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I for one don’t care for etchings in any way shape or form. It’s definitely not a selling point in my mind, I would rather have a blank side than have a price increase for an etching I will never look at for more than a second to see what side the music is on.

I like myself a lot more after buying this with hotel points via Amazon instead of using real money.

That is a terrible excuse for this oversight, but I guess there’s the answer. No, it is NOT included in this set that supposedly “contains the band's whole studio discography.” i wasn’t going to ask a question that can’t be answered, but I can’t help myself. How is the song FTM, not apart of the story of the album FTM? I thought the story at the time of album release was that the song was removed from the album solely for time constraints so it would fit on one CD. It literally fades out with exactly the same music that the first song on the album fades in with, but is “not part of the story.” Okay.

Its he. But who would mind anyway.

I’ve been eyeing a print or two but the awkward size is keeping me away. Blanket is great too.

This album is excellent 👌

I’m guessing that the yellow w/ red splatter sold out as it was out of 300. So this one is a new run.

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It's been politicized for sure. Not saying masks don't have utility or that this is all a hoax. Two things can be true at the same time. Not sure why so many people try to put things into binary categories and play the football game, when life often exists in grey areas where aspects of both arguments have value. It can be true that Fauci is both knowledgeable in his field but also working with politicians in their power grab. So to say "not at all" is short-sighted, imo.

This could have made things really easy. And then you'd have Cassandra on two sides of one disc. A1 Frances The Mute B1 Gygnus....Vismund Cygnus B2 The Widow C1 L'Via L'Viaquez D1 Miranda, That Ghost Just Ain't Holy Anymore E1 Cassandra Gemini Pt. 1 (First half) F1 Cassandra Gemini Pt. 2 (Second half)

I was thinking more like the I Heard They Suck Live repress that went up in October but hasn't shipped yet but the Lawrence Arms repress or the Never Trust A Hippy records shipped the day after they went up

Sadist Nation and Undoing Ruin are peak Darkest Hour imo.

Chill. I check the CDC site frequently and I work for a state government. We are currently still relying on individual States to disperse vaccines and so far some have incredibly slow rollouts or websites that are confusing for eligible users or become overloaded with registrations. Yes, it’s only early March and September is still far off, so anything is possible. I’m still entitled to my own personal doubts. I’ve got tickets to four Rage Against The Machine shows in August and I still think it will be postponed for a second time. I have the patience to wait another year for concerts. Do you?

That’s weird. I guess I could just link the new song 😂

You should get a nice oral lesson from her as a reward after all this nightmare

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?

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!

People will probably be salty until he pays them what he owes them. So it'll probably be forever.

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.

Tonight’s clubhouse is cancelled, I was hit on my motorcycle and am in the hospital

The green variants been coming out any day now for years. You’d think they’d take it off their website. Like wtf

No think its still sides D & E of that LP but for some reason the song tiles released by the distributor to stores for listings has called side E Tarantism. Basically its just exactly the same as the 2lp + single sided lp version https://www.discogs.com/The-Mars-Volta-Frances-The-Mute/release/447805 Should really have advertised the set as 14xLP, 3 x single sided LP, 1 double sided 7"