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  1. Interned as a Residential Counselor for three months unpaid for my degree in Social Work. I made an effort to sit down with my boss once a week to ask what she was seeing that I was doing well and what I needed to work on. I took what she said, made an effort to follow her instructions, and talked about making those changes, and then any subsequent success stories I had. I was hired on full time and have been working there for three years now. I think if you really buy into whatever their philosophy is and work hard, you should be fine.

  2. i love pre-orders. i forget about half of them, and then come home to a surprise after a long day at work. i guess i'm just mature enough to not need immediate gratification in everything i do.

    You friend, obviously are not waiting on a long preorder. And immediate gratification? Don't make me laugh, some of us have been waiting months for records and we don't love it like you.

  3. shit, can't believe it has been a year. I am very sorry it has taken so long. I have jackets printed, I have inserts printed, just waiting on test pressings.

    For those of you waiting for this record, you have full right to be mad. We refunded everybody for the records by issuing them store credit and will still be sending them the mock orange vinyl for free when they come out.

    yes, it is still a shitty situation, but I have decided to put the records higher up on my priority list if the band is touring and active.

    I will get this record out and yes, it might break a record, but I have other priorities first.

    I haven't ordered this record, but I'm not amused by this response. Other priorities? Ha! Hey Virgil, get the albums you preorder out before moving on to the next ones. It's shit like this that's got me ordering from Interpunk.

  4. If we're going to get into the voting talk...

    I 100% see how people believe it is a disgrace to not vote. It doesn't really even need explaining, it makes sense.

    But I also sometimes feel 100% the other way. By voting, you are throwing your name, your word, and what you believe in behind a candidate. Sometimes, the candidates are just shitty. I don't want to throw my name and everything about me behind someone I don't believe in because he's "the lesser of two evils" or whatever. Luckily most ballots have the write-in option, but I HATE that "lesser of two evils" argument. I also 100% believe that if you are uninformed (even though it is your duty as a citizen to be informed) you should do us all a favor and not vote because your blind casting could fuck us all with the wrong guy. That's why I didn't vote last November, I was way too busy to know anything about any of the races here.

    I agree with this. But much of the time I feel like this Against Me! song says, "I still know every politician Is a fucking monster."

  5. ouch, touche. I don't read the magazine, so am not really aware of who has been on the cover. But yeah, i'm sure it can't get any worse than that.

    The magazine went through some largely regrettable nu-metal years (approximately 1998-2001), but even then, a random gem would sneak in (Radiohead, Deftones, Weezer).

    Really, what all of this comes down to is the following: No one -- no one -- is too good to be written about. People who take that for granted will learn the hard way that the bigger they are, the harder they fall. Always,

    Scott, get over yourself and your magazine. You really come off as a fuck in this thread.

  6. This is from Dave's manager:

    The Live at Electrical Audio LP is a limited run of only 500 LPs. So we had to price it higher to recoup the production costs for the separate vinyl mastering (from hi-res 24/96 audio), creating lacquers, several test pressings, printing album jackets on higher quality matte finish cardboard, etc.

    We are seeing this as a fan-only kind of release. It's not a big release with a huge marketing and press campaign to promote it. It's a balancing act... trying to print enough to get the per unit costs down, but not too many or else we'll have a lot of left overs and lose money.

    Curse Your Branches was a much larger release. So the overall production costs could be spread out over more records. Thus, a lower end cost to customers.

    We could have sent a 16/44 CDr to the vinyl plant and had them cut the LP from that like so many other records. And we could have skipped the extra test pressings, and we could have gone with the cheap glossy album jackets to make the LP a few bucks cheaper. But doing a high quality release seemed like the right thing to do.

    Hope this explains our reasoning behind the price.

    Great story. I'm still not paying $20 plus shipping for a single LP of live versions of songs I already own in their original forms.

    Great story? Actually I kind of thought it was a nice explaination of why the price is higher.

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