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It's been awhile but my Mars Volta internet conspiracy engine is still intact. The mock ups on https://us.cloudshillshop.com/collections/the-mars-volta/products/the-mars-volta-la-realidad-de-los-suenos-vinyl-box-set clearly show both a Cedric and an Omar etching on Plague and Eunuch, indicating heavily that those two songs will have their own discs. Using trigonometry I have determined that, based on the pressings I have, 5 albums save FTM are 2LPs coming in at 10, Plague and Eunuch given the face etchings (gratuitous) makes 14, Frances being 3 makes 17. Summer Sessions are most likely 1LP, so

Hopefully you can look forward to being $600 poorer! And if tours ever come back, $1000 poorer!

for this amount of money I hope they didn't because I'm going to need to sell my OPs to make rent

$500 and it doesn't have the Deloused version of Concertina? I haven't been this disappointed by the Mars Volta since the Mars Volta was a band.

I’d be more excited over expanded reissues than a new record but either way, my body is ready. Unless this falls apart like the last 5 labels Omar has been on/started

Interestingly Omar owns the vinyl rights to the full Mars Volta discography as discovered in the 2015 MOV fiasco. Hopefully the remasters will sound better than the Nadie "remaster" of Tremulant.... Although I give it 50/50 that this ever happens or gets mentioned ever again

new song is low key amazing, time to do some yoga to avoid the headbanging nosebleed I got at the Magma tour 1 million years ago.

My memory is not what it used to be I stand corrected. But I do know for sure there are track splits before and after Burn It Down, plus back in the day I used to rip and compare waveforms

Anybody have an opinion on how this sounds? I have the 1LP and it's horrible, wondering if it's worth picking up the 2LP. The one I have has audible track splits

Bandcamp’s reputation makes this and their livestreaming platform a good fit imo. Better them than some third party nonsense. As for overpriced vinyl, that ship sailed last decade. If a $45 1LP makes 250 vaporwave people happy, glory to em

Bull Moose has the Metal Blade orange splatter variant, it looks like

Cult of Luna are Swedish and do get arts endowments from their government, even before COVID. I think they funded Mariner or something. Forget where I heard that, maybe in Johannes’s Saint Vitus interview

You’re making my wallet ache

This is a great album and if you don't like it, you are a bad person

Or it could be the start of the quarantine albums? When two years of tours get wiped off the books, the "album cycle" might be dead

What is this, bourgeoisie collective? 😜

This is why I collect CDs again

"I should go to bed early, long day at work" brutally murdered by "Elite - Blanck Mass remix" more news at 12est

It definitely says exclusives in the high tier, I'm not a sub I just found out about it recently

Daughters

Ordered the CD artbook since I have Kodama and Souvenirs. If 2024 rolls buy and we don’t get Shelter artbook I will be upset, if alive.

This and the new Brutus live album are Euro exclusive CDs. As a mostly CD collector now I certainly hope this isn’t a trend!

Soon I will be able to say I collected CDs before, after, and before they were cool

Six months of mandatory quarantine probably helped 😉

Thank you for still pressing CDs! Instabuy