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Yeah, totally. Even with the Chrysalis stuff, most of them still had the 2 Tone center labels, so it doesn't really matter. Nowadays, I wouldn't really care, but back in the mid 2000's, when I was barely 20 and was way more into it, I had to have the originals. If you ever come across any of the comps that Souljazz have been putting out over the last 10 years, grab them and don't think twice. Stuff is seriously great - the % series (100%, 200%, etc) as well as Studio One Dub, Studio One Rude Boys, etc - all great. I have a few of the three LP boxsets that Trojan was putting out for awhile, basically overviews of ska or dub or rocksteady and even early 80's DJ/sleng teng stuff when shit started going Casio. Those go for a good bit, these days, so I'm glad I grabbed them when they were still cheap. Wish I'd gotten ahold of more of them, though...

When I was 14, I mailed off a form for one of those 10 CD's for a penny kind of deals. I ordered some of the third wave/third wave tinged stuff of the time - Less Than Jake, No Doubt, etc, because I was really loving that sound. I ended up grabbing a Madness greatest hits disc as well as a cd of stretched out Skatalites songs (bought that one just because the word ska was in the band name). From there, I was in love. Found a comp called 100% British Ska a couple of years later when I was 16 and then a couple of years out of high school, began collecting ska vinyl like crazy - for awhile, I was obsessed with locating 2 Tone singles in their original sleeves with the Walt Jabasco on them (I would refuse to buy copies that had been issued stateside by Chrysalis, instead only tracking the British imports). When I moved to Chicago, I began hunting for old Blue Beat records - anything that had stamps on it indicating that it might have come from Prince Buster's shop in Jamaica at some point or another. That led into a downward spiral towards collecting tons of Studio One compilations, rocksteady comps (tons of Treasure Isle stuff) and then eventually skinhead reggae (super early Trojan and Dandy Livingston, stuff like that) as well as dub, a genre that still sticks with me to this day. In all, I've probably got 400-500 records spread across the entire breadth of Jamaican music, even some Mento and Calypso stuff. I seriously love ska. One time, several years ago, when I was in NYC, I actually made it out to Coxsone Dodd's (the guy behind Studio One) store. By that point, he'd been long passed away, but his daughter (or maybe, at that point, grand daughter?) was running the shop and any time I would ask about a particular record, she'd take it and put it on the turntable and play five second shards of each song to let me hear - just like I'd read about them doing in record shops back in Jamaica. Pretty amazing experience. Her son was sitting in the backroom listening to crunk rap on the computer. hahah

The Vinyl District are giving away a copy of this - click on over and see what you need to do to scoop it up! http://www.thevinyldistrict.com/chicago/2013/02/tvd-vinyl-giveaway-panda-riot-7-flexi-amanda-in-the-clouds/

damn ipad! Paindromes. new band name. calling it.

no one over there uses that word. too laborious. too superflous. now, palindromes. mmmm. paindromes. on topic - I snipe almost always. And I keep multiple tabs open to monitor as I'm waiting and entering higher and higher safety bids.

^ but that place doesn't have the lols this one does. That one is a fortress of solitude against bad writers and jealous types. THIS place truly delivers.

dude, seriously - i'm gonna blow the next two days worth of likes in just this thread, alone.

Man, Jeff. VC is just killin' it, these days. So good.

i'd get pissed of, too.

My wall is comprised of six of these - http://www.kingdom.com/100-Capacity-Wooden-Cassette-Rack-Unfinished-p/lw100.htm $20+$7 shipping is pretty good. I actually need to get a couple more as I'm hitting overflow capacity.

was amazed that they'd put this in there when they said it. It felt totally logical, too, to guess Merle would say that, the moment Daryl corrected him. Great homage!

A friend of mine runs a pretty much all cassette label and when I was over at his house on Saturday to help him with getting some new releases together, I was really inspired by the set up of his office, so I took a few cues from him and moved an extra Technics deck I had laying around onto one of my work desks while also moving my cassette wall from the bedroom into my office.

thanks, guys. This thread was all it took for me to hit my like quota for the day.

this thread just got awesome.

Was seriously shocked that the governor went ahead and started attacking the prison straight away with the whole knocking down of the fences and one of rick's crew being shot in the head ala the comics. They're moving this storyline forward really quickly. Really liking it!

I agree with those here who view it more as a re-appropriation and placing the records, themselves, into new contexts. I can get why people don't 'understand' this kind of art, but really, it's not anything new - the majority of 20th century modern art from the Futurists and the Dadaists, onward, is predicated upon being largely conceptual and more based around ideas than flat images on paper or canvas. I hate the Beatles, but I enjoyed listening to the soundclip of 100 different A-sides playing all at once - the layers gave the original source material a really fuzzed out and ambient feel. If he ends up pressing this like the article says, I'll buy a copy.

Sunday bump. We've gotten a couple dozen orders thus far, would love a few more!

but was she, really? http://www.snopes.com/risque/homosex/gerbil.asp

that's the business!

someone! quick! post a gif lf gyp rosetti from boardwalk empire getting off by being asphyxiated!

I clicked into this thread and I...just don't know what's even going on, anymore...

paging Dash.

i've got some tapes. you down to trade? got any rock stuff?

^ was thinking the same thing. Online ordering I go - wish the Labrador would re-locate.