youngwonton

Yeah, I checked Discogs to see if it had ever been pressed and saw I could get a copy for like 25 right now. I'm not a big fan of picture discs. I'm guessing that's a factor for a lot of other people as well.

Fingers crossed for Cinematic Sunrise next.

Damn, would gladly trade my Hot Topic bone white variant with anyone who grabbed that pink with blue splatter 😁

Every album I've ordered from them has had a seam split. I would much prefer them shipping the record outside of the sleeve. Labels do it all the time with their new releases. 🤷‍♂️

Mine has a big seam split as well. Seems like a company whose entire business model is centered around shipping vinyl to its customer shouldn't be having this problem.

aaaaaand it's gone!

I thought the same thing. My stylus is pretty old. It doesn't happen on any of my other records though. After I posted this I also cleaned an absurd amount of dust off them and it got a little better. Still a lot of pops during high volume parts of the songs. I've been meaning to replace my cartridge anyway.

Really? Mine is cracking and popping like crazy. Maybe because its the color vinyl. Thank god everything else in the box is so great, because the three LPs are nearly unlistenable.

I like it a lot more upon second listen. Your Jokes Aren't Funny, Call Me Anti-Social, Happy Being Miserable, Barbed Wire, and Short and Sweet are the standouts for me. Also just got my Yellow variant today. Looks great, haven't listened to it yet.

I think Chad is writing most of them now, maybe Jordan too. I know in an interview right before Resurrection Chad said that they were all contributing to the lyrics.

I feel the same way. It's so synth heavy. It's fun but it's not their best. I really liked Resurrection, particularly the first 5 songs, so I was caught off guard during my first listen. I also really, really like Happy Being Miserable and was expecting that to be indicative of the rest of the album, which it clearly isn't. Hopefully it grows on me. I think It has some of their most cringe-worthy lyrics yet though.

So uh, has anyone else listened to the leak yet? The Sound of Two Voices is....interesting.

agreed. The vinyl on it's own totaled $40 and change while the bundle was $51 for me.

I'm not a variant collector but enough of a completist that I have the Greatest Hits splatter, but even I laughed and said "Fuck no" when I saw that shipping cost.

Someone had BCR for sale on Discogs for 49.99. I put it in my cart and clicked Place Order, but in the 10 seconds it took me to do that, somebody else got it first. The universe really doesn't want me to have this record, or at least wants me to pay an obscene amount of money for it.

You're giving me hope. The customer service rep I just talked to on the phone told me he had no idea when, if at all, it would be back in stock. He only said that if the page still exists for the vinyl, there's a possibility it could go back in stock, but if the page is completely removed, it's done. I said it in the blink splatter thread and I'm kind of half joking, but if any die-hard blink collector out there wants to trade for the first press purple California I will definitely trade my copy, or if anyone has an extra copy of this, please PM me!

Will trade my first press purple California for this, or if anyone has an extra copy please PM me!

God dammit.

I saw the $35 price on that bundle and thought "Wow, an actually reasonable vinyl + t-shirt bundle price!" Then I got to the shipping cost. SMDH.

The reaction to my Icky Trump shirt around my small Indiana town has been about what you'd expect. A lot of dirty looks and murmuring. No confrontations yet though!

Yeah but are you referencing independent artists or do they have labels supporting them?

Very doubtful. He'd have to secure clearance for the samples he used if he wanted to do a physical release. Considering he sampled both Stevie Wonder and The Beatles (twice), I really doubt we're going to see a physical release of blond anytime soon. It's the same reason Chance the Rapper has never done physicals for his stuff.

Finally having this ordered feels sweeter than potatoes and molasses.

Yeah, The Anthem was fun, but they seemed really disengaged for the rest of the set. Sum 41, on the other hand, was fucking outstanding. Were you at Tinley Park?

I might. I saw the HT variant and snagged it since every other blink album (with the exception of TOYPAJ) I own is HT splatter, I couldn't resist completing my collection. The upper left corners of the sleeve and jacket of my purple are badly bent, which really bums me out, so if I do decide to part with it, it will probably be relatively cheap. I'll let you know.