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19 hours ago, fish said:

Guess I never realized these albums are so hard to find/pricey.  I got a couple different pressings of Bites for $5ish and recently found Too Dark Park for $10 all at my local used shops. I do really need to track down Mind and Rabies at some point. I don't love earache's business practices so I'm hoping someone else re-releases those when the time comes.

$10 for Too Dark Park?!   Last I checked it was difficult to get anything in decent condition lower than $75 on Discogs. Bites & Remission easily fetch $60 as well. Actually, that's what they're listed for. Doesn't mean they're selling.

Drag City isn't on streaming services like Spotify though. So we end up resorting to illegal downloads. 

I do have a ton of unused DL cards though - but that's if I buy a physical copy of a record long after it was released and I've already streamed it and/or downloaded it for offline listening. If I buy something on release or pre-order, that's when a DL card comes in handy. Especially if you can't stream it. But I digress...it's not too difficult to find it elsewhere.

1 hour ago, aopps42 said:

I hear this complaint often, but they could charge what other labels charge too, but instead they price their stuff low and don't charge shipping if you live in the US. But give someone a reason to complain, and they will. Every. Damn. Time. 

It's true. People even complain about complaining.

It's true their prices are quite reasonable. Been a while since I ordered something directly from them so I wasn't aware/forgot about free US shipping. If things aren't limited I tend to just pick them up at a local shop on release, to avoid unnecessary packaging and potential delays.

I really wish Drag City didn't make fans pay twice for physical and digital. 

FUCK. YES. 

edit: bit on the pricey side though.

Sweet! And proceeds the ACLU? I'm in.

I guess Drag City doesn't know the difference between an LP and an EP. 

Well I ended up getting one from The Sound of Vinyl just now - surprised they still had some. $3 shipping is cheap for a 2LP. 

PO is up: https://www.hellomerch.com/collections/tera-melos/products/trash-generator-12-vinyl

This shows up in a Google search, but the link indicates "page not found". Pending announcement, I suspect.

From reddit 3 days ago:

This is also very relevant to my interests.

Oh that blue is nice. I have an original US I picked up last year but this has those extra tracks. I wonder if the CD I had back in the day had 11 or 14 tracks...

Sweet, these guys rip. I actually still haven't heard the last one all the way through but I loved Supporting Caste.

Other Men - Wake Up Swimming (2007)

Essentially Rob Crow's revival of Heavy Vegetable minus one of the members. A very under-appreciated album in Rob's discography. Lack of vinyl release may have something to do with that, but in 2007 probably not. 

I followed NIN's career and purchased all albums (on CD back then) up through The Slip. I didn't love any of them as much as the run from Pretty Hate Machine to The Fragile, but I still enjoyed them. That said, sometime between The Slip's release and Hesitation Marks, something happened and I just can't handle his voice anymore. It sounds so inauthentic that no matter how good the music may be I just can't seem to care about this anymore. We all know he's not an angsty teen or 20-something anymore and hasn't been for a long time, and I certainly picked up on that shift a long time ago, but maybe it's just in the last few years I can't even bother anymore.

9 hours ago, Sunshine said:

Have you looked at the album cover? I guess its a christmas album lol

There's a difference between using red and green shapes (actually they are more burnt orange and mint) in a piece of art and "red and green swirl". If they match the tones used on the cover, cool. But I'm expecting more standard red an green on the vinyl. I hope I'm wrong.

The clips above are giving me more confidence in the album compared to the lead single.

4 hours ago, mxv said:

That's because In Case.. isn't the true live recording of the show, it was partially re-recorded in a studio and overdubbed to the moon and back, including re-recording and replacing all the vocals (most evident on Thieves which Ogre sang at the show but on In Case... it has Al's vocals on instead).

 

I saw them on this tour and had countless bootleg tapes of the show including this one (though nowhere near the good sound quality of this new LP release). It always pissed me off how much of that In Case... record was bullshit re-recordings and I've always hated that record as a result.

 

Needless to say I'm ecstatic with this new live album which is the true live recording of the show. I happily forked over the cash for one despite the crappy cover art. 

I wasn't aware of this - thanks!

There's a repress of King Gizzard's Quarters available, "Half Berry, Half Blender". Got one since I didn't own this album yet.

https://www.castlefacerecords.com/products/king-gizzard-quarters

9 hours ago, dynabcn said:

Hey guys , i asked the guys of Sub Pop. There will be three different Loser Editions (USA / Canada / Europe):

https://twitter.com/subpop/status/884848183506948096

So the non-US will probably look cooler and the US gets a Christmas edition. 

Really digging that album cover. Might pick up a Loser Edition locally if I dig the album as a whole. Haven't listened to the track yet, waiting for my currently playing vinyl to end.

On 7/8/2017 at 0:50 AM, spoon said:

I can also vouch for grabbing the LP direct from the band if possible. I was able to grab their 1st & 3rd records for $15 each on tour and had a pleasant chat with various band members both times.

Good call. But since the album will be out a full month before they play in my city, and Drag City doesn't do streaming, I'll probably pick it up at a local shop on release day. 

On 7/7/2017 at 4:59 PM, YouTwo said:

My local shop had the blue for $28 and I got a free poster.  I remember they sold the White A Moon Shaped Pool a lot cheaper too.

That's a great price. Seems all my local shops are asking $38-39 which is still ok for a 3-LP release.

I was really tempted to pick it up this weekend, and my local shops seem to have plenty of blue variants, but ultimately I decided I didn't need this. I really love the shade of blue and how perfect it is for the album, but I just really don't need to spend the money on this. Ended up spending about $250 on records this weekend anyway, not including a few on Discogs.

Digging the new song.

Ironic that their practice space is a former optician's office and someone thinks that color is maroon.

2 hours ago, MrMystery said:

This band kicks ass

saw em last year

will definitely grab that lp but not from Drag City in order to be sure to have it on release day

Same - I rarely pre-order unless there's a limited release.