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Jumping into the digital indie fray alongside folks like Sub Pop and Touch and Go, Glasgow's revered Chemikal Underground imprint has launched its very own online store for the sale of digital music files.

Cruise on over to the Chemikal Underground shop right now and you'll find every darn release in the label's prestigious catalog-- over 650 songs!-- reduced to refreshingly portable, 256kbps ones and zeros. That catalog includes classics from Mogwai, Arab Strap (plus solo releases from Aidan John Moffat and Malcolm Middleton), CU founders the Delgados, Bis, Aerogramme, and more, not to mention the ultra-rare, ultra-excellent Interpol Fukd ID 12".

Being able to satisfy your Chemikal fix from the comfort of your own computer chair is pretty sweet by itself, but the shop will make things even more worth your while by offering up some rare exclusives. Among them: the sole official Degaldos concert bootleg, Live at the Fruitmarket: Glasgow 2001, Arab Strap's soundtrack to the short film Rogue Farm, and plenty of Arab Strap rarities. And that's just the beginning.

While shaking things up on the world wide web, Chemikal Underground has also been making moves in reality-land. The label recently delivered Aidan John Moffat's naughty I Can Hear Your Heart and Mother and the Addicts' Science Fiction Illustrated, and treated overseas audiences to the latest Radar Bros. LP, Auditorium. Mogwai's groundbreaking Young Team, as previously reported, will get a 10th anniverary expanded reissue from CU, tentatively in April.