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Ha - thanks ! Shame they're so hard to find, but would be cool to own any/all of them.

I think posting in the busiest/biggest/most recent thread related to that same artist is the most logical place to post rumors/exciting news about said band/album that aren't strictly a new PO. 5 years ago I bet someone would have said "post rumor/discussion/hype threads in General Discussion" but it's 2020 and GD goes weeks at a time without a single new post, so why not just keep it in the music forum.

lmao what. posting in an existing thread is the opposite of cluttering. creating a thread every time there's a new rumor of a future pressing is idiotic.

Cool, thanks for the detail @fish I checked and never got that email, or one with shipping tracking/details - but I did get one on 8/12 confirming that it did ship. So, meh.

Ah nice, stateside - right? 2 weeks since the shipping info so I'm guessing it'll show in the next 1-4 weeks

Hey all, Long shot, but seen some of that VMP purple listed here once or twice in the past, so I'm looking for: These are mostly the Rhino/Warner Bros represses, plus the VMP. Black Sabbath - Rhino/Warner on Red Paranoid - Rhino/Warner on Blue OR VMP on Purple Marble Master of Reality - Rhino/Warner on Green Vol. 4 - Rhino/Warner on Orange Hit me up.

I like both, but I didn't think it was a rare opinion that they both don't sound like the majority/rest of Bright Eyes' discography. I like them both for what they are, but I guess I'm just glad it's not 100% midwest/country vibes. I actually like Cassadaga more than People's Key, even though it's more of departure from the "Bright Eyes" sound as I identify with it -- I just think for a guy with so many side projects/bands it could have been released under a different moniker.

It's good, but it's a little long and meandering. The beginning of the album is especially a slow start, imo. One and Done is head and shoulders above the rest of the album for me, maybe Hot Car in the Sun is up there too. I think it'll grow on me. I knew it could never be QUITE like old Bright Eyes, but it's nice that it's not another People's Key/Cassadaga

well now i'm tempted.

https://www.soul-source.co.uk/forums/topic/391270-various-bbc-radioplay-records-looking-to-purchase/ for 2 years???

Yuuuuuuuuup, learned this lesson a different way with the last The Weeknd pre-order (Republic, a subsidiary of UMG). He was dropping endless sets of 24-hour exclusive Merch pieces. Later on, old pieces came back up for sale - at discounted prices. BUT, the kicker here was even those "discounted" prices that they displayed INCLUDED paying for the digital album. Nowhere (in legible font) did it say explicitly that you were paying for the merch item + the digital album every purchase. Definitely a system for rigging album sales, but, Reddit fans eventually figured out you could filter to specific categories and basically go to the last page of items for sale and find the merch items alone at a SEVERELY discounted rate, with no digital albums. I ended up making a couple of purchases early on before it became clear that you could buy it without the digital album attached, and I own like 5 copies of The Weeknd - After Hours that i'll never download or listen to.

The Nirvana one wasn't really resonating with me, although I gave it a full listen today and a couple of the tracks were really hitting the mark for me. That said -- I don't think I have EVER listened to a cover by a band more than 2-3 times on purpose... and I cannot stop listening to the Primer of Holy Words comp. And I don't listen to Nirvana or any of the bands they covered, except Sabbath.

Yeah, I'm no expert but I've found my listening of Thou really spread across all of their discography, where typically I'll zero in on 1 album from an artist and just play it to death. I think everything they put out is great and quality, but the 5 main-line albums still retain that "little extra" feeling and stand head and shoulders above the rest of the really strong discography. Tyrant, Peasant, Summit, Heathen, Magus are all great, and chrono or reverse-chrono are both fine orders. I tend to gravitate to Tyrant, Magus, and Peasant in that order -- but that's personal taste and preference will play a big part in that. The biggest hurdle (for me, initially) in their discography is volume and not knowing the categories/context: 1. 5 main-line albums (Tyrant, Peasant, Summit, Heathen, Magus) 2. The digital compilations of singles/covers over the years (Algiers, Rendon, Oakland) 3. The most recent two releases, 1 all Nirvana (Blessings of the Highest Order) and 1 a mix Shellac/Pearl Jam/Sabbath and more (A Primer of Holy Words) 4. The 3 EPs leading up to Magus - each is a different style, all full-length as far as playtime. Experimental/Drone (House Primordial), acoustic/clean vocals (Inconsolable), and more in-line with Magus' final style (Rhea Sylvia) 5. Everything else - Single tracks, splits, covers etc. Too many to go through everything - they are all quality but 1-4 is where I spend 98% of my listening. (Edit: Even in this "everything else" I'm positive there are gems I just haven't dusted off enough yet. The split albums with The Body are well regarded as far as I know, for example. I'm just not a The Body fan so haven't made my way through this quite yet.)

Die Hard Silver/Purple sold out on BC and Sacred Bones, looks like.

Haha they are very outspoken on beliefs/politics - or at very least the singer is. I may not agree with everything they say/think/do but they can use their platform to communicate their beliefs if they want, it won't affect my enjoyment of their music as long as it's not actively hurting other people.

Yeah, for sure. Which is cool! Too many times I've been hit with that HOBBYist buyer's remorse after a trip to a local shop coming home to add things to the Discogs collection and see I could have just bought a prettier/rarer/more colorful variant online for the same price. Would be cool to one day post-quarantine see this in a shop and be happy with the variant haha.

Eh, to each his own. I've dabbled in the genres for years but just 2-3 months ago had a huge metal revival and really dove down into depths of genres I never gave a real chance. I liked a few funeral/doom/stoner type bands over the years and touched on the more cross-over bands like Deafheaven/Holy Fawn etc. but really dove into Stoner/Doom/Sludge/Black/Death etc. in the last few months. Thou is not my typical band, especially with vocals that harsh ALL the time. I can sort of understand someone thinking they are boring at times, but I'm surprised you feel that way given you mentioned funeral doom... but the more thought I put into it, maybe it's because they don't seem to hit a lot of peaks/highs/climaxes(?) Like funeral doom is even slower, but it's typically building up to some cathartic moment, where Thou is just catharsis the whole time, for me. They do the whole thing right, imo. Their art is great, their vinyl packages are great, they're good people, do cool releases with lots of labels, put out more content than anyone else (and quality content, these covers albums aren't like garage recordings of them practicing).

I still can't decide on a variant, there's too many of them. I feel so weird having not PO'd this yet, but also, there's just so many variants still available that it doesn't feel like the usual mad rush to get the one I want before its gone. I'm sure I've missed out on plenty of the variant combos by now, but it's a weird feeling.

If you're looking to offload I've only got the 5 main albums and the 2 compilation LPs and it still takes up about 1\3rd of a full cubby. Thou is thick and heavy in more ways than one.

Ah, I can understand that. From the flip perspective, I've only been into Thou for a few weeks/months (but I've been /really/ into them) and I've been reading rumblings of this Thou/ERR collaboration coming down the line "soon-ish". So where it being a collab you didn't expect brought the hype down for you, on my side I'm glad it's finally fully announced and up for PO so that the next Thou tease isn't this one

Stop the regret - We can all reconvene in 2.5 months and agree that the Standard Purple would have been the better choice all along. For now I'll ride the hype wave and hold out hope that the Silver/Purple diehard somehow comes out feeling "worth" the price.

Right, which according to Discogs and their previous releases - the mixtape is just a cassette mixtape of other bands' tracks called "A Mixed Tape by bandname" Which, maybe some people are into but to me it's a glorified Spotify playlist of other artists' music in cassette format... I don't see the appeal personally. It's like paying extra for the label-sampler CD that gets thrown in with regular orders from labels.

Agreed the price jumps seem dramatic (and unusual for Thou, so I'm guessing SB did the pricing). Also really odd there are no details about what separates the Ultra Die Hard, Die Hard, and Standard editions. It cannot just be variant color, because like you said there is a black standard and a black Die Hard. The Magus "Die Hard" edition came with some silk or wax outer sleeve sealed with a wax SB stamp, but I don't know if that's all that set it apart and I also don't know what the original prices were on that one.

https://thou.bandcamp.com/album/may-our-chambers-be-full https://www.sacredbonesrecords.com/collections/releases/products/sba007-emma-ruth-rundle-thou-may-our-chambers-be-full Ultra Die-Hard /150 Clear with Silver + Purple splatter - exclusive to Sacred Bones Society Sub - $175 Die Hard Purple + Silver - $32 Die Hard Black - $28 Standard Purple - $19 Standard Black - $17

New Thou covers comp is pretty 🔥