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For Trade:

Whirr - Feels Like You - purple vinyl

Includes insert.

Jacket is near mint.

LP has some very small nicks on one or two tracks (arrived this way). Leads to some pops. Otherwise in excellent condition.  

I'm looking for:

Sun Kil Moon - Tiny Cities

Flying Lotus - 1983

White Zombie - Astrocreep 2000 (colored MOV pressing)

Balm Alcab - Sea Birds

Gatekeeper - Giza

How does that MBV bootleg sound?

If you have Sun Kil Moon's Tiny Cities in NM condition, I'll trade you for a copy of The Fountain in NM condition.

Welcome to modern vinyl pressings. It's a total crapshoot. 50% of the time they're pressed well, and the other 50% of the time they're either warped, pressed off-center, scuffed up, or scratched. 

Nature of the beast, unfortunately.

Never heard of graywhale. Looks like their website is identical to that of Bullmoose. Any connection between these shops?

19 hours ago, MagisterMGP said:

Here are the ones I picked up...

 

 

Two thumbs down.

I moved 600 records from Montana to Missouri. Uhaul small boxes fit LPs perfectly. Buy about a dozen.

You put records in a box.

You put that box in a truck.

Truck drives to new house.

You open box of records in new home. 

5 hours ago, mameeshkamowskwoz said:

My inclination was to immediately order, but then I remembered the dub version of their most recent album... which felt like a cash grab. I'll have to give this a listen before pulling the trigger.

Yeah, that dub album wasn't dub enough for me. Basically just threw a little reverb and echo on one of the tracks, primarily the guitar, and called it dub. The best track, no surprise, was the remix by The Scientist. 

Gonna be pressed on black vinyl in the upcoming months. If you're cool with that.

28 minutes ago, merlecakes said:

Missed on Claypool.  Looks like I’ll be hitting the online stops tomorrow.

Plaidroom still has the Claypool. $35ish dollars. Goes live online tomorrow at 8 am EST

58 minutes ago, DecayToDeath said:

 

The discogs link that he’s replying to is for s/t, so maybe I’m missing some greater context but it looks like he’s specifically talking about the self titled reissue from a few years back

Deadwax on SFTD have "!" instead of CB. 

On 11/10/2019 at 5:03 PM, youspinmeround said:

Its cut by Chris bellman and pressed at Pallas. That's basically as good as it gets 

Bellman was on vacation. His assistant cut the album from his notes. Still sounds great, and I agree, Pallas is a mighty fine pressing plant.

On 11/15/2019 at 1:56 PM, ghost said:

I've actually been a fan of Grimes adjacent acts like Purity Ring and Hana but not Grimes herself. But the stuff she's been releasing since We Appreciate Power I've thoroughly been enjoying.

Can you elaborate more about Grimes involvement with Purity Ring?

3 hours ago, youspinmeround said:

I am with you at this point. If this wasn't whirr, nobody would care about this release.  I also thought the record also sounded very muffled.

 

Going to give it a few more listens though

Agreed. It's muddy sounding, and many of the tracks sound very similar. 

5 hours ago, Just Us said:

What did they mean with "may have more next week"? New patch of copies? Just a few replacement copies?

I'm flippin out if I haven't some positive news soon 😂

Just a few replacement copies.

@Just Us I may be able to get you a copy. Send me a PM in a week or so.

Received my copy of the Whirr album today. Lots of scratches all over and surface noise. Emailed them on their website. 

Edit: Nick already responded. Gonna help me out.

They'll press more. They always do.

$13 shipping?

When are they announcing the other albums in the set?

7 hours ago, CatsNJazz said:

https://www.bullmoose.com/p/32397077/mogwai-ten-rapid-collected-recording bullmoose link - not sure if it's the color variant or not 

Amazon is selling the same album, says it is a colored record, and import.

I buy a lot of new vinyl releases from a variety of sources, including Amazon. I'd say a large percent are at least slightly warped. Probably 30-40% are not completely flat. Most have minor edge warps or are dished. I haven't received an album that is so warped it is unplayable. I'm using a relatively expensive stylus ($300), by my standards/income level, and playing even slightly warped records will lead to premature wear overtime. So I opt for replacements as well.

I often purchase from Amazon simply because of their return policy. I too return multiple albums until I can get a clean copy. I don't think it is a storage issue at their warehouse and more so a QC issue at the plants. They are overwhelmed and pushing albums out as quickly as they can. I would suggest that you visit discogs and read the reviews for certain releases you are interested in. People will provide details about pressing flaws. I should also mention that even the "audiophile" pressing plants, like RTI, also put out bad presses. I've picked up quite a few 45 rpm 2xLP Blue Note reissues, and those too, at $50 a pop, had warps, misaligned center labels, off-center presses, sleeve scuffs, etc. It's a pain dealing with returns and replacements, but it's unfortunately all part of the modern vinyl game. 

These titles are cheaper at Plaidroom.

https://www.plaidroomrecords.com/collections/beastieboysindie

FYI, the Bladerunner 2049 web store exclusive 2xLP (pink/teal) sounds pretty lousy. Surface noise and distortion throughout, and my copy has side A pressed off-center and side C is bowled. Hoping Mondo can resolve this, though I may just inquire about a refund. All the reviews on Discogs are pretty poor as well. Beautiful score and artwork, but I guess I'll have to stick to digital files. 

Can others comment on the sound quality on their LPs? And I cleaned the records. No improvement.

Derek is 100% correct.