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10 hours ago, Plarocks said:

The DRC actually looks more able to cut a lathe of decent quality.

 

The 10 inch thing looks like “a toy.” 😄

The DRC also does not actually exist, as noted in the Engadget article.

Looks like Velvet Blue might just slowly knock these off one by one. Excited for the eventual release of My Island in 2027. 
 

For now - shirts:

http://www.relientk.com/results

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Side A
1. Sadie Hawkins Dance
2. Be My Escape
3. Who I Am Hates Who I’ve Been
4. Deathbed

Side B
5. Forget and Not Slow Down
6. Must Have Done Something Right
7. Pressing On
8. I So Hate Consequences
9. High of 75
10. Chapstick, Chapped Lips & Things Like Chemistry

Side C
11. Mood Rings
12. Savannah
13. In Love with the 80s (Pink Tux to the Prom)
14. Getting Into You
15. Collapsible Lung
16. The Best Thing

Side D
17. Candlelight
18. For the Moments I Feel Faint
19. The One I’m Waiting For
20. The Lining Is Silver

 

Nothing from Air For Free 😕

Nothing from self-titled 😁

Still not gonna buy it, but it's not nearly as bad as I thought it was going to be.

21 hours ago, daegor said:

HOW DARE YOU, SIR

I said what I meant to say!!!

Looking for the bumper stickers they used to sell:

Proud To Be An The Chariot

My Other Car Is A The Chariot

I Love My The Chariot

etc.

Alternatively, looking for size Large shirts in good condition that don't have the doofy skull logo or other metalcore looking shit on them.

The bigger thing with No Idea is that he apparently stiffed a lot of bands, like I'm pretty sure Off with Their Heads never saw any money from From the Bottom. He also screwed over all the labels who distro'd through them when he shut down. Kiss of Death basically ceased operations as a direct consequence of No Idea closing up shop. I posted links to some Facebook posts that Ryan from OWTH made about it in another No Idea thread. So the bigger thing with these titles that are getting reissued is they're at least being put out by labels that are going to pay their bands.

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Oscar- and Grammy-nominated composer, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Sufjan Stevens will release his acclaimed score for Justin Peck’s ballet The Decalogue October 18 digitally and on deluxe edition, with CD and standard to follow on December 6, 2019.

Performed by the pianist Timo Andres, the recording is the first time the score, premiered during the New York City Ballet’s 2017 season, is available to the public. 

The Decalogue is the fifth collaboration between NYCB Resident Choreographer Peck and Stevens, following 2012’s Year of the Rabbit, 2014’s Everywhere We Go, 2016’s The Countenance of Kings and most recently, 2019’s Principia. The piece was widely praised upon its premiere; The New York Times lauded the “beauty and charm” of Peck’s choreography as well as Stevens’ “romantically modernist études.” 

Brooklyn-based composer-pianist Timo Andres is a Nonesuch Records artist, who has written major works for the Boston Symphony, Carnegie Hall, the Barbican, the Takács Quartet, the Concertgebouw, and elsewhere. He performs regularly with Gabriel Kahane, and has frequently appeared with Philip Glass, Becca Stevens, Nadia Sirota, the Kronos Quartet, John Adams, Ted Hearne, and others. As a pianist, Timo has performed at Lincoln Center, for the New York Philharmonic, the LA Phil, at Wigmore Hall, for San Francisco Performances, and at (le) Poisson Rouge. Upcoming highlights include a curated program for the Cincinnati Symphony (featuring Dance Heginbotham and a performance of Andres’s cello concerto, Upstate Obscura), and a solo piano recital for Carnegie Hall. Previous work with Sufjan Stevens includes the orchestration of “Principia” for Justin Peck and the New York City Ballet.

 

There's a standard edition shipping December 6th, and the deluxe is shipping sooner(!): October 18th, and it sounds pretty sweet:

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Stoughton tip-on gatefold jacket, 180-gram vinyl, 40 page songbook, 9x12 art print, special bonus photography booklet (limited to AKR only), and download card.

https://music.sufjan.com/album/the-decalogue

https://store.asthmatickitty.com/products/sufjan-stevens-the-decalogue?variant=30120081784903

The music itself sounds relatively avant-garde, I guess we'll see how the whole thing sounds in a month:

Seems like a big gamble to drop 33 bucks on a compilation that in all likelihood will have "My Girlfriend" on it.

My picks:

Over Thinking - Two Lefts Don't Make a Right... (2003)

Jefferson Aero Plane - Two Lefts Don't Make a Right... (2003)

Be My Escape - Mmhmm (2004)

Who I Am Hates Who I've Been - Mmhmm (2004)

This Week the Trend - Mmhmm (2004)

When I Go Down - Mmhmm (2004)

Come Right Out and Say It - Five Score and Seven Years Ago (2007)

Forget and Not Slow Down - Forget and Not Slow Down (2009)

Therapy - Forget and Not Slow Down (2009)

This Is the End - Forget and Not Slow Down (2009)

Bummin' - Air for Free (2016)

Mountaintop - Air for Free (2016)

The followup tweet was also super weird: 

10 hours ago, jhulud said:

T-Swizzle did a recent interview in which she said she’s planning to re-record her first albums in order to control those masters. 

The original albums will still be available everywhere - presumably the dudes who just paid $300 million for her catalog aren't going to take their property off streaming services just because Swift comes out with new recordings of the same songs. And she'll have to have new artwork and most likely title them something like "1989 (2019 Re-recording)". Her diehard fans might switch to listening to the new recordings because they know the backstory, but most people who are just looking to throw a recognizable song on a playlist or DJ a wedding are going to go with the version everybody knows. She got some pretty breathless coverage about this in the last 24 hours as if it's a novel concept, but this is the same tactic that hundreds of bands who signed bad deals have had to use. Probably half the greatest collections from second-tier 70s & 80s rock bands are "re-recorded/remastered".

Blind boxes seem like the logical conclusion of the whole vinyl-as-collectibles trend. Put 'em in a lil frame next to your wall of Funko Pop boxes. File them away with all your Mondo poster tubes. Why not. The Arctic is on fire right now

2 hours ago, jerseypride said:

To the extent this guys "I'm so hot" shtick was ever clever or funny, it ain't anymore, 

Hmm. Wrong

3 hours ago, tetsuodaironman said:

Pitchy

2 hours ago, tetsuodaironman said:

Pitchy

What is this. What are you doing

Assuming they've finally gotten control of this album back from Victory, which is cool. Curious about the "color morphing" thing - have any other releases been described this way?

Wow, the new song is really great, and the list of collaborators looks extremely promising.

Apparently some people who ordered this from 4AD are getting a 7" in the mail with 2 unreleased songs:

https://www.discogs.com/Big-Thief-Unknown/master/1585933

I think bands that are big with teenagers now probably make posters. I still see Tiger Beat and the like in magazine racks, and you can certainly still buy all the classic band posters at bigger record stores. What you're experiencing is probably just that the fanbases of the bands you listen to now are adults, who have jobs and live with significant others, and aren't likely to tack big pictures of bands they like onto their walls.

Got this in the mail on Monday, the same day it officially became the longest-running #1 in Billboard history

So it seems a few weeks in that this was a bit of an overblown concern, assuming you don't have an ideological opposition to sales tax in the first place 😜. It's actually not that complicated.

If you are a buyer, either:

• you live in a state where Discogs is an MPF (https://support.discogs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360024123194#h_92f3b7e3-8346-4582-82a7-ec8117930651) in which case Discogs automatically charges you sales tax, or
• you live in a non-MPF state, in which case it's up to the seller to account for sales tax if they meet your state's economic nexus threshold (see below) or if they live in the same state as you (also see below)

For sellers:

• Your buyers in MPF states automatically pay sales tax, and Discogs automatically collects it.
• For non-MPF states, if you don't meet a specific state's economic nexus threshold, which means you do X amount of business in the state (at least $100,000 & 100 transactions for all states that have sales tax), you are not legally required to collect sales tax. This most likely covers everyone on VC. If you're doing that much in Discogs sales to one state, you probably have an accountant who has already explained this to you.
• The exception is your home state. According to Discogs, there are usually no thresholds for "resident sellers" since you're effectively the same as a brick and mortar business at that point. This is the one annoying one, since Discogs also says you technically have to register your "business" and file tax returns and all that. That seems to be on the honor system for now, since you have to go in and manually check the box for your state in your seller settings, so I'm leaving it be for now. If you really want to stay off the grid, you can always arrange an in-person meetup.

On 7/11/2019 at 8:22 AM, timsimmons said:

yeah, I don't think its a crazy endeavour. Its a bit cringy when they say they'll buy more copies of Lover. I like supporting artists, but super weird to buy multiple copies of a record to support a multi millionaire sticking it to another multi millionaire 

Literally the highest-paid person in entertainment https://www.stereogum.com/2050738/taylor-swift-forbes-highest-paid-celebrity/news/

My reading of the situation is that she couldn't get control of her work because the people who owned it wouldn't sell it to her. The industry is fucked for sure but I think it's a pretty unique situation because she's such a big artist. She says in her statement that she expected they'd get sold to someone, it seems she's more upset that it's being sold to this industry dude.

This board has never had a problem with bands not having control of their masters if it means they can get vinyl pressings of albums they like. Taylor Swift is a brand, she'll be fine.

7 hours ago, Shitty Rambo said:

The state would tax your garage sale if they could, that's basically what they're doing with discogs lol. 

I would venture to guess that the vast majority of the business conducted in $ is done by record stores and dealers. They're likely facilitating millions of dollars of transactions per year, of course they're going to comply with the law. If you don't like it, you can always move to Montana.

Had a hell of a time finding this thread, as it doesn’t contain the words “Lil Nas X - Old Town Road” anywhere. Until now. 

Anyway, this has now been the #1 song for 12 weeks and just stopped yet another truly bad Taylor Swift song from hitting #1. God bless America.

https://www.stereogum.com/2048913/lil-nas-xs-old-town-road-keeps-taylor-swift-out-of-the-1-spot-again/news/?amp=1&__twitter_impression=true

Still one month from the estimated ship date of 7/26, and I gotta say: this song still whips ass

1 hour ago, moodist said:

Did Spoon even ever have a hit? Or this is a subjective 'could've been' selection? It's such an ordinary tracklisting that seems to focus on cohesiveness and latter period  blandness, rather than variety and versatility. Really did love this band when it seemed their entire career was one long uphill battle and then when they get the acclaim the fire goes out and everything turns to schmaltz. And damn straight no 'Metal Detektor'. A Series of Sneaks is still the best thing they ever did.

Hmm. Pretty bad opinion all around