MacDonals

I have told myself over and over, “no more 7”’s” but this is tough to pass on.

Anyone know what kind of outer sleeve will fit this beast? Nothing in my collection will fit the three LP set.

My copy of the black vinyl arrived today and in general it sounds good. I do hear the sibilance people mentioned on "How To Disappear Completely".  I try not to be precious about pressings, but it's pretty noticeable.

Kid A side two is mislabeled as Amnesiac side two, which was very confusing, but the audio is correct. I'll be curious to see if anyone sees this issue.

Oh man, the wait for Benton Falls reissues iskilling me...

I didn't see this posted yet, but am very excited for this reissue. There is a lower cost black vinyl or the indie store / band store exclusive in forest green.

https://travis.tmstor.es/?affcode=superdelux

https://craftrecordings.com/products/travis-the-invisible-band-lp

This shit is ridiculous. They have a long out of print, rare LP, and they repressed 600 only?

15 hours ago, prowl20 said:

Let’s not use people’s dead names  

They were not Nicole while in the band, just added that for clarity.

Yes, Chris has always been at the helm of their sound. In fact, when I saw them at Chicago Subterranean, he was actually working the soundboard instead of onstage.

I became very skeptical if this band could still make a good album. Derrick/Nicole (who was their major songwriter) left and attempted to cancel the band, then they put out the stinker album, Always Foreign. I thought I was done with them, but this album is fantastic. I may have to buy the record now.

INSTANT fucking purchase

Almost purchased until I read more about it...

Did anyone else pick up the recent late catalog represses (OMNI, Infinity Overhead, Lost Loves)? I'm trying to figure out if it's just my copy of Lost Loves that has an insane amount of surface noise or if it's the whole pressing.

My copy of Kerplunk arrived as well and I'm convinced that it is legit and matches the runout detail from the original pressing found on Discogs. Pretty great eBay find!

FWIW I've noticed that the amount of inner groove distortion heard is dependent on the turntable and tonearm. I noticed it on my first unit, but as I've gradually stepped up players over the years, I don't hear it at all.

There is also some black magic involved in the pressings because some records that just seem to go and go (Blind Melon's "Soup") have nothad inner groove distortion on any of TTs.

As a casual Radiohead fan, this scratches my itch to have these on vinyl, and especially thankful that they are 1 LP each!

I do understand how the real fans might not be enthusiastic about this.

13 hours ago, ultramidtempo said:

You’re right - doing a google search for the eBay description for Kerplunk (I used "LK46LP - 763361904614" ) there are the exact same eBay listings from 2017 and 2018 (Here and here and a reddit post about it ), so it’s weird that they have this large unopened supply to sell at random times.  
 

Part of it makes sense that there’s unopened stock because it was the most popular lookout release in the late 90s so there’s likely a very large pressing(s) over the course of years.

 

I’m skeptical like you all, but I couldn’t find any issues with the 39/smooth copy.  It sounded great!  I’ll update with the kerplunk that’s in transit if someone hasn’t done it before me. 

This is super interesting, and I'm really looking forward to my copy of Kerplunk arriving so I can dig into it. I would expect it to looked fairly aged if it's an original LK46 pressing.  We will see. DRAMA

15 hours ago, ultramidtempo said:

Received my copy in the mail today, purchased when it was $25.  The matrix number and etching message, along with Berkeley address without barcode fits with 

https://www.discogs.com/Green-Day-39Smooth/release/368728

It was sealed in tight shrinkwrap. 

Because of this thread, I found a copy of Kerplunk by the same seller. I'm also concerned this is a bootleg, but given your experience, maybe not? Will let you all know when it arrives.

On 8/25/2021 at 3:04 PM, scottheisel said:

Hard disagree, The Underground Is A Dying Breed was HRC's best record.

I must be in the wrong timeline.

Hutch is about Scott Hutchison 😭

Yeah, I think this thread is dead, but if anyone wants that Enemies record, I have it on my Discogs

https://www.discogs.com/seller/FeetFirstVinyl/profile

Smartpunk variant arrived today. Looks and sounds amazing.

It's a preference; I like to see an album fit on one record as opposed to being stretched onto two.

15 hours ago, The Fuck Whisperer said:

I like the album a lot after feeling like the singles ruined it before, but it needs 2-3 more songs. NMG spoiled us and Foxing need more space to flesh these ideas out.

2-3 more songs would have pushed this to 2xLP, so I'm thankful for that at least.

1 hour ago, kjkenney said:

HRC and Hey Mercedes 👍👍

Hell yes HRC.

OMG that variant looks nice. Makes my sad for my amber cloud variant.