Touch and Go sets up digital shop

The opening of Touch and Go / Quarterstick Records' digital retail store will, at long last, take place on Tuesday, June 5. We're gonna have a digital bash with some not-so-digital bubbly.

The Touch and Go digital store will offer both individual tracks and full albums available as DRM-free 256k MP3’s. We'll be the only location on the Web where you can find digital versions of Slint's Spiderland and untitled EP, as well as all the Shellac and Rapeman albums. Speaking of Shellac, the Touch and Go digital store will also offer both CD quality 16 bit and above CD quality 24 bit WAV files of Shellac's latest long player, Excellent Italian Greyhound (out June 5). Finally, touchandgorecords.com will be the first place to present the digital-only reissue of two scarce Bedhead EP’s originally released on Trance Syndicate--4song19:10CDEP (1994) and The Dark Ages (1996). They will be made available at other fine digital retailers on July 10.

We're stoked to be able to offer you digital music for the first time through our own website… and DRM free too! Maybe it will end some wild goose-chasing you've been doing for CDs that just aren't as easy to find anymore. Or maybe it will allow you to grab some titles you’ve been meaning to pick up for years but kept forgetting to buy. Either way, we couldn’t be happier to launch this new excursion into the digital realm. And with a little luck (and help from our IT department), we will be offering more digital exclusives, bonus tracks and digital-only reissues in the future.