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  1. Preorders are live for Megaton Sword’s Might & Power. For me they’re up there with Eternal Champion, top tier epic heavy metal. Bandcamp is sold out of gold vinyl but looks like Dying Victim still has it in stock (along w tri-color):


    https://shop.dying-victims.de/en/12-vinyl/11129-pre-order-megaton-sword-might-power-lp-special-edition-gold.html

    https://shop.dying-victims.de/en/startseite/11125-pre-order-megaton-sword-might-power-lp-special-edition-tricolor.html

     

     

  2. My local record store uses Whatnot and they seem to be able to attract a decent amount of people to their auctions, so as a form of audience extension to reach people outside of your local area it's great. As a seller it looks like you have to be willing to hustle and it helps if you already have a social audience. 

     

    As a buyer, I can't see the hit/ miss ratio working out for me. I'd rather stick w Discogs and actual crate-digging. But I'm also old-ish and if it works for the next generation of collectors then I'm all for it.

  3. 1 minute ago, 75 percent oof said:

    I'm way with you in the first half. This isn't for me, but im glad whoever likes it does.

     

    The issue with the second half of what you said is they'd have to make it able to scan matrices and etchings to actually be accurate for most older pressings, which would be terribly hard. As someone who has taken the time to go through and carefully and accurately catalogue 90+% of my collection...it's time consuming, but a worthwhile endeavor. I can't be put out to add any of my weird old Korean, Japanese, and Chinese records that have no entries on discogs though, so it will never be complete.

    Totally get what you mean. Any automatic solution, even if it involves some sort of advanced image recognition, is bound to be imperfect. Whenever I do take an hour or two to add stuff I also enjoy the process, getting lost in music and liner notes of records I haven't picked up in  a while. But it's hard to make that time, so I'd settle for a solution that gets me 50% there, by correctly identifying whatever it can and narrowing down the options for the rest.

  4. Reminds me of whatnot. The biggest hurdle here for me is that I don't want to make time in my schedule to watch a live auction on my phone, especially when the odds of coming across something in my want list are so small. I also couldn't imagine using this to sell records, just seems wildly inefficient. But I'm sure it works for some people.

     

    Sorry for going off on a tangent, but if there is one feature I could request from the big kids at Discogs that would be really useful to me it would be a way to scan record identifiers (barcode or even covers or other identifiers) via the phone cam in order to more quickly add them to my collection. Only a fraction of my collection is on Discogs; I just don't have the time to add everything. (Is that already a feature of the Discogs app? I never actually tried.)

  5. 3 hours ago, Derek™ said:

    Oh yeah, I didn’t figure as much.  More than ever with newer users on this forum, it’s pretty apparent who’ve been a part of this hobby and who are pandemic collectors that crawled in from Reddit.

    I bet you're genuinely a great guy in person, and that's the only assumption I'm going to make about you, so it's all good.

     

    Anyway, I'm into this album, really looking forward to seeing them live.

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