unknown pleasures

I've been told mono always sounds better by stuck up Beatles fans drinking expensive coffees in NYC cafes, and glossy magazines imported from the UK. I can't speak first hand as I don't own a turntable and never listen to my records. However, I can tell you that because each of these copies is individually numbered, they will skyrocket in value. As long as you don't listen to them, or at a minimum carefully open the outer shrink and slide out the vinyl - admiring in the artificial light of your home once - then return to sleeve, never to be removed again. Man, records are cool.

On an unrelated note, you should try to talk some sense into Daenerys. She's really heading into Westeros with a lot of emotion.

Who didn't see this coming? Joyful Noise should have just done an open edition; offering it indefinitely until the DNC at the end of July. For a release like this, making it "limited" and having it sell out in a day was bound to bring out the hypocrisy.

Am I alone in thinking that sounds cool?

I sound so much more pretentious in French...

The problem is these people actually tried to play the record instead of hanging it on the wall encased in an album frame as intended.

So one thing we can probably all agree on is how great it'll be when Halo2 is stuck with thirty scribbled copies of this album...

The reason the cancellations are taking so long is that Kendrick has to sign off on each one by hand.

You must not be a fan of mid-90s sports team logos.

Yup, for Pride Day.

If it's Your USPS app, why don't you just figure it out yourself??

Exactly. The lack of communication is the worst part. I preordered the Fiery Furnaces album, as well, and it also had a May release date and they've been just as silent about that.

I've got a bad feeling about this...

And here I was thinking Dino Jr variants were hard to keep track of...

So am I reading it correctly or is the headphone & 7" set they sell on their main merch site for $225 included in the $199 bundle, along with a dozen other things?

Surprisingly good?

Don't you mean #vbs ?? (By which I mean Vinyl BS...)

TRNTBL with apparently good reviews: http://www.craveonline.com/design/991393-herea-wireless-vinyl-record-player-youll-want-get-hands

I get what you mean. It feels like a lot of eBay sellers that take offers on a $250 item won't accept anything lower than $249.99. It's really annoying.

Why take offers?

And the name of that shop: Urban Outfitters.

There's no doubt it was a poor choice in packaging for something so heavy/expensive. Mine was no different than anyone else's: just in a box a tad larger than the box set itself with no additional protection. I think it just comes down to what's been debated many times in this forum: the amount of damage you're willing to put up with and the level of time & effort you're willing to put in to get a replacement. In my case, I can live with it in the condition it arrived, but I have no problem with someone who feels differently seeking out a replacement. Like I said, the first thing I thought when I opened the box was "this should have probably been packed better."

Did anyone who ordered this not get some degree of corner damage? My copy has some "crushing" but I think I can live with it - it's only the outer box, afterall. But looking at the packing material and how heavy the box is, it's difficult to imagine anyone would have received it without some level of damage.

May 8, 1:25 PM EST Kenneth Levinsmith Inducted Into Record Album Handling Hall of Fame BY DAVID S. SPUDNICK Associated Press GRAND FALLS, MI -- Longtime record collector Kenneth 'White Gloves' Levinsmith was inducted into the Record Album Handling Hall Of Fame in a quiet ceremony early Saturday afternoon in downtown Grand Falls. Ken is a native of Detroit but has turned a quiet retirement community in Orlando, FL into his year-round home. The proud owner of what friends describe as a "world-class polka collection", Ken says his crowing achievement was returning a vinyl record album back to its original picture sleeve a previously unheard of 4,754 consecutive times without touching the edge of the jacket. Thats a whopping 12 year, 4 month span that bests the next closest competitor by nearly a decade. "When I first got into the hobby" the still youthful 'Kenney White Gloves' remarks, "I always wanted to focus on the fundamentals like my sleeve handling. None of this flashy stuff you see these DJs doing with their platters nowadays. Today, with this great honor, the fundamentals have paid off." There were some heavyweights from the Record Handling world in attendance at the event, and most agree with that notion. Richie '180 Gram' Rossi - a highly regarded sleeve handler himself, and a member of RAHHOF Class of '02 - said of Ken, "You see these kids today, in their Hot Topics and Barnes and Nobles, holding their long players by the grooves, and it just chokes you up. They could learn a thing or two from Kenny. A little something called Vinyl Respect. Or Vispect, for short." Adds Jimmy 'The Human Record Brush' Horton, "These kids today, with their iPods and Record Stores Days. They don't know what it was like in the days before polybags. We had to use dry cleaning bags in those days. Just think of it - dry cleaning bags! Those things sure as hell ain't acid-free!!"