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This might be non-news, but wanted to see if this has happened to anyone else. I've been paying sales tax consistently on Discogs since last summer, but today had an odd experience. I added an item to my cart and the total was displayed, which included like $1.17 for taxes. I then noticed the seller was accepting offers, so I offered just a tad below asking to sort of 'wipe out' the tax (it was an $18 item, so I offered $16.50). The seller accepted my offer, then I went to pay, and now I wasn't required to pay taxes--it cost me $16.50 flat. What's up with that? Is the transaction classed as an auction or something now? Can't recall if I've had to pay taxes on any eBay auctions I've won, but I do pay taxes on Ebay buy-it-nows.

Got an email tonight with a download code for the album, said it will ship soon. Also this bit about add-on items being sold out. Not sure if that means there will be no extra copies of the LP: All add-on items have now been sold. As we said in our add-on email, extras were sold on a first-come-first-serve basis. We are sorry if you didn't get a chance to add stuff to your order.

Bull Moose has the Junta reissue up too; if that's the price for a 3-LP splatter vinyl then god damn (I imagine this is black, maybe splatter through Dry Goods?): https://www.bullmoose.com/p/34482297/phish-junta-3lp

Can't wait!

Tracklist: 1. Sigma Oasis 5:49 2. Leaves 7:03 3. Everything's Right 12:21 4. Mercury 7:30 5. Shade 4:24 6. Evening Song 3:20 7. Steam 7:52 8. A Life Beyond The Dream 6:30 9. Thread 11:19

This sounds great. Tracklist so far: Sigma Oasis 5:49 Leaves 7:03 Everything's Right 12:21 Mercury

Yeah, it would be very Phish to actually make an announcement on April Fool's Day.

Just received a shipping confirmation for Cherry Treet vol. 2.

I saw that, too, but I'm a little worried after checking my calendar.

I paid $50 for the membership and got the Vol. 1 comp, never used the membership for tickets, and have never looked back--it's great. *N.B.--I used the scarf from the first package a lot last winter, too, but it just wasn't cold enough this year to use. That was a quality product.

Oh my. Worth the wait, it looks like!

Nice! They've moved to online-orders only. These probably would've been in-store only if they were open.

Bull Moose has Vol. 1 of Watchmen: https://www.bullmoose.com/p/32709494

I have to imagine, especially with the band being located in Seattle, that this is going to be delayed. This is totally understandable, I'd never expect people to crowd into a distro center to send me my precious records at a time like this. That being said: it was nice getting the confirmation email this morning that the project was funded!

Whatever it is, will be much happier to buy direct than to have to wait it out on RSD.

FWIW the price is coming down a bit on Discogs (there's a copy there for $35 right now). Hopefully that means we'll be flooded soon.

That's reassuring. I haven't seen any Vol. 1 drops anywhere and was worried that I'd missed that one completely.

You are correct. The early tweets I read were very alarmist.

Spring tour just got cancelled; they should self-leak the album early.

Could leak any day now, I would imagine.

Latest update for backers was a video of the jackets being printed. This is getting close!

The first two PUSA albums were the first music I can remember where I had to get my own copies because I borrowed my brother's so many times that he got frustrated he never had them. Then our younger brother had to get his own because he kept borrowing mine. So there were at least 3 copies of each of your albums in our house when we were growing up. This isn't really a question, just a fun memory I felt like sharing; thanks for the music, can't wait to finally spin this after all these years!

Vol. 3 is up at Deep Discount.

No Phish FYI (at least on this UK list).

Physical copies of the list are out there. Someone at Steve Hoffman has one and is leaking some info bit-by-bit: https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/record-store-day-rsd-2020-april-18.919354/page-12#post-23351910