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I was actually talking about Korean artist releases, not necessarily imports. The more expensive one I bought was a copy of Vivid by the band Adoy. I've noticed that the $50 mark tends to be around the average price for many notable artists: Justhis, nafla, Oohyoo, Surl, etc.

Like you said, it probably does have to do with small runs, limited market, and potentially even pressing outside the country.

Because of the smaller market, Korean music on vinyl is in a rough state where alot of the old music is hard to find and out of print so it's expensive, and the new releases are made in such limited quantity that they're also hard to find and import and end up being expensive.

Importing from Korea in general very expensive. That's if you're lucky to find a shop that'll even ship releases you're looking for to your location. The retail price of records seem to be much higher too. Last time I imported from Korea, one single LP cost me $33 while another single LP $48, and shipping was $40. I think the shipping has gotten more expensive now too.

Never saw the live action version, but Ein is not the first thing I think of when I hear Cowboy Bebop. For 160 bones, I just hope it doesn't shed.

On 7/19/2022 at 4:40 PM, V3XED said:

Didn't love chapeltown rag, don't love this one either.
Doesn't really have any flow, just feels like a bunch of pieces thrown together one after another. 😕

New mask is cool tho, so that's fun 

I'm in the same boat. I feel like they have the makings of a great Slipknot track like solid riffs, fierce vocals, and good drums parts, but song structure doesn't flow.

Taking The Dying Song as an example, they only use the intro part once and that could have easily been a verse that they recycle at least one more time. After the first pre-chorus/chorus they go straight into a long bridge before going back to that pre-chorus/chorus and ending the song. There isn't a satisfying loop and we can't anticipate what the next part of the song will be.

And the choruses are lackluster. They're just not catchy.

All hope is gone next?? According to some guy on reddit apparently going up for pre-order in a couple days.

Wonder if these are just manufacturing errors and they're trying to pass them off as variants or something haha

Honestly, sometimes it doesn't even take a release fully selling out before they start raising prices. Cool store, but awful practice.

I hope Vol.3 gets some kind of remastering treatment. I don't know about the OG pressing, but the RSD version has the awful Rick Rubin mix with relentless compression.

1 hour ago, hype3 said:

???

https://www.impericon.com/us/slipknot-slipknot-lp.html

 

Somethin' be fishy. It has purity listed. But also, Frail Limb Nursery isn't on it.

Records being pressed in a timely manner > RSD

@satoshi – Newbury is up!

https://www.newburycomics.com/products/denzel_curry-melt_my_eyez_exclusive_lp?variant=41336273207476

Really love how much this one matches the obi.

Yeah, that shipping is not friendly. Wonder why they couldn't have just put them up on the quarter prod web shop. Or at least offer some other items on that new site.

Oooo I like this

Tbh I kind of get it. Quality is a crapshoot, everything's a pre-order, production costs are rising, and getting records damaged in the mail sucks. 

But I dunno, I don't think these things should be affecting how you feel about music. At the end of the day, it's just stuff. Don't sell your collection. Just enjoy what you have and maybe focus on buying from labels you know will ship things securely or have a good return/replacement policy.

It's up! Going back to freaking sleep.

Edit: holy hell...3 min, and it's sold out...

10 hours ago, Derek™ said:

Damn, is there any mention of how limited that fanclub version is?  I'll definitely be setting an alarm for 5 AM – actually works out great with my company's half-day Fridays – but unless I'm mistaken, this is the first time they've announced a set time for a -nyd- drop... and they usually sell out pretty quick as is.  I'd have to imagine it's a small run if TMR cared enough ask for their copies back.  Will probably be about $70 PPD, too. 😕 It's a good thing it's after Payday, I think there's a few things I'd potentially like to snag while I'm at it.

Not that I could find. But I would also have to guess that it's pretty limited. I think it might be closer to $85 PPD. Shipping is showing as 3,200Y for me (tested with a copy of amplifier worship) making the total a whopping 8,920Y. I might end up just getting both variants to make the most of the shipping.

Aaaaand there it is. 12/17 10PM JST fanclub variants of flood will be on sale on NYD. PST will be 5AM so that's gonna be fun :

https://www.instagram.com/nydcollectionjp/p/CXfeBUDJ_aH/?utm_medium=copy_link

@Derek™  keep a pulse on the NYD webshop. Somebody on a Facebook Boris fan group says they saw a few flood related items pop up on NYDs FB store for a hot second.  Among those items they say were included are the elusive fan club variant of Flood @ ¥ 5,700 and the TMR vault exclusive as well @ ¥4,000.

Could be that they're trying to match the initial release date of the album on 12.15. So, maybe we'll see something pop up tomorrow 🤞

Just leave the hobby now. You will inevitably miss that 1/25 variant down the line and, at the point, is what you have really a collection?

In all seriousness though, I guess it depends on what type of music you're looking for. If you're into pop music, you can probably find what you're looking for on any major music store like Rough Trade, Turntable Lab, etc. For Soundtracks, Mondo, Invada, Waxwork Records are good. 

For myself, I find the best ways to find releases are:

• Following artists that you like on social media. They usually post if they are releasing something on vinyl.
• Looking up what labels your favorite artists are on and keeping up with their social media. Depending on how small a label or artist is, sometimes it's the only way to get info on upcoming vinyl releases
• Exploring on bandcamp
• Joining facebook, reddit or discord groups. I've lucked out so many times seeing a post on a repress or new release and being able to snag something

And of course, visiting this forum! Have a fun time collecting!

2 hours ago, Portsi said:

If you missed the beautiful Red Creek variants, I think they just added rest of them in their store. About 200 left of both at the moment. 

Thanks for posting this! Grabbed the opaque marbled and finally picked up The Raging River while I was at it.

That is correct, it is Infinite. They posted a photo on their Facebook:

I hate getting sealed records. More often than not, the jackets come with seam splits. And it's good to test play new records with how many bad pressings there are nowadays. Have had to return/exchange like 4 or 5 records within the past year for audio defects.

@Gumbo72203

🇺🇸 US folks:
https://www.indiemerch.com/metalbladerecords/search?q=cult+of+luna

P.S.

code mbrxmas21 for %15 off your order. 

P.S.S.

The Dawn To Fear boxset is on sale at $45 too (I actually ended up picking that up as well).

Their true name is Third Man Rookies

I'm sure there's a reason for not doing this, but how hard would have it been to just label each variant with a sticker that's more descriptive than "color vinyl / limited edition"?

Also, comment from discogs:

"...That being said, wtf is this version that we have? Last email I received from TMR was "Would you send me a photo of the front of the record you received? I will be able to determine the variant you sent by the stickers or lack of stickers on the shrink wrap."

If true, why couldn't they identify and send the right version before?