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lol man I thought I was the only one. Same $38 for 1000 🤣 now I’m set for life

I emailed Take This To Heart about an estimate shipping date on my Last Night in Townorder and they replied on Monday saying "These are currently shipping. Should be out in 7-10 days. There is about 11k+ orders for us these next two weeks."
So I figure it's just a small team, trying to churn through a ton of orders to get them out the door.  

I ordered 500 and 1000 showed up! Two hefty boxes...

Sounds like there's a back story to this one and it may not be (or originally planned) as part of the archival series; that it's been around for a few years and is now just being made available.
https://old.reddit.com/r/SmashingPumpkins/comments/18g1mxc/finally_a_more_reasonable_price_point/
Here's the show: https://archive.org/details/tsp2014-12-05.radio/01OneAndAll.ogg
 

My Bullmoose order arrived yestersday. I A/B'd it last night with my original pressing and it sounds very similar to my ears. 
I'd say the original is cut a little louder, and the instrument separation and clarity is a little better with the new pressing, but as I said, only very marginally. 
 
 
 

To my knowledge, all presses of DIH – black or blue – sound fantastic.  It is pretty funny that the blue copies (which were much easier to secure) seem to have sold more than the limited black ones, on the aftermarket.  Variant demand too stronk.
Speaking of variants, I'm not sure what Matt is cooking up but I hope he keeps it classy and simple with these new reissues.  Really don't need any crazy swirls, marble, or splatter bullshit.  One-tone colored variants have been my thing for a while now – I'd love to see maybe a white or clear Electra, a green or teal YPAA, and some shade of purple for Inlet.  Maybe that's me being boring, I don't really care.  (Also interested to see if he does another round of the same blue DIH.)  I know these will sound killer regardless of what color they may be.  I'm just casting these out there to see how close or off I am when preorders drop.

They usually come in once every 2 weeks or so and last for 48 hours

1/1 pit exclusive 

$38.99.

🚨WALMART BLACK FRIDAY🚨
🚨ALL EXCLUSIVES $15🚨
 

Saw your post on the vinyl subreddit too. Was very surprised by the essentially unanimous extremely negative opinion there. This is sick as fuck. Nice collection dude

I ordered the red/yellow in the end. With the jacket being black and white, the red/yellow records were a nice nod to the orginal pressing. 
 

Autumn: https://old.reddit.com/r/SmashingPumpkins/comments/xibc6d/autumn_2022/?ref=share&ref_source=link
Butterfly Suite: https://old.reddit.com/r/SmashingPumpkins/comments/xibg95/butterfly_suite_2022/?ref=share&ref_source=link
SP and Zuzu's pushing hard about a "big" announcement coming shortly. 

I know of 1 thing I’m missing aside from test presses.. but I think my collection of The Bronx / Mariachi El Brox is pretty comprehensive.
 

 

I love it and I have impeccable taste in music!
If you like more classic style country with a lot of slide guitar you may like this. Nashville Winter, Carry my Body Down and All Alone are solid. The Tiger Army covers are good. 
 

here you go 
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B576JNMC
 

Waiting for an Amazon link...

Someone posted a black copy of Live at Kawasaki on Instagram, which Madame Zuzu's reposted, so they exist... hopefully the Viper Room is out there too and won't require a trip to Chicago to pick it up. 

Ive only got about 20 hours on the Technics and I made massive speaker and amp upgrades so hard to tell actual difference. i figured if i went with a Rega or some other belt drive option i would never again try a direct drive so wanted to give it a shot. No deficits though and its sturdy and sounds great

yeah i wanted to move to a direct drive. ive loved my TT15 but my son accidentally broke the stylus on the clearaudio cart shortly after i bought it and it was too much to get a new one so I bought a Grado Gold (still great) and enjoyed it fine. Very aesthetically pleasing as well, just wanted to make a change. Also, a bit finicky with the motor position, occasionally would get a little too close to the body and would make a hum (there is a hole cut in the chassis that fits over the motor but not to touch it - like a game of operation). not a deal breaker just something that annoyed me

I had my 2012 replaced with a non-IGD version. Zero actually sounds good.
I’d have to go back into the archives to find out when it was replaced.

If I remember correctly, they actually rushed a remaster job and didn't make any indication on it other than what would have been new etchings in the deadwax from the new cut. I'm pretty sure what we are calling the 2014 edition (thank you, discogs) is really  just the rushed remaster due to all the complaints from the 2012 debacle. I think the 2012's were still populating shelves side by side with the fixed one but by the time there were copies available again after being gone in 2014 everything available was the fixed one.

They replaced mine. 

I remember reading 15,000

Y'all...It's home! Thank you again for your help and lbw87 for the very reasonable trade! I'm so stoked to have this thing back. My expectations that it would happen were extremely low and I still can't believe it happened.