backpackoat

I unabashedly love this album and am really looking forward to this

daegor - reshiram

youinreverse - sasan

reshiram - dunc

ozfacter - youinreverse

swb - ozfacter

dunc - daegor

sasan - swb

That just about does it for this year. Thanks everyone!

On 1/5/2019 at 8:13 PM, Dunc said:

So this is what I posted when I received my gift. Both records wee great and the book stays on my pub table. Thanks again to whoever it's from.  backpackcoat has been kind enough to allow to text him my pic. I have tried uploading a bunch of times and for some reason I can't do it. Imgur will not allow me to upload it any way other than hidden.

On 12/10/2018 at 5:45 PM, swb said:

Remind me to reply to this once everyone’s identities have been revealed. 

psst

2 hours ago, Dunc said:

Yes it was me. I got a couple off your want list but based on what you have and like I picked a couple others. Tangerine Dream for the reason you said and zero 7 based on portishead and massive attack. I saw you liked a little Timberlake as well. My niece and nephew love listening to cassettes so... And who doesn't love Peter Gabriel. Plus I think you mentioned in last year's SS your son liked the nightmare before Christmas songs. I was going to include a note but I forgot. Or, I was just too lazy. I can't remember.

Great package Dunc, thanks for participating. Lastly let's make sure your giver gets their due. Text me the pictures and I will post them for you and you can write a little blurb. I'll send you a message with my number.

Anyone who missed out on the colored records and isn't waiting for the box set may want to take a peek at the store. Not sure if it's a mistake or not but all three variants are showing for sale currently. Maybe they found a couple copies. 

Just now, lostcrimes said:

I always liked you and your reviews ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Me too. But fuck Jason Tate.

Thank you to everyone who as posted so far, just a couple left! This has been so much fun to see and boy there were quite some hauls this year. Extra thanks to Youinreverse for allowing Sasan to be part of this year's exchange by sending overseas... a true MVP of the yearly exchange. 

On 1/2/2019 at 10:21 AM, Dunc said:

I'm having a hell of. Time uploading a pic. I suck at the internet.

I personally just upload to imgur--I don't even sign in, just do it anonymously--right click on the picture, click 'copy image address', and just paste the link in my post. The board automatically will make an image out of it for you. You shouldn't have to worry about embedding or HTML or anything.

5 hours ago, swb said:

I think this is the last Secret Santa I’ll do, at least with this high concept idea, so I wanted to share it here.

Dude this is seriously the sickest thing, thanks so much for being part of it this year, especially to such an extent. Happy new year!

Thank you for posting swb! Sasan I'm glad your package made it safely across the sea. Can't wait to see it. Everyone else, please start posting pictures before I am forced to become a mean moderator

Hope everyone had an excellent Christmas. Let's start seeing some of these hauls!

50 minutes ago, daegor said:

*squints* have I not had enough coffee yet?

 

 

Awesome gift there man! Though I have a feeling that it was NOT SWB who put it together, haha.

I ran out of matches so I just gave him himself and told himself not to tell himself

3 hours ago, swb said:

This is my first year participating in VC Secret Santa, so I think it's fitting that I am the first poster to share the awesome gifts they received.

Thank you for being the first to post! Great photos as well. Merry Christmas!

Oh please god yes. I stare that that 7" sometimes and just wonder why it was never made as the full record

20 hours ago, Daiei said:

Psychic Babble for the fucking win. Don't think Colin gets enough credit for that project...amazing music.

Absolutely, it's one of my favorite records regardless of my obsession with Circa. It's just super good. Not to derail the thread but I really hope we see another PB album.

Everyone should be receiving their gifts shortly, if not already. Everything is in the mail as of a couple days ago! HUGE THANKS to everyone for getting everything out responsibly this year. You all have made things very easy for me. But your job is of course not done yet, please remember you must post pictures of your haul in your thank you posts. Can't wait to see them popping up in this thread soon. Merry Christmas everyone!

A big thank you to everyone who has sent their packages so far, everyone was so good about getting their stuff out on time this year. I REALLY appreciate it considering the crunch we were under this year. Just waiting on one more and we'll be all set to go. 

Foolish, foolish me. I forgot to let you all know to use my address as the return address so your info isn't revealed to your giftee. Thank you Sasan for reminding me.

Secret Santa 

5702 E. 31st St.

Tucson, AZ 85711

Also as a reminder, please don't post in this thread when you've shipped your goodies out--there are so few people it will be fairly easy to figure things out if you do. 

Alright party people, hope you had a nice Thanksgiving and a wonderful welcome to December. We are in the final days before all our gifts need to be shipped, so please be cognizant of that. As a reminder, I need you to message me a tracking number as soon as you have your presents shipped. I've pushed back the date again so please have things sent by this Friday. If not, you NEED to be in contact with me so I know you aren't some scam artist making millions off of various online secret santas. Let's get everyone their gifts by Christmas!

1 hour ago, kramer73 said:

If you'd rather have us keep track/oversee it, we could probably do that as well 

That's fine by me. Even though it's just you three if you'd like me to send the matches so there's some modicum of mystery, I'll do that for you and you can take it from there. 

15 hours ago, tokimedo said:

 

i missed deadline to post about myself cause i was traveling. if @backpackoat is OK with it, maybe we can do a 3 way thing between just us and still participate? 

I'm not opposed to this idea--the more the merrier--but we are so close to a shipping date I am apprehensive about things running  smoothly. If you three want to participate and can come to a consensus about when to ship your gifts, I'll oversee it. I don't want to be chasing anyone down though, and certainly don't want anyone getting shafted. 

@tokimedo @MyckelJay @kramer73 your thoughts?

1 hour ago, daegor said:

Cheers @backpackoat, just for the sake of my curiosity it looks like the full list is:

ozfacter

Reshiram

Youinreverse

Sasan

Dunc

swb

Daegor

Correct?

Yep, you're right. Quite quaint! I forgot to add this to the main post, but it's been done now. Thanks.

Alright my friends, the matches are all sent. I tried to wait a few extra days for the last couple people to post about themselves but it didn't happen. Sorry to those, but we had to get going. 

The date for shipping your gifts has been extended to December 6th to compensate for getting your matches late. This is three full weeks to shop and ship, as agreed upon. PLEASE keep me apprised if something ends up delaying you. The goal is to get everyone their gift by Christmas. 

Since the group is so small, I have recused myself from this year's exchange in order to keep things fair and make sure things run smoothly given the truncated time we have.

It is a very small group this year so please be kind to each other and give gifts as you would like to receive! 

I will get matches out today. LAST CALL for people who have not written about their interests.