Sidney Crosley

Some decent albums under $10CDN Port O'Brien - Threadbare $6.72 prime Faith No More - Superhero 12"$4.71 prime Ivan and Alyosha - All The Times We Had $7.22 prime John Agebjorn - Notes $9.21 prime Dave Harrington - Become Alive $9.45 prime (member of Darkside with Nicolas Jaar) Train - Bulletproof Picasso $7.59 +3.49 new Van Dyke Parks - Song Cycle $12.10 +3.49 new (one of my all time favourite albums)

I'm curious as to what the #2 Christian vinyl subscription box is...

Just read and had to re-read the trade. Makes no sense whatsoever.

Just in general?

I'm thinking I'm going to start a Kickstarter for to start up a university where every course requires a project about the vinyl resurgence. @The Real Nick Alt, you seem pretty unqualified for everything. Want a job?

Darkthrone - Transylvanian Hunger - $0.43 +3.49 new !!! Darkthrone - Transylvanian Hunger - $0.43 +3.49 new !!!

Some cheap box sets on Amazon.ca Moderat - III (6LP, 3CD) $72.67 prime Slayer - Repentless Box (1LP, 1CD, 1DVD) $38.98 prime Abba - The Singles 40 x 7" $129.99 prime (usually over $180) Prodigy -The Day Is My Enemy 4LP- $25.67 prime (usually over $40) Maroon 5 - Box Set (5LP) $73.12 prime (was around $55 yesterday, so may be worth keeping an eye on) Also these: Dexys Midnight Runners - Searching for the Young Soul Rebels (2014 press) $9.39 prime Vandals - Peace Thru Vandalism EP $9.88 prime

I felt the same about Rooms With Walls, especially given the sound on the new one, I was a bit disappointed at her previous stuff.

This has been out for a couple of weeks now, and I'm a little sad there's been no mention. Tied with the xx for best album so far. http://grapefruitrecordclub.com/t/julie-byrne Beautiful sparse folk with gorgeous arrangements. A little bit Cat Power, a little bit Sam Amidon, some Vashti Bunyan. Listen to Natural Blue and you'll be hooked: https://badabingrecords.bandcamp.com/album/not-even-happiness

In case anyone was worried.

It's mostly not a dumb question because it made no mention of the cursed 'C' word.

Sold my Grace M9XX DAC/Amp in order to get something with a bit more power and could also allow for analog in. Got a Burson Conductor. Sounds amazing with both Hifiman He400i and Sennheiser HD 6XX.

She is pretty fucking scary for education, especially for students with special needs. My heart goes out to any families that may be affected by this (and there will be many). Also, there was just a republican bill to abolish the Department of Education altogether. In Canada, our federal government is not involved in education whatsoever - it falls exclusively to the provinces. However, the provinces all look to one another and standards are kept relatively similar across the country (other than the fact that Ontario publicly funds a Catholic school system, but that's another story altogether). In theory, delegating education to be the responsibilities exclusively of each state allows for fewer directives from above. However, what's more likely to happen is there will be a huge inequality in education in certain states, and in neighbourhoods with greater income disparity.

Up on Amazon.ca too - $29.40 each. Day For Night Trouble At The Henhouse Live Between Us I've never been too much of a Hip fan, but I remember listening to Henhouse nonstop for a short period when I was 12 or 13.

Now someone press treble charger's NC17, self=title, and Maybe It's Me already!

Today (Friday), Bandcamp is giving all of its proceeds to the ACLU, as are over 400 artists and labels. Anyone pick up anything? I got digital downloads of a bunch of things, including Father John Misty's new one, the new Menzingers, Joyce Manor - Cody, Weakerthans - Left and Leaving, Destroyer's Thief, Pinegrove - Elsewhere, Topshelf Sampler, Ztapes digital catalogue, Four Tet - There Is Love in You, and Nick Ferrio - Amongst the Birdsongs on vinyl (vinyl shipping from mostly US labels is crazy expensive, so just one record today).

I'm only here for the LOLz.

Obama was always a strong speaker, and I'm reminded again by reading those words; even if they probably didn't amount to much to either side, it's important that he said them. The problem is that it will likely take a lot of shit to go down for Trump to talk like this - or it just needs to be on SNL/The Apprentice so that he can actually pay attention to it. Only semi-related, Trump has destroyed satire. Fuck that guy. https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/my-very-good-black-history-month-tribute-to-some-of-the-most-tremendous-black-people

Ballad of a Dying Man, the newest track, is phenomenal. I'm so excited for this album.

I'm still at the stage where I can't tell if I love it, or I think it's pretty good. I mean, there are definitely some songs I really love, but it's not gripping me like CR. But in some ways maybe that's the point. Also, semi-unrelated to the music, one of my favourite things about this band is their love of putting live photos of their shows where they are more or less posing in the exact same ways. There's something so unbelievably earnest about it. They've kept the whole same aesthetic for like a decade now.

DeVos is quite frightening. As someone who works in education (though in Canada), I can foresee exactly how fucked up it will be if someone with no real understanding or care for how public schools should be run gets to take over. This is far beyond politics to me - and I'm really not sure how anything about her 'policies' could be supported by even a single republican senator. This isn't just about charter schools. This is basically about making public schools so terrible that it further restricts the potential for upward mobility that 'Merica is supposedly all about. Edit: And also, to further my point, I think each of the last 5 presidents have made several measures that have made education in America worse and worse. Things like No Child Left Behind had, in theory, good intentions, but was a mess in roll out. Last summer I spoke to someone in a similar role to mine (special education consultant) from the suburbs of Iowa. Based on what he was saying, there was a lot of progress and amazing things happening, and his pay was enough, especially in Iowa, that his wife could stay home with the kids, and they could own three cars and a house. But I am also friends with an old message board buddy on Facebook who is a secondary teacher in Arizona, who gets paid very literally 1/3 of what I do. A total mess.

Sufjan Stevens - Illinois $14 prime Sum 41 - 13 Voices $14 prime

Japandroids - Near To The Wild Heart of Life arts-crafts.ca/digitalvinyl f0asq295522407618491

It's not quite like that though. I appreciate your perspective. I know people who have been involved in groups sponsoring refugees. Basically the expectation is that the group help find the refugee family room and board for a year, plus supporting them in other ways (morally, sometimes helping find jobs, enrol in school, etc.). Sponsoring refugees isn't cheap - it's about $20,000 for the year. For many, this cost is absurd and deters them. For others, no amount of money is too much to ensure that people who have lost everything have a new start. It is nothing like the random person arriving on your doorstep. As someone who is extremely empathetic to refugees, especially given the story I shared earlier, even I probably would not let a random stranger show up on my door and expect to live with me. Even if they were carefully vetted before arriving. But that's not how refugee sponsorship works, unless you are being responsible for a family member, in which case your description as above is valid, except for a cousin. I have been able to meet and speak with recent refugees from Syria, including one amazing 17 year old who had enrolled in one of my schools (I'm a special education consultant) about his past. He worked with the drama club and helped them devise a piece about coming to Canada (where most of the school was not Canada-born, though very few were recent refugees) [sidenote: while I would usually think a devised piece of theatre made by teenagers would be terrible, it was really quite fascinating and moving]. Many refugees truly cannot believe their fortunes when they are able to come to a country where they do not fear persecution, or no longer need to live in a refugee camp somewhere in between their home country and the rest of the world, not sure if they have any future ahead of them. If you aren't interested in sponsoring a refugee, don't. I don't blame you. It's a lot to ask. I'm pretty sure 99.99% of people aren't interested. But the 0.01% who are, who feel that it is their duty to support those less fortunate. And there is a shit-ton of paperwork and time spent putting everything together to get a family to come over. And let's say this ban is overridden for now, but lawmakers find a different way to stop families from coming two months from now. Those families likely have been through the process for 6 months. And sure, there are other countries who might accept them. But that could mean another year or two living in a camp. And while it may not be death, it's a pretty shitty way to live, especially not being sure what your next step will be.

I think there's a big difference between determining in the near future that the US has taken in enough refugees, and determining as some people are mid-flight that they cannot enter the US. You're right that the US isn't the only one taking refugees, nor should they be. It's mostly the way it was gone about that is particularly troubling.