kidamnesiac

I would highly recommend Down the River of Golden Dreams next. Then check out The Stage Names. Great band!

I got mine today. Listening to it now. So good. I'm pretty happy, as I received the poster and an autographed booklet, but still a little pissed I can't give this lovely record to my best friend for christmas. Again, if anyone gets ahold of an extra, I'd be much obliged if you'd help a man out.

seems like bands lately are only releasing stuff on tour

It's a clever way to get the real fans out to the show. Everyone knows that touring and tour merch is where bands make their money. I think it's great.

...I can upload the demos for you if you like, Juan. I just don't know if that's against the rules. As far as I know they never saw a proper release outside the internet.

is the clear w/ blue splatter sold out?

http://portal.wecreatestuff.com/portal.php

Portal: The Flash Version

Finally got a hold of a good rip of the whole record. I'm really really happy with it. Different, to be sure. But I think it sounds ace. Next question:

When do we get this on wax?

-PS3-

Mega Man 9

Bionic Commando: Rearmed

Half-Life 2 Orange Box

Resistance (with my girlfriend. Trying to finish so we can co-op through Resistance 2 next month)

-NDS-

N+

Castlevania Order of Ecclesia

-PSP-

Lumines 2

Silent Hill Origins

Final Fantasy Tactics War of the Lions

At least he won't be disappointed though.

Haha! He will when he finds out I got a copy and he didn't!

these might be here tomorrow

YAY!

I'm a little upset. I ordered two copies. One to give to my best friend for Christmas because it's one of his favorite records. I even went to the lengths when he asked me if I heard about it being for sale of telling him "shit man, I'm on MerchNow and it's all sold out" so he wouldn't buy one. If anyone ends up with extra, please please please hook a man up. My boy would KILL for this record.

Idaho mutherfuckers!

too bad btmi! and defiance, ohio were doing this pretty publically for years before radiohead!

The difference is that Radiohead are a band that left the huge monster label, EMI/Capitol, to self-release a record on the internet that people could choose the price of. No major band I'm aware of had ever really done anything like that before this.

As for the music, I think it's ace. Probably not the band's best. But worth the wait and the money I spent on the discbox. Some of you may be surprised to hear that several of the songs on In Rainbows have been toyed with by the band since The Bends-era even.

Personally I feel that The Bends was when Radiohead figured out how to write great songs. I don't think it's a great record. They learned to write great records with OK Computer, which is perhaps the best rock record ever put to tape. The difference between OKC and The Bends to me is the way it flows like a record and not just a smattering of great songs. That, and I just plain like the songs better.

To speak of Kid A and Amnesiac, the latter being my favorite record, you have to realize what happened to the band with Ok Computer. That record was an astronomical success for Radiohead. And if you've ever seen the film, "Meeting People Is Easy," then you know what that kind of success did to the band. When they wrote Kid A/Amnesiac, they set out to break their stereotype. To write something completely new and unexpected and meaningful. To be true to themselves as musicians. These records sound to me as some of the most honest and earnest attempts at capturing human emotion that I have ever come across. I encourage anyone who has brushed Kid A and Amnesiac aside to give them another serious listen. You may be surprised at what you find.

Hail To The Thief feels to me like Radiohead was considering calling it quits. It was the record that fulfilled their contractual obligations to EMI/Capitol and I think they just wanted to record everything they'd been toying with over the years and be done. As a result of that we got a record with a lot of fantastic music, but one that I think lacks overall cohesiveness because of its length. Had Radiohead cut some of the songs out for a bonus disc like In Rainbows Disc 2 or an EP like OK Computer's Airbag, Hail To The Thief may have been a better record on par even with OKC.

Well, that's just my opinion. As for the 160kbps mp3s, I think anyone who really cared about the quality downloaded a better rip via bit torrent as soon as the discboxes were shipped. Radiohead probably used that compression to make sure people could get it fast come download time.

SOOOO hella stoked for this. Best RPG of my pre-pubescent life. Next we need Secret of Mana DS.

I've always been a fan of http://www.romulation.net/

Check their retro rom section. I've been able to track down everything I've ever wanted there.

...but the only doodling my poster had was some lightning bolts under brian's signature not that lightning bolts aren't rad, just...speech bubbles for the wolf and dog are so much cooler.

yeah! i'm falling more and more in love with this.

is it just me or is this record fucking ruling on wax? i mean i dug it before, but the sound coming to my ears right now from the turntable are blowing my mind.

These Arms Are Snakes - Tail Swallower & Dove

HOLY SHIT.

what's a battle?

Off subject side note: when I first downloaded Portugal. The Man's "Waiter," the genre was tagged as "beard rock."

i'll be honest this song had me very underwhelmed at first. i listened to it once or twice when it dropped a week or so ago and forgot about it. then i woke up with it in my head this morning and can't stop listening to it. i really think it's a great song. should be great in the context of the rest of the record.

just so everyone knows, I had no plans to post anything else today and adam from MBD asked us to post this.

no plans to post anything else ??? i thought the portugal. the man censored colors pre-order was supposed to go up today!