The View 'I Need That Record' (Record Store Day 7", 2011)

I have only very occasionally been a fan of The View's oeuvre over the years but this is their contribution to Record Store Day 2011. It's a spiky little number, a pretty faithful cover of The Tweeds' 1980 power-pop paean to record-lust.

Of course, today is Record Store Day. Check out the full list of participating stores. Happy shopping!

The Tweed's version is also the soundtrack to 'I Need That Record: The Death (Or Possible Survival) Of The Independent Record Store' a US documentary featuring Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore, Fugazi's Ian MacKaye, Noam Chomsky, ex-Talking Heads Chris Frantz and Lenny Kaye of The Patti Smith Group. You can watch the trailer here.

I Need That Record by The View