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wow, I've been reading this thread and felt fortunate that I didn't go for any of the ones I kind of wanted but I didn't see he had that orange/black copy of MICF otherwise I totally would've PM'd him and bought that with the others I was interested in. what a headache.

sell your body.

ya, i got mine monday and love the packaging. thanks no idea!

nah, ask for his dad ha, pretty sure i talked to his dad early yesterday. thanks to scott's post, i managed to get their last copy of the black keys 12". great place. his dad put the record on hold for me until charles could come in to quote me the ppd price and it WAS very reasonable.

This can't be real. Or maybe it could be. Sounds just crazy enough to be reality. i, too, know people and have heard their stories about their experiences with him. the stuff posted here about tony sound very much in line with what i've heard over the years.

thanks. state of love and trust is my favorite pearl jam song. glad to get this cover on vinyl (with a discount!). +1

someone was selling a promo record on ebay and he listed it as a promo LP. when i asked what the difference was from a regular one, he said it just had the sharpie through the bar code but everything else was the same.

totally sold out in San Diego. I got one of the last birch ones but I'm gonna exchange it for a black brown when they're in stock.

i'm kind of bummed to hear the news. i kind of lost interest in them after war all the time. a city by the light divided bored me, but they recaptured my interest with no devolucion. i sort of kept up with them in between those albums though since they always seemed to cross paths with jonah matranga and i'm a big fan of far and his various projects. i think that latest thursday record just hit me at the right time in my life and i was up for investing a little more attention into thursday all over again. oh well. i'll always remember the first time i saw them was at the warped tour right after full collapse came out. i met geoff (and jonah) a couple years later at another warped tour and he was the nicest guy ever.

i only really have bad experiences when i drink blended scotches. i don't normally black out when i drink, but i do (amongst other things) when i have a bit too much of a blend. i don't like macallan. it's something lots of people i know dig, but i don't. and echoing a previous post, yes, glenmorangie is a good quality mild single malt. that's one we always buy because my husband isn't a fan of talisker and we usually share the bottle.

probably gonna pick one up if i can get away from the family and get down to wherever the local ikea is here.

neat.

the glenlivet 12 is the mildest one of the bunch that i like. i like bourbons, too. got some bulleit and have been meaning to try buffalo trace, i've heard good things. i also like knob creek. my favorite is probably talisker 10, 18's a bit too peppery.

yeah, they're just unfinished pine. the back is a thin plywood. I'm sure someone locally makes something similar enough. I've seen the same shelf design being sold at places in other cities (Chicago comes to mind right away) so it's probably reasonably common, but like I said, there's enough people making/selling unfinished furniture that you're bound to find something very similar near to you. perhaps, but the thing with bostonwood is that their prices are great for it being real wood and made in the US. it's hard to find new, real wood furniture for less than a couple hundred. i found a place in WA that also has unfinished pine CD and LP racks and they ship around the US but they cost twice as much. might have to go that route since shipping is free, but i'll poke around a bit more to see if i can find something in southern CA. thanks for posting that link though. didn't know unfinished pine was an option, but now that i do, it's what i'll be looking for.

I have a whole mess of these: http://www.bostonwood.com/cd.html wow. i need to find one of those! i can call to see if they'll ship to CA, but if they did, it'd probably be awfully pricey... i like how it looks like it's real wood, too. i prefer that to particle/fiber board. and madtired, i did consider the benno from ikea, but i don't really like the idea of stacking 3 of those next to each other as i would to keep the CDs all together. like a lot of people in this thread, i do alphabetical and then chronological. same with the CDs. books are probably the only ones i do by genre (ie. french lit, cooking, home, etc are all grouped together).

Whenever I feel like music, I go to my music section. I just recently crossed 200 12" records, but I have... 3000? 3200? CDs, and I never once in my life considered doing anything with them but alphabetical by artist, chronological by album. I don't know, maybe I'm nuts, but I don't really think about genres much. where do you store all those CDs? i have about 500 and ran out of space on a CD rack at about the 450th and they're all packed in tighter than i would like. for now, all my records fit onto 2 different shelves (1 for 7"s and another for the 10 and 12"s) of a book case and i'm debating whether i'll get an expedit, but i really need to find a place for my CDs which my husband and i have had since the early 90s and aren't about to let go of any time soon.

The pioneer is a very budget turntable and i don't know that i would be much of an upgrade from anything. Although, i guess i can think of a few things i'd want less. Like crosleys or portable players. I don't mean to sound like a jerk, but I feel like there are great used deals on vintage tables and great resource on the web to care for them without spending too much time. You will need an amplifier and speakers to complete your set-up. The Amp doesn't even need to have a phono preamp as the pioneer table has a built in one. craigslist can help you with both the amp and speakers. In fact, if you can find a great deal on some speakers and an amp, do that and put more money toward a turntable purchase. haha, thanks. ya. actually, the old record player was a crosley i bought 12-13 yrs ago when i couldn't find anything else and i didn't get around to replacing it until now. i'm not a huge audiophile so it's not a big deal to me to have something fancy, but after spending a lot of money on records, i wanted something a little better. i got the pioneer last night and am pretty happy with it. thanks for the simple explanation of what i need. for now, i have it hooked up to the aux inputs of a bose stereo my mother-in-law gave me last month. i'll look into the speakers and amp via craigslist or amazon after the holidays when i have more money.

that person also has some dustin kensrue christmas LPs. as do a handful of other people selling ~5 copies in their personal stock they probably don't have in hand yet.

i'm going to look at a pioneer pl-990 today from someone on craigslist. it has a built in pre-amp and i tried looking through this thread but i am technologically stupid. can someone please tell me what else i might need for this turntable? like speakers, right? anything else? it has its needle and cartridge and i'm at a loss for what else i might have to save up for. i'm kind of upgrading from a shitty record player that i've had for the last 10+ yrs.

damnit, missed out by what looks like 15 min.

fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu indeed, i totally would have bought it. it's at $91 now with more than a week left to go. there was another BIN for $150 that i jumped on tonight. it was a little more than i was wanting to spend, but still better than they've been going these last few months and on par with what my local record store had it for on labor day... which i also missed out on because i took too long thinking about it.

+1. found out i can go but i don't really want to pay almost $90 including shipping for a single.

i got a 7" mailed in something that looked more like a cardboard envelope than the LP mailer boxes that are used here in the states, is that what you're talking about? it was REALLY lightweight, basically like a cardboard sleeve. i'm pretty sure as was pointed out earlier in this thread that it's to save costs per weight of the mail. but ya, it still sucks if you're mailing something fragile. luckily, my 7" arrived ok. i had an acquaintance pick me up a record on clearance at a hot topic in alaska since that was the only store i knew of that had it at that good of a price. she knows nothing about records so she sent it in a giant bubble mailer that she'd bought at the post office. she texted me as she was leaving that she'd sent it (and how!) and all i could do was be happy i asked her to have them stamp "fragile" and "do not bend" on it. i didn't have the heart to say anything or ask her to go further out of her way and get a proper mailer, but i fretted about the postal workers tossing a giant box on it and breaking the record in half or something. (i've actually had them tell me this was a possibility with something else i mailed). that arrived ok, too. phew.

nuts, i wanted the queers 7" to match the show poster in my daughter's room. i ended up with jonah matranga and the dcfc 7". couldya send me an invoice with the shipping combined and then i'll pay? congrats and good luck on the impending arrival. mine's 2 and, while a handful, she's been a blast.

got my shipping confirmation from insound on wednesday, but it's not set to arrive here until nov 01.