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I feel like you are making up words trying to describe all those albums

I'm very grateful for all of your posts and your interest in this, already.  Thank you so much!

So this is how my copies arrived. Apparently the monkeys in LaVergne, TN thought they were a t-shirt. 
 

 
No disrespect towards Travis, but HT is run by the dumbest fuckin morons on the planet. Everything about this chain is sub standard: lousy customer service and returns, inconsistent inventory across the stores, ridiculously bad handling & packing of merchandise.
 
Anybody want these mangled copies before I send them back to the fucktards?

While I do agree with everyone that Crosley is the devil, ruins your records and is in no way a good way to experience music at all, in the OP's defense, people could be a little nicer about calling him out on it.  Everyone on this board was a newbie at some point in time, cut him some slack.
 
I do want to drive home the subject matter here though.  DON'T USE A CROSLEY!  Or any other "all-in-one" record player/cd/radio.  If you really want to get the maximum enjoyment out of your music listening, start with a cheap setup.  You can certainly get a setup that's 100x better than that Crosley for 500-600 dollars, or less if you find some really good deals.  You don't necessarily need to get a pre-amp if you get a vintage amp that has a phono stage built in (I prefer to have a stand-alone pre-amp, maybe it's all in my head but I feel like I get a cleaner sound).  Get you a good working vintage record player (you'd be amazed at what you can find at thrift stores).  And then the most important part is your speakers.  I'm using Audioengine bookshelf speakers on my setup and they are excellent.  Not too pricey and they have a really good sound to them.
 
http://audioengineusa.com/Store/Passive-Speaker-Systems/P4B-Passive-Bookshelf-Speakers

As far as solutions for cheap, quality set ups. I paid nothing for mine. I asked everyone to pitch in and get me the $300 orbit plus for Christmas. Then my ex stepdad knew someone with a receiver and some speakers he no longer wanted.
I work a part time job and put half my paycheck in savings. I have bills. Instead of getting mass amounts of stuff I'll never use, I asked family to all work together to get me this one thing I really wanted.
If there is a will, there is a way, my friend.
(And guess what, had I not joined this forum, I probably would have ended up with a Crosley. These people are snarky, but they do have a lot of knowledge. Take any advice you can get while you're young before you invest in something that damages your other investments.)

Please don't take this the wrong I'm not coming at you, I totally respect your opinion and this is more of an opinions piece by me on behalf of that noob, and other noobies to come.
All I'm saying is have some respect and treat others the way you'd want to be treated, getting stoned and ridiculed for logging onto a "vinyl collecting" website and posting a question about where to buy a shitty needle is really better left alone. Personally I'm tired of all the negativity and heckling that goes on this site. There's truly a lot more to offer, there are some great users here. Now if he came on here to push some buttons and he got negative down voted heckled etc that's something else. (Like that guy who posted about his Pink Floyd for sale that he got for 18$ or whatever and wanted to sell it for 300$) that guy deserved to be heckled because came onto here not wanting a community but wanted immediately to be the seller that everyone loves to hate in face to face contact.
 
I'm defending this kid too much because he if were smart he'd have left responding to the stones alone. But we also gotta give up the tough love act when new members come aboard VC.
 
I came here to collect records and share info with other record lovers, not be some alpha male higher than thou user. (Ok my expectations might be a little unrealistic but does it hurt us to try and be a little more lenient toward new users? I mean if they really love their collection, they'll probably be more than willing to listen as to why Crosleys/All In Ones are bad for their collection anyhow)
 
Here is an excellent article explaining why Crosley's are shit. http://modern-vinyl.com/2012/03/06/the-d-side-just-say-no-to-crosley/
 
I'd love for someone to add truth to the whole cartridge argument, I mean if the weight is off and too much, that is obviously detrimental to the wax. But I've never weighed one of those Crosley's myself and I've got my set up with ant-skating and counterbalance anyhow. 

While I do agree with everyone that Crosley is the devil, ruins your records and is in no way a good way to experience music at all, in the OP's defense, people could be a little nicer about calling him out on it.  Everyone on this board was a newbie at some point in time, cut him some slack.
 
I do want to drive home the subject matter here though.  DON'T USE A CROSLEY!  Or any other "all-in-one" record player/cd/radio.  If you really want to get the maximum enjoyment out of your music listening, start with a cheap setup.  You can certainly get a setup that's 100x better than that Crosley for 500-600 dollars, or less if you find some really good deals.  You don't necessarily need to get a pre-amp if you get a vintage amp that has a phono stage built in (I prefer to have a stand-alone pre-amp, maybe it's all in my head but I feel like I get a cleaner sound).  Get you a good working vintage record player (you'd be amazed at what you can find at thrift stores).  And then the most important part is your speakers.  I'm using Audioengine bookshelf speakers on my setup and they are excellent.  Not too pricey and they have a really good sound to them.
 
http://audioengineusa.com/Store/Passive-Speaker-Systems/P4B-Passive-Bookshelf-Speakers

Wow, all this about how the records are damaged and stuff is making me nervous. Estimated delivery on Thursday, so I'll see. (btw, first post here, so hi everyone.)

yes you are!  the first Korn album was by far their best work (IMO).  That album is so raw and brimming with emotion.  I love that cover too.

Ok after apparently many delays with the plant Hopeless just told me these are shipping soon.
 
Looking to be available around 1/21 now.

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Cobain died and Bieber was born,  that alone makes 94 the worst year ever

I love the attempt to encourage mature behavior on a forum filled with a bunch of kids.  Good luck with that.  So far, a lot of the people I've encountered on this board (particularly the ones that feel they have some sort of superiority or tenure over others because they've been around longer) are nothing more than condescending jerk-offs that think they know everything, whine about everything, and treat the "outsiders" like crap.  I want to say the nice guy/mean guy ratio is about 1/5.  Proceed with the downvotes, but remember, no amount of downvotes are going to make what I said untrue.

I'm going to my local HT store after the new years.  If I see any of them there, I'm going to buy them up and offer them at cost to people on this board.  I feel kind of bad for anybody who thought they knew the release date and didn't check yesterday and ultimately missed the boat.  I wouldn't be very happy about that either.

There is another crestfallen post that shows a screen capture of an interview from pink pop. The screen capture is dubbed Dublin which is the show they played the night before Pinkpop. So it may be a hint at the DVD material being a show from Dublin. Monte also states that the Dublin show was Pro shot.

I seriously cannot wait for this reissue. I love that era of the band and D'arcy's boobies.

I love the attempt to encourage mature behavior on a forum filled with a bunch of kids.  Good luck with that.  So far, a lot of the people I've encountered on this board (particularly the ones that feel they have some sort of superiority or tenure over others because they've been around longer) are nothing more than condescending jerk-offs that think they know everything, whine about everything, and treat the "outsiders" like crap.  I want to say the nice guy/mean guy ratio is about 1/5.  Proceed with the downvotes, but remember, no amount of downvotes are going to make what I said untrue.

I love the attempt to encourage mature behavior on a forum filled with a bunch of kids.  Good luck with that.  So far, a lot of the people I've encountered on this board (particularly the ones that feel they have some sort of superiority or tenure over others because they've been around longer) are nothing more than condescending jerk-offs that think they know everything, whine about everything, and treat the "outsiders" like crap.  I want to say the nice guy/mean guy ratio is about 1/5.  Proceed with the downvotes, but remember, no amount of downvotes are going to make what I said untrue.

I love the attempt to encourage mature behavior on a forum filled with a bunch of kids.  Good luck with that.  So far, a lot of the people I've encountered on this board (particularly the ones that feel they have some sort of superiority or tenure over others because they've been around longer) are nothing more than condescending jerk-offs that think they know everything, whine about everything, and treat the "outsiders" like crap.  I want to say the nice guy/mean guy ratio is about 1/5.  Proceed with the downvotes, but remember, no amount of downvotes are going to make what I said untrue.

Shut your damn mouth.

I love the attempt to encourage mature behavior on a forum filled with a bunch of kids.  Good luck with that.  So far, a lot of the people I've encountered on this board (particularly the ones that feel they have some sort of superiority or tenure over others because they've been around longer) are nothing more than condescending jerk-offs that think they know everything, whine about everything, and treat the "outsiders" like crap.  I want to say the nice guy/mean guy ratio is about 1/5.  Proceed with the downvotes, but remember, no amount of downvotes are going to make what I said untrue.

I love the attempt to encourage mature behavior on a forum filled with a bunch of kids.  Good luck with that.  So far, a lot of the people I've encountered on this board (particularly the ones that feel they have some sort of superiority or tenure over others because they've been around longer) are nothing more than condescending jerk-offs that think they know everything, whine about everything, and treat the "outsiders" like crap.  I want to say the nice guy/mean guy ratio is about 1/5.  Proceed with the downvotes, but remember, no amount of downvotes are going to make what I said untrue.

You're welcome.  Also, welcome to VC.  The HT website is goofy sometimes.  The search engine is absolutely awful so I always google the title of the record + vinyl + hot topic and if the product page exists, it usually shows up in the top 3 search results.  I did the same thing with the circa survive records.  Only thing is, most of the time you'll be pulling up a product page to a sold out item.  This was the first time I ever pulled up the page to something that wasn't supposed to be released quite yet, so I was a little surprised when it appeared to be in stock.  What gave me the idea was the other dude a few posts before mine said something about ordering it from a HT store kiosk.

You're welcome.  Also, welcome to VC.  The HT website is goofy sometimes.  The search engine is absolutely awful so I always google the title of the record + vinyl + hot topic and if the product page exists, it usually shows up in the top 3 search results.  I did the same thing with the circa survive records.  Only thing is, most of the time you'll be pulling up a product page to a sold out item.  This was the first time I ever pulled up the page to something that wasn't supposed to be released quite yet, so I was a little surprised when it appeared to be in stock.  What gave me the idea was the other dude a few posts before mine said something about ordering it from a HT store kiosk.

I found that album extremely enlightening as a longtime NIN fan and someone who's gotten through his own drug addictions from the past.  I am very, very glad that Trent found some peace after all he's been through.  This is one artist that I didn't want to see get himself killed and his newest music is just a reminder of why I didn't want that to happen.  The guy is a musical visionary.

My first cd was Pearl Jam's Ten.  God... I'm getting old.