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so far I've gotten 2 of the 3 things on my want list...without leaving my couch. Snapcase - Progression (ordered online) Uncle Tupelo - No Depression (friend picked up for me) Same friend who got me the Tupelo was going to get me Botch too...but I haven't heard back on that yet.

awesome thank you snagged the Snapcase (which no one around here was getting)

I have

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yup

same price

http://www.ebay.com/itm/American-Nightma....i tem3cc0aadd6a $1000 BIN

disagree, but whatever.

And you just picked up your 100th backer compliments of me Totally into this. Good shit.

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This brightened my day

BOTCH

Very nice, Large. That green really stands out, if I wasn't pleased with the white version (I like it the most because it really goes with the overall package the best IMO) I'd try and track down a green copy myself.

Got mine on Wednesday, got clear. Really didn't care what color I got....I have been wanting this record on wax for years. One of my favorite records of the 21st century.

See Threat, Minor - Out of Step 12" EP. PPD price in 1983: $3.50 Back in the analog age when I was a teenager (the 1980s) LPs were between 6-8 dollars each. Some stores would charge 9 or 10 for certain releases but that was rare unless it was a double LP which was usually 10 dollars. I believe Husker Du - Zen Arcade cost me a whopping 9 bucks when I bought it new when it came out. 7" cost 2.50 - 3.00 on average. It was rare that one would set you back 4 bucks. 12" EP's were usually 5 dollars. By the late 1980s, the average price for an LP at the store was 8 dollars. Then those silver coasters came out and labels realized they could gouge the shit out of the consumer and make bank on the things. They'd be paying about 2 bucks or so per disc (including full packaging) and retail them for 15 or 16 dollars. Chain stores would charge 17 - 20 dollars for most of the things and it was the independent stores that actually had the better prices on CDs. Then a store called Best Buy came along and went national and decided that they would undercut everyone on the price of CDs, even taking a loss on them in an effort to get people into their stores where they'd inevitably spend more money on their other products. This helped kill off a lot of mom/pop stores which sucked but the upside was it also forced out places like Coconuts and Suncoast who had the highest prices anywhere. Prices on CD's got a little more down to earth for awhile after that and 12 bucks was becoming a lot more common. Personally I wish LPs were still 8 bucks, but inflation happens. 20 dollars is too steep for a single LP. $15 is tolerable especially if it comes with a digital download as well. $13 seems more fair for a single LP. Honestly I think every single piece of vinyl should come with a digital download and when you have a label like Hydrahead charging 20 dollars for a 4 song 12" there is absolutely no excuse for them not coming with a download, especially when you think of the profit margin they have. If Dischord can charge me 11 dollars for a colored vinyl LP and have it come with a download, then no one can justify not including one for a 20 dollar, similarly packaged record. Ultimately bitching about it on a message board isn't going to make labels change their pricing schemes. Speak with your wallets. While I love a lot of the music Hydrahead puts out, I won't buy their records anymore because their prices are insulting and they don't even try to soften the blow by including a download with my record. The last thing I bought on that label was the last Torche record and only because I bought it from the band for cheaper than it would have cost me to buy it from the label. There is so much about this post I love.

This will surely stay a civil and well reasoned thread with cohesive arguments for one side or the other and will in no way turn into 10 pages of name calling or some such silliness....

TODAY'S MAIL... Harkonen - "Shake Harder Boy" from Brutal Panda Blacklisted screenprinted tour print from Six Feet Under my college diploma (I graduated last month)

Got mine today...posting on TSPV tomorrow or tonight.

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Got mine today, haven't had a chance to listen to it yet.

Here's to hoping this shows up before the end of the week. That would make a dull week pretty awesome.

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Was able to order this late last week, which excited me because this was probably the holy grail "goddamn I wish that album would get pressed" record I've been waiting for.

Just got this in an email from Brutal Panda ---------------------------------------------------------- Brutal Panda Records will release HARKONEN’s seminal rock and roll / hard-core masterpiece, ‘Shake Harder Boy’, on vinyl this September. This criminally underrated album, originally released on Hydra Head Records and recorded in 2002 by Matt Bayles (MASTODON, BOTCH), is getting the vinyl treatment for the first time ever. Vinyl mastering was done at world-renowned MasterDisk studios to give the LP the best possible sound. The release will be strictly limited, with only 300 copies being pressed and pre-orders available now at this location. HARKONEN split in 2005 with members going on to play in These Arms Are Snakes and Helms Alee. Samples from 'Shake Harder Boy' can be heard at this location and a tracklisting is included below. Harkonen – ‘Shake Harder Boy’ Side A A1.”Smile Pretty” A2.”Baristas Get Stalked” A3.”Bargains Only” A4.”Caseydriver” A5.”We’ve Come for Your Daughters” A6.”Easy Prey” Side B B1.”All This Time I Thought Your Name Was Cool Dude” B2.”The Burly Spur” B3.”Your Name is Shit” B4.”Introducing the Creeker Sneaker” B5.”Settle Here” http://brutalpandarecords.com/ PRE-ORDER HERE; http://brutalpandarecords.com/shop/harkonen-shake-harder-boy-12-vinyl/

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