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I also think that OP had a genuine question and came to the right place to learn a little, not just collect data. Welcome new folks!

As someone who has only had vinyl for about 20 years (and seriously collected for 12), I can say that I've had many experiences with pressing issues on newer vinyl, that I don't really see on pressings from the 80s and prior. I think when demand died with CDs, quality control became lackluster at the few remaining plants.
Just a guess...

nothing just ass options
 
I only stick with CT for the yearly vinyl 

Glad to see it readily available for the time being.  I don’t trust anyone who doesn’t have LLO on their shelf.

Got both L&L's and it's weird, they're two totally different pressings. The color of the artwork is different shades, different plates, the BV one has an inner sleeve for the first LP (which is just the same artwork that's in the gatefold), the jackets are different thicknesses...  The matrix of the BV one doesn't match any previous pressings, but the SP one is the same as a black press that someone put up on Discogs a few years ago, so I'm guessing these might have been pressed then and they just sat on them for some reason... Pointless and nerdy observations, but hey, that's what we're here for, right?

I think this is everything announced so far.
 
Alkaline Trio - From Here to Infirmary | Red w/ Black Splatter (RSD exclusive) SOLD OUT
Alkaline Trio - From Here to Infirmary | Yellow & Red Swirl (Newbury Comics exclusive)
Alkaline Trio - From Here To Infirmary - Orange w/ Yellow & Black Splatter (VMP exclusive) SOLD OUT
Alkaline Trio - From Here To Infirmary | Black
 
The Anniversary - Your Majesty | Opaque Orange w/ Brown & Ultra Violet Splatter
The Anniversary - Your Majesty | Gold (webstore exclusive)
The Anniversary - Your Majesty | Orange w/ Black Swirl (Newbury Comics exclusive)

The Anniversary - Designing A Nervous Breakdown | Opaque Red w/ Lavender, Opaque White, & Opaque Blue Splatter
The Anniversary - Designing A Nervous Breakdown | Coke Bottle Clear w/ Opaque Red, Opaque Yellow, & Opaque Blue Splatter (webstore exclusive)
The Anniversary - Designing A Nervous Breakdown | Purple w/ Pink Splatter (Newbury Comics exclusive)
 
Bad Suns - Disappear Here | Red Marble (webstore exclusive)
Bad Suns - Disappear Here | Blue
 
Balance & Composure - Light We Made | Green
Balance & Composure - Light We Made | Purple Marble (webstore exclusive)
Balance & Composure - Light We Made | 180 Gram Black (webstore exclusive)
Balance & Composure - Light We Made | White (Newbury Comics exclusive) 
 
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Beat The Devil's Tattoo | Marble
 
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Wrong Creatures | Marble
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Wrong Creatures | Clear (Newbury Comics exclusive)
 
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Specter at the Feast | Smoke
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Specter at the Feast | Red (Newbury Comics exclusive)
 
From Autumn to Ashes - The Fiction We Live | Half Yellow / Half Brown (webstore exclusive) SOLD OUT
From Autumn to Ashes - The Fiction We Life | Black
From Autumn to Ashes - The Fiction We Live |Green & Cream Cornetto  (Newbury Comics exclusive) 
From Autumn to Ashes - The Fiction We Live | Pink (Newbury Comics exclusive) 
 
The Get Up Kids - On A Wire | Red & Yellow SOLD OUT
The Get Up Kids - On A Wire | Green & Gray (Newbury Comics exclusive)
The Get Up Kids - On A Wire | Glow in the Dark (Newbury Comics exclusive)

The Lemonheads - The Lemonheads | Yellow, Black, & Green Color in Color
The Lemonheads - The Lemonheads | Glow in the Dark (Newbury Comics exclusive)
 
Rocket From The Crypt - Group Sounds | Yellow & Black Swirl (Newbury Comics exclusive)
Rocket From The Crypt - Group Sounds | Translucent Orange w/ Black & White Splatter 
 
Rocket From The Crypt - Live From Camp X-Ray | Orange w/ Black & Yellow Splatter (Newbury Comics exclusive)
Rocket From The Crypt - Live From Camp X-Ray | Yellow w/ Black &  Blue Splatter
 
Saves The Day - Ups & Downs | White
Saves The Day - Ups & Downs | 180 Gram Black
 
Senses Fail - Let It Enfold You | Opaque Marble (RSD exclusive) SOLD OUT
Senses Fail - Let It Enfold You | Translucent Blue Marble SOLD OUT
Senses Fail - Let It Enfold You | Opaque Yellow (Newbury Comics exclusive)
Senses Fail - Let It Enfold You | Opaque White (Hassle Records exclusive) 
 
Thrice - Alchemy Index boxset SOLD OUT
 
Thrice - Beggars | Amber Yellow Galaxy (webstore exclusive) SOLD OUT
Thrice - Beggars | Green (Newbury Comics exclusive)

Thrice - To Be Everywhere Is To Be Nowhere | Blue w/ Rainbow Splatter (RSD exclusive) SOLD OUT
Thrice - To Be Everywhere Is To Be Nowhere | Yellow (Newbury Comics exclusive)
Thrice - To Be Everywhere Is To Be Nowhere | Orange & Black Splatter

love these guys, but i'm so glad i gave up on trying to keep my collection complete

I’m also personally not really into celebrity/band worship these days. Bands and artists achieve some pretty cool stuff and 20 years is a worthy milestone but these are normal people who happen to be in a successful band and it feels weird having giant font quotes of very important things they’ve said in a huge book on my coffee table. They’re my favorite band but I don’t want post-COVID guests to think I idolize their members. Lol.

Not worth that ugly $120 book, especially after paying $33 for the silent version of the Microphones in 2020 which is just about as elaborate if not more so. 

Polyvinyl always comes through with the Airheads.

Media: Mint (M)
Sleeve: Generic
Vinyl is brand new - never been played!
Small sticker on label.
Comes in clear protective sleeve.

Thought about this the other day and lamenting missing the last exclusive due to membership lapse. Definitely got in on this one... the FOMO is real with this band.

With Appleseed Cast trending, and it being the time for giving, my gift is this bump. 

You guys are really tough making fun of someone who made a mistake in a language which is not my mother tongue. I guess you all speak 2nd and 3rd languages without any errors other than your lazy ass english... 
This place went downhill so badly in the recent years.... 

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!
 

 

I'm Middle Eastern, first-gen immigrant. You can choke on your assumptions. And your playing the race-card when called out on being bigoted against an entire ass country. Just stop, dude. It's really pathetic.

I buy everything Phil releases. Pumped for this.

...and then comes death inevitably. Can't wait to speed this process up as much as possible and not enjoy the in-between frivolities.

Good read:
 
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/06/arts/music/a-tribe-called-quest-new-album-interview.html?_r=0

But now you can buy it on eBay for only $90!
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odkw=designing+a+nervous+breakdown&_osacat=176985&_from=R40&_trksid=p2045573.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.H0.Xthe+anniversary+designing+a+nervous+breakdown.TRS1&_nkw=the+anniversary+designing+a+nervous+breakdown&_sacat=176985

samesies!!!!!
 

I picked up the orange YM and the splatter DANB.  Been wanting  DANB on vinyl for about a decade now, so today is a good day  

these are all active now
http://kingsroadmerch.com/vagrant/artist/?id=625
 
 

I used to want this. I still do, but I used to, too.

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