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19 hours ago, Saxonjulin said:

...invoiced 32 Euro for a single lp from Netherlands to U.S. Is that normal?

A lot of Dutch sellers on Discogs charge €29. I think that's typically for packages to 2kg. Prohibitively expensive if for a single LP, but approaching reasonable spread across 4 or 5.

because

i mean

goat tits coast to coast

10 hours ago, Dub said:

I know this isn’t purpose of this thread, but I have to ask....where do you start with this band?  

I get overwhelmed and quit.

10 hours ago, wellnow said:

...Bee Thousand, and Alien Lanes are good places to start.

Yeah, GBV/Pollard & fam buried three+ decades in non-stop boogie content.  But the golden age was fairly brief. 

I'd start w/ the string of albums released between 1992 & '96: Propeller (my favorite), Bee Thousand, Alien Lanes, Tonics & Twisted Chasers, and Under the Bushes Under the Stars.  Skip Vampire on Titus, except for highlights like "Wished I Was a Giant" & "Gleemer".

If you like what you hear, you'd be better advised to track down some contemporaneous singles & EPs than most earlier or later albums. Search: The Grand Hour, Get Out of My Stations, I Am a Scientist, Fast Japanese Spin Cycle, Tigerbomb, and Sunfish Holy Breakfast.  

On 5/2/2020 at 5:23 PM, streetwaves said:

I'm still waiting to a record from Australia (six weeks now) and one from England (four weeks).

australia = dead zone for internat'l packages. understand its cuz their long-distance mail moves w/in the country via extra space on commercial flights - which are all grounded. 

sucks cuz i have a couple discogs orders stuck in dang ol tasmania. no idea when/if they'll get to the you ess.

but yeah, kind of trivial relative to scale of pandemic.  why post to internet when you could sit alone in your room feeling bad about about 1st responders?

went w/ the secretly store version, but the vmp variant looked great too. this after forswearing the 'bin over shitty con todo pressings.

On 4/27/2020 at 1:35 PM, Fowty Dollaz said:

DO

^^^ is there a name for this type of color/clear mix? secretly calls it "wave", which makes sense cuz wavy. but i've seen other similar pressings recently and haven't known what to call them. (ex: "brown ice" variant for new sunwatchers, "hazy sky" for the jeremy cunningham solo lp on northern spy)

44 minutes ago, fish said:

New pressing of The Witch. Red limited to 300:

gah, noticed abt 15 min ago, all gone ;_;

got my copy today. standard  cruciform mailer, not particularly flimsy (or sturdy). no damage, vinyl looks & sounds good.

21 hours ago, chamb117 said:

i would knock it down to 9.9 exclusively for the nonsense dolphin noises she makes at the end of "i want you to love me"

One of my favorite moments on  first-pass. Funny & weird enough to trip me up.

While I didn't make it all the way through the album, I liked what I heard well enough. Interesting sonics, lots of personality & bite. Arrangements & production reminded me in an indirect way of 80s Tom Waits. But my tolerance for poison pen catharsis is limited, so the tight lyrical focus on personal blood-letting wore me down after a while.

Speaking strictly as a white, indie incel from the mid-aughts...

yeh

On 4/9/2020 at 7:25 PM, OldKentuckyShark said:

Yeah I got one but geez those /2000 went quick 

Me too, but yeah, was surprised how fast they went. I'd sort of assumed the KG wave had crested, plus live albums are always iffy. (Packaging & track selection look great tho...)

copper nitrate already sold out

On 2/14/2020 at 11:48 AM, hexrecords said:

Gaytheist returns with KABOOM depression and wild rock.
Incredibly weighty ass captures a band while exuding the essence of joy through ass.

I never post because I am a sourpuss & busy fucking stuffed animals, but I would like to thank hexrecords.  Though new to Gaytheist and really quite tender, I listened to "Hornswoggled" & (especially) "The Deep Dark" on repeat a bunch of yesterday. Bought a copy, want more.

Wish I still lived in Seattle so I could go see them at the Comet a/o High Dive. If such things still exist... [[[human feelings]]] No, wait: Uncle Rocky's w/ Bloodhag & I get an A.E. van Vogt novel out of the deal.

12 hours ago, jmoy said:

Just wondering what you decided to do about your Bowie picture discs.  I collect them too and just learned of the possible dangers of the clear plastic (PVC) sleeves they come in.   I don't want to have to cut through the sticker or the sleeve itself, but I don't want the vinyl ruined either.

I understand why you wouldn't want to discard or cut up the PVC sleeves your picture discs came in, or risk trying to remove and transfer the stickers. Lots of collectors prefer to keep records in their original, "like new" condition. 

But the evidence that storage in PVC sleeves can damage vinyl records, while anecdotal, seems too strong to ignore. I've had it happen myself. 

Best solution I can think of would be to separate the sleeves & records for storage purposes. You'd have to come up with a good way to safely house the sleeveless vinyl afterward, so depending on the size of your collection, it could be quite a hassle. Maybe use generic die-cut 12" sleeves with something like a MoFi inner? You'd lose most of the look, but at least your vinyl would be well protected.

Too bad you can't easily get purpose-made "display sleeves" with a bigger hole cut out. Picture discs used to come in those occasionally, but I've never seen them for sale separately as generic blanks.

On 11/27/2019 at 10:22 PM, Derek™ said:

Did anyone else go nuts to butts on the obi-strip versions, and snag every one?

Me. I have them. All my life is nuts to butts.

On 3/26/2018 at 1:32 PM, docbronze said:

 

I hope we get something soon from Yussef Dayes new outfit.

 

= My thoughts on KW in a nutshell. Love that First Yussef Kamaal LP, but mostly for the drumwork. Tunes & vibe are v. nice, but wouldn’t be anything special w/out Dayes. He elevates everything he touches. Ex: that fucking ridiculous Abbey Rd live jam on ‘Love Is the Message’ w/ Alfa Mist & Mansur em-effing Brown. You know from the first couple bars of unaccompanied drums exactly whose sticks you’re hearing and that you’re in for something great. Sad that the vinyl’s now so stupid spendy (a 1-sided 12”!), but there’s always youtube.

25 minutes ago, dapeebs said:

Damn that red label on black is so clean.

Hell yes! While typically a sucker for fancified junk bait, I prefer my Songs on classic black. Squares w/ nostalgia, and the (excellent) package design seems built around it. Opaque red would look great, too, but isn’t, so far as I know, a reissue option. Yet...

14 minutes ago, copelandkid said:

BullMoose cancelled my Sound Dust clear order, apparently not getting as much stock from the distributor as anticipated. I placed my order very close to when they went up, wonder if they're getting any at all...

Yeah, I picked up Cobra & Phases clear at BM in Lewiston, Maine. They only had that one copy in the whole dang chain, wouldn’t ship or even transfer it to another location (“in-store pickup only”), and the item description was deliberately vague. When I called, the duty bot told me they could only hold it for an hour, max. So I drove down at like 90 mph after work; probably added $10 in gas to the $30 sticker price. Unregretted.

Still kicking myself, though, for not snagging an obi copy when I had the chance. Had it in my dang bleep basket & everything! Then decided against, cuz I wasn’t so into it way back when [=idjit]. 

I’ve since listened to C&P more than any other Stereolab album, and it gets better every time. Starting too be true of Sound-Dust, too...

20 hours ago, timsimmons said:

For me, I think MAQ through Cobra as being their best. Sound Dust can be included in a second tier with the Switched ons, Transient and Groop.

Yeah, mostly, though Switched On 2 is my enduring favorite. For a while I think I overrated the early stuff & underrated everything post-ETK. At the moment...

Rectoplasm

Mars Audiac Vtet

Group Voltage Milk

Emperor Tom Catsup

Datsun Lubes

Switched On

Sound-Dust

Marge Lips

Alumichoon

Transient Randy

Peng! (and I used to love it so)

6 hours ago, OldKentuckyShark said:

Two days after emailing DPD, I received an email from Aramex stating that my parcel cleared customs and should be delivered tomorrow.

Awesome! Glad to hear it, OKS. Sounds like things are working out for most everyone here.

Received! Box looks a little worse for wear, but the albums are perfect (solid packaging). Not sure how best to protect the obi strips for the long term. For now I have them around the sleeve, but inside the front panel. 

Only downside is that I’ve now scratched 5 Cliff tickets w/o a winner. Wonder what the odds are...

Got a shipping notice for the magenta this morning, spontaneously soiled a stuffed animal

9 minutes ago, OldKentuckyShark said:

How do you contact DPD?

I’m not sure. I haven’t tried contacting them yet, as I managed to resolve things stateside through FedEx and Amarex. Took several hours of telephone calls & internet sleuthing spread out over several days, though.

If I were you, I’d google for a US DPD office and/or see what help resources are available on their website. Has to be someone who can provide you with a more precise package location & status, or at least point you in the right direction.

On 9/28/2019 at 10:04 AM, OldKentuckyShark said:

Did they mention that all US orders were handled by Aramex?

Follow-up: They (Aramex) don’t know. They handle a lot of DPD traffic, but the rep I spoke to didn’t know whether they were DPD’s sole partner for US-bound DPD shipments. Suspect you’d have to ask Ochre and/or DPD.

In other news, I’m on tracking number #5, but it does look like I’m finally gonna receive my package. FedEx delivery scheduled for tomorrow. Fingers crossed...

2 hours ago, OldKentuckyShark said:

Did they mention that all US orders were handled by Aramex?

No, I don’t know about US orders in general, just mine. I’ll ask when I call Aramex on Monday morning to follow up.

Also, fwiw, I sent Bleep a message about my order on Tuesday.  Still haven’t heard back, but I’m getting the impression that their help queue is pretty lengthy...

Had my Bleep order come through US customs via Aramex, who then handed the package off to FedEx . But because my mailing address is a PO box, FedEx couldn't deliver. They kept leaving me messages, but when I called them back, they'd claim to have no record of any package for me (probably because it was a 2nd-party hand-off, which I didn't know at the time). This happened 3 times, and then my package was returned to Aramex for shipment back to the UK 😕

Finally figured all this out last night, and called Aramex in New York this morning, not with high hopes. The third rep I spoke with said it was a good thing I called, because my package hadn't shipped out yet, and that they'd try to redeliver! I'm not holding my breath, but it seems that there's at least a slim chance it'll actually arrive one of these days...

Whole thing is kind of ridiculous, though. Bleep sends the packages via DPD, who give them to Aramex, who give them to FedEx, and every company involved has their own tracking number. Meanwhile, I only have the original DPD number, which means nothing to either of the companies in my country.