No Parlez/Report Retailer Day in joke turns right into a actuality!
Report Retailer Day comes every year full with an avalanche of vinyl, a collectors paradise and a pay day for the shops themselves. It additionally comes with its personal in-jokes and arcane references, which this 12 months have been became some kinda actuality with an in-joke inside an in-joke.
Largely as a result of it was so common on its preliminary launch, Paul Younger’s 1983 album, No Parlez is famously simple to seek out in second hand report shops and charity outlets. For causes misplaced within the mists of insider report store humour, this album grew to become a sort of shorthand for undesirable abundance i.e. hardened crate-diggers may seek advice from a store with massive reserves of undesirable vinyl as having “loads of No Parlez”.
As Report Retailer Day advanced from a useful initiative to stimulate demand in a dying trade to a bloated behemoth prioritising wasteful nostalgia and obliging shops to take a position probably ruinous sums in buying a variety of usually costly and fully pointless restricted version vinyl re-releases on mango and pistachio-coloured vinyl, No Parlez was meme-ified (if not mummified) as a totem of resistance.
Report retailer house owners who had opted out of this annual circus of anal retentive conspicuous consumption may sign their dissension by circulating images of their store with No Parlez on the entrance of each stack of data (see picture beneath) or perpetrating lovingly crafted April Idiot’s jokes about imaginary misplaced different variations of the album
Think about their delight on discovering out that the title track’s authentic writer has repurposed it for a brand new age of protest, with art work and video drawing on UK hip hop pioneer Mr Factor’s distinctive picture archive of photographs of No Parlez ‘within the wild’.
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