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  • Birthday 03/24/1987

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  1. Vinyl is gimmicky. RSD is just the annual reminder of how bad it's getting.
  2. Personally, it's not an issue for me. I'm thinking more along the lines of other people who like to flip through my collection when they're at my place - including some pretty young family members. It's not like I'm losing sleep over it, and I'll still buy it. But I know I'm going to have to store it somewhere outside of my normal collection, which is just a (mild) inconvenience. I get what the band was trying to do with that imagery, and I liked it in the music video. But putting it on the cover feels a little like it's being done for shock value.
  3. Most likely (at least I hope), the pissed off backers will file a class action suit and clean the guy out. This is clearly a bait and switch, and the stereogum article a couple of pages back lays out the case better than any lawyer could. Hell, in the article, the founder even admits that the business model was fundamentally changed *after* the kickstarter had closed. People bought in expecting Netflix for vinyl, and only afterwards realized it was "three random shitty records a month club". This is like pre-ordering a new GTA game, but when you show up at Gamestop, they tell you they already ran out and give you a used copy of Vice City instead. They'd get sued six ways to Sunday, and so should this guy.
  4. I would absolutely pay for Attitude-era themes on vinyl. I'd immediately regret it, spin it once or twice, and leave it on my shelf for two years before re-selling it. But I'd still totally buy it. Not sure who was asking for a repress of the 80's albums. Then again I could say the same for 75% of this list.
  5. On the bright side, he asked for fan donations to re-buy all of the stolen gear, and hit his goal ($2500) in like three hours.
  6. I just ordered "Home..." from the TE site a couple weeks back (I know, I'm late to the Hotelier bandwagon), and had the same issue. Ended up waiting a couple of days, went back, and suddenly the download worked. I think it may have something to do with waiting for payment to clear, or maybe it's just an inexplicable delay - but it should work at some point. Try it again in a day or two.
  7. Top two threads in this forum right now - Say Anything releasing an album on four 10", and Taking Back Sunday re-releasing Happiness Is on eight 7". Love both those bands, but I can't support this. Just put out a double LP, and knock this shit off.
  8. There's a few FF pressings out there, but they're not cheap. FFVII picture disc (2xLP) - http://www.discogs.com/Nobuo-Uematsu-Final-Fantasy-VII-Vinyl/release/5163968 FF orchestral album - http://www.discogs.com/Nobuo-Uematsu-Final-Fantasy-Orchestral-Album/release/4459195 FF box set (5xLP) - http://www.discogs.com/Nobuo-Uematsu-Final-Fantasy-vinyl/release/4614401 FFXIII OST - http://www.discogs.com/Masashi-Hamauzu-WF-Music-From-FINAL-FANTASY-XIII/release/2911035 FFXIII OST (another version, different songs) - http://www.discogs.com/Masashi-Hamauzu-WFMusic-from-FINAL-FANTASY-XIII-Gentle-Reveries-/release/4787439 Box set typically goes for around $400, and the others usually go for $150-$200. Doubt I'll ever own any of them at that price, although I'll be very tempted to pull the trigger the next time one of the XIII albums pops up.
  9. I have a hard time believing anyone in that video is going to live to the end of the series. RIght now the only person I feel confident about surviving is Wendy. And that's only because - if you assume that Gemma dies and Jax dies or goes to prison - she's the last person who can take and raise the boys. I mean, they could go to foster care if literally everyone around them ends up dead...but I have a hard time believing Sutter will do that. There's a reason he promoted Drea de Matteo to a series regular; she's going to play a big part in the endgame. I also have a gut feeling that Tig will bite it within the first 2-3 episodes. He's been living on borrowed time for a while now, and it's a good way for Sutter to ease us into what will surely be a season full of dead bodies. Can't wait,,,and at the same time, I'm dreading it. This has been my favorite series for years now, and I don't want it to end.
  10. Which you and I both know is never actually going to happen. I think on some level, he knows that himself...but waxing poetic about "saving music" and public service projects is a lot better than accepting the fact that you're a hoarder suffering from some sort of mental illness. His interns catalog 500 records a day - one of his buyers estimates that it would take 20 years to go through the current collection. And that's assuming that he stops buying more records...every purchase just adds to the timeline. Take the lot he bought at the beginning of the article - 3 million records in late 2013. At 500 a day, that's an additional 6000 days (or ~17 years) of work added just from one purchase. God only knows how many he had before that, and how many more he's bought since. The math just doesn't add up. The article does a really good job of trying to paint him as a passionate collector who's trying to do right by the music. The irony is that in his attempt at saving these records from being lost to history, he's ensuring that the majority of them will suffer that exact fate. He's 62, and when he dies, no one in their right mind is going to try to take on a collection of this size. Most of these albums are going to continue to sit in warehouses, forgotten, until they end up in some Brazilian landfill, never seeing a turntable again. It's just sad.
  11. Thanks for the info on ETDYH! Much appreciated. I should have clarified, the other EP I picked up was Put Yourself Back Together, and that was the one on gold with white. It's actually a little bit lighter than that, just had shitty lighting when taking the pic.
  12. Hate to bump an old thread, but did anyone ever find out what the pressing info was on these variants? I picked up both EPs at Warped Tour yesterday, and they were the same variants described above. Checked Discogs and a couple other places, but couldn't find anything.
  13. I've picked up Acceptance Speech and Downtown Battle Mountain and both were single sleeve. I think the only difference between these releases and the boxset is the color.
  14. Fuck, I discovered quite a few bands from picking up those comps. Would love to see Fat Wreck do a 10th anniversary pressing.
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