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I didn’t get into the last album but I really dig what I’ve heard of this one. Not always an easy listen, but if you wrote them off previously, they seem to be doing something different on this one. 

This Bull Moose shit has me so sad, and also angry as fuck. I've spent thousands of dollars there, including hundreds of visits to the Salem locations (new and old).  
 
Regarding the mask piece of the equation: it sounds like a large number of the Salem store staff are not yet vaccinated. I've heard tell of at least one of them that isn't and (IIRC) has to help care for their very old grandmother who cannot get vaccinated.
 
[aside: Salem, NH is a particularly interesting place with, shall I say, special retail challenges. I know this from having worked at the Apple Store up the road from Bull Moose for a couple of years. it's right on the NH/MA border, and because NH doesn't have sales tax, people will drive to NH to save that sweet 6.25%, especially on big purchases like computers in the case of Apple, but also a lot of I'll be kind and say "frugal" peeps will go buy a ton of records at once on a Bull Moose/Newbury trip. Also a heck of a lot of people in southern NH are MA expats who wanted to move to NH for "muh freedoms" and whatnot, particularly in Salem because it's right on the highway to Boston for those people who still work in Boston but think they're being oppressed in MA (I always think this is hilarious because these people pay MA income tax but also the way higher property tax/other local taxes that make up for the fact that NH doesn't have income tax so they're actually kinda getting screwed on both ends, but again, "muh freedoms!" lol). What I'm saying that approximately 2/3 of the people shopping in Salem, which has a mall and miles of strip mall, are either raving assholes or willing to make a scene and start screaming and utterly humiliate a retail worker at the drop of a dime. it sucks ass working in that town.]
 
So anyway, there's a more-than-acceptable number of people who go to the Salem Bull Moose and in the past year have been shitty about wearing a mask, have complained when asked to put one on, have complained about having to wait outside due to the capacity limit, etc. I've seen it firsthand every time I've gone there in the past year. There are absolutely a lot of people who will go there and say "the CDC says I don't have to wear a mask if I'm fully vaccinated and I'm fully vaccinated so I'm not wearing a mask" and will be lying about being vaccinated. It is absolutely a workplace safety issue for the many as-yet-unvaccinated workers.
 
On top of that, the workers there have repeatedly been subject to sexual harassment, homophobic and racial harassment, and have repeatedly tried to report these things to management and have been met with pretty poor responses or ignoring the problem entirely.
 
The Salem store was planning to stop requiring customers to wear masks as of tomorrow, Monday, May 24 (I believe NH dropped its statewide mandate a month ago, but the store had maintained their own mask policy until now). It sounds like some of the workers were talking about staging a walkout out of concern for their safety.
 
Bull Moose released a pretty weak statement that said closing the store wasn't because of masks, but it sort of was inasmuch as it seems everyone was fired because they may have been organizing because of the mask issue (as well as the abuse issues/etc.). Oh also minimum wage in Maine (where all but 2 of the BM stores are) is $12.15 and in NH it's $7.25 and the Salem store workers absolutely get paid less than the Maine store workers do.
 
Anyway I'm done with them forever unless some major, major, major changes happen in upper management. It sucks because they've always been so great as far as customer service goes but this shit absolutely cannot stand.
 

I canceled my outstanding pre-orders i had with them. Will find another brick & mortar store to shop at locally or online.

Their 1st album was great. Their second was a massive let down imo. Not sure how I'll proceed with this one...

I'm not sure.  This is the first time I've seen cross over between the two labels.  I know MOV's recent reissue of Slowdive Pygmalion was different than the VMP one from a few years before so I'd expect them to do their own thing with this one.
 

My ROG copy of Now Here sounds fantastic. My copy of TSD is very quiet and lacks punch even when I crank it. 

Lemme know when FFVI gets a vinyl release and I’m all in! Maybs FFIV. Other than that I don’t care.
 
Also, seriously, Xenogears.

Reissue of Now Here Is Nowhere coming from MOV on 25th June
https://www.musiconvinyl.com/catalog/secret-machines/now-here-is-nowhere#.YKKst6hKiUk

my goodness....new Hum and Secret Machines in the same week? 
what is happening? 

I have a few opaque black vinyl records and they all look and sound great. It doesn’t say in the listing but I’m hoping the LP comes in a physical jacket. Those are rad.

All the best to you Juan. Hoping for nothing but positivity to come your way!

I probably won't cop because I don't think I'd listen to it very often but boy I love Tokyo Godfathers and wish Kon got more general love in the states

I ordered a black copy last month from Bullmoose cause the Mountain Blast was sold out and wasn't too concerned with the color. They emailed me today and said they were shipping soon but found some extra color copies and let me change it for no charge if I would like. Really great of them 👏 

https://citymanproductions.bandcamp.com/album/dreamdistrict
 
my chillwave dreamwave album about Japanese transit is out on vinyl now. Blue /300. Tape reissue also. 

I got an email from Temporary Residence teasing Virga II from Eluvium. Email said 10AM EST specifically.

Heirloom quality ain’t cheap. 

Don't hate it; it's introduced me to plenty of things I wouldn't have explored otherwise. Saw it, was also genuinely surprised when that thread didn't just devolve into a meme-fest. 
 
Have a good one

You should partner with a vinyl sub service, like Vinyl Me Please or Magnolia, that brings in a lot of new/first time collectors who would be interested in a slightly fancier accessory for their exciting new hobby. People here will e-stab you to death if you dare try and start any vinyl related business that isn’t printing bootleg Brand New LP slip covers.

You could have replied in the other thread instead of being so incredibly white republican about it.

Just laughing at the hypocrisy of it all. Didn't read the rest of your essay. You seem easily worked-up about this so the rest of your reply was likely all psychological projection as well.
 
LMAO dude take your anger about a second variant being better than the first you bought out on someone else (maybe yourself?). I'm here to mock the rampant delusion that manifests here at the drop of a hat. Also, I'll reply where I please.

EDIT: The only thing wHiTe REpUbLiCaN here is your white-bro entitlement to "snark for me but not snark for thee".
P.S. being snarky is universal and transcends politics.
P.P.S. You think Toronto = USA. You're plain dumb.

This sounds like the New Order albums the band could have made had they not gone on hiatus.

This sounds like the New Order albums the band could have made had they not gone on hiatus.

200 more tapes of the new Parannoul will be put up for preorder this Friday via bandcamp. 

Known about this for a few weeks, but Double Double Whammy finally, officially announced these. Super stoked.
 
Advisory Committee (Blood Red /1000):
http://www.dbldblwhmmy.com/products/698208-mirah-advisory-committee-reissue
 
C’mon Miracle (Sea Blue /1000): http://www.dbldblwhmmy.com/products/698209-mirah-cmon-miracle-reissue
 
Bundle: http://www.dbldblwhmmy.com/products/698245-mirah-advisory-committee-cmon-miracle-vinyl-bundle

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