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Fucked Up has always been a collector-friendly band. Since their early days as a singles-only outfit the band has released, to their estimate, 40-plus 7″ records, many in small runs and with batch-specific artwork.

Though they’ve now embraced the full-album format, FU hasn’t forgotten its record store haunting fanbase.

To celebrate the release of their much-anticipated rock opera, David Comes To Life, next week the band is taking over Clint Roenisch Gallery (944 Queen Street West) and turning it into a pop-up record shop. Opening at 12:01am this Monday night (as it officially becomes Tuesday, June 7, the official release date for DCTL), the band will be selling the earliest official vinyl and CD copies of its own record (not a Cut Copy album).

Until 4 am members of the band will be acting as shop clerks (a job some of them actually done in the past), selling not only David Comes To Life, but also a limited 7″ single featuring a couple of songs from the album’s recording sessions (and that supposedly helps flesh out the album’s somewhat hard-to-follow storyline), the exclusive Record Store Day tie-in “fake band compilation” David’s Town, their newest mixtape and, guitarist Josh Zucker tells us, “many other records and swag from the FU back catalogue.”

Band members will also be doing double duty as DJs as the party continues into the wee hours of the morning. Without a special event license they can’t legally sell beer, but they can give it away for free. And they will, courtesy of Steamwhistle. Given Fucked Up’s reputation for trashing venues, so we don’t envy the cleanup crew the next day.

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