Oblivions

I’ve been wished to a special place in hell by strangers on Discogs for selling items from a box set individually (even though I was asked to split it up by buyers). It’s going to be a crowded place once we all arrive.

It seems to happen to me randomly. I don’t really care about jacket damage. Warps bug me a little more as, these days, the option to resell a record when money is tight is always on my mind and a bad warp can be the difference between getting full market value or 50-60% market value when the day to let the record go inevitably comes. You can sell a used record for close to market value if all that’s wrong is a bend or split...most buyers don’t really care as long as you’re upfront. Larger point, I used to think there were records I could never get rid of and that I’d own forever. Not so much anymore. Anything that comes in will probably, at some point, get sold off or passed to a friend/family member for their birthday/holidays.

My favorite recent test press story is how the ‘test press’ copies of the new Matt Berninger album were produced and arrived with a delay AFTER every other variant was produced and delivered. Risky move to not get your test presses and check for audio flaws until after the entire run of vinyl is finished. 😁

I haven’t opened my copy yet but it looked warped AF in the shrink when I put it on my shelf in between other records (it doesn’t sit flush with the other LPs).

Yep. Expect a week of time and 2 emails to be exchanged before someone actually takes in your question/issue.

Aeffect or gtfo

They knew our disposition when they decided to sell vinyl to us.

My order I placed in July hasn’t shipped and still shows as pending. I emailed them and they told me my order is still considered a pre-order (I got 2 folklore variants and the Cardigan singles) and are expected to ship later in December. Nothing about variants being sold out. *shrug emoji*

People who got theirs without any shipping confirmation being sent: was the order page at least updated? My order page is still the same as the day I made the order (in progress/processing/received or whatever) and I dunno if I should expect a package without, at minimum, that being updated.

I only ever owned the Music from Another Room EP when it was originally released but I’ll stay around this thread long enough to say this sounds like someone’s dad who used to be in a rock band in his 20s and then decided to start writing music again so he bought a bunch of instruments and equipment and Apple dongle adapters and set up a pretty cool studio in the basement and, most nights around 11pm, he goes down there and he just plays around on the keyboard a little bit, sometimes sequences some fun drum beats, sometimes just sits there in his pleather swivel chair and thinks about how music these days is missing an inspirational message, some groovy vibes, some soul, heart, the confidence to dance a little bit, not too much guitar or unpleasant distortion, and then, 10 months later, he’s written a watered down, toothless version of an Imagine Dragons or Local Natives arena mashed potato pop rock reverb party from 2013.

Are we sure this isn’t one of those Spotify bands that purposefully choose existing band names

I ordered 2 variants and some of the singles and have received no update. You may now resume as you were.

She should talk to Reel Big Fish and ask them how they went about re-recording their greatest hits CD.

Target’s Heyday player is like a Crosley with an adjustable tonearm and it’s received decent reviews (for what it is) . And it’s $99.99. https://www.target.com/p/heyday-8482-turntable-gray/-/A-53734379 If my budget was a strict $100, I would go for the table with the adjustable tonearm over the brand value of Audio Technica with the fixed plastic arm.

Marvel + Mondo + Meticulous and Meltable Music Medium + Memories of Middle/High School/College is a dangerous combination for adults with expendable cash in their pocket.

I’m wishing for a red, orange and green tri-color variant from 7-Eleven.

Other than drinking free Yoo-hoo all day, my favorite Warped Tour memory was one of the early 2000s years when I saw Ozma and Something Corporate play to 10 people back to back at 11am and 11:30am. It was also cool to see the Aeffect with their original singer before they changed vocalists and quickly disappeared from everyone’s consciousness forever.

Siri, set a reminder to reply to this post in 16 months.

Question for our collective consciousnesses...there was a TV doc show on either MTV or VH1 maybe 10+ years ago (OR it could have been a well produced video on YouTube within the last 10 years?) where they talked about Green Day and the talking head (who was either a magazine writer or possibly someone from LookOut records?) was throwing some shade at Insomniac and said something like “Green Day wanted to prove they were still punk after Dookie so they released an angry, mean album and I was like ‘Where is this coming from? Your band was never this hard/loud.’” I figure if I only get one chance in my life to finally remember where this was from, it’s this thread.

I remember being like 11 and walking into the Wherehouse having no idea Green Day had a new album and seeing a giant cardboard display for Insomniac. I thought it was an old album I hadn’t heard like Kerplunk, which I had bought a week earlier at K-Mart, so I grabbed a tape copy and listened to it for a few days before I finally saw Geek Stink Breath on MTV and realized it was new. It’s been my favorite of theirs, by far, since the moment I first heard it. Sad that I’ll never have that experience again of walking into a shop and seeing a brand new record/tape of my favorite band that I had no idea was released.

He’s like a dad who starts a new family every few years instead of going back to his original VC children that he already has and being the vinyl father we deserved when we were young kids in our late 20s.

Age of Adz and Carrie and Lowell are my favorites from each of his halves. I like the more melodic electronic stuff and I prefer the more layered but less orchestral folk stuff. If you made his other records into EPs of their best 7-8 songs, he’d legit be one of the all time greats. He probably still is for some people but IMO the extra twee and epic stuff overwhelms the solid gems in his catalogue. I listened to the first half of this and it’s not quite the Sufjan that gets me pumped but it was def better than I expected after those singles. Enjoy it, if you dig it!

Sadly, you will probably age out of being indignant and exasperated over people enjoying the more boring side of Sufjan before they age into a superior musical taste. It’s one of God’s great ironic jokes. 😞

Yeah. Real bidders will occasionally just not pay and then you offer a Second Chance to the next people in line and hope they’re still interested.

It’s been a while since an innocent and naive human joined the forum and asked for help with their vinyl-related college paper and/or vinyl-related product idea. There’s a build up of unused online angst and we’re all feeling it.