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Official TAAS instagram just posted a live pic of Steve crowd surfing with a caption that includes a promise of "more news and music" incoming.
 
Looks like they're building us up for something that's close on the horizon. Can't wait to find out.

That photo was taken at their "last" Seattle shows. 

Brian Cook responded to a comment on instagram on his post about this release wherein the person pleaded for reissues of the three full length LP's and he claimed they were "supposedly in the works..."
 
Reason enough to hope for me.
 
https://www.instagram.com/p/CaAjVfOvkeV/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
 
Comment with his response is from user debtriot.

Brian Cook responded to a comment on instagram on his post about this release wherein the person pleaded for reissues of the three full length LP's and he claimed they were "supposedly in the works..."
 
Reason enough to hope for me.
 
https://www.instagram.com/p/CaAjVfOvkeV/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
 
Comment with his response is from user debtriot.

Yeah, I feel like unless there was something explicitly contractual or cost-prohibitive about including that track, it really should have been on here. Its just a collaboration. No one ever said you couldn't have guests on your retrospective compilation album. Maybe there will be another vinyl reissue of Like A Virgin. That would be awesome. Glad I got the Mind Over Matter press but more editions of that are more than welcome.
 
But man, I've always said there is just something about their non-album b-sides and split contributions that just feels like they are hitting at a different but very welcome new angle. I don't know what it is but it is great to have a single release with a bunch of my favorite songs by them which were previously completely spread out on various 7" and 12" releases. Of course I have all of those releases but its cool to have them all in one set. "Payday Loans" is lyrically so fucking poignant and just absolutely assaults the listener with class-conscious vitriol. Actually "Hook On This" is the track that really drew me to the Like A Virgin split but I have since come to see "Payday Loans" as just as essential an offering. Like it was never bad at all. It was always killer but it finally reached a point where it was at least equally necessary to "Hook On This" for me. The ranting at the end of the former track is everything.
 
It'll be nice to have newly mastered versions of the Russian Circles split tracks as well especially since that physical release was plagued by the toxic, vinyl-destroying PVC sleeves.

Two of my favorites too. Payday Loans is what got me into them. I get why it isn’t on there but wish Touched for the Very First Time was included on that side. 

That looks like the 2,000 ON HUNGOVER SPLATTER VINYL - CLEAR GREEN w/ OPAQUE PINK SPLATTER (RETAIL VARIANT)
 
And damn...it's nice as all hell. 
 
 

I have no idea why I didn’t buy everything when it first came out. I’m a real dipshit sometimes.
 
I think I’m in the minority here, but I’m always down for a box set when labels do full discography reissues.

I thirst for some TAAS reissues.

I assume it's just going to be back catalog reissues at this point, but hey, I'm 100% down for some new TAAS tunes. 

Oh, by the way...on Suicide Squeeze's press release for this...there's this tidbit at the very end that can be interpreted in a plethora of ways...
 
Look for Duct Tape & Shivering Crows to be available on CD, cassette, digital formats, and 2xLP on April 15th and stay tuned for more news and music coming soon.
 
These Arms Are Snakes Announce Rarities Release 'Duct Tape & Shivering Crows' | Suicide Squeeze Records
 
 

Saw them in Baltimore in 2005 at the Ottobar. To this day, it remains the best set I've ever seen in my life. It was pure, beautiful chaos.
 
 

YL is on Lost Dogs, too, but that'll also set you back. 

Tremulant on Clear vinyl (UK Link)
https://www.resident-music.com/productdetails&product_id=87288

There is nothing hyperbolic about those words nor the context in which I used them. I avoid paying high prices for new production vinyl so as to not encourage such pricing in the future. $40 is too much for any gatefold 2xLP that doesn't come with a blowjob. (hint: none of them come with blowjobs). The way that I know that its too much is because there are more examples of gatefold 2xLPs that are in the $20-$26 than there are in the $40. Major labels not withstanding. Those fuckers are just out of their minds for the most part.
 
Look if there is something essential to my collection that is rare from the 90's and is completely out of print or if the pressing from that era is definitely superior to any repress, I'm gonna splurge on the out of print old one in a number of instances. But I talk shit when a store buys the licensing to have an exclusive variant of a popular record and explodes the price on the merit of exclusive color alone. Its transparently greedy and pathetic. So I talk shit. It doesn't mean I have to just choose not to buy it and forever hold my peace. I'm just talking about it. I do worry about it. The bullmoose price is awful too. Its just not as awful as the Newbury and bullmoose didn't go out of their way to bring that variant into fruition just to overcharge for it. There is a difference but either way I'm not a fan of either price and of course I won't buy it. That's obvious. I don't even want it but I call out shitty practices sometimes. 

For the record (pun both intended and not intended), I find every copy of these LP's to be overpriced. Even the Tremulant and LS available in the States are still too expensive for the amount of content but are at least relatively affordable. I know I paid too much for my box but I actually got a really good deal on Towerrecords.com. They had it for significantly cheaper than most other outlets. Sold out super fast though. I got so lucky my order went through.

I still regret not buying the box from Tower at $300 tbh

I was referring to the color, but really I was being hyperbolic about that color variants being “better” because it make the joke funnier in my opinion. 
 
totally subjective. 

ha! I'm going to pass on any glow-in-the-dark records, and I would be highly suspicious of any positive review unless it was from someone I trusted. There are all kinds of glowing reviews for crappy bootlegs and awful sounding records on Discogs...
I still haven't picked any of these up. I would love to grab Tremulant/De-Louse/Frances at some point, but the prices and the way they are trickling out variants are enough to make me lose any motivation.

Gotcha'.  Well, my bad if McPherson was genuinely perplexed on whether or not the indie versions [variants] contained additional content, packaging, etc.  With the way CH prices their shit, I feel like adding liner notes or prints to colored editions would automatically spike the price up like $10-$15 at Bull Moose, Zia, and so on.
To my knowledge, it was only really the VMP De-Loused that got shafted on the quality front.  I'm pretty sure I've only heard great things about CH's black copies.  Even the indie variants that feature glow in the dark LPs allegedly sound great.

Honestly, I really didn't understand that "better" was being used to describe the color variation. I literally thought there was something I was missing about them beyond anything visual.

Real TALK! And I'm not just saying that because I'm all about black vinyl across the board. Some colors admittedly look really pretty but I'll still get black if that's an option. But some colors look like a dumpster fire.

Real TALK! And I'm not just saying that because I'm all about black vinyl across the board. Some colors admittedly look really pretty but I'll still get black if that's an option. But some colors look like a dumpster fire.

subjective. Many color presses look worse than a nice black copy, imo.

I'm aware of all that but what was actually "better" about them other than the prices?