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  1. Just got back from Vacation Vinyl in Los Angeles, they already have copies of this and they're putting them out tomorrow. Dude let me open it to listen and it was on oxblood.

     

    ALSO if you buy 2 Southern Lord releases you get free entry to the Baptists/Excel/Obliterations/Xibalba show at Los Globos on October 15th.

  2. I get his point to an extent.  More importantly, he definitely could have made his point in a less childish way.  The guy who was stage-diving was obviously someone who was pretty into Joyce Manor, and to bring a fan up on stage and humiliate him like that is obnoxious.

     

    Seriously. The poor guy was just in the moment. He wasn't head walking, he wasn't crowd killing. He was legitimately just trying to have fun to a band he probably really likes. To then have that band STOP PLAYING and drag you by the shirt back to the stage to publicly ridicule you for doing something that in your mind was showing support for them? Unreal. That dude was even cool about it after the fact and shook his hand and walked calmly off stage, and probably felt like shit the rest of the night for enjoying himself.

     

    I definitely get that they want to protect their fans but god damn, that was painful to watch.

  3. I don't know why anyone would want a much bigger phone anyway. Do I need to start carrying a purse? No, thanks.

    As far as Apple pay and stuff like that, with the way shit gets hacked nowadays, why would I want to put all my info/money on my phone/the internet/cloud.

     

    Well it's apparently super secure. We'll see if that claim holds up. But think about it, if your wallet gets stolen you have to cancel all your cards. If your phone gets stolen they have to cut off your fingerprint or know your code to use it. I just like the idea of eventually never having to carry a wallet.

  4. I love the resale value too.

     

    This is a big part of why I eventually settled with iPhone. Used to be a HUGE Android guy, constantly trading and buying and reselling phones on Craigs List desperately trying to keep up with the curve. It was such a load off my shoulders to buy the iPhone and be able to sell it for only 50 bucks less than I paid for it a whole year later.

     

    Even though the iPhone is getting less and less innovative every year, the features that it does introduce just work.

     

    Apple Pay is great and I'm happy Apple is introducing that payment system because I truly believe they're the only company that can. But it will take a while to become the norm. And in the meantime, asking a cashier if they have Apple Pay and then trying to explain it to them is just as cumbersome as pulling out a credit card and swiping. Unless you eat exclusively at McDonalds and Subway, lol.

     

    So all in all I won't be getting the iPhone 6. I don't need the beefed up specs because my iPhone runs smoothly enough as it is to accomplish everything I need it to, and I actually prefer the 5S screen size anyway.

  5. I like the look and it's great not having to deal with the felt mat, but I can't say I experienced a sound improvement like some claim. Static is definitely less but not non-existent. It also introduced a new problem in that using the anti-static brush on some LP's that aren't 100% flat cause the record to stop rotating while the platter continues to rotate... it makes me cringe to think there could be something grinding into the underside of the record when that happens. For the record (no pun intended) it happens when just holding the brush on the vinyl (not adding pressure).

     

    Just put the slipmat back on to clean the record real quick?

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