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pre-orders are live http://www.runforcoverrecords.com/products/629123-ricky-eat-acid-three-love-songs pink in electric blue /200 std. black /800

sweet mother of god, so glad i passed on a $100 copy locally a few weeks ago

oh mannn, hearing the new stuff tonight live really makes me feel like the production on the new LP doesn't do the songcraft, dynamics, vocal approach etc justice. and not just in the sense of, "oh wow they are so good live!!" But in the sense that there's a crispness and richness that got skooooshed in the final recorded project. don't get that sense with a ton of bands tbh. gonna try to shake that feeling as best i can and enjoy the wonderful gift that is a new mwY record.

did someone say cat?

yeah, i ended up writing their online store and getting the dropbox link as well. thx fam.

yeahhh i'm a lil annoyed there isn't a "downloads" tab under my mwY customer account! can't get at the tunes i preordered the night of lmao. if anyone figures out how i can access my LP downloads, post it here!

just came here 2 say someone should snag that Pete Curry tape. insane stuff!

Per Kirby on FB, there will be vinyl represses of the first 5 installments to coincide with the (March?) release of the 6th and final installment. Wouldn't be too surprised if there's a color variant then. Maybe even a brand new color!

exchange rate + international shipping be damned, i must complete the limited blue set! sampling the new stage as i enter my payment details, and it's pretty sinister. a good soundtrack for parting with 50 bucks haha.

i have a TP of the one record i have released, and obviously only got that for QC purposes. so of course they have a use on the record-producing side. but i can't see collecting them. though collecting would probably make sense for someone whose collection is in part a business/pursuit of valuable objects (not sure what to attribute their value to other than the scarcity/peculiarity of a test pressing.). can't imagine buying TPs even of my most favorite albums, more or less because i buy records in part for the artwork/color options. TPs usually have no proper jacket, usually generic paper labels... would always rather have a retail version.

yeah i second this sentiment (if not the entire order). there are some really neat things going on on that record. "every thought" is my favorite mwY song, so good! and they have a great approach to production on it. whereas Ten Stories, also my least favorite, is really hampered by poor production imo (strikingly unflattering/unnatural treatment on the vocals). ruined the album for me.

i mean i love vinyl as much as the next person here (well, maybe that's an overstatement) but uh... this has to be rhetorical, right?

love this but hate ~$10 shipping. retail variant, it is, i guess. single sounding great!

yeah, this is exactly what they did. realized only too late that i could've saved time (what with the crappy website design) and secured the titles i wanted by going in person...

i clicked on the listing on thursday (can't recall when) and they were all $24. closed that tab again pretty quickly.

i hope so – the advertised black friday deals seem to have gone live already, though...

this ain't working for me so far. any idea if it's legit? i'm seeing the following message, which makes me think it will eventually come around... Looks like this code isn't ready yet. Please try again later.

how long until Relient K sues these guys for the eerily similar name?

Answering my own question I guess but this info via the FB page for the band FKA Teen Suicide: as far as i know unfortunately no one can reissue three love songs because of sample clearance issues. two labels have tried & had to back out because it would cost an unfathomable amount of money to clear the samples :/ i really wish we could do it

feeling a bit cursed to bring this dead thread back 2 life but was there ever any truth to whispers of a "Three Love Songs" reissue? still conspicuously absent on my record shelf

Right back at you; I appreciate the thoughtful response! It's always difficult to keep an art object safe from interpretations that base themselves on the creator's intentions (or unintended consequences of the creator's actions). It's just as difficult to safeguard any single interpretation from the plausibility or desirability of others. For instance, reinterpreting a song that was always assumed to be about, as you succinctly put it, "a sexually experienced woman pushing a man into a sexual scenario" in a way that suits the current picture of Lacey requires very little imagination, only the suggestion that Jesse swapped gender roles in the lyrics in a moment of artistic license (or, more cynically, for the sake of plausible deniability), to reinterpret it as autobiographical, about his coercion of a younger woman. My point here is not to push back on the conventional interpretation, but to suggest that the canonical take on any single Brand New's song is jeopardized, and with reasons that go beyond the recent scandal. Reasons that have to do with the claim such "emo" bands have to be writing about lived, or at least plausible and relatable, experience.

when have Brand New or 2000s emo bands in general ever given us reason to make the distinction between art and artist? pretty much everything these guys and their scene peers have written about is focused on themselves, the sorts of experiences they have had, the struggles and conflicts and desires and dreams they've always had (some were more literary about it than others, perhaps). that's exactly why these sorts of bands became the voice of a generation (to the subculture, at least). they helped people to understand themselves, to see others who shared their hurt or their failures. the focus of these bands on lived experiences allowed fans to see their own stories and journeys given voice and dignified. one of the reasons their frontmen were idolized was because their "honest" – i.e. personal, narrative – approach to songwriting made them sympathetic, brave. the kind of person you'd want to meet, someone you hoped would take interest in your story because you knew with certainty from their songwriting that they would relate to it on one level or another. in retrospect, this was a very risky move for these bands. because, if real-life details behind the literary, fictionalized versions of these songwriters' lives were ever to be exposed as shameful, or even criminal as they have been here, the texts we took for granted as anthems for our own self-betterment and recovery take on a more damning character. we return to the singer/frontman figure, no longer seeing them as leaders but as frauds. mind you, this doesn't obligate you, the listener, to draw a 1:1 parallel between allegations and specific lyrics. there are still plausible, perhaps even band-certified interpretations of these songs that don't require a connection to the horrors we've been watching unfold, to the crumbling of Jesse's credibility, etcetera. but the plausibility, the possibility even, of separating art from artist here is extremely compromised by a first-hand testimony of lyrics that were always predicated upon their plausibility and relatability. double-edged sword and all.

they actually hate all bands and all music and puppies and kittens too.

136 Anticon exclusive copies left (out of 800), for anyone keeping track. or for anyone waiting to pick one up (had a slight delay which kept them from arriving for pre-order customers by the release date, but they're apparently shipping out in the next day or so from the label). this album rules. only one listen in, mind you. but i'm enthralled.

wait hold up, i think u r missing a word. what exactly am i supposed to tell my friends about that is better than Deja?