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I'm thinking about doing album reviews in real time, during my first listen.  Just to be ahead of the pack.  I think the Youtube community would really enjoy me shouting what I'm hearing through my headphones.

I hope they do an insane 10% off sale. Or a 20% off select 7"s and one Panda Bear record sale.

Good deals on Tycho stuff http://shop.iso50.com

do any of you guys think that song was about the military or is it just me

!!!!!!!!!!!
 

...says the person with a Tool avatar

Buys one record with the advertised discount:
 
 
 
Talks about all the additional records he's going to buy since the coupon is mistakenly allowing multiple discounts to be applied:
 
 
 
 
 
Confirms buying multiple records at a discount because of company's mistake:
 
 
 
Coupon code get pulled when company realizes mistake and goes off the handle complaining that they won't let him further exploit the mistake by claiming that they are not standing by their statements:
 
 
 
Get's asked what he would do if they reversed the mistake and honored the coupon the way it was intended and ignores the question:
 
 
 
Calms down and accepts it:
 
 
 
I'd say this about sums up the situation.

^^^
No, it IS bad business.
As a corporation, they need to stand behind their coupons/statements. If someone screwed up, so be it. But this is just pissing people off. It's like walking a kid through an arcade with no quarters.
Maybe just fix the error so only 1 LP is discounted, but don't cancel the sale. That is BAD business. I, for one, will think twice before ordering again after they pulled this shit. How can you take them on their word ever again?

Haha people here not giving updates on their shipping notifications, that'll be the day

Guys...if you successfully ordered something, it's going to ship. Every item. Hastings online stock updates in real time. No need for the updates.

Use promo code INTUNE to get 30% off your order of vinyl. Limit of 1 copy per LP. I believe the code is good 'til 3/30
Most of their stuff is already on sale too, so 30% off the sale price!
http://www.gohastings.com/mobile/custserv/custserv.jsp?pageName=Lprecords&from=mobilemusicvinyl&utm_nooverride=1
I just scored Soundgarden - Superunknown for $18 shipped! Its usually around $60!!!

Over the last while:

Enabler - "War Begins With You"
Enabler/Ambassador Gun - split CS
Gripe/Diseksa - "Infinite Detention" CS
Del Tha Funky Homosapien - "Both Sides of the Brain"
RAC - "Strangers"
Glasser - "Interiors"
LTW - "The Reward of Cruelty" - clear /40
Highway Cross - "Open Eyes" - evil eyes /98
Guilt - "Primitive Form" CS - smoke shell
Host - "Death Will Claim These Tired Bones" - violet/red pinwheel /50
Sainthood Reps - "Monoculture"
Human Hands - s/t LP /350 [first press]
 
Preorders:
Del Paxton/Gulfer - split - clear w/ purple smoke /100
+HIRS+ - "The Sexxxy Flexxxi" - clear w/ red cover /54
Monobody - s/t - coke bottle /100
Dilute - "Grape Blueprints Pour Spinach Olive Grape" /200

Not really vinyl related (Well, it does promote the release of the 2x LPs!), but I finally  got my promo posters framed!  
 

I remember seeing CD singles having that deal, back when CD singles were things people bought. Cool they're doing that with 7"s now, I'd never seen that before.
 
And Cannonfunk, I buy cheap records to flip all the time but I don't post on VC when it backfires. If there's one thing to know about VC it's that the people here are not kind to flippers, so if you're gonna do that (and I'm not saying you shouldn't) just keep it off the boards. 

I remember seeing CD singles having that deal, back when CD singles were things people bought. Cool they're doing that with 7"s now, I'd never seen that before.
 
And Cannonfunk, I buy cheap records to flip all the time but I don't post on VC when it backfires. If there's one thing to know about VC it's that the people here are not kind to flippers, so if you're gonna do that (and I'm not saying you shouldn't) just keep it off the boards. 

Hey everyone, thanks so much for the support so far on this release! The record is being pressed at gotta groove and the "smoke" will be similar to the whispy style that has been mentioned. We've used practically every plant out there depending on cost/color and variant options/turn time and location we'll need a lot of the records to be. However, we've definitely used gotta groove for at least half of our releases. The smoke effect doesn't have a negative impact on the sound of the record. When we've done a haze record with pirates we've done our best to make it clear that it is a haze since pirates specifically called it that.

Same, though i thought it more prudent to have a dedicated preorder thread, as opposed to having to wade through the madness that is a typical DG thread. 

tldr - Records are great for discovering music. That's why, as a parent, I tell my kids how and what to listen to. Last year I caught them supporting unsigned bands on bandcamp and downloading albums into their mp3 players. After flying into a rage and buying some turntables and Kiss records, they got the message. I have transcended my human existence and taken on my true form, as Dadrock Incarnate.

It's strange to think it's been almost three years since the 2012 debut of Edmonton Alt-pop, Witch house, synthpop, {Insert your own buzz genre here}, "whatever you what to classify them as", duo Purity Ring, and even 3 years since finding them in late 2012 I still haven't quiet be able to coin this band into a single genre, whether it be due to Megan James' sickeningly cute almost bubble gum pop-esque vocals, and morbidly dark lyrics, to Corin Roddick's trap influenced, future pop instrumentals, nonetheless what ever it is, this band is truly a mover and shaker in the modern music age. When Shrines came out in the summer of 2012 there was truly nothing like it out at that point, this mix of Clams Casino, Animal Collective, Crystal Castles and Sleigh Bells, blew though my speakers at every chance. But that was 2012, and it is now 2015.
 
With modern pop music getting more and more experimental as each day passes and a new Alt-pop artist emerging every 3 hours, it is becoming harder and harder to bring something as completely fresh to the table as shrines did in 2012, and sadly 2015's Another Eternity does fall victim to lack of freshness, to an extent. While the album doesn't feel completely derivative it didn't captivate me the same way that shrines did at first listen, it's singles left me  apprehensive that this band would fall victim to the sophomore slump, but as I got more listens under my belt, I began to fall head over heels in love with Another Eternity.
 
The production of Another Eternity is modern and simple, similar to that of artists like MØ or FKA Twigs, expect with a Purity Ring twist. This Purity Ring twist is best noted on the track Flood on the Floor. Flood on the Floor opens with high hats, kicks, and sample that grabs the attention of not only yourself, but those 8 car lengths behind you. The track is the best example of Purity Ring's new found use of soundscape, something somewhat lacking in Shines. Flood on the Floor captivates you with it's stings hidden under layers of a clean synthesized bassline and James' poetic lyrics of growth and change. "I wasn't think about you" James' voice echos out, as the overdone 'trap clap' rolls across the left and right channels.
 
Something thing that we don't see much of in Another Eternity is the in your face sampling of Megan's voice that put purity ring on the map, this may be due in part to the larger less wispy, fuller sounds, found on Another Eternity. Those reverb slathered samples of yester-album have been replaced with a more somber, safer type of radio friendly samples of her voice, mixed with EDM arpeggios that if found on say a Porter Robinson record would be dismissed as campy or cheesy. I for the most part find this change positive, especially at a point in time which the production style of Shines is starting to feel less and less, modern and more "the sound of the early 2010's" Although this trade in sound does leave the album in position that can be somewhat boring and stale at times, like in the cheap 808 snares of Dusty Hymn, or the punching yet soft bass and harp samples of Bodyache.
 
The highlight of this change in production style is best noted in the last 2 tracks of the album, Sea Castle and Stillness in Woe, a simplicity and minimalism is found in two closer tacks, a skill that 2012's Shuck didn't get quiet right.
 
Purity Ring sounds different this time around, but not completely different, this album isn't groundbreaking in technique, but it is groundbreaking in execution. Purity Ring brings together influence, after influence to create something that is truly their own. A sound that in the somewhat saturated Alt-pop market is still for the most part pretty fresh and unheard of
 
This album is Shrines for 2015, an album that isn't for everyone, but is bound to be a cult classic and a huge influence to the millions teenagers trying to get into musical production.
 
With all that being said this album is a perfect 10 front to back, a mature follow up Shines that doesn't stray too far from the familiar, but doesn't sit on comfortable either. Another Eternity has been and will continue you to be one of the most delightful releases of 2015.

I guess you don't get many hardcore bands out on Uranus if you think Turnstile has the freakiest crowds

I guess you don't get many hardcore bands out on Uranus if you think Turnstile has the freakiest crowds

get out while you still can

The SHIT ROBOT records are on point......I highly recommend them!
 

Though it's pricey (assuming it'll be a single LP), I'll probably be gripping Tender Buttons at some point. 

Found this used today at the local record store. Second press out of 362.