HoneyFrosted

I did order the bundle - is that what's holding it up?

I dream of waking up and finding both the Human Story and the Mac Plus bundle at my door.

3 minutes ago, freezeflash said:

Something to keep an eye out for all the Gizz variant collectors. As read in the description, these remote-control, fully LED records could possibly be seen on an upcoming Polygondwanaland variant.

https://romanusrecords.myshopify.com/collections/frontpage/products/brother-o-brother-neon-native-led-record-45-pre-order-6-7-weeks

 

Here's an article about the Brother O' Brother pressing

http://teamrock.com/feature/2017-12-14/worlds-first-remote-controlled-vinyl-record-with-flashing-leds-launched

That would be the coolest, most expensive fire hazard I ever put on a platter

Nabbed. Still up but probably not for long.

12 minutes ago, armadillo01 said:

That convinced me! I got an Altered Beast edition to expect from the Land Down Undaaah after all 

 

EDIT: I don't know if you know, @HoneyFrosted but there's been a bunch of Chad VanGaalen reissues (on coloured wax no less) when he came out with his new album back in the fall (or late summer?)

I do see Soft Airplane and Infiniheart for sale on his Canadian site - the only release I see on Sub Pop that I want is Infiniheart, Soft Airplane sold out, unfortunately no more Skelliconnection anywhere... Had no idea about this! Which is weird because I must have been one of the first to PO Light Information, I immediately ordered.  Hmm. I find only the Infiniheart reissue has been added to Discogs, leading me to look for the initial announcement, which only really states than Infiniheart got reissued. Are you sure there were a bunch of reissues? All the announcements do continually state that his discography is available AT LONG LAST on Bandcamp, but no mention of the other albums. In any case, using the same technique as before, I could get Soft Airplane and Infiniheart for around $44USD from the canadian site, since Soft Airplane has none for sale on Discogs. That is more appealing to me than, say, MOTU. Just to bring it back around to the topic. Sorry for my blathering, folks.

6 minutes ago, armadillo01 said:

Thanks @HoneyFrosted! An detailed and informative reply. My initial suspicion was that they have put tour overstock on sale once they got it back from the band or something. I think I might just splurge on an Altered Beast after all.

Curious if I was remembering right from last night, I went through the checkout process again just to see - it's actually just $49 rather than $55 like I said. If you don't have a copy now it might be worth it, it's pretty much equal to Discogs right now and it would be guaranteed brand new. They've been up for a day already but there's gotta be a finite amount, and once they're gone some flippers will think 'FINALLY' and start charging 150 bucks for 'sold out' fucking MOTU's. I would buy it if I didn't have my non-limited splatter copy already, this is good enough.

Easy, @ethereal. 

@armadillo01The answer to your question is, Flightless is not upcharging - rather, that is typical price for limited Gizzard variants on their site, they aren't gouging over 'found' copies. If you're in the US like me, comes out to something like 55 bucks after intl. shipping. (EDIT: One record + shipping is $63.85 AUD = $48.97 USD according to Google) All three variants are showing on Discogs from US sellers at 60 or under, probably due to each variant being out of 2000 (more variants and less limited on release than most other Gizzard releases) and the general unpopularity of the album. I weighed the pros and cons of buying last night after discovering they were again for sale, not for flipping purposes, but because I never picked up MOTU except for a Vomit Splatter (NOT Vomit Coffin as I learned later) and I wondered if it was worth it to buy a brand new copy shipped overseas rather than a secondhand copy later, because aftermarket Gizzard is always upcharged. It seems MOTU is the exception to this rule. I did not purchase, although I very nearly got a Vomit Coffin, figuring I could resell the less expensive splatter.

This wasn't flipping research, it was making a reasoned choice as to whether it was necessary. I don't like MOTU enough to require a first Flightless pressing. To compare, when they 'found' a box of Brunswick first pressing and said what time they were gonna put em up for sale, I set alarms, I started F5ing the page several minutes before,  and was very very lucky to get one. Because Brunswick is way better, I'd spin it more often, a first pressing is more desired and significantly more expensive on the aftermarket.

5 hours ago, At The Mars Spartamasque said:

https://flightlessrecords.com/collections/king-gizzard-the-lizard-wizard/products/king-gizzard-the-lizard-wizard-quarters-castle-face-black-wax-edition

 

Quarters back up on flightless site.

Also all limited editions of Murder of the Universe, somehow. 

Haven't really kept up with 2017, but Blanck Mass - World Eater was really good. 

If I win I'll take The Replacements! Thanks Sec!

13 minutes ago, GazHilarant said:

Worth noting, Fuzz Club has a few V2's up https://fuzzclub.com/products/pre-order-king-gizzard-the-lizard-wizard-polygondwanaland?variant=4790559768613

Praise Gaz! Swooped it. Now if I can get a wax mage somehow I can stop thinking about this friggin album...

1 hour ago, swazzyswess said:

Don't want to interrupt the variant-o-rama going on, but I've decided only 4 songs on this album do much for me  I had such high hopes after hearing Crumbling Castles, but it's easily my favorite track on the album. For me, this and MOTU rank easily at the bottom for 2017 King Gizz output. I wholeheartedly love Banana and Sketches though.

Worse than Paper Mache Dream Balloon?

Pocket Cat! laserdisc in today. That was quick. Plain white jacket with paper cover (and back) pasted on, but I assume this is a one man operation making a handful, so in that context this is actually stellar, given the technique and the whole point of the release allowing anyone to do anything.. I've never owned a laser disc but in the plastic it looked like dull gray silver vinyl, til I pulled it out, goddamn.There is a constant hiss as promised, but it did skip a tiny bit as well, in various places. Pretty much what you get with any other lathe. If anything this makes me excited for whichever pressing proves to be the most enjoyable, most people will have plenty to compare. For some reason I'm really set on Fuzz Club being the 'best'.

12 hours ago, dnl said:

Damn dude, it's not that deep.

 (lol)

I'm just not gonna sit here and argue with someone attacking my own personal music tastes.

You don't like Olympic Ayres? You're wrong but that's okay.

Don't understand the ultra defensive-ness. 

It's literally impossible to be 'wrong' about an opinion.

Insound already raised some prices back up. I was gonna make a pretty big purchase considering the prices but not anymore, I guess I saved some money but I'll never see those Soul Coughing that cheap ever again.

Come on man. You can't post whatever you want on a forum and expect other people not to post whatever they want. This is not a 'positive comments only' safe space for anyone. People have a right to comment on what other people freely post as long as it falls within the rules, and I did, and several others did. It's obviously not for everyone. I would consider myself far out of the VC general taste but this still doesn't appeal at all.  Most of the time if forums are full of unanimous praise it's because it's a dummy website or because the product has wide appeal and merit.

1 minute ago, TheDuke said:

Does the playable bit detach from that? I can't quite see how one is suppose to play it!

I didn't take a great picture - I wanted the title to show against the white, since this is all clear - but if you look above the center colored tower you see the grooves emerging. There are two identical circles with multiple grooves on them, if you look to the right of the brick fireplace there is a center hole, one of two.

PIAPTK's 7" came 

Haven't tried it yet, never had to do trickery like this. Still, I appreciate the instructions, and it's the first thing to show up!

Yessssss.

19 minutes ago, Kanye West said:

Honestly, very cool of you to give it a shot and see what it was about before immediately shitting on it. The enjoyment I get from each month is worth the money, to me. It may not be to others. I'd like to think that if they didn't have a sizable userbase they wouldn't be around after two years, so it's the kind of thing that either appeals to you, or it doesn't. Then again, I like "chillbeats" and I listen to a lot of downtempo and lo-fi hip hop stuff in the background so it provides excellent BG music each month if not something I can really dig into. 

 

I still, however, can't get behind the comparison to VNYL. Buying 3 generic records and sending them to someone is far less effort than seeking out (or being sought out by) bands and picking which ones should go in what order and then finding a visual artist that can bring the whole thing together (the coolest volume I have is a massive panorama 5 panel gatefold that has the most intricate "where's waldo" type design) -- it's a lot more creative entities in place than VNYL which buys records no one can get rid of at cheaper than wholesale prices and regurgitates them. 

 

I appreciate your response, regardless.

Yep, just like those giant 300 dollar Eagles or like, Boston boxsets from Popmarket, even though I vehemently disagree with the idea, the music and the presentation, it usually wouldn't keep going unless it's working - despite what I say, if 28 versions of this thing have happened so far, they must be keeping someone happy. If anything it allows certain physical artists to try different things, which I definitely approve of. 

The comparison to VNYL I'm making might only make sense in my own head. Right now VNYL sends your three (new) records that suit your tastes somehow, but when they began, the 'hand-curated vibe' they were trying to sell was something ephemeral, something not solid, not everyone can agree upon what music fits certain 'vibes' because everyone listens to music differently. It was three dumpster records of various artists that might fit under a theme, send them to you monthly and get billed monthly. That sounds super familiar to this VinylMoon concept, which puts a 'mixtape' of various "up and coming' artists under a theme on one record and sends it to you monthly and get billed monthly. There's too much mysterious bullshit and I don't trust  anyone to 'curate' anything, I guess is what it boils down to, and I'm tired of seeing businesses use this tack. It's like loot boxes, except you only get one thing and you might hate it. The records are pretty, I'll give it that.

Also, the site is horrendous, constantly points me to buy stuff, and when you're on a page for more than 4 seconds that stupid fucker in the bottom right corner pops up like "If you have any questions, I'd be happy to help tell you all about our crazy project" and they make even figuring out what the hell it's all about very arduous. 

I am a nitpicker, it's true.

Well I did my due diligence. I looked around at the site, I see a couple names I recognize, Richard Houghten, The Dig, a few others. I heard through a handful of tracks on a couple different albums, and yes, even though each one shakily touches on the 'theme', (putting curved synths in your song doesn't really count as 'space') this does not stop the sudden tone changes and the general crappiness of the music - no matter how many times you say 'curated' or point at the die-cut reflective hologram jackets,  90% of these songs sound like generic groove 'chill beats', because 90% of these 'up and comers' are just guys and girls with access to Ableton who can sometimes play guitar. You can guarantee no one album contains all songs you like, unless you're very easily pleased by any music whatsoever. Even when I can get into something - on Nightshining that first track by Kan Wakan is almost freak-folky - it's almost immediately followed up by some trite teenage R&B garbage with another and another breathy vocalist or some 'deep' electronic somethings. I randomly tried #14, From The Window,  which has a description that tells me some shit about how stuff happens in the home and there's two sides to every story or something, nothing nothing nothing about the music, and I got tricked into listening to Mallrat, which was the worst garbage I've had to hear since my friend started listening to ignorant trap music.  The themes and the cool vinyl colors and innovative jacket design and 'art pieces' count for zero if the music is bad, and I know if I even spent ten dollars I would have regarded it as a loss and a waste.

It absolutely IS comparable to VNYL - in it's early stages, anyway, where strangers picked stuff that sounded like X and mailed it to you and it was up to you to decide if it's worth twenty something a month to get something that kinda sorta sounds like X but it might be wildly bad and you don't like it, and you put it in the shelf and feel ripped off.

But, that's just, like, my opinion, man. If you enjoy this than all the more power to you. Just kinda speaking my mind here.

This is minor, but I hate being told that buying someone's thing is a no-brainer. Also 'curated' has sufficiently become synonymous with trash in my mind.

Anyway, no. As someone who has never been part of any monthly record club (so grain of salt I guess) I have actively considered a LOT of different deals from several places, but this was the easiest pass I ever handed down. People give out label sampler cd's FO FREE and people don't listen to them, I do sometimes but it's never something where I thought it was a really well-thought out mix and someone should press it. It is often a random, incohesive mash of various genres. Again this is an example very similar to VNYL where you're trusting someone else to do things like 'curate' and create a 'flow' and it's just a waste of money when you could just trust yourself and buy an album you like. 

Here's one for ya Duke. Hope this hasn't been posted already.

I Prefer Pi Records  - Six Sides Of Wizardry - limited to 101

Three 8” lathe cut records housed uniquely in an arcane map and trapped between the walls of the castle is the full length album ‘Polygondwanaland’. Cut to six sides the set is truly a collectors piece. With a number of cool aspects that will and will not be mentioned, this package is to appeal to those looking for something different. Here are some pics- preorders are up and posting here and there as I type.

Plus US shipping its a little over 50 bucks. Narrower and narrower niches being satisfied here... although the artwork looks extra interesting.

4 minutes ago, Secular Haze said:

Confession: I've never heard these guys. Which album should I start with?

Secular Haze?! You're back!

The answer is I'm In Your Mind Fuzz. Promise. Then go earlier for more loud, garagey psychedelic, and go later if you want to hear them try different styles. That's what I think anyway.

I also use both because I am also crazy. I have a Google Doc (which is a lot more time-consuming and detailed) and Discogs just for adding at the click of a button, mostly for selling. And the Google Doc that tracks incoming mail. At the very bottom is the dead zone where I paid for things that never showed. 

I suspect that most people, myself included, are jaded to the number of releases as was bound to happen. Since most people will not see a result until well into February, people might be using their funds differently, like for, uh, holidays. Maybe when that Fuzz Club arrives I'll get antsy again.

Never bought any Tyler records before this (besides a Bastard boot) so I’m actually surprised at the quality of this thing.