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White Crosses was a band completely letting go of the past, focusing on their strengths and in a genuine and honest way, giving being the greatest rock band in the world a legitimate shot. In some ways it paid off, in lots of ways it clearly didn't, but when you compare White Crosses to the other huge, overproduced, glossy arena rock being released around the same time, it's a way better record. Like it's not at all what I'm into, but as if it's not way more listenable than Kings Of Leon or whatever the fuck. New Wave doesn't really even register as a record in my mind and I cannot imagine a human person actually putting it on and listening to it and thinking "yep, this is alright!". It's one of the worst examples in music history of when a punk band get big and then marketing managers get involved and try to help them maintain their gritty punk edge, but dilute it down so there's more chance the masses will be accepting of it.

This is Against Me!'s worst album, so I would never feel it necessary to own a copy, however I will make a donation for the total price I would have paid for the record+shipping to the Trans Life Line as it's a worthwhile cause.

I did not know Fat Possum reissued Pop Crimes! Definitely not a wild card, as everything Rowland S. Howard related is essential.

With a 20th 5" that just features a sweet etching of Tim wearing a beanie.

They should release it as a 5x10" set.

Definitely gonna pick this up. Everything Rose Melberg is essential.

You make it sound like getting 200 7"s pressed up and signing up with bigcartel or putting some stock on bandcamp is a super difficult task. If a label works hard to keep everyone happy and is super professional, then that's great and good on them for being good people, but it's still super shitty when people treat all labels/individual sellers like they are Amazon by making use of an automatic claims process that almost always guarantees they get their money back and the other party loses out. And you're right, when people are being cool and friendly with each other they definitely will work through the issue, and in the majority of cases people will either offer a full/partial refund or figure out some other compromise, like for example if it was a very small label they may offer distro rates or free shipping on their next order as a good will gesture. There's no problem with ANY of this, and in most cases I myself would offer a refund as I know how much it sucks getting a destroyed record in the mail. But it's also super important that people realise that the source of their records is in a lot of cases another person just like them who is being hurt by their lack of empathy and understand that their sense of entitlement is not always right and sometimes the cool and friendly thing to do is just let it go. The major problem lies with people thinking that every label/seller is the same as Amazon. I guess in my ideal world, the 15 year old kid who blew all their savings on a record order that got damaged would tell the label that and they'd get their replacement, and the adult who works full time and has enough money for it to not hurt too bad would let it slide and would just repurchase the record and there would be a cool and friendly balance. And most importantly it'd just be this chill, self policed thing and there won't be the need for some clinical third party automatic claims process.

That's just the thing though, so many people aren't cool with each other any more. When I first started buying records from Lookout or other punk labels as a kid or buying/trading from classified ads in fanzines a little later, I would never in a million years think that I deserved a refund or replacement copies if my records turned up damaged, just because why the hell would I want a small label releasing the music of bands I really like or some guy who had a record I wanted be out of pocket because of an unfortunate mishap by the postal service!? Like I'm sure it happened and that some people did attempt to get their money back, but no way was it a common thing and the general attitude of record collectors/traders was that by virtue of sending a record through the mail, it was acknowledged and accepted that it was obviously going to be handled by people who care way way way less about some piece of plastic than you do. The bigger problem is that so many labels/sellers no longer trust people to just be cool and friendly with each other and refuse to sell to them unless they are paying for insured, registered packages with tracking, which is making buying records from overseas completely unaffordable. I know that not being able to get pop punk 7"s from Japanese bands isn't really THAT huge of a deal, like say not having access to clean drinking water or whatever the fuck, but it's just really sad that that 20+ years of cool, friendliness that has existed is disappearing because people no longer trust each other to be reasonable and understanding humans. And for the record, I'm not really talking about a seller taking out insurance on a package, I'm talking about the people buying who are opening up paypal claims when the tiny bedroom punk label they ordered from didn't get them their record within a month, and they are unable to comprehend the idea that a label is run by one person who is out on tour for a few months.

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It is hard to fault what ya'll are saying as it IS in the paypal guidelines, but I just find it really sad that people are so willing to ditch 20+ years of accepted etiquette because some payment websites TOS says they'll pull your money back if you aren't completely happy with your purchase, basically making buying records off of some guy on discogs the same as buying something from a large chain. It's just so weird to me how much peoples attitudes have changed in such a short amount of time. For so long the worldwide record trading community has been this really cool, friendly thing with people helping each other find records they are looking for, and not slamming each other with refund demands every time something goes wrong. Now people are attempting credit card chargebacks if they don't receive their record within a few weeks or if the corners are bent a little.

I received something similar a couple of weeks ago: http://s27.postimg.org/8r3u8tdqb/IMG_1072.jpg http://s1.postimg.org/l9urdde1r/IMG_1070.jpg It was packed really well, and must have just been left somewhere real hot. The pattern of the bubble wrap was actually melted into the plastic sleeve, and then even into the grooves of the record itself. I've never seen anything like it before! When these things happen you can never blame the seller, unless the packaging was terrible. There's no way they can be at fault for the mailer being placed next to something super hot or left in the sun when being transported. And if the record was something that would be hard to replace/super important, it's on you to take the initiative to request they insure the package/ship a higher class, etc.

I thought the exact same thing. They look more like Teenage Mutant Stripper Turtles.

Screamo is a genre I have almost no interest in these days, but I freaking love Ampere. That last LP was so good. Fantastic live band too.

I can remember listening to those 30 second clips when I first got the internet and falling in love, and then being hugely disappointed after getting the full album by how unnecessary long the songs actually were.

Paper Arms are one of the most boring bands ever. Super dull alternative rock meets the lower end of paint-by-numbers Hot Water Music rip off. Soooo boring.

Because he's probably not really a carpenter, more just a guy who has a shed and sometimes goes in there and builds things with wood. Someone probably told him they had 50 records and would like some storage for them and he said he'd give it a crack.

This forum cracks me up. People will jump to the defence of Michael Jackson, but some sweet, good natured, chill guy who just wants a little bit of help building a record storage box for his mate gets harassed until he takes off.

My point was that they were previously a format that were considered cheap, fun items for bands to quickly get made for tour and sell for a few bucks/donation, but have now also been taken on board by labels that need to factor in things like "advances", "radio campaigns" and "publicists", which is in turn driving up prices.

I think that's just a sign that digital is priced too high.

Yeah, punk/hardcore demo tapes never went away, and you could always find dubbed cassettes being sold by noise artists, lo-fi bands, etc at shows all throughout the 90's into the 00's, but there was definitely a period around six-ten years ago where it started becoming way more commonplace and more tape/short run CD-R labels started popping up.

This sounds like a dumb question, but what guidelines exist in your head that will determine when you will/won't purchase a tape? Is it genre based (like how a lot of lo-fi punk sounds really great on cassette)? Is it when the release is available on tape only? Is it to complete collections for bands/labels you collect? Or is it just whatever takes your fancy at the time? It felt like when tapes initially started making a comeback they were used for those more lo-fi, primitive, demo-ish type recordings that wouldn't really sell more than 100 copies, yet the band/label still wanted a physical product. And I guess they never really went away in regards to punk/hardcore demos. I was into tapes when it came to all of this kinda stuff; it was cheap, it was a fun and the stuff being released made perfect logical sense on the format. However, the idea of buying "proper" albums that are also getting LP/compact disc/digital releases just feels really silly to me, and I couldn't ever see myself heading down this path of collecting.

It's funny how tapes started to make a comeback as a cheaper, quick turnaround alternative, usually priced at $1-5, and now they're working their way up to $8. In a year or two they'll be $15-20 and a bunch of the original tape labels will all be complaining that they can't get their tapes manufactured no more cause every other label jumped on the tape wagon too.

Record of the year, no question.

This is my take on it too. I'm down to pick up international pressings or tour editions/reissues with hand painted/screen printed jackets. Or if it's a repress with updated artwork that I think looks better.