miracleandwonder

shut up and take my money!!!

I'm a big U2 fan and I can't really get excited about the Super Deluxe.  I know everyone loves The Joshua Tree but to me it's middle of the pack in my albums rankings.  I'd rather see them re-press more of their 90's and 00's stuff than do ANOTHER Joshua Tree re-issue.  

I'm not a U2 fan ... at all, but I'm always stoked when OOP records get pressed so people can add them to their collection. Always such a good feeling when that happens; patience paying off.
I'm not a U2 fan ... at all, but I'm always stoked when OOP records get pressed so people can add them to their collection. Always such a good feeling when that happens; patience paying off.

Compared to Purple Rain or Dirty Mind yea... but really, who is expecting Prince at the top of his game in 2014?  I've followed him from the highs and lows and while this isn't his greatest, it's definitely better than some of the forgettable stuff he was making circa 1996-2003.   I will be picking both albums up on vinyl

That is true, but a lot of these r&b and hip hop artists have huge white followings too, at least the biggest ones.   Kanye for example is usually booked at Bonnaroo, a festival that probably attracts a 90% white/non-African American audience, and of course Yeezus was raved about on Pitchfork, Spin, NME and the sort, websites largely geared to a white, alternative listening audience... so why didn;t Yeezus get a vinyl release?  (I don't like Kanye, but still).   I mean, if Taylor Swift's albums are getting released on vinyl, someone who is pretty much scorned and laughed at by "hipster" type people, why not put Kanye or Beyonce's stuff on vinyl.  I'd even argue there was more demand for Miley Cyrus' last album on vinyl than Taylor's album.     The majority of r&b I like is from the 70s and 80s and the modern stuff I like is usually given the dreaded PBR&B tag (Blood Orange, Sharon Jones, Mayer Hawthorne...) but at least those artists are given regular vinyl releases, while the mainstream stuff seems to be 1 in 10.

Not a big fan of hers but I never understood why they quit releasing her stuff on vinyl to begin with.    Her first two albums had LP releases, but then I Am Sasha Fierce and 4 didn't... which baffled me especially since vinyl was becoming more commonplace again come 2008 and especially 2011.   Even this album took seven months before a vinyl issue.    I don't understand the delay and why two of her albums were bypassed on vinyl, especially considering how big IASF was.
 
I notice this is a general trend with a lot of r&b artists who were seeing regular vinyl releases in the early/mid 00's but somehow as vinyl got more popular saw their releases largely come to an abrupt stop on the format... see also Mary J. Blige, Mariah Carey, Robin Thicke (who had vinyl releases of some of his lower selling albums in the late 00s but his biggest hit last year didn't get a vinyl issue), Rihanna, etc...    You would think the rise in vinyl sales would've translated to their albums continuing to be released on such a format, especially in the cases of artists like Mariah and Mary who had been dropping albums since the early 90s when the format was initially dying off in the mainstream and saw all their albums get LP issues during those wilderness years for the format but suddenly when the vinyl format began to get more acceptance again suddenly saw their albums no longer released.

I should be getting this from Best Buy's website tomorrow since it's in my city... curious to see if I get a black or orange copy.     Usually I am a snob towards "pop" made after 1990 but Jack is actually talented and it throws back to the 80s pop that I loved so much growing up as a kid in the day.

sorta off topic, but I am kinda hoping with this being the 10-year anniversary that we'll see a repressing of Hot Fuss.

sorta off topic, but I am kinda hoping with this being the 10-year anniversary that we'll see a repressing of Hot Fuss.

^ Nice to know you've already made assumptions about me when I've only posted twice on this forum, this topic and about Pearl Jam reissues.
 
I am 34... I'm part of the generation that heard vinyl as a kid through my parents and older siblings but saw it be phased out by the time I was old enough to buy music of my own... I had CD's shoved down my throat.  I prefer vinyl, scuse me!!    CD is a format that I have no intention on returning to and I'm glad that it's no longer the end-all be-all format that my generation was led into believing.  I bought CD's for nearly 20 years before switching to vinyl, I think I'm entitled to my opinion.   It isn't like I'm hopping on the cassette resurgent bandwagon that I seriously don't understand as that was a format that most were glad to see go.  I bought enough cd's over the years that I earned the right to say that I feel like I get my money's worth more via vinyl than buying cd copies.
 
 
Anyways, considering 99.999999% of modern vinyl releases contain digital codes, I will end up having a digital copy for the ipod anyways.
 
People like you are usually why I end up quitting most forums within a week anyways because all I want to do is talk to likeminded individuals who share similar interests but end up dealing with people who love internet drama and argument for arguments sake.   All I wanted to know was if we're getting Coldplay's new album on vinyl... which makes sense because everything they've released until now barring their live albums have been given a vinyl issue, and usually vinyl preorders for big artists usually are announced alongside the cd/digital preorders.   Considering Ghost Stories was announced a month ago and it still isn't concrete if we're getting a US vinyl release of it, I think I asked a valid question.
 
and seriously... you're calling me a hipster because I prefer vinyl?  This is Coldplay.   Hipsters hate that "pop crap" lol.  The fact that people know who Coldplay are already makes them Hipster Kryptonite... so yea, thanks for the assumption
 
Should I just start stealing music from the internet again?  That's what I was doing before I made the switch to vinyl because vinyl made me excited about buying and owning music again after being so jaded with the uselessness of CD's especially once mp3's came along.

^ Nice to know you've already made assumptions about me when I've only posted twice on this forum, this topic and about Pearl Jam reissues.
 
I am 34... I'm part of the generation that heard vinyl as a kid through my parents and older siblings but saw it be phased out by the time I was old enough to buy music of my own... I had CD's shoved down my throat.  I prefer vinyl, scuse me!!    CD is a format that I have no intention on returning to and I'm glad that it's no longer the end-all be-all format that my generation was led into believing.  I bought CD's for nearly 20 years before switching to vinyl, I think I'm entitled to my opinion.   It isn't like I'm hopping on the cassette resurgent bandwagon that I seriously don't understand as that was a format that most were glad to see go.  I bought enough cd's over the years that I earned the right to say that I feel like I get my money's worth more via vinyl than buying cd copies.
 
 
Anyways, considering 99.999999% of modern vinyl releases contain digital codes, I will end up having a digital copy for the ipod anyways.
 
People like you are usually why I end up quitting most forums within a week anyways because all I want to do is talk to likeminded individuals who share similar interests but end up dealing with people who love internet drama and argument for arguments sake.   All I wanted to know was if we're getting Coldplay's new album on vinyl... which makes sense because everything they've released until now barring their live albums have been given a vinyl issue, and usually vinyl preorders for big artists usually are announced alongside the cd/digital preorders.   Considering Ghost Stories was announced a month ago and it still isn't concrete if we're getting a US vinyl release of it, I think I asked a valid question.
 
and seriously... you're calling me a hipster because I prefer vinyl?  This is Coldplay.   Hipsters hate that "pop crap" lol.  The fact that people know who Coldplay are already makes them Hipster Kryptonite... so yea, thanks for the assumption
 
Should I just start stealing music from the internet again?  That's what I was doing before I made the switch to vinyl because vinyl made me excited about buying and owning music again after being so jaded with the uselessness of CD's especially once mp3's came along.

^ Nice to know you've already made assumptions about me when I've only posted twice on this forum, this topic and about Pearl Jam reissues.
 
I am 34... I'm part of the generation that heard vinyl as a kid through my parents and older siblings but saw it be phased out by the time I was old enough to buy music of my own... I had CD's shoved down my throat.  I prefer vinyl, scuse me!!    CD is a format that I have no intention on returning to and I'm glad that it's no longer the end-all be-all format that my generation was led into believing.  I bought CD's for nearly 20 years before switching to vinyl, I think I'm entitled to my opinion.   It isn't like I'm hopping on the cassette resurgent bandwagon that I seriously don't understand as that was a format that most were glad to see go.  I bought enough cd's over the years that I earned the right to say that I feel like I get my money's worth more via vinyl than buying cd copies.
 
 
Anyways, considering 99.999999% of modern vinyl releases contain digital codes, I will end up having a digital copy for the ipod anyways.
 
People like you are usually why I end up quitting most forums within a week anyways because all I want to do is talk to likeminded individuals who share similar interests but end up dealing with people who love internet drama and argument for arguments sake.   All I wanted to know was if we're getting Coldplay's new album on vinyl... which makes sense because everything they've released until now barring their live albums have been given a vinyl issue, and usually vinyl preorders for big artists usually are announced alongside the cd/digital preorders.   Considering Ghost Stories was announced a month ago and it still isn't concrete if we're getting a US vinyl release of it, I think I asked a valid question.
 
and seriously... you're calling me a hipster because I prefer vinyl?  This is Coldplay.   Hipsters hate that "pop crap" lol.  The fact that people know who Coldplay are already makes them Hipster Kryptonite... so yea, thanks for the assumption
 
Should I just start stealing music from the internet again?  That's what I was doing before I made the switch to vinyl because vinyl made me excited about buying and owning music again after being so jaded with the uselessness of CD's especially once mp3's came along.