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The CD was really quiet too. That color scheme would be cool to own but I can think of plenty of other overpriced records I need worse.

Oh dear god, don't tell me that. That's easily the best song and cranking it on my stereo is one of the biggest reasons I want the vinyl so bad. We need to lobby for them to put it out on a 7" with an unreleased b-side now.

Just got clarification from Bryon. It all makes more sense now.

"Hey ____, Sorry, let me clarify, to save on shipping costs form mainland europe the band is dropping them off after tour to a friend in Germany who is in the Military. They could not get them to him until after tour so I was hesitant to put up the pre-order as I am not sure when I will actually have the records in my possession, I hoping to have them in a couple of weeks, but did not want to keep everyone hanging... I guess I will maybe just put the pre-order up with all this info... sorry for any confusion - thanks Bryon"

Apparently Kiss of Death is very confused. They just posted a comment on their original post for the album (from Dec 19,2013) saying the following:

"Tests are not in from plant. We dont usually launch a pre order without all the parts being in house."

The band's own posts would suggest that not only are tests approved, but the records have been manufactured...unless they did colored test presses. Now I'M confused.

Thanks for the info, as frustrating as it is. I thought the US got to rip off Canadians on shipping, not the other way around.

Can't find it on Kiss Of Death

I'm getting woefully impatient. It looks like KoD's store hasn't been updated in a while. Has anyone seen this up for sale anywhere at all? Hurry up and wait.

Awesome. That'll do. Thanks, duder.

Damn, I might have to wait for this to get to distros (i.e., No Idea) because I can't stand giving my money directly to Chris "Selective Morality" Hansen after the Handsome bullshit. My copy of the 6131 version is still sitting in its unopened mailer. Regardless, new Banquets is always welcome and I plan to own this eventually.

Get The Medicine, dude.

Seconded HARD. It's actually the only one of their releases I enjoy, but I fucking love it. I'm not hopeful that I'll dig the new track, but the idea is cool and new Dikembe is always welcome.

I'd repay for shipping at this point as well. Thanks again for all you've done, Dave.

New Ruins LP will come someday.

Oh FUCK YES!

What a shame, this band rules so hard. I wish I would have had the chance to see them live. No hope for a US tour now.

So much this. I'm fucking bummed, but at least they left us with an absolute masterpiece.

I'm pretty sure I saw on their bandcamp that Kiss Of Death will be selling it in the US. I got so excited when I saw this thread only to be deflates upon opening it. So stoked on this album it hurts.

I keep reading a lot of "one of the greatest". Don't front, this is the greatest hip hop album ever and one of the greatest albums of all time for any genre.

That's just, like, your opinion, man. I'd put Moment Of Truth, Midnight Marauders, & Hard To Earn above it.

If you loved Illmatic check out Elmatic.

Thirded. So fantastic.

I can't see buying this again, but it is undoubtedly in my top 5 hip-hop albums of all time. I'm super stoked on that tour. I already had the pleasure of seeing a bunch of my other favorite albums front to back at Rock The Bells 2012 (L.A.), so knocking another one off the list would be incredible. That doc might be cool too. Now can we finally get that fucking Nas + Premo full-length already? I'm gonna be on fucking oxygen support by the time they get around to it.

I was so bummed when these guys broke up. 61 Penn is criminally underrated. One of my favorite releases in recent years.

So much this.

Need. Bad. Definitely my favorite Shiner album.

Got mine over the weekend inside 12" mailer with a sheet of bubble wrap. Surprisingly it arrived unscathed despite undoubtedly shifting around in the oversized package hundreds of times. Most importantly, in my opinion it sounds great. So glad to finally have some AIH vinyl. Can't wait for leaving.

The white variant of the face to face/Rise Against split is gone. Clear is still available.

Just write "#Jenkins" on the jacket along with a printout of this thread and she'll understand.

Best comment of 2014 so far. Bravo.

#1 for me. Working on my year-end list blog right now. Glad I got the black/white version of this to match the artwork.

Very interesting. I don't think I can justify buying it right now, but if it were the Aprocalypse mixtape I would sell my left arm to get money for a copy. Thanks for posting regardless. It's always good to see a non-Kanye/Drake hip-hop thread here. Long live the boom-bap.

They are gone but working on a repress

Fiddlesticks on the "gone" part. That silver is too beautiful. I already knew about the repress (I actually read threads as opposed to just the newest page like all too many dickweeds here), so thanks for the work on all of this. At least I know I can get another copy regardless, even if it's not that gorgeous silver. Now, if you tell me the 2nd press is some sort of haze, then I might not be disappointed. I'm getting ahead of myself though...on to try out the new cleaning kit I got for Xmas!

My jacket is in great shape but the only time so far that I've player side B, there were about 10 pops/skips at the beginning. I haven't had a chance to clean it yet, but hopefully that takes care of it. Anybody else have that issue? At least I can rest assured HT has good customer service, but hopefully they held a few copies back or otherwise I'll be waiting for the 2nd press.