    12. She Is Not Alone
    13. Where the Red Fern Grows (alternate studio recording)

    • The band's legendary, long out-of-print eponymous 1982 debut reissued in a lavish, double-LP vinyl edition
    • Features remastered album tracks, previously unreleased studio outtakes and live material from one of the band's earliest performances
    Artist: SONIC YOUTH Title: Sonic Nurse
    Format: 2xLP Catalog
    Number:    		 G06
    Price: $13.00 Label: Goofin'
    Release
    Date:    		 7/12/04
    ***After twenty-three years of explosive creativity Sonic Youth throws down what may be their heaviest classic since the genre-breaking Daydream Nation. Nurse is the nineteenth long player by the New York City supernova, an action explosion Time magazine has already tagged as "Sonic Youth's most adventurous and soul-stirring release to date, by a goddamn country mile."

    Ten songs of American beauty and sonic death: on "Pattern Recognition" Kim Gordon takes Justin Timberlake's hand and sticks it in a tendon-shredding meat grinder; they gay marriage the hell out of religious zealot war pigs Cheney, Rumsfeld, Bush and Ashcroft with the meditative "Peace Attack"; Bare Trees-era Fleetwood Mac jams with Jealous Again-era Black Flag on the heart-pounding "Unmade Bed" and "I Love You Golden Blue"; the core reactor awesomeness of "Paper Cup Exit" reduces such legends as Led Zeppelin and Yes to just so much British schoolboy whimpering.

    MY SO-CALLED RECORDS
    Artist: SONIC YOUTH Title: A Thousand Leaves
    Format: 2xLP Catalog
    Number:    		 MSCR03
    Price: $12.00 Label: My So-Called Records
    Release
    Date:    		 4/27/98
    ***Independently-manufactured-and-vended vinyl of the new DGC album. Four sides of SY, ranging from moderne rocking to crypto pop-kult lyricism to chunky rhythmic rhyme and formless art-drift.
    S Y R
    Artist: SONIC YOUTH Title: Anagrama / S Y R 1
    Format: 12" Catalog
    Number:    		 SYR01
    Price: $8.25 Label: S Y R
    Artist: SONIC YOUTH Title: Goodbye 20th Century
    Format: 2xLP Catalog
    Number:    		 SYR04
    Price: $16.50 Label: S Y R
    Release
    Date:    		 11/8/99
    Artist: SONIC YOUTH Title: Silver Session
    Format: DL Catalog
    Number:    		 SKR01
    Price: $0.00 Label: S Y R
    Release
    Date:    		 1/19/09
    ***Available via digital download ONLY, no longer available on CD.

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    Artist: SONIC YOUTH Title: Slaapkamers / S Y R 2
    Format: 12" Catalog
    Number:    		 SYR02
    Price: $8.25 Label: S Y R
    Artist: SONIC YOUTH Title: Slaapkamers / S Y R 2
    Format: CDEP Catalog
    Number:    		 SYR02CD
    Price: $8.25 Label: S Y R
    ***Sonic Youth's 1997 non-Geffen releases, Part II: three songs. CD in a gatefold cardboard jacket. Same tracks on both formats.

    30-second MP3 excerpts:

    Slaapkamers
    Stil
    Herinneringen

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    Artist: SONIC YOUTH Title: Syr6: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui
    Format: CD Catalog
    Number:    		 SYR06
    Price: $12.00 Label: S Y R
    Release
    Date:    		 11/28/05
    ***The sixth edition of the SYR series is a live recording of the April 12, 2003 benefit concert held at and for The Anthology Film Archives, the international center for the preservation, study, and exhibition of avant-garde and independent cinema. In addition to screening films for the public, AFA houses a film museum, research library and art gallery. The event, which raised money for the Archives and celebrated the life and work of avant-garde film maker Stan Brakhage, featured Sonic Youth providing a 61-minute improvisation to Brakhage's silent films. The band performed with drummer/percussionist Tim Barnes (Essex Green, Jukeboxer, Silver Jews).

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    Artist: SONIC YOUTH Title: Anagrama / S Y R 1
    Format: CDEP Catalog
    Number:    		 SYR01CD
    Price: $8.25 Label: S Y R
    ***Sonic Youth's 1997 non-Geffen release, Part I: four songs. CD in a gatefold cardboard jacket. Same tracks on both formats.

    30-second MP3 excerpts:

    Anagrama
    Improvisation
    Tremens
    Mieux

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    Artist: SONIC YOUTH Title: Goodbye 20th Century
    Format: 2xCD Catalog
    Number:    		 SYR04CD
    Price: $16.50 Label: S Y R
    Release
    Date:    		 11/8/99
    ***"Everything comes to an end, even the twentieth century." -Lou Harrison

    Goodbye 20th Century is fourth in a series of independent, self-released Sonic Youth recordings. Disc A of the compact disc format of this release includes an Enhanced-CD Quicktime video of the band performing the Maciunas piece (the fifth track on Disc B). It works cross-platform for all operating systems released in the past five years (as long as the Windows or Mac version of Quick-time is installed) on any 2x-or-faster CD-ROM.

    Personnel: Sonic Youth with William Winant, Jim O'Rourke, Takehisa Kosugi, Christian Wolff, Coco Hayley Gordon Moore, Christian Marclay and Wharton Tiers.

    Music composed by John Cage, Yoko Ono, Cornelius Cardew, Steve Reich, Takehisa Kosugi, Nicolas Slonimsky, George Maciunas, James Tenney, Pauline Oliveros and Christian Wolff.

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    Artist: SONIC YOUTH Title: J'accuse Ted Hughes
    Format: LP Catalog
    Number:    		 SYR7
    Price: $9.75 Label: S Y R
    Release
    Date:    		 4/14/08
    ***The seventh installment in Sonic Youth's series of experimental and sometimes instrumental releases on the band's own SYR label features on the A-side a previously unreleased 22-minute drone piece recorded at the All Tomorrows Parties festival in the UK in April of 2001. At ATP, the band previewed instrumental and early versions of songs from the then soon-to-be recorded NYC Ghosts & Flowers album, and this exclusive performance was the premiere of "J'Accuse Ted Hughes."

    The B-side is a soundtrack-style piece recorded at the band's Murray Street Studio in 2003 for a never-realized collaboration with French clothing designer Agnes B. The 18-minute-long song was recorded by a five-piece version of the band-- the four members of Sonic Youth plus Jim O'Rourke, who also mixed "Agnes B Musique."

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    SONIC DEATH
    Artist: SONIC YOUTH Title: Cotton Crown / Pch
    Format: DL Catalog
    Number:    		 SD1330
    Price: $0.00 Label: Sonic Death
    Release
    Date:    		 2/23/09
    ***Available only via digital download; links below!

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