Top Sellers at Area Record Stores: Week of August 31-September 7

By Annie Zaleski Tue., Sep. 8 2009 at 5:16 PM

Every Monday, A to Z publishes the best-selling releases from area independent record stores from the preceding week. (Vintage Vinyl will return next week -- they had catastrophic email problems last week.) An asterisk after an album name indicates that the act is coming to town. And so without further ado:

Apop Records
Vivian Girls: Everything Goes Wrong
Faust: So Far
Tortoise: Beacons of Ancestorship*
Faust:C'est Com...Com...Complique
Six Organs of Admittance: Luminous Night
Nightmares: s/t (cassette)
Blank Dogs: Under and Under
Silvester Anfang: Silvester Anfang 2
sic alps: A Long Way Around to A Shortcut
cave: Psychic Psummer

Euclid Records
1. Arctic Monkeys - Humbug
2. Bottle Rockets - Lean Forward*
3. Son Volt - American Central Dust*
4. Black Crowes - Before The Frost*
5. Drive By Truckers - The Fine Print
6. Wilco - Wilco The Album*
7. Modest Mouse - No One's First, And You're Next
8. Mew - No More Stories
9. Blitzen Trapper - Black River Kill
10. Grizzly Bear -- Veckatimest