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I guess I tend to buy somewhat more niche pressings, but I have never in my life encountered the bubbles he complained about and I have maybe one or two records that are ever so slightly off-center. I haven't returned a record in years.

Hang on... the "straw that broke the camel's back" for him is... a slight cosmetic imperfection in a colored record?

Y'all are champs. Put in that order after streaming this all day. Stoked to hear What We've Lost in all its glory.

This album has ended up growing a lot on me. Can anyone who picked up the vinyl comment on the quality? Trying to decide between shelling out for the third pressing or just grabbing the digital.

Ugh I can't decide if I really want to throw down $40+ for the bonus tracks...

Got my copy today, relieved to say that, while it doesn't sound revelatory, it's very solid. I really enjoy the inclusion of the two bonus tracks, but I was a bit thrown off by the insertion of Kill More Presidents between Falling From the Sky and Everlasting Tapeworm as it really slimes the buildup to Tapeworm. Still, a heck of an album and it sounds better than I expected. As far as the artwork, it is a touch darker than it should be, but you guys had me expecting it to be pixelated or something. I think it possibly could have been crisper, but in general it looks totally fine and stays true to the painted aesthetic. One question I had, did everyone else get the discs in the opposite sleeves they expected? I have disc 1 in the sleeve with the quote from Innocent Bystanders and disc 2 in the sleeve with the quote from Leaderless. If it was intentionally some kind of reverse bookend thing, that's fine, it just kinda made my minor OCD senses tingle.

Do we know what the tracklist is? Is disc 1 just the standard album? I have the last pressing they did of this and my only complaint is a touch of IGD, so I would be real tempted to pick this up if they spread the standard album across 3 sides instead of just 2.

I'm not familiar, are these only available for Patreon subs or are they just getting first dibs?

Just got my shipping notification. So nervous to hear this. It's one of my favorite albums and has been a white whale for me for 9 years.

I was trying to be at peace with missing out on it, but CFUTF sounds so good and the photos of the set look so great and I was just listening to the album last night and was reminded of how tremendous it is, so... here's hoping for a restock.

The first 3 sides all end with Spider/Leaf songs, I suppose that was their intent?

As long as it sounds good, I'd take hot pink and green pinwheel. Very nervous about it sounding good, though. Still waiting on my copy.

I was listening to my copy of CFUTF last night, sounds so good. Really wish I hadn't missed out on Brother, Sister.

Was not expecting this, very excited. Count me in for a deluxe.

I listened to the LP a couple weeks back and for side A I was like "yeah this is about what I remember" and then I flipped to side B and was kind of flabbergasted at how excellent it was.

Double LP.

Stream was pretty good. They sounded good (most of the time) and I was reminded of how much Grant crushes the bass on this album. But holy crap they need to fire their video crew. The cuts were way too fast. It felt so rare to be able to sit there and watch someone actually play their instrument or sing, which, personally, is how I like to spend most shows. And half of those cuts were to shots that were completely empty or were of just the other camera crew. When the band was in the shots, the framing was poor to laughable the majority of the time. I'm never "that guy" but I'm going to email the Observatory address and beg them to at least slow down the switcher for the next 2 shows. It really felt visually like just a light show a lot of the time, which is a real bummer when you know these guys are talented musicians and great performers when you can actually see them.

Same, especially considering how great CFUTF ended up sounding.

Pre-Order and stream of the new versions of The Party Song, Rock-N-Rule, and World Away.

Very intrigued by this. Doubt I'll pick it up as I too belong to the this album is kinda wack crowd, but I am extremely curious about the re-record. I think there are some really great nuggets happening on this record, but they're dropped between some just really unappealing stuff. I doubt they'll be too revisionist, but this could possibly end up making it a more consistent album. If nothing else, I've always hated how the vocals were mixed, so maybe it'll fix that.

I just hope Lost in the Sound finally gets a great sounding, problem-free vinyl release. I listened to my sawblade copy the other day and it has its moments of sounding really solid (Emergency Broadcast really benefits from being the cleanest-mixed, too) but the 10" format doesn't do the inside tracks any favors. Haven't listened to my 12" copy in a while, but I remember it being lacking even disregarding the pressing flaws. Honestly, I would love to see LITSOS get re-mixed. It has a unique sound for sure, but it's so muddy so often. There's some fantastic musicianship that gets easily lost in the mix on that album. I finally got around to watching the Twitch stream for that record and the guys/Goldman/Adam were all like "yeah, the mix sounds cool, but, also, it kinda blows" which was both interesting and kind of vindicating to hear after all these years. Edit: Also, webstore has been updated saying that all the streams will be available to rewatch until August 31st. Guess they figured out that not everybody can squeeze a stream into 24 hours.

I would love for these guys to make "a fortune" off of their hard work past and present. As someone in the currently-crippled entertainment industry, I'm happy for anyone managing to make a living right now.

While I picked up the boxset posthaste and am fine with $5 for a cool box, I would love to find out that the disappearing slipmat made its way into the set (definitely not counting on it though). At least the box has exclusive artwork.

Wassup Randy, thanks for lurking and setting us straight!

The password access was intended for those who ordered during the accidental launch the other day and got their orders canceled. But I haven't seen anything about pressing numbers, so I guess maybe they're going to just press whatever they sell and this isn't going to sell out.