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Lets say you take 100 random people and 100 record collectors. I guarantee there will be more scumbags in the latter group. Hear me out. This is all shit that has happened in the last couple of months. And I have virtually no online presence so this is pretty concentrated. Had a Ryan Adams Heartbreaker original issue vinyl up for sale. Buyer contacts me with a pretty low offer, I try and help him out (not being snarky) by telling him it has been reissued for around his price. He tells me he collects first pressings of RA and really wants this for his collection. Cool, I get that and I offer to sell it to him for slightly more than his initial offer. A couple of weeks later my Ebay saved search email shows this guy trying to flip it at around what I had it listed for. Send him a message and no response. One of my friends bands had me give away 5 test pressings of their first album. It has no album and label art so they didn't feel right charging for it. At the show the only thing I asked was people give away the album if they didn't like the music, I mean this was after the show when presumably they would have seen them open for the main act, so they should have had a rough idea what the music was like. Sure enough a week later one of these pressings is up on Ebay as rare New York metal band test pressing only 5 made. And what about all the unkempt greaseballs at record shows with that "got mine" attitude and no consideration for others browsing? Seriously these last couple of weeks it's made me sick just putting a record on, I'm just getting on Apollo and downloading the damn thing.

Wasn't sure to post this in FS section or here. Anyone have suggestions for record mailers? Cheapest I've found is around $0.45 each on Amazon when buying 100.

"Regular maintenance, we'll be back soon!" That is what I'm seeing on their homepage

I remember those, but IIRC they were lithographs or giclee. I prefer screen prints. Not that it matters they were gone by the time I found out about them

Would love to see more video game posters. Seems like the vast majority of stuff discussed on EB are for movies, which is cool I just don't really have the same connection with movies vs music and to a lesser extent video games. I would give 3/4 of my left pinky for a Dark Souls 1 print of the castle.

Latest Sleep poster, a D'Andrea/Roper collab

Good to know it showed up. Currently has this on a album that was sent to me, left the seller's local post office then no other tracking update.

I think I do, let me think on it. Edit: oh damn I'm in the US, shipping to Germany is around $23 :/

Send me a message if you ever want to sell your Marijuananaut

I bought the red EU version of Pale Communion. I've listened to it a few times, if you told me this new track was on Pale Communion I'd believe it all sounds so samey.

I asked about all of them, this was it

Cool, lots to consider Honestly these are not high demand APs and I don't for see money being an issue given my field. I'd like to do it right once so I'll take everything said here onboard, for certain they will not be dry mounted.

I have been going back and forth it. The main reason is all three (once I eventually find them) will be going behind the speakers and take up a good amount of space front wall reflections start to become an issue with glass/plexi type of surfaces. It's less of an issue in really large rooms. Also is it possible to get UV protective plexi that is anti-glare as well? This is another consideration from an aesthetics point of view.

What are your suggestions to do it properly? My only requirement is no plexi and I'd probably like to go with double mat.

David D'Andrea hooked me up when I asked if he might have any of the Sleep trio prints left over. Awesome guy. This will be going into my drop out of life audiophool extraordinaire man cave. Now looking for the other two to complete the family. I think I am going to dry mount them framed, except with out plexi to avoid front wall reflections.