mameeshkamowskwoz

Agreed! Join the record club! I can think of few labels that I've been as satisfied with all of their releases and getting every format is such a great perk (and a Freddy Point for each)! Not only do you get all that stuff but I think we get first crack at non-regular releases like the 7" Charity Series and BMSR reissue box that's coming out some day. Plus the download emails come to you the day that the release is available to order online. Sure if you order it you immediately get the download as a non-member, but instead of having to go buy it (if it's not sold out ) you just get an email with details of the color and what the releases are.

I'm interested if it's still available. PMd.

That Mingus album is solid.

He's also recorded a song or two with Thomas Erak of Fall of Troy. http://soundcloud.com/ben-kenney-1/i-d-f-a-r Plus there's Time Lapse Consortium with Jose and Mike of Incubus. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Lapse_Consortium

Damn I was hoping this was a flippable PO!

Eff!! The Test Press order email just came and I missed the chance to snag the new one; Deerhoof. Anyone get it that would be willing to trade straight up for the Danielson or Jad Fair test press?

Thanks, I grabbed one!

Did you try to get a Carecredit card? 0% interest if you pay it in a year. That's what I did when my cat got really sick and I'll have it paid off in three more months. Might not be too late to get one and pay off the bill. Sorry to hear about the dog.

Got a job through a third party job placement company on monster. I've been there since late 2007 and they moved me from MI to NC and I make good money so they're not all scams.

Ditto.

Just got my tix for Cat's Cradle show. Not available through the site, but you can go directly to Etix. http://www.etix.com/ticket/online/performanceSearch.jsp?performance_id=1624902&search_source=etix

I love how this 10 inch was for sale with a shit load of extras for a hundred dollars and nobody bought it and then they dropped the price and sold it alone and it disappeared and now sells on eBay for like 150 bucks.

Love BF5 and it said there was one auto'd LP which I snagged. Huge thanks for pointing this out!!

PM'd

Ugh... Thanks for bringing that up. I too have that internal moral dilemma of consuming less and having a lower carbon footprint with wanting a physical LP instead of digital files that do not necessarily require all the resources that LPs require to make. Record Store Day is always the same day as every Earth Day celebration so it's a nice little reminder that I'm a hypocrite! I can't really give this up though and I like to think that I make more than my share of sacrifices for sustainability. To quote Professor Farnsworth, I guess mother Earth can take one more for the team.

Vinyl is audible beyond 24/192. That's just the best you can do when you rip a record digitally. That's another plus with vinyl; you can't just rip it and have an equivalent substitute.

But aside from the audio quality I def agree with the whole tangible form thing. It is more ritual when playing records and it engages you... You don't just passively listen. You don't skip songs on a whim, it preserves the album as a work of art... not just individual tracks. And as far as album art goes, comparing CDs and LPs is like comparing a Polaroid to a painting. There are so many LPs whose cover art is reduced to a quadrant of it on the cd cover (Rage Against the Machine's self titled for example)

If something is recorded in analog (tape) the sound is more "captured". There are subtleties to the sound that you can and cannot hear, but when recorded analog it is there. Analog sources can then be transferred to digital, but the sound (frequency, bit rate, tone and other factors) are compressed to a medium that does not have the infinite range of sounds that tape (DAT or regular) or vinyl do. So when you record to analog and physically imprint that sound to the medium it remains. If you compress to digital you get what fits into that medium's range (16 bit 44.1 khz for cd, 24 bit 96 khz for DVD.) That being said there are plenty of recordings (a lot of stuff recorded in the 90s and 2000s) that are recorded digitally, so often it may as well be a cd since that audio when put on vinyl would have no better audio quality. You can record digitally in a bit and frequency higher than will fit on a cd (which could then be on DVD audio or HDCD) but would still not sound as good as an analog source on analog format. That's why when CDs first came out (some still hae it) you'd see three letter mastering descriptions in the booklet or the back of the case using all As and Ds. This is a SPARS code. The A is analog and the D is digital. It tells you in order what the source was, what the mixing format was and what the mastering format was. So a cd from a 70s album would probably be AAD or ADD depending on if it was mixed using analog or digital media.

Cool, which songs and by who? I don't know/care about Tool so I can post that information in the auction. Feel free to PM me, thanks! I basically sent this in a PM on my phone app, but am not sure it went through: I think Comfortably Numb and Wrong Way are just shitty quality live versions from Pink Floyd and Sublime (they circulated mistagged on Napster years ago as Tool so odds are these tracks are mp3 sourced) and Silly Love songs is a Paul McCartney cover by the Replicants feat Maynard. The Replicants is basically Failure with other musicians when they were seeking an additional guitarist to join them on tour and the album is the resulting sessions. These sessions were when Paul D'Amour (first Tool Bassist pre-Aenima) was auditioning (although they later hired Troy VanLeeuwen (QOTSA, Enemy, A Perfect Circle) and only recorded one song as Failure with him (Enjoy the Silence for the Depeche Mode tribute album)) It's pretty solid if you like Failure and/or covers. http://www.discogs.com/Replicants-Replicants/release/3046056 I saw that Parabol LP on AuralExploits years ago and figured it was a scam/bootleg LP. My advice is to only mention the Replicants clarification if your aim is to sell the record... I doubt pointing out the Pink Floyd/Sublime mixups and shitty source audio will do you any good

For the record three of the songs on side B of that Tool LP are not Tool.

I'm not much of a Phish fan (only seen them twice and wasn't impressed the second time), but I do like this album and it's refreshing that they actually give some details as to the tape to LP transfer instead of just getting a record and for all you know it's just a 16 bit digital master pressed to wax. It sounds and looks amazing and as much as I love all things Patton I think that this is the best RSD release I've gotten (so far, anyways; only about halfway through the 22 things I picked up) The Medicine box is nice, too, but the cassette doesn't even fit in the box... WTF?

That helps a lot, actually. Did you have the same duplicate?

So I was listening to all my RSD stuff yesterday and noticed that my Junta set has 2 of the 2nd LP and no 3rd one. Anyone else buy one of these and get any issues? I've read of at least one other person having the same mixup on Facebook.

Big L and Gang Starr are both classic!

I've seen and taped Grieves and he's not bad (with Mr. Lif & Willie Evans Jr. (Asamov)) But lately a couple compilations on rotation: One Big Trip (Heiroglyphics/Del heavy with some Dilated Peoples, Jurassic 5, Dan the Automator) & Quannum Presents (DJ Shadow, Blackalicious, Latyrx J5) And I'm waiting on an order from UGHH.com with Quakers (Geoff Barrows from Portishead plus about 30 emcees), Pharcyde and 14KT (a DJ from Ann Arbor crew Athletic Mic League) Deltron 3030's second LP should be coming out this month last I heard.