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NICE!!! Thanks for the headsup! Will definitely snag. 
 
 

Not vinyl (wish it was) but I loved seeing my #1 pop of 2020 cover my #1 of 2021
 
Check out Arlo Parks if you haven't yet. Collapsed in Sunbeams has been on repeat for me since January.

Blood Records exclusive: blue marble / lenticular sleeve
Wolf Alice: Blue Weekend (Lenticular Edition) – Blood Records (blood-records.co.uk)

Blood Records exclusive: blue marble / lenticular sleeve
Wolf Alice: Blue Weekend (Lenticular Edition) – Blood Records (blood-records.co.uk)

https://www.bludetiger.com/products/696734-how-did-we-get-here-vinyl
 
Blu DeTiger's new EP!

Updated with new info. RISE variant isn't even exclusive to them.
 
Photo taken from reddit:

Updated with new info. RISE variant isn't even exclusive to them.
 
Photo taken from reddit:

I was counting the clear w/ black blob as one.
 
/300 - smog mix (df)
/500 - deluxe box set: black/gray splatter (artist)
/1000 - black/black ice quad color (artist)
/??? - ghostly (Rise)
/300 - clear w/ black blob (BV/R)
/300 - silver w/ white blob (Banquet)
/350 - black & grey cornetto (Rise AUS)
/750 - galaxy (NBC)
/750 - marble (NBC)
/??? - indie
Standard

I was counting the clear w/ black blob as one.
 
/300 - smog mix (df)
/500 - deluxe box set: black/gray splatter (artist)
/1000 - black/black ice quad color (artist)
/??? - ghostly (Rise)
/300 - clear w/ black blob (BV/R)
/300 - silver w/ white blob (Banquet)
/350 - black & grey cornetto (Rise AUS)
/750 - galaxy (NBC)
/750 - marble (NBC)
/??? - indie
Standard

Releases on june 11th.
So far from the official AFI store
 
https://shop.afireinside.net/bodies/bodies-vinyl-d2c-exclusive-digital.html (black/black ice quad color/1000) - Official AFI Store Exclusive
https://shop.afireinside.net/bodies-vinyl-despair-faction-exclusive-digital.html (smog mix/300) - Despair Faction (Fan Club) Exclusive SOLD OUT
https://shop.afireinside.net/bodies/bodies-deluxe-vinyl-box-set-digital.html (black/gray heavy splatter with limited edition cover/500) - Deluxe Box Set SOLD OUT
 
Note that a free "Gold Pin" was added to my order from the official store.

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Thanks to my fellow collectors for adding new links :
https://www.newburycomics.com/collections/exclusive-vinyl/products/afi-bodies_exclusive_lp_galaxy?variant=39252046151860 (galaxy/750)
https://www.newburycomics.com/collections/exclusive-vinyl/products/afi-bodies_exclusive_lp_marble?variant=39252046938292 (marble/750)
https://shop.brooklynvegan.com/products/afi-bodies-limited-edition-clear-with-black-blob-lp-only-300-made (clear with black blob/300) SOLD OUT
https://shop.revolvermag.com/products/afi-bodies-limited-edition-clear-with-black-blob-lp-only-300-made (clear with black blob/300) SOLD OUT
https://riserecords.com/products/afi0bodigh-lp (ghostly /500)
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https://www.banquetrecords.com/afi/bodies/Rise460-8 (white in silver/300) - UK, Banquet Exclusive
https://www.riserecords.com.au/afi (black and grey cornetto /350) - AUS 

"TEXT15" coupon code for Newbury

Damn. That BENEE song is hella catchy. Reminds me of early Lily Allen and I'm all about that. 
 

I wanted to shout out this release. My favorite of 2021 so far. The red vinyl is easy to come across for under $25 at most retailers. 
 

I was excited for BENEE but not $30 for a single LP. UO needs to get a grip.

There's a new Future Nostalgia deluxe vinyl coming soon:
Future Nostalgia - The Moonlight Edition (2LP) (dualipa.com)

There's a new Future Nostalgia deluxe vinyl coming soon:
Future Nostalgia - The Moonlight Edition (2LP) (dualipa.com)

"taste" is code

This is an age-old argument on here and at the end of the day it's a fact that many vinyl collectors consider whether something is limited or not as a key factor, as much as the artwork or the music itself. I have no problem with that.
 
At a minimum, there's a lot of people who jump on preorders they otherwise wouldn't because they're announced as "limited" and don't want to miss out. If it was clear the product wasn't limited, they might take their time ordering it, wait for it to pop up from another retailer or see if it gets any cheaper over time. Again, I have no problem with this logic.

I've been considering making a pop vinyl thread for awhile, but I never knew how big the interest would be on this board. Since its here, I'll contribute. Here are some POs I'm currently waiting on.
 
Dagny - Strangers/Lovers (In a year without Future Nostalgia, this would have been my pop album of the year.)
 
Roosevelt - Polydans
 
Pale Waves - Who Am I?
 

I have been slowly collecting (and then occasionally selling) the starburst ADTR variants, as they tend to turn out quite nice. Eventual end-game goal is to just have one for each album that matches the art colors well.
 
So, what I am really looking for at this point is starburst variants for Common Courtesy, Bad Vibes. and FTWHH (got that blue and red starburst from NC, but it came out kinda shit).
 

Since it seems like nobody has come in here and said it yet...maybe don't be such a baby about it?
 
Like...unless its a big company like amazon, or you specifically requested it be shipped outside its cover get over it. Shit happens in transit.

Talking shit is why the internet exists. It's good.
 
    He ran Suburban Home Records, a low-to-mid-tier punk label. Circa 2006 he founded Vinyl Collective, which consisted of:
A Proboards forum, which through an arcane series of events eventually became this website here A vinyl-only distro – pretty novel at the time as the vinyl revival was just starting to take off. At that point the main punk/hardcore options were basically No Idea and Interpunk and some smaller players, and they had their pluses and minuses but mostly they just carried punk records. Virgil carried all that, plus like, rap reissues and other random stuff, and he'd try to get stuff people asked for, so he was like a one-stop shop. and finally, a vinyl-only label – again, very novel at the time. He pressed vinyl for labels that didn't want to deal with it, including a ton of stuff from Ferret & Red Scare, and big bands like Minus the Bear, Norma Jean, & Portugal the Man. People loved this guy, and the stuff he licensed sold big for the most part. He used his newfound clout to continually expand his operation, growing his distro and putting out a ton of music via Suburban Home. A lot of it was like alt-country/raspy-punk-guy-goes-acoustic type stuff, and I can't imagine any of it holds up at all (I do like the LaGrecia album he put out and I wanna say Stereotyperider was good?) Every release came out on multiple colors, there were limited preorder packages with bottle openers and posters and shit, all the collector gimmicks you can imagine. He started a (frankly pretty great) split 7" series called Under the Influence where bands covered artists who influenced them, and somehow roped in like every artist that was big on Punknews in 2008 to contribute. Some of those singles came out on 3 colors. 
 
In retrospect, the first warning sign that he was stretching himself too thin was probably the Cooperative. He hatched this scheme to get 200 people to chip in 60 bucks as an investment, and that money would be used to license, manufacture, and distribute an album that didn't exist on vinyl. Everyone in the Co-op got a copy of the rare color of the record, and the money from selling the remainder of the pressing would go towards the next release. In theory, a never-ending stream of records for 60 bucks! People were gaga over this idea. Shares in the VC Co-Op sold out in minutes. At least one person had a full-blown meltdown on the message board over the fact that they had missed out on buying a share. Personally I had set an alarm but overslept and missed it by minutes. I was so pissed!
 
There was all sorts of stuff around the voting process and making teams and narrowing down the list that I was not there for, but in the end, the first Co-Op release was The Falcon – God Don't Make No Trash, on a 10". As I recall, it did okay. There were some concerned murmurs as Virgil revealed that the record had cost slightly more than anticipated as 10"s cost more to manufacture, but they were reassured that it wouldn't affect the master plan and everything would be fine. The next release was The Jealous Sound – Kill Them with Kindness, on a double LP. A double LP, surprisingly, also cost more than anticipated, and sales were soft. Next up was A Wilhelm Scream – Mute Print, and a sort of complete discography for Gaslight Anthem side project This Charming Man, both relatively straightforward single LP releases. It should be noted that this all took fffooorrreeevvveeerrr. According to Discogs, the first (and only) 4 releases came out in 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011. In between each release, 200 people are milling about the message board waiting impatiently for any kind of update on what should theoretically not take 3 years.
 
While this is happening, Virgil's operation is continuing to expand. He's hiring people and moving into bigger spaces, Suburban Home is putting out tons of music, and at some point there are too many plates spinning and things start taking a turn. He sells "VC for Life" memberships where for $1000 you get everything they release, forever. He takes preorders for Volume 2 of Under The Influence, with promised artists including The Gaslight Anthem and Minus the Bear, which never materializes. For most of VC's run, all his releases were pressed through Pirates Press as they were the only place that was doing all the splatters, hazes & splits that he utilized extensively, but at a certain point he switches to a domestic plant. Later the word from the rumor mill is that he was so in debt with Pirates Press that they wouldn't take new orders from him. Virgil starts blowing out inventory under the guise of clearing out space, doing big bundles of LPs and 7"s for dirt cheap.  Labels who were distro-ing with VC start posting threads on the message boards that they've not been getting paid for months. Some of them get deleted, including a legendary one where Tre from Deathwish tells Virgil to answer his email and give him his money, in so many words. People start asking to sell back their shares in the co-op as it becomes clear that it's a sinking ship.
 
While this is all happening, Virgil announces a mother freakin' craft beer tour.
 
In early 2011, the bottom finally falls out and Virgil shutters Vinyl Collective, leaving tons of labels, bands and customers in the lurch. He liquidates everything through eBay and his own store, and disappears for a good while, although according to Discogs, Suburban Home put out a handful of releases between 2011 and 2015. The most valuable asset at that point was the message board, and he sold it(?!?) to ShopRadioCast and Academy Fight Song Records, another label that flamed out spectacularly pretty soon after. And now here we are! Virgil basically lost everything, but he pops up again every few years with an interview in some Colorado alt-weekly about his new business doing promotion for craft distilleries or whatever. He's an ideas guy!
 
It's wild to think that there are people who are regulars here who have no idea about Virgil or Suburban Home. Personally, it was one of the first online communities I was a part of, and although I don't post as regularly anymore, it is comforting to have at least one familiar place that hasn't been swallowed whole by Facebook or Reddit. Long live VC!
 

 

Limited to 300
Hand numbered
2xLP Yellow
only 129 left at the time of posting. 
https://www.diggersfactory.com/vinyl/230327/foreign-air-good-morning-stranger

I can see this working well if you're US based, but unfortunately in Canada (and lots of other countries) shipping rates can vary wildly and change constantly.

A problem with setting a flat rate high enough to cover that variance is that puts you lower down in the list when sellers sort by Price: Lowest compared to others who have a properly set rate.

 
The problem is that it's only a half-step.  Every other place on the internet you enter your address and it figures out the shipping cost.  Discogs isn't doing this, instead making the sellers figure out the rates themselves.  It seems like the majority of people are just going with the flat rate option, which actually hurts the buyers since most will be paying more for shipping now.
 
If they had ACTUALLY implemented a solution instead of just forcing sellers to figure it out on their own this would be great.  Unfortunately it's just a step further AWAY from being able to compete with every other marketplace.

I've been listening to this album on repeat for the last 2 weeks, so figured I needed to pick up a copy on vinyl. I also got the 180g blue indie exclusive and think it sounds pretty good! I was slightly bummed I missed the deluxe variant but I hate the PVC sleeve so the indie exclusive is a nice alternative in my opinion.