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    konk reacted to SaulManella in PO: Green Day- Saviors (1/19/24)   
    Will they release any of it?
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    konk reacted to HardlineKid in (PO) The Menzingers - Some of it Was True (10/13/23)   
    This would be one of those records that I spend a ton on for a more exclusive variant, then listen to it once, go meh, move on with my life, then find it months later at a record store and think, "man, I should've just held off and bought it here"
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    konk reacted to skycriesmary in Eminem - Relapse (Back in stock)   
    What? That album sucked in comparison to most of his catalog. 
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    konk reacted to dnl in AFI - Sing The Sorrow 2xLP - Boot Available Today - NOW: Official Reissue Happening & PO Dropping   
    I see this come up on social media and other places online whenever someone asks about AFI represses and why they haven't happen. This source of this statement was specific to an unauthorized repress of their first EP, Dork, a few years ago. An EP that they made as high school students before they ever considered taking the band seriously.
    No one from the band has ever made any statements about repressing music that they actually still perform live. 
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    konk reacted to rickker in Did Stores Used to Open at Midnight for New Releases?   
    Picked up both of those CDs from midnight release sales at independent shops back in the day.
    Got pulled over on my way home from the Lateralus release for 'weaving in my lane'. (Really I was driving a crappy car through an 'uppity' area at 1AM) Those cops did not believe my story about a new TOOL album. Sobriety checked, breathalized then detained in a patrol car while they searched my car for over an hour before finally letting me on my way.
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    konk reacted to tokimedo in PO: Matchbox 20 - Boxset   
    If anyone is looking for this, looks like they got in at least 500 copies , but stock is dwindling quickly cause I know a lot of people have been waiting on this one  
    https://www.plaidroomrecords.com/products/b-matchbox-twenty-b-br-i-yourself-or-someone-like-you-transparent-red-vinyl-i
     
     
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    konk reacted to rrd in Did I sell you my Against Me! "Reinventing Axl Rose" test press?   
    this is like one of those safe opening threads on reddit
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    konk reacted to TheGhostOfRandySavage in Vagrant 25 Years Vinyl Represses   
    Overall a dud?! Are you LOCO, man? Album is great front to back. Miles better than Guilt show, which people around here have some kind of boner for for sure. Y'all wild.
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    konk reacted to dantheriver in Vagrant 25 Years Vinyl Represses   
    On A Wire rules, you all are trippin.
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    konk reacted to derkwithano in Vagrant 25 Years Vinyl Represses   
    Sounds like a perfect fit for this album. 😉
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    konk reacted to Derek™ in PO Soon - Coheed and Cambria - Vaxis II - A Window for the Waking Mind   
    It’s probably the most Coheed art that Coheed’s ever Coheeded.
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    konk reacted to [Banned User] in Preorders🤬   
    My vinyl collection is only preorders. In fact, once the preorder does ship to me, I simply return it and then remove it from my collection. Then I preorder something new to take its place.
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    konk reacted to zuck in Vagrant 25 Years Vinyl Represses   
    I would have gone with Let You Unfold It
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    konk reacted to meatrocket8 in Vagrant 25 Years Vinyl Represses   
    Let It Fold You.
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    konk reacted to Derek™ in PO Now - Tigers Jaw - I Won't Care How You Remember Me (Out in 2021)   
    Hot take: S/T is the only TJ album worth revisiting.  Don’t @ me.  But I guess also feel free to if you firmly believe otherwise and can voice an opinion like an adult.
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    konk reacted to TheGhostOfRandySavage in The Get Up Kids — "There Are Rules" on 180 gram black vinyl   
    Crazy to think it's been almost 20 years since they released something actually worthwhile.
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    konk reacted to ntslash in PO: The Weeknd - The Highlights   
    I'm tempted, but it's missing "High for This" which is my favorite Weeknd song. 
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    konk reacted to nardes in PO: Kacey Musgraves - Star-Crossed LP   
    This album has just left me wanting "more."
    The opening track is stellar and I thought it would really set the tone (or I guess "scene")  for the album... but the rest just seems be more bland in comparison. Especially following all her interviews I really thought she was going to dig deep into her emotions, but while some tracks certainly do, most just scratch at the surface. 
     
    Also, I keep going back to the thinking of (and maybe this is why I'm hard on this album) how perfectly MisterWives's album SUPERBLOOM goes through the emotions of divorce/ending a relationship and set the bar super high for any albums with the same subject matter... and Star Crossed doesn't come anywhere close to it. 
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    konk reacted to SNEAKORDS in PO Now: Lorde - Solar Power   
    I don't want to get stuck with a record that sounds like Jack Johnson acoustic beach songs on your parents easy listening station tracks so I'm going to wait to see what the rest sounds like.
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    konk reacted to toxicity in The Official Fat Wreck Preorder Thread   
    I don't have screenshots, but it was supposedly written by the other woman in the story, I believe her name was Stacy and she was dating Ray at the time.  In it, she picked apart the victim's behavior in very much the same way you just did (congrats on thinking the exact same way as every other rape apologist in this toxic scene).
    Masked Intruder shared the post without comment, only to delete it and post this bullshit after receiving blowback.  The post and comments under it should hopefully clear your personal burden of proof that TBR's post existed.
    Bottom line, Ray is not a safe person for women to be around, and the reason this shit never changes is these guys get their scene-bros to back them up, as you've done, congrats on fulfilling your duty.  The band was quietly dropped from this year's Fest lineup.  Look at their fb for about a week after 7/21, the date the podcast came out.  All the comments were turned off on their posts, but not on the post about the podcast so they could do damage control.  The band managed to semi-successfully sweep this under the rug.
    And Fat still chose to put out their new album.
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    konk reacted to toxicity in The Official Fat Wreck Preorder Thread   
    The band's response was trash too.  They took it down, but it was 100% victim-blaming and slut-shaming.  I'm done with them.
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    konk reacted to MacDonals in Vagrant 25 Years Vinyl Represses   
    I must be in the wrong timeline.
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    konk reacted to jhulud in This fucking guy. (Virgil)   
    Ever wonder what happened to some of those folks who were here since day one and either just fizzled out of THE HOBBY! or had a meltdown and disappeared?
     
    Or folks like Yu. He was (and surely still is) a good kid. Or that one guy who started making jokes about the Boston Marathon bombings immediately after it happened and everyone just piled on him. 
     
    There have been some interesting characters walking these halls. 
     
    And there used to be a lot more female record nerds. What happened to them? 
     
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    konk reacted to AlexH. in This fucking guy. (Virgil)   
    Talking shit is why the internet exists. It's good.
     
        He ran Suburban Home Records, a low-to-mid-tier punk label. Circa 2006 he founded Vinyl Collective, which consisted of:
    A Proboards forum, which through an arcane series of events eventually became this website here A vinyl-only distro – pretty novel at the time as the vinyl revival was just starting to take off. At that point the main punk/hardcore options were basically No Idea and Interpunk and some smaller players, and they had their pluses and minuses but mostly they just carried punk records. Virgil carried all that, plus like, rap reissues and other random stuff, and he'd try to get stuff people asked for, so he was like a one-stop shop. and finally, a vinyl-only label – again, very novel at the time. He pressed vinyl for labels that didn't want to deal with it, including a ton of stuff from Ferret & Red Scare, and big bands like Minus the Bear, Norma Jean, & Portugal the Man. People loved this guy, and the stuff he licensed sold big for the most part. He used his newfound clout to continually expand his operation, growing his distro and putting out a ton of music via Suburban Home. A lot of it was like alt-country/raspy-punk-guy-goes-acoustic type stuff, and I can't imagine any of it holds up at all (I do like the LaGrecia album he put out and I wanna say Stereotyperider was good?) Every release came out on multiple colors, there were limited preorder packages with bottle openers and posters and shit, all the collector gimmicks you can imagine. He started a (frankly pretty great) split 7" series called Under the Influence where bands covered artists who influenced them, and somehow roped in like every artist that was big on Punknews in 2008 to contribute. Some of those singles came out on 3 colors. 
     
    In retrospect, the first warning sign that he was stretching himself too thin was probably the Cooperative. He hatched this scheme to get 200 people to chip in 60 bucks as an investment, and that money would be used to license, manufacture, and distribute an album that didn't exist on vinyl. Everyone in the Co-op got a copy of the rare color of the record, and the money from selling the remainder of the pressing would go towards the next release. In theory, a never-ending stream of records for 60 bucks! People were gaga over this idea. Shares in the VC Co-Op sold out in minutes. At least one person had a full-blown meltdown on the message board over the fact that they had missed out on buying a share. Personally I had set an alarm but overslept and missed it by minutes. I was so pissed!
     
    There was all sorts of stuff around the voting process and making teams and narrowing down the list that I was not there for, but in the end, the first Co-Op release was The Falcon – God Don't Make No Trash, on a 10". As I recall, it did okay. There were some concerned murmurs as Virgil revealed that the record had cost slightly more than anticipated as 10"s cost more to manufacture, but they were reassured that it wouldn't affect the master plan and everything would be fine. The next release was The Jealous Sound – Kill Them with Kindness, on a double LP. A double LP, surprisingly, also cost more than anticipated, and sales were soft. Next up was A Wilhelm Scream – Mute Print, and a sort of complete discography for Gaslight Anthem side project This Charming Man, both relatively straightforward single LP releases. It should be noted that this all took fffooorrreeevvveeerrr. According to Discogs, the first (and only) 4 releases came out in 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011. In between each release, 200 people are milling about the message board waiting impatiently for any kind of update on what should theoretically not take 3 years.
     
    While this is happening, Virgil's operation is continuing to expand. He's hiring people and moving into bigger spaces, Suburban Home is putting out tons of music, and at some point there are too many plates spinning and things start taking a turn. He sells "VC for Life" memberships where for $1000 you get everything they release, forever. He takes preorders for Volume 2 of Under The Influence, with promised artists including The Gaslight Anthem and Minus the Bear, which never materializes. For most of VC's run, all his releases were pressed through Pirates Press as they were the only place that was doing all the splatters, hazes & splits that he utilized extensively, but at a certain point he switches to a domestic plant. Later the word from the rumor mill is that he was so in debt with Pirates Press that they wouldn't take new orders from him. Virgil starts blowing out inventory under the guise of clearing out space, doing big bundles of LPs and 7"s for dirt cheap.  Labels who were distro-ing with VC start posting threads on the message boards that they've not been getting paid for months. Some of them get deleted, including a legendary one where Tre from Deathwish tells Virgil to answer his email and give him his money, in so many words. People start asking to sell back their shares in the co-op as it becomes clear that it's a sinking ship.
     
    While this is all happening, Virgil announces a mother freakin' craft beer tour.
     
    In early 2011, the bottom finally falls out and Virgil shutters Vinyl Collective, leaving tons of labels, bands and customers in the lurch. He liquidates everything through eBay and his own store, and disappears for a good while, although according to Discogs, Suburban Home put out a handful of releases between 2011 and 2015. The most valuable asset at that point was the message board, and he sold it(?!?) to ShopRadioCast and Academy Fight Song Records, another label that flamed out spectacularly pretty soon after. And now here we are! Virgil basically lost everything, but he pops up again every few years with an interview in some Colorado alt-weekly about his new business doing promotion for craft distilleries or whatever. He's an ideas guy!
     
    It's wild to think that there are people who are regulars here who have no idea about Virgil or Suburban Home. Personally, it was one of the first online communities I was a part of, and although I don't post as regularly anymore, it is comforting to have at least one familiar place that hasn't been swallowed whole by Facebook or Reddit. Long live VC!
     

     
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    konk reacted to dreamover in This fucking guy. (Virgil)   
    People will probably be salty until he pays them what he owes them. So it'll probably be forever. 
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