mr. sincere

Don't really get the confusion over this. I think everybody can expect the usual procedure for this release, which is that Amazon will carry the rarest variant.

Please tone down the controversial opinions, alright?

Because the amount of money anyone will save by waiting for eBay is $10 if they're lucky. Chances are they will be saving less than that. There's no reason to pretend that you're gaming the system by holding out for eBay, where you'll maybe be able to get one for $25 in a month after the release. People are acting like they'll be able to get these for nothing and everybody who bought one now is an idiot. The price right now is comparable to a lot of double LPs. Don't know how much lower anybody is expecting it to get. Also, wasn't that /10,000 rumor just speculated in this thread by somebody doing shady math 50 pages ago? Even if that's accurate (probably is around that amount), that's not over-saturation for this record, I don't think.

Not really sure what the point is with these kinds of posts. Like you're taking a stand by ordering it for the same price but only after the fact? And then everybody is being a cool guy and saying they hope everybody who wanted red gets black? Because...?

So ya gotta act fast!

I don't think this is a bootleg. I thought MOV was putting it out...?

http://www.musicrecordshop.com/Brand-New-Raging-Inside-PRE-ORDER/dp/B00EZWSYMK

So this is the post-Grammy weirdo identity crisis album? Cool.

Don't want to hear my shitty Lady Gaga covers? Well, now you get nothing. Enjoy it, assholes! -Brian

No, I don't think that's why.

Says somebody who needs RSD to talk to people at the record store. I strike up conversation at the record store all the time. I don't need to spend hours in line one or two days a year with a bunch of people waiting to buy overpriced crap to call myself social.

The day is barely in the spirit of the day anymore, so I think it matters less and less how you "celebrate" it. PS great avatar...I think NJD has good years up ahead.

Agreed. Pure class all the way. Both of mine are are 100% cool, not a single issue and listened to both all the way through yesterday. Records, packaging, and of course songs, are all beautiful on this one. Excellent release for one of the best albums of the year!

Love the Jefe/Fallon template of posters featuring hot tattooed girls looking sad. I imagine a wall covered with these might start to land on the creepy side after awhile.

Yeah seriously, I can't get enough. And it feels like such a natural progression from the first two. I didn't really dislike Midnight in America, it just felt out of step. This one puts them right back on track though. It sounds so effortless, they just came right back without missing a beat. Can't wait until this one is on actual rotation, won't leave my turntable for a long time.

$25+ bucks for this is nuts. IC puts out quality releases, but that's a lot of money just because it's a preorder color. Maybe this deters flippers, but an /300 release for Diarrhea Planet probably doesn't rate too highly on the eBay list of crazy prices. Deterred me from buying though. Cool band and really cool looking color, but not for that price. I'll wait for the store copies.

This album is crazy good.

I may be the only one, but even though I can't stand the artwork, I'm looking forward to the music.

And for what it's worth, she told me the band themselves alerted management to the problems. Not sure if that makes sense, but regardless, I agree that it's good to see somebody addressing this. That said, if I were to ever pay for this, I'd probably wait to see how the next one goes first...

Whether or not an album is a failure isn't really based on whether or not you like it. I don't know the exact numbers for Handwritten, but it seemed to be a pretty big summer release that did well (for that genre) and then died off in autumn, almost immediately without a lot of buzz since, despite constant touring. That's the barometer. No way is Mercury happy about that and no way could that album be considered a success. One more before Gaslight is back on an indie, if it even goes that far. I'm curious as to whether the contract with Mercury is the whole band or just Fallon. Would not be surprised if it's the latter.

Oh, BARF. The dude got big and then his record didn't go anywhere. And people at his shows want to hear some stuff even though he wants to play other stuff. How many bands in the history of rock and roll have not had this experience??? And aside from a possible lack of depth in songwriting abilities, this is what has and always will really separate Fallon from all the people he emulates. Some artists can deal with success and the rocky road you almost always have to take to get there, and others cannot. I won't completely write Brian off yet. After all these years, I have no reason to. And that douchebag writing his obituary on Gaslight's sycophantic fansite needs to calm down as well. This happens. You get to a certain point, your ego gets huge, your shows grow and your tours are awesome. And then in one second, it all stops and you're confronted with reality again. I honestly cannot think of one band I know where something similar hasn't happened. Hell, on the night of his 30th birthday, Springsteen threw a cake an audience member had given him back into the crowd, he was so pissed about it. The last time I saw him on his birthday, he was cutting a cake on stage and passing pieces around. Granted that's thirty years later, but my point is that it's a process and a learning experience to get from point A to point B when you're in a band on the brink of success or failure. I guess the test is whether or not this band learns how to put it all into perspective and just deal with it. And at this point, I think that depends on Brian's ability to regain some humility and come back from the stratosphere of his own head. Hopefully that happens sooner rather than later.

Pretty interesting comments from a guy who lists every impossible-to-reach band and songwriter that he now wants everyone to disassociate him from, as reference points for what each new record he writes will sound like...I mean even if all that is a joke, you can't blame some people for taking it seriously. I give them one or two more records before Brian ends Gaslight and gets a new band. Because in the end, this album they're writing will inevitably sound and be received like a Gaslight Anthem record and that's clearly not working for him anymore.

In all seriousness, I think it's time for the band to step in and say something to everyone who paid $25 for this nonsense. Especially if they're already asking for more money without resolving these issues first in any kind of meaningful way. I mean this is being carried out in their name and as much as I like to rag on them, I do know that their fans are important to them and they've gone out of their way in the past to do cool things. I'd like to see them say something, because this really cannot go unaddressed.

Sounds like a lot of the stuff you'd hear on alterna-rock radio in 2002. Not a bad thing if that's what you're into.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILruoBR6ZRU