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Haha the reveal was everything I could have wanted

Can’t wait to see what you guys get so I can stop checking this thread. 

The band has officially canceled the deluxe pressings of this album. 

So anyone have a Brand New tattoo they'd like to share?

This reads to me like an At the Drive In lyric for some reason.

Alright, who's going to be the first to take one for the team and rip the entire thing apart? Knowing this fuckin band, there's probably lyrics hidden on the undersides of the paper.

I'm actually sort of amazed by the magnitude of love for TWFM.  I enjoy the album a whole lot, and it has a remarkable amount of songs that deliver and hold up very well over time.  But it's also the only National album that has a handful of meh songs scattered about, in my opinion.  Demons is still a stumbling mess.  Fireproof is kind of unremarkable.  Heavenfaced is a bit of a lullaby and I still can't get over Matt trying to rhyme as many words as he can with dreamer / freezer / etc.  Closing track doesn't blow my mind either.  Fortunately the rest of the album is ace, but I guess I'm just not used to hearing "dips" in the consistency of their albums.  SWB is basically perfect though – the pacing, the variety, the flow.  Even the tracks that I thought were so-so on first listen managed to make things interesting and noteworthy with an experimental outro or jam.
 
Definitely check out all of their prior stuff whenever you can get around to it.  Not to sound like a fanboy but they're all so good for different reasons.  Lots of great flavors across their discography, and all worth hearing multiple times.  This band has been the definition of a "grower" band for me, over the years, and super rewarding to revisit and grow accustomed to.

(Sorry if this has already been said somewhen in this thread before)
Like some of you, I was thinking about ordering that mysterious "grey" German variant of Amazon/other German online websites. However, a good friend of mine who's currently in Berlin went to a big electronic store over there and sent me the picture below. Note how it says "grey colour" on the store sticker but then clearly "pressed on white vinyl" on the actual vinyl sticker. He asked one of the store employees and they told him that 4AD/distributor added it to their ordering system as a "grey" vinyl. I guess that that same distributor probably added this false information to the Amazon website, which would explain why it is listed as grey there as well. Just a heads up for you guys!

Here we go

This is something else.  I definitely didn't have the patience to sit through 10 minutes of that, but I did hop around the around to make sure we didn't own any of the same albums.  All good.  The positive takeaway from this is that you now have a pretty good idea of what sort of music to avoid checking out, if you were unfamiliar with any of the artists featured in her collection.  I found one or two I'll be dodging from here on out.
 
I didn't see that, either.  How'd they cut the records to fit them in?  I've framed spare copies (variants) / jackets / 12" x 12" inserts – all of which I rotate out and back onto the shelf, settle down – but there's no way I'd stuff a double LP or even a gatefold into a shitty frame for temporary displaying.  It'd wreck the jacket.  Did they just slice the gatefold so all sleeves could be compressed flat?  That's fucked up.  Also, do you have any idea how much the lot sold for?  Wild.

That's my coke bottle clear which arrived here today. Sorry for the bad picture but it was just intended for a friend. Just saw now that there isn't a picture of it here. Feel free to downvote or whatever.

 

That's my coke bottle clear which arrived here today. Sorry for the bad picture but it was just intended for a friend. Just saw now that there isn't a picture of it here. Feel free to downvote or whatever.

 

Pretty sure that mentioned test press is a steal too. What a dick..
 

Thanks for your input, however your generalizations on motive are incorrect. As a band we decided to make limited covers ALONG w/ different vinyl colors of a release. It was really that simple of a concept. Typically we release anywhere from 3-5 different colors of a record just to do it (always have), with the same cover usually. This was just an alternative way to approach that idea. Ironically, doing so was very expensive (commissioning art from folks and doing small runs of 500 of each double LP with this limited packaging). It actually cost us MUCH more to do this than a traditional record to manufacture.  All of us (including myself) collect records and cherish variants for the same reason bands make music, for the love of it. If maximum profit was the goal, then we are in the wrong game entirely. Thanks again.
 
-J.

Take it to a shop with a record flattener. That might take care of it. 

Isn't this whole discussion at the end of the day completely irrelevant because it's peoples own money and no one forces anyone to buy anything? Fuck's sake..

Okay I will try this out, thanks!

I have every single variant plus almost every test press. I'd like to say my collection is complete as I consider test presses a bonus. Funny enough is I got a test since posting that and one of three I was waiting to come in was a test as well. I'm hoping to have time to take a complete photo this week. Just need to find the space. It takes like four or five hours to do. Haha. 
 
(Side note, awesome name.)

When you say "when I get the other three.." does that mean that your collection is complete then? Sweet jesus

When I get the other three in I will do a full, out of sleeves photo.

 

Just to let you guys know

Just to let you guys know