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Midlake‘s new,two-song, 12”, 45 rpm release, Acts of Man, which features two songs off the bands upcoming full-length release The Courage of Others (“Acts of Man” and “Rulers, Ruling All Things”), earned its release today.
And though the release is available for online purchase–via insound.com, recordstore.co.uk and boomkat.com–it’s only available at a handful of brick-and-mortarts around the U.S. Two of those stores, for obvious, yet thankful, reasons, are located right here in DFW. They are: Grand Prairie’s Forever Young Records and Dallas’ own Good Records.
The fine folks at Good tell us they’ve “quite a few” copies of the disc, which are being sold for $8.99 a piece. Over at Forever Young, however, the discs are not yet priced or on display.
“They’re probably still in the warehouse,” a Forever Young clerk tells DC9. “We’ll probably set them out at 4 or 5 o’clock.”
So there you have it. Oh, and also? Just so you guys know? Tonight’s the fifth night of Chanukkah. Just figured I’d point that out. No reason in particular…