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All Buckcherry albums sound worse than a Crosley.

Been reading good things about the new Evoken and was bummed I slept on it. Today I got a shipping notification for it... Do I buy too many records? Yes.

...probably. RECARDS - The Record Playing Gift Card

Too true https://toiletovhell.com/band-shirts-and-the-live-experience-consumer-signaling-in-the-hierarchy-of-brands/

I dunno, think they might still give Crosley a run for their money!

I’ll probably end up grabbing it solely for the extra bells and whistles, since this is the Avalanches record nearest and dearest to my heart. But yeah, OG samples would be a massive get if they can swing it. Not sure why else this project would’ve vanished off the radar for a year, so... fingers crossed.

New Mustard Plug variant Ketchup Mayonnaise Mustard tri color /300 https://smartpunkshop.com/collections/smartpunk-exclusives/products/mustard-plug-evildoers-beware-smartpunk-exclusive

I was at an anniversary party for Faction Brewery(Adolescents played) and I was telling my buddy about Kalas and how I got to see them live. I was saying how bummed I was I didn't buy a shirt. I turn around and some dude has a Kalas shirt! WTF? How many people even know who that band is and how many people out of those people actually have a shirt? I have never seen one since that show. That was just straight up crazy weird!

I was just at a 40th birthday party for a bar friend who's a teacher. I was one of 5 bar friend guests. The rest were teachers and administration. It was the first cool evening so I went battle vest and damned if the school's IT guy doesn't show up in a battle vest with a Lucifer Rising back patch. Needless to say, we hit it off.

Yeah I remember we both had accidental splatter order regret

Speaking of band shirts, seems like a good time/place to ask if anyone use tshirtslayer.com? Here's my profile https://tshirtslayer.com/user/coreystevens88

These are essentially donations to Polyvinyl with a free test pressing thank you gift. I would ask your tax preparer about writing these off as a charitable contribution.

Just wait for the flippers to sell them on eBay at half these prices.

$150 too rich for my blood

Awesome please let me know, I will send you the Monies immediately.

My box was crushed to shit. The LP was loose inside the box with some paper around it, but no other protection. Yet somehow the LP is in perfect shape. Not even a dinged corner. Crazy considering how jacked the shipping box was.

you know you waaaaaant itttt!!

Spoiler alert: here's an unboxing video of the set...I myself am going to hold off, but if you're antsy or on-the-fence about buying.....

I saw them playing to 30 people on a saturday night in Munich a few years ago... I missed out on It hates you and I guess it won't be repressed... also guessing that the t&n era will never be pressed. Anyone with some insights?

I don't even bother putting my records back in the sleeve, ever. I put them in a MoFi type sleeve after cleaning and place it outside of the cardboard sleeve but inside the plastic outer sleeve. That's the proper way to store records to prevent possible long term ring wear, and you never have to worry about damaging inner sleeves by shoving them into tight pockets.

When I get home from work (and voting!) I will definitely do so. It's just a small thumbnail printed directly onto the mailer with black ink, so it's not super detailed but it's definitely great artwork.

For those of you into this kind of thing, there are test presses of It Hates You and Heavy Fruit available at Tragic Hero Records via this link http://www.merchbucket.com/category/HIL-LTD.html. This band should be much bigger than they are, IMO. Absolutely love the new single.

It showed as gone for me last night. Pretty amazing that this album has a ton of versions and is always available yet they can sell 500 of a new pricey variant in a day no problem.

Happy to report, my /233 swirl arrived safe yesterday (finally). It all makes sense now in regards to the shipping delay, they used MerchConnection

There's one in my signature. But they're not really working. So you might need to pm me your email and I'll email them to add the credit.

I'll make my debut this year. My name is Rich and I'm a married 32 year old dude with 2 cats living in Los Angeles, CA. When I was 8, my uncle gave me his beat up Dookie cassette and I officially started my music collecting addiction. When I was 13, I built my first website, a music review page called "Cheap CD Reviews", and I ended up on the CD promo list for Sub Pop, Tooth and Nail, Hush, Barsuk, Drive Thru, and about a half dozen other indie labels. In college, I started collecting records exclusively. I started with grunge and alt-rock (Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day, Third Eye Blind), moved to pop punk and ska (Reel Big Fish, Aquabats, Lagwagon), then transitioned into indie rock (John Vanderslice, The National, Kind of Like Spitting), which has been my main genre of choice over the last 15+ years. I am the only member of my family who isn't musically skilled. My 18 year old brother plays lead guitar for Maximum Bob's new band, my other younger brother is the archetypal singer-songwriter with albums of unreleased material on his hard drive, and my sister writes the occasional song. The best I can do is collect records and tapes. My biggest sub-collection is R.E.M. bootlegs from the 80s and 90s. I have over 40 of them, as well as every R.E.M. official album and live album and 95% of their 12" and 7" singles. Outside of music, I've been improvising and performing comedy in Los Angeles for over 12 years, off and on. I gave up on the SNL dream early on, in exchange for being employed and being able to afford to be a happy adult. I still enjoy performing and taking the occasional improv class without any professional ambitions. This summer, I started a pin company and am launching officially sometime this month. I've been a member of VC off and on for a while under various random usernames that I lightly used and then abandoned. I did a Secret Santa for another vinyl forum last year and I had a great time coming up with a high concept theme for the packaging and bonus material. I'm excited to participate in the VC Secret Santa for the first time. I hope this was long enough and filled with the right amount of extraneous detail.

This record is awesome.

Going to see Uada tonight, stoked. Theses guys are supporting them remind me of Ghostbath at times but a little less twinkly: https://atravetosus.bandcamp.com Worth checking out!

When I saw there was a second post on this thread I knew it was going to be you saying that haha

Cool I liked this album when it came out, real whiskeytown vibe if I remember correctly

Bought that. Was excited to see they brought on Rory from KarbomB. Love these guys.

Same. Maybe you have to mail it back, all old-school style? Maybe my lazy ass could email them? Who knows?

i was more saying i didn't find the new Mineral track to be very good, and that i wouldn't probably like an entire album written from the same headspace/in the same style. i really loved AF2 (and goes without saying i love AF1 too). they're very different albums that do different things, but they still mostly feel like they belong to the same band's discography. AF2 definitely challenges anyone who expected a return to those teenage feelings and the vaguely Cap'n Jazzy headspace of their particular brand of late 90s emo, but it feels like the band really wanted to make LP2 the way they made it and are trying to meet old fans halfway even in their experimentation. the new Mineral single, in contrast, felt more like a middling tribute to Mineral made by some others guys (the very strikingly unfamiliar vocals sure didn't help there either). it felt to me like the song latched onto some of the superficial signifiers of the classic Mineral sound without really trying to take up the emotional and creative burden of the OG material. aaaand that's my TED talk haha.

Just got this in the mail from rfc, it's a standard sleeve, not the deluxe gatefold cover fyi.

I'm not one to believe that comeback albums are capable of tarnishing a band's former legacy but AF2 in a vacuum spits in the face of anyone who might've been a fan of AF1

I want to take (in the biblical sense) a brown eye in Ohio, my pedigree chum.

Fuck that sound guy. He was a dick.

My glow variant came in today...

I hope the press the greatest hits. While I dig Primus, I can only imagine that i'd want to spin the hits if I am going to put it on the turn table.

It’s the EP. $200 for 3 songs.