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I've been listening to mostly REM bootlegs the last few months and find hearing the demos and live tracks to be as interesting/fun as hearing the original albums. So, the 3xLP is a no-brainer for me. As for those bundles...I would only really want a shirt and, after tax and shipping, the shirt + 3xLP bundle ends up being about $20 more than Amazon Prime. So, $20 extra for a shirt, basically. Doesn't seem like that great of a deal so I'm sticking to just the 3xLP via Prime.

Here is the 3 LP tracklisting: https://www.amazon.com/Out-Time-LP-25th-Anniversary/dp/B01KXQBQIK

I have the vinyl version of that bootleg (https://www.discogs.com/REM-Peace-And-Love-Anyone/release/3003605). They would make a good bonus disc.

Fun fact: When I was 14, I designed a shirt for the lead singer of this band's solo project and, at one point, I was working on building their very first web site.

We have a long established history of treating minorities and women awfully. And a great amount of responsibility for why that treatment started to change was that the views reflected in our laws and by our leaders changed. I believe in social constructionism and that progress can be created and also lost- it's not cumulative and set. The views of our leaders affect the views of the people and vice versa. If we want to keep marriage equality and push forward on social issues, we need to keep electing officials who share a platform that wants to keep moving things forward. If you elect officials who want to unravel progress, progress will be unraveled. It won't happen instantly but you can look at the Trump phenomenon to see how constant repetition and approval can create a drastic difference in a group's comfort and confidence in espousing really hateful and ignorant speech in public. You don't know the racial makeup of posters in this thread. I'm half-Mexican and half-Cuban and both my parents were born outside of the US. Consider this one noted example of how a small misconception that is false can ever-so-slightly color your overall perspective. The naked statue stuff is embarrassing. It does more to harm women than it does to attack Trump in any meaningful way. It's re-enforcing the idea that its OK to attack people based on their looks, whether that person is a great person or a polarizing person. It's a really unhelpful form of 'activism' and gives groups a perfect distraction to zero in on to avoid discussing macro issues. I forget my college 101 list of fallacies from logic/english class but using one example (naked Trump statue) to make a broad generalization ("Conservatives are more socially progressive than Liberals right now") is on that list.

She's also the only candidate who is attached to a major party platform that pushes for progressive social issues in the United States via legislature and judicial appointments and she is the only candidate who is not attached to a major platform that openly seeks to roll back advancements in social issues via legislature and judicial appointments. Trump presidency with Republican platform = US corruption continues, social issues take a step back Clinton presidency with Democratic platform = US corruption continues, social issues continue to move forward If corruption is a major concern for Americans, I see positive change as more possible when the quality of life within the country is higher, education is higher, and critical thinking is higher. I don't see positive change to corrupt practices as more likely in a country where irrational, emotional thinking, denial of science, inequality, and institutionalized/leader approved lack-of-empathy are prioritized. I don't buy into the simplistic binary of "Clinton is corrupt / Everything else is non-corrupt" or the slightly more nuanced binary of "Clinton is corrupt / We don't know that everyone else is as corrupt so they could be less corrupt maybe".

My Rockview had two seam splits at the top. One 1.5 inch split from the record and then a small 2cm split just to the left of the main split (from the comic book?). I just kept it cause the record was fine and played great. Sorry you got roped into this rabbit hole of returning them for replacements.

For those keeping score at home, I received a shipping notice this morning.

Insomniac was their reaction to the criticism of selling out. They tried to sound raw and angry to show they hadn't sold out but they ended up releasing an album that was far more raw and angry than any of their independent records ever were. I love Insomniac (it's prob my favorite album of theirs) but it was definitely a case of 'thou doth protest too much'. Worked for me though because I like the band they tried to be on that record.

I got no shipping confirmation so it looks like Friday wasn't a deadline for everyone.

If we can repeal marriage equality, knock women back down a peg, give insurance companies a leg up, introduce massive tax cuts for the rich, and put an end to this "global warming is real" nonsense, then Syria and people across the world will be safer.

It feels like Green Day™ has become a brand/company that Billy, Mike, and Tre own and work for and part of their job is to record albums every few years that fit the brand/company. The band and its members have all seemed to get their artistic kicks via non-Green Day projects over the last decade.

The over-serious response to one dude's silly joke is the real comedy here. Great thread.

Their email said to basically chill and we'll get our orders shipped out soon. I'm going with that until some swaying evidence materializes.

Still waiting for my copy of this to ship. Still waiting for my tax refund. Still waiting (waiting) waiting on the world to change.

Amoeba LA had about 15 or more copies of Mellow Gold on hand on Monday night.

Yeah! I should have mentioned that I posted the link. Sorry for copy/pasting and not specifying.

If you use these and add 1-2 cardboard squares, you'll be golden. Someone would have to bend the package in half or stab it with a knife to do damage. The main downside is they only fit 1-3 records and they are $1+ each.

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We won't know whether to approve of this pressing until we see the spectrals.

It sounds pretty measured to me. The structure of the song maintains its steady build and the volume on all the instruments fit very nicely, even when things get Messy™. The way the 'noisy' section sounds reminds me of some of the SubPop No Age records where you know things are going haywire but somehow it sounds controlled. I'm not a musician or sound engineer so I don't know the proper terminology but my analogy would be watching a war battlefield scene in a blockbuster movie where you can see close ups of the actors' grease makeup that is supposed to suggest dirt and then you see, very clearly in a static shot, a grenade explode and, once the explosion is done, you hear one of the actors yell a clear line of dialogue. It's depicting a 'messy' and 'chaotic' scene but it's not messy or chaotic. Hoodwink'd and the 7" releases would be closer to watching a war battlefield scene in a smaller movie where the camera is shaking, multiple explosions overlap, lines of dialogue are cut off, and the execution/method matches the messiness of the content. I never knew if a song would abruptly end or change course and some instruments would flare up or over-power others like if I was at a live show. All that said, I'm not arguing that the songs are bad. I'm just bummed that the parts of the band that I thought made them stand out overlap with the parts of the band that they want to shore up and move past. I bet this will be a solid SubPop album and that they are a better band than if they just kept cranking out the same stuff. I always grouped these guys with Happy Diving in my head since I found both of them around the same time a few years ago and they both announced new albums this year around the same time. I really like the minor tune-up Happy Diving did on their new album.

Another new song. It sounds like they're going in a different direction as a band than the one they were going down with Hoodwink'd and the 7" releases. I'm a bit bummed as it was nice to hear a fun, raw pop/grunge band that wasn't too concerned with sounding refined or streamlined. In the world of Matador/Merge/Sub Pop, that would have been a unique take on indie music, in my opinion.

It seems like once you figure out the "professional radio/hit" sound/mix, it's hard to let it go. This song could be interesting if they stuck to noisy guitars, drums, and bass and let the warts show. The vocal melody is more inspired than most recent Green Day songs but it sounds like very controlled, deliberate faux-chaos which is a deal-breaker when you're over 30 and remember jamming out to Kerplunk-Insomniac as a kid.

Guys. This is supposed to be a safe space for people who are tired of safe spaces.

Is there a change.org petition I can sign?