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I would have ordered from Rough Trade if not for the higher price (compared to midheaven) and shipping from UK. That's about $55, no thanks.

Pre-ordered the grey vinyl from Midheaven yesterday. 

These are on their way to us now from the Czech Republic. Please be patient once you start seeing people getting their copies, we have thousands of orders to ship and its gonna be bonkers. 

I've never collected variants. As someone mentioned already, I'd rather have 10 different albums than 10 copies of the same album. When I collected CDs, I did like to complete the discography of my favorite artists, but I limited that to official studio albums, occasionally including live ones. Then I realized I was at the point of just ripping albums to my computer for convenient listening on my MP3 player and computer, and making copies of the CDs to keep in the car. Essentially I was just ripping the CD, checking out the artwork, and putting it on the shelf. CD shopping was becoming less and less fun as it was easier to find things I wanted on Amazon, eBay, etc. It became a money pit and I started downloading more. Now that I'm buying vinyl, I'm trying to be a lot more selective of what I buy. And I never need more than one copy of anything.

Just give up on everything, ever.  You'll find that it's a lot easier and nothing is really worth it.

This should be in the Everything Else forum

Well, the "Uneven Wear" Theory postulates that if one who generally listens to albums start to finish in rotation listens to one song a significant amount of times before the release of an album, there will be a gap in the novelty of listening to the full album in the place where the aforementioned pre-listened-to song is in the sequence of the track listing. That gap will become noticeable to people who listen in terms of full album rotations and cause some measure of dysphoria where they would otherwise (i.e. having not pre-listened to individual tracks a significant amount of times) felt the uniform freshness from hearing those songs altogether had they waited to hear the album as a whole first.
 
Other than that some people enjoy the sense of novelty in a experiencing an album from a physical medium for the very first time. It includes a certain sense of ritual that is very fulfilling to many of us and to listen to more than just a single digitally any number of times before that event is somewhat lackluster just because some of us have such an attachment to the physical medium and being completely surprised by the content in that first listen.

As someone who saw them tour behind A->B: Life, I can say with certainty that their live show is now more tame than in the past.  It was complete ruckus back in the day, with all members (expect their first bass player) going insanely nuts, moving and gyrating from one side of the stage to the other. 
 
That said, they are still really fantastic live... so I agree with encouraging others to check them out live.

If a record is released that I want, I'll buy it.
If a record is released that I don't want, I won't buy it.
I don't care about the sticker on it, the branding, if it's for RSD, if it's for Vinyl Friday, or whatever. Everyone is overthinking this.
And who cares if indies aren't part of RSD? Indies seem to hate RSD now anyway. Yeah, your records may be delayed because of it, but if you don't want to participate, no one is forcing you. Put out the records you want and sell them how you want. If you make a good product, the right people will buy it. You want to create valuable customers, not onetime consumers who only buy your release because it has an RSD logo slapped on it.

I think their goal is to ultimately make it super difficult for indies to continue to be a part of the distribution chain. The specs for both the Global Release day Fridays (starting July) and for "vinyl Tuesday" are a pain in the ass, and call for a totally different way of mandatory branding and changes that are incredibly difficult to understand and implement. Seem to be more of a partnership to help move more major label releases, and to help squeeze more independents (that don't have the staff, expertise, and the ability to completely change something out of the blue) Indies never got a heads up about this. All finding out the same time everyone else is. 
 
It's definitely another roadblock to push indies out of the picture.
 
Also RSD in 2016 you'll see next to no independent releases. RSD has stopped approving most independent releases. And 2016 is anticipated to be almost completely major and major affiliated releases. In hindsight I kind of wonder if this was the goal from the beginning. 
 
I hope that fans of independent music and smaller labels will cease to support both "vinyl Fridays" and RSD in general. It's doubtful as I don't think most consumers care. But I think this is starting to spell out the beginning of the end for indie distributors and labels to be able to get their releases in stores. Independents are going to have to find unconventional ways to distribute product, and doesn't look they'll have much of a chance to be in bigger stores any longer. The specs for vinyl Tuesday are ridiculous. they want to dictate every single aspect going so far as to dictate the proper fonts, color schemes, reporting systems, marketing.  They seem to be on a mission to destroy both indie retail and indie labels.  Mail order direct I think will soon be one of the few ways to actually actually support indies, as they are trying hard to make it as difficult as possible to continue traditional distribution.  Fuck all of this. Majors saw something happening with increased vinyl sales for independents and were quick to hijack it and take it over.  I'd almost guarantee we'll all see prices skyrocket also, to the point where indies won't be able to offer the lower price points, and will be forced eventually to raise pricing to the 25+dollar releases. 
 Whole thing sucks ass. The end is near!

So, new records are just going to come out on Tuesday like they always have been? Or...what? Is every Tuesday going to be record store day now?

Sounds absolutely redundant and not worthy of a 'day'.

And here I've been all this time thinking EVERY DAY was Vinyl Tuesday...

wow, releasing new records on Tuesday, can't believe nobody thought of this before

All he said was "I have this record; I might be open to offers" - the rest of you dudes put it on him to give it to some loony BTS superfan who has hooked people up on RSD before. Then you turned on him lickety split because he listed it on Discogs. It's his record; he can sell it (or not sell it) for as much as he wants.

Haha. You guys are ridiculous. Maybe I just used a blue sharpie to color it?
 
The labels are perfectly aligned. What you see is the record on the white sleeve, with the sleeve holes showing through. The record is in fact translucent blue.
 
I never once stated that was here looking to "hook up someone who deserves it". I came in here and posted a picture of a record that people didn't seem to think existed to show that it did in fact, exist. I DID state that I would entertain offers if someone wanted to make one. Frankly, most of the offers I got were quite low to not even justify selling it. I bought a copy of this record because i really like the record, and I kind of wish it just ended up being black.
 
Is posting it on discogs for $500 "laughable". Absolutely. It was the only forum I could use to offer someone outside of this forum the opportunity to acquire this record. The offers I have received via Discogs have been more than acceptable; way more than anything offered here.  I don't like being tasked with having to decide who is most deserving of this record. I just want to get it out of my possession. 
 
I have decided to post this record on eBay so that the market will dictate what i sell this record for. I will be posting it for 99cents. Once i can figure out how to use the eBay charity function, i will be posting the auction with 50% of the profits donated to PAWS Chicago, a no kill animal shelter. If the record ends up selling for 99cents, so be it. I hope it finds a good home. I will take the profits and go out and buy another copy to listen to and hope that it doesn't end up being blue.

This just showed up from Amoeba today... 
 

I have a lot of posts and lived in Idaho as a teenager in the 90s. Can I have it?

Pretty sure there are other BtS collectors around here too...

The VC clique is alive and strong.

Yes, they were repressed by Hopeless. No Idea has them:
 
http://store.noidearecords.com/products/dillinger-four-midwestern-songs-of-the-americas
 
http://store.noidearecords.com/products/dillinger-four-versus-god

No sweat - the band's wording wasn't as clear as it should have been and when it was first announced, I searched for the announcement in many different places hoping for some clarity. 
 
The chances of finding a blue one on RSD are probably higher than a few weeks later, yes, but of course some stock didn't sell right away, and the "initial run" may not have been shipped all at once for RSD either. But still, the chance of finding a blue one new in store likely does decrease with time.
 
semantics
assumptions
wishful thinking
disappointment
 
Pleasure in knowing the music is great regardless of color.

The markup in price from $15-$18 is solely because this is an incredibly expensive release to produce. The standard LP has tip-on jackets, 16pg booklet, diecut insert, etc. In fact, these SHOULD be more than $18 and we talked about making them $20 at length and decided against it. Obviously the deluxe costs significantly more to make as its even more intricate.