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Double wall boxes are absolutely the way to go. I highly recommend these ones. They got my entire collection safely through a long-distance move. For added protection (and to make sure I didn't slice the records when opening the boxes), I also layered these in the bottom of the box and then on top of the records.

So my Euro "Long Drive" arrived. It is a black and silver haze. Basically the same as the Newbury versions, but black instead of blue.

Got a shipping notice for SOTD regular.

FWIW I e-mailed GP (via Whiplash Merch) and they confirmed they still have the colored 7"s. Not sure why they aren't promoting as such on the site.

Has Glacial Pace been sending out shipping notices? I ordered first day but nothing...

That place on Yonge St was amazing. So many good memories there. I even have the same Ed O'Brien scribble on my Amnesiac deluxe CD (though Phil Selway never made it to the side of the room I was on...it was packed that day).

I'm going to take a stab and say a lot of this happened at the Edge 102 studios in Toronto.

MOMA/MOMA PS1-001 Contributions by: Kevin Beasley, Lizzi Bougatsos, Sabisha Friedberg and Yasunao Tone Released on: September 27, 2014 Available for online purchase from the MoMA Store $40 ($36 for MoMA Members) Limited to: 500 I'm surprised this hasn't shown up on here, but it is a pretty niche release. On a sad note, the young producer of this release, Mike Skinner, recently died. Basic background is below, with artisitic statements and additional details about the release and MoMA/MoMA PS1 Records here. Personally, I'm most excited about Sabisha Friedberg's contribution (in bold below). I got my copy today, and though I haven't listened yet, it looks like the lead-in, run-out, and a couple areas in the middle are blank, so the stylus just skates around until it hits grooves. The Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1 have released There Will Never Be Silence, an album that pays homage to both John Cage and the MoMA exhibition There Will Never Be Silence: Scoring John Cage’s 4'33" (2013–14) in a uniquely designed edition of 500. In a 1954 letter that Cage wrote regarding his so-called "silent piece" 4'33" (1952), he stated "the piece is not actually silent (there will never be silence…)." Sixty years following Cage's letter, the debut album from the newly created MoMA/MoMA PS1 Records reconsiders silence, the lack of silence, and the status of recorded sound. Organized by David Platzker, Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints, MoMA, and Jenny Schlenzka, Associate Curator, MoMA PS1, the double LP features four compositions presented as artistic answers to Cage by artists Kevin Beasley, Lizzi Bougatsos, Sabisha Friedberg, and Yasunao Tone. The four artists on the record come from diverse artistic and generational backgrounds. Their works provide an insight into the modalities of current sound production and shed light on how far Cage’s ideas about sound and its intrinsic relationships to the environment have progressed in diverging directions; in some cases the affinity to Cage is more conscious, in others less. Where Lizzi Bougatsos (American, b. 1974), a visual artist and singer/drummer for bands Gang Gang Dance and I.U.D., takes the listener on a personal, disjointed sonic journey, the sculptor Kevin Beasley (American, b. 1985) records a work--originally performed in MoMA's Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron Atrium in 2012--in which he processes a cappella voices of dead rappers and tests their sonic materiality for political relevance. The 78-year-old Fluxus artist Yasunao Tone (Japanese, b. 1936), a contemporary and collaborator of Cage's, delivers the most "unsilent" recording on the album: by coaxing monstrous sounds out of MP3 processing mechanisms—a ubiquitous yet inaudible part of everyday audio devices--he continues his relentless endeavor of freeing sounds from representation. Cage's axiom of indeterminacy is perhaps taken furthest by sound artist Sabisha Friedberg (South African). Inspired by an encounter with Cage as a young student, she has altered the actual surface of the vinyl to address the aspect of applied chance and listening. Sections of low frequencies and silences are punctuated with in-between spaces and a concentric groove, so that the stylus's movement is not necessarily progressive or linear. As a result, the record sounds different every time it is played. Producer: Mike Skinner, Associate Producer: Rosey Selig-Addiss, Engineer: Lucas Gonzalez, Audio Mastering Engineer: Mike Skinner, Vinyl Mastering Engineer: Josh Bonati, Art Direction and Graphic Design: Floor5, Marek Polewski and Neven Cvijanovic, Print Production: Gallery Print and Durchdruck, Berlin, Germany.

Shipped.

Do people get hit with US customs duty charges on UK packages? I never have, but maybe just lucky...

Anyone else had their credit card hit? Mine did, but not sure if that means anything...

Drop VAT.

No email from Thor, but I checked the site and my account is showing no open orders and no shipped orders. Womp womp.

Works out to like $49 with US shipping (after VAT is removed). Basically the same as the original pre-order price.

You gotta pick the Deutsche Post option. €4.99.

Yeah, probably not. I likely just assumed the release dates would be the same, so certainly my fault for not investigating further. It also looks like they treat 2xLPs as an LP and an extra item. My shipping charge was £6.50 for Long Drive.

HHV will be cheaper. My order came out to €16.71--about $21. Piccadilly will be about $26.

FYI to anyone who ordered the UK versions from Piccadilly, it looks Long Drive is in stock before LCW and they shipped it separately (i.e. double US shipping charge). Not happy about that.... If you ordered both and they haven't shipped, you might want to tell them to hold until both are in.

S-K's Kung Fu shop seems to still be selling the coloured version of the box: http://sleaterkinney.kungfustore.com/all-products/start-together-7-lp-box-set-skn08-lp.html

Moving now. Expected in NYC on 10/23.

I ordered both, separately. Only strawberry shipped today.

Fair--it's a little odd.

I did.

If anything like that peach-scented Karen Elson LP that Third Man did a few years ago, the scent will disappear fast.

Possibly for some people. I have no issue spending $50 on something that at least appears to roughly align with production costs and a reasonable profit, regardless of colour/"investment" value (bleh). But as with so many releases these days (and as discussed at length elsewhere), it can often just feel like a vinyl tax.