Eliminator Jr.

I've been there.  I've been fortunate enough that a lot of the shit I listen to – and you as well, I'm sure – isn't exactly sought after.  Or at least not clearly, upfront.  Dude isn't going to gamble and buy 3 copies of weird ambient records or obscure shoegaze that Newbury isn't peddling.  But I still prefer to play it safe and just text friends or VCers directly, before making a thread.  After a bit of time and confidence that we're all hooked up, I'll make a thread if there isn't one already... and it's really shitty that that's what it has come to, as a community, but it's the safest route.  And I'm so grateful for the people who text me when shit pops up, immediately: you know who you are.
 
I give a lot of shit in this thread and others when I see copies of the new Green Day record being flipped, or some limited Day To Remember variant, or whatever.  I joke around and suggest that no one should care enough about those records, in the first place, and that they're better off without them.  But I can practice enough empathy to realize that the situation fucking blows.  I see a lot of defense for flipping – "it's their money, dude, who are you to care what he does with it?" and "lol, Derek doesn't understand supply and demand" – but at the end of the day, if a release I wanted - really, seriously wanted - popped up and sold out while I took a night to sleep and a day to work, and was being sold immediately after at triple the price... I'd be crushed.  "Ya' snooze ya' lose" is a horse-shit rebuttal to that and I think we all know it.  I spend a ton of time tinkering on VC on my breaks, or during the evenings when I'm home, and I still find stuff that has slipped through the cracks that pertain to my interest.  It's harder for me to sympathize with people when they don't log in for a week and are devastated that they missed a PO in that timeframe, but I can actually understand why some people had been waiting on that BCR repress for years, and were miffed when it went up with minimal heads-up, and sold out within 24 hours.  That isn't to fault Pseudo Travis' subtle and brief marketing strategies in this thread – but instead of giving everyone a week or a month to mark their calendars and prepare a bulk-buy to offload on Ebay, only the unemployed neckbeard lurkers were privy to the drop.  I guess it's better to have 2-3 sweaty flippers divebomb a limited release rather than 12+?  But again, this loops back to my first paragraph, and how tricky the situation is however you cut it.
 
These aren't people who are buying a copy to listen to – that's a given.  But they're not even people who are buying a copy to frame, maybe eventually play, photograph on Instagram, and then resell at twice the MSRP.  These are people with zero interest in any of the bands in these threads, buying 10, 15, 20 copies of a release /900 or so, and listing them for sale before they even have them on their doorstep.  Really stupid.  And considering the limited nature of vinyl and its aftermarket these days, they can afford to cast a wide net over any topics consistently bumped at VC, because the ones that "strike it rich" will more-than compensate for purchases that they wash even on or lose money with.  It's greed and its worst, and it's gross to consider that some of these sellers probably give a cursory glance at the album art or a quizzical look over the packaging before putting it in a mailer and sending it out.  "Huh.  Is a King Gizzard Wizard Lizard the new Circus Survive?  Is that what you kids are into these days?  Alright."  If they're not already among us as a shitlord in sheep's clothing, I imagine RareLimiteds' introductory post on VC would be akin to
 

Wear Your Wounds "Fog" lyric video:


This song is the 3rd released from the "WYW" album. Thanks people.

Wear Your Wounds "Arthritic Heart" lyric video: 
This song is not on the album and is exclusive to a flexi via New Noise Magazine: www.newnoisemagazine.com
 

found the secretly canadian distribution RSD list:
COMING SOON FROM SECRETLY DISTRIBUTION ...
RECORD STORE DAY 2017

• ALEX CALDER / HOMESHAKE - NANKHATAI / STUCK INSIDE I 7" (CTSP036lp) I Captured Tracks PHYS UPC:817949013196
• BONNIE "PRINCE" BILLY AND NATHAN SALSBURG - UNTITLED ("BEARGRASS SONG" + 2 EP) I 7" (POB0371p)
I Paradise of Bachelors PHYS U PC:616892340041
• CLEANERS FROM VENUS - BEST OF ... I LP (CT2591p) I Captured Tracks PHYS UPC:817949013141
• FOLLAKZOID FEAT. J. SPACEMAN - LONDON SESSIONS I LP (SBRl 761p) I Sacred Bones Records PHYS UPC:616892459644
• IRON AND WINE - ARCHIVES SERIES VOLUME NO. 3 (TRANSLUCENT BLUE VINYL) I 12" (BC0051p-Cl)
I Black Cricket Recording Co. PHYS UPC:036172613519
• KEVIN MORBY - BEAUTIFUL STRANGERS B/W NO PLACE TO FALL (COVER) I 7" (DOC1291p) I Dead Oceans PHYS UPC:656605142975
• NOISE ADDICT - 10,000 KIDS WITH GUITARS I 2xLP (NUM2071p) I Numero Group PHYS UPC:825764120715
• SUUNS - HOLD/ STILL REMIXES (RED VINYL) I 2xLP (SC3491p) I Secrefrly Canadian PHYS UPC:656605034911
• VARIOUS ARTISTS - SOUTHWEST SIDE STORY (TEXAS CRUDE VINYL) I ILP (NBR0081p) I Numero Group PHYS UPC:825764009713
• WHITE ZOMBIE - GODS ON VOODOO MOON I 7" (NUM7101p) I Numero Group PHYS UPC:825764801072
• WHITE ZOMBIE - GODS ON VOODOO MOON (ZOMBIE BLOOD VINYL) I 7" (NUM7101p-Cl) I Numero Group PHYS UPC:825764801010

*All releases are subject to change.
 

It's been a while since I posted a setup photo.  I think I'm finally at a place where I have some really good synergy.
Clearaudio Concept TT w/ upgrade PSU and Ortofon 2M Bronze
Rogue Audio Ares Phono Stage (Mullard 12ax7 and Radiotechnique 12au7)
Raven Audio Osprey (JAN Phillips, Mullard, and Brimar tubes)
Nola Boxers
Woo Audio WA7 Fireflies with upgraded PSU (no headphones right now, saving for Audeze LCD-X)
 
Listen to mostly jazz, post rock, some psych, electronic.

That can't be it.

They're in Germany, so it would be Grün.

Me.

 
 

All the info you need is here:
 
http://boards.vinylcollective.com/topic/125037-delete-my-account/?page=1
 

How do I stop coming here??? Pls delete site.

This is exactly why I want my account deleted. Your all a bunch of childish fucks. Someone ban me! Fuck VC and fuck you all.
 
Assholes

WOAH!!! Got here one day ahead of the tracking info....SWEEEEEEEEEEEEET!!!!
 

 

 

I am now in the possession of two grails I never thought I'd own. These were worth every cent.
 
True Widow - AVVOLGERE (/100 Milky Clear w/Brown, Bronze, and Orange Splatter)
Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind (/110 Clear) (Friends & Family Variant)
 

Although I have to admit that my interested took a drastic turn after Frances, I made sure to give every Volta record a fair chance and a couple of attentive listens. I dug most of Noctourniquet, but their artistic direction after De-Loused just wasn't for me.
 
Sounds great! It's nice to hear some positive feedback to their shows. I saw them in Berlin last year and it was pretty lackluster, but fine.
 
I mean, when someone whose early output you enjoy releases ten albums you don't really like, you're not eager to listen to the next thirty. I skipped a lot of his solo recordings, not all, and listened to all of his band projects (just listened to Crystal Fairy a minute ago). I'm not one to dismiss former favorite artists' music too early and wouldn't say his stuff sucks, but over the last ten years or so I definitely got the impression that Omar wasn't the singular driving force behind ATD-I that made their music great and neither was Cedric. Loving all the Sparta records manifested that, for me.
 
I don't expect them to do the exact same thing they did two decades ago, but if they want to do things differently, then why chose to do so under that name? These guys already have a band that's doing the whole sounds kinda like ATD-I but we're older now-thing in Antemasque and 'finally getting all the guys together' certainly doesn't play a role, so I fail to grasp the reasoning behind this reunion (some might say there's money to be made).

Exactly! And so much music is mixed this way. It makes me laugh when people were bitching in 1993 that In Utero sounded "shitty" and "low quality" and I'm over here like, "that's what sound sounds like. They aced that shit." People are afraid of real sound.

Although I have to admit that my interested took a drastic turn after Frances, I made sure to give every Volta record a fair chance and a couple of attentive listens. I dug most of Noctourniquet, but their artistic direction after De-Loused just wasn't for me.
 
Sounds great! It's nice to hear some positive feedback to their shows. I saw them in Berlin last year and it was pretty lackluster, but fine.
 
I mean, when someone whose early output you enjoy releases ten albums you don't really like, you're not eager to listen to the next thirty. I skipped a lot of his solo recordings, not all, and listened to all of his band projects (just listened to Crystal Fairy a minute ago). I'm not one to dismiss former favorite artists' music too early and wouldn't say his stuff sucks, but over the last ten years or so I definitely got the impression that Omar wasn't the singular driving force behind ATD-I that made their music great and neither was Cedric. Loving all the Sparta records manifested that, for me.
 
I don't expect them to do the exact same thing they did two decades ago, but if they want to do things differently, then why chose to do so under that name? These guys already have a band that's doing the whole sounds kinda like ATD-I but we're older now-thing in Antemasque and 'finally getting all the guys together' certainly doesn't play a role, so I fail to grasp the reasoning behind this reunion (some might say there's money to be made).

I saw them last year at 9:30 club and it was outstanding.  Lot's of energy, nostalgia, and great setlist across all their albums.    I might try to go see them again at one of their dates.  Am I excited by this release?  Not necessarily, but hopeful.

Stating your opinion shouldn't rain on anyone's  parade.  Honestly, it's bewildering to me that you can't find any excitement in any of the mindbogglingly awesome records that the Mars Volta put out, grammy's and all.  Saying nothing that Omar has done has excited you really makes me think you just weren't paying attention because the guy has released upwards of 40 albums in that time.  Saying not one of them excites you is just lazy, especially if you enjoyed ATDI.

It baffles me that people are expecting 40+ year old dudes to bang out the same old shit they did when they were 18.  I thought everyone knew by now that it just doesn't happen, ever.  They're different people, with different circumstances.  Enjoy it for what it is, or don't.  

And everyone harps on that reunion, where Omar stated he hated every last bit of it because his mom died right at the beginning of it.  I'm not sure about you guys, but I give him a pass.  By all accounts, the most recent touring was outstanding, Jim Ward or not.

I don't mean to rain on anyone's parade here, but I'm in bewilderment seeing how people are going shitballs over this preorder. And I'm actually curious about people's affection with 2017's edition ATD-I, considering the shitfest of a reunion tour, Cedric's bedazzling personal development as a somewhat public figure and the gaping hole in creativity and actual correlation to their heyday that is Jim Ward being completely absent. Is it old affection to the name? Or did you guys enjoy all the Volta and whatnot records of recent years? Did you see them play and they were the legitimately best thing ever? Do you hate Jim Ward?!
 
It kinda still hurts saying this, considering how much I adore all their original output, but I'm not looking forward to this, because there's nothing about it to get me excited. It's not that I'm sure the record is gonna blow. Antemasque didn't, kinda. But not a single member of ATD-I (minus Ward, but..) put out anything exciting in 14 years, for me, personally. Also skipping through some videos of their recent touring really showed just how much youthful energy they put into their recordings, and how unable they are today to reproduce any of that.

So looking forward to this.

No Jim Ward, no thanks. 

I love Ghosts but am I the only one who thinks that April was his high point?

Been meaning to do this for awhile. 
 

Same here. Listening for the third time in a row right now, also just about to finish The Secret History. Although it's unreasonably expensive over here (50-55€), there's no denying that it's an impeccable slap of vinyl with some truly outstanding art design. Perfect for all those rainy ass Sunday afternoons we're facing at the moment.