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Anybody order from Looney Tunes and hear from them about shipping confirmation or receiver their order yet?

Good on ya. Getting back on the dating scene is pretty tough once you've been out of it for awhile. I've got a friend going through that right now. Hope you're date turns out well.

I'm guessing the price is so high because it's colored 180g (and because they know this album will sell).

Yeah, so bookshelf speakers would probably be good for that situation. If you want to hook up multiple things to the speakers you're going to want an A/V receiver. This will come with HDMI inputs as well as the standard RCA ones that a typical stereo receiver would net you. These are also going to cost a bit more. Examples: http://www.amazon.com/Harman-Kardon-AVR-....8148 60&sr=1-13 http://www.amazon.com/Sony-STRDH520-Chan....581 4899&sr=1-1 Keys: Make sure it has enough HDMI inputs for the things you want to hookup (1. TV, 2. PS3) These will almost always NOT include a phono pre-amp, so you would have to get an external. If you are just looking to listen to music off of the turntable in your bedroom you can get by with just the stereo receiver. This has minimal inputs (usually just Phono, CD, Tape, etc) and will carry the audio to the hooked up speakers. This won't work with your TV or PS3. Example: http://www.needledoctor.com/Teac-AG-790-Receiver-w-Remote?sc=2&category=664 Keys: These will almost always include a phono pre-amp, so you wouldn't have to get an external pre-amp. It's basically a call between what you want to do with your set-up and how much money you want to spend.

Probably should have asked this earlier ... How big of a room are your trying to fill? Do you just want to play some audio out of bookshelf units in a bedroom or are you trying to set up an entertainment center in a living room? If you're trying to fill a larger room or handle multiple inputs (TT, TV, PS3) a receiver is your best bet. You can have each input plugged into the receiver and output from there to the speakers. That way you can have quality sound from your speakers when you watch TV, play a record, or play a PS3 game.

What are you looking to spend? Also what kind of other inputs do you have that you would like to push through your new speakers? Game consoles? DVD / Blu-ray player? Roku or AppleTV?

The Pre-Amp is basically what is going to convert the Phono signal to a signal that that your speakers will understand. Some turntables have a built in Phono stage which do this before it sends the signal out. Likewise if you have an older receiver it also might include a Phono input which will boost the signal there as well. But in your case if you're buying a Debut III and a newer receiver they will not have a phono stage. So to solve that problem you're going to need an external Pre-Amp (which you'll insert in between the Turntable and the receiver. The receiver on the other hand is what your speakers are going to connect to. You'll see in the back of them a place for you to hook up numerous speakers with the standard speaker wire. Here's the back of a receiver (with a built in Phono stage) for reference: You'd hookup the speakers to the the red/black connectors in the middle, and you'd hook up your turntable output to the Inputs marked "Phono" here (it's the far left input in this picture). In this situation you wouldn't need an external Pre-amp. If you just want to listen to records with the least amount of effort and money you can skip the receiver and floor speakers and get some speakers that accept a dedicated Red/White RCA input. But in that situation you wouldn't be using those speakers to output audio for your TV.

As much as I'm kind of bummed this release isn't happening I'm pretty thrilled that MTS is failing miserably and all of their releases aren't happening. Good riddance to that terrible ass label.

This is mainly handled by a receiver and not a pre-amp. So your setup should go: Turntable -> Pre-Amp -> Receiver -> Speakers Nowadays most receivers are used for home theater stuff and less turntable / music so you'll see them being advertised as such more often. It will still work fine for your uses (and also double as a great all in one hookup for your other devices .. game console, dvd/bluray player, etc). Look for something like: http://www.amazon.com/Harman-Kardon-HK-3390-Receiver/dp/B00198BOAM/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1335790030&sr=8-7 Speakers are a whole different beast, as everyone has their own tastes and feeling about what sounds good. Not to mention what style you're looking for (bookshelf, floor units, etc). If you're just looking to start small you can get something as simple as these: http://www.amazon.com/Sony-SS-F6000-Floorstanding-4-Way-Speakers/dp/B000OG4E20/ref=sr_1_5?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1335790226&sr=1-5 That should serve your record playing and TV audio just fine. Throw a sub in there and it's even better.

Here's her explanation of the name: Pretty funny that both bands had a 7" single out for this past record store day too. I'm sure that wasn't confusing for anyone at all.

Saddle Creek just posted the pre-order for the sophomore album from The Mynabirds. Available in three varieties: Basic - $15.00 LP (Black vinyl) Music Plus - $28.00 LP (Black vinyl) T-shirt 11x17 poster Sticker Button 320 Kbps MP3 album download on MAY 22 I Want it All - $40.00 LP (White vinyl exclusive, limited to 250 copies.) T-shirt Patch Set Zine Tote Bag 11x17 poster Sticker Button 320 Kbps MP3 album download on MAY 22 Pre-order here: http://saddle-creek.com/store/artist/themynabirds/ Ships: May 22nd

Nope, didn't work for me either. Lame.

RSD is going to cost me a pretty penny if the stores I'm looking to go to have the things I'm looking for. My list right now has about 10 7"s and 10 LPs on it. Should be interesting.

I'm pretty excited to see this. My girlfriend is scared of horror movies, and especially doesn't like gory ones. How do you think she would handle it?

Just got an email from Amazon letting me know that the delivery date for this has changed to: May 10th, 2012

Anyone order this from Amazon? Did it come with the bonus 7"? I'm trying to take advantage of Prime shipping.

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Nothing like a little on horseback groping between friends siblings.

Amazon has been pretty hit or miss on shipping for me. Sometime they ship 1 LP in a giant box with no padding, and them sometimes they put them in those super cool LP mailers, THEN put it in a giant box (which seems like a total waste).

Thanks for the heads up. Counted this out as not getting a vinyl release when it wasn't day and date with the CD/digital release.

From the wikipedia for this episode: "The character of his sister was renamed from the original books (from Asha to Yara) in order to avoid confusion with the already established character Osha (the wildling captive at Winterfell), and Gemma Whelan was chosen to play it." http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/08/02/game-of-thrones-greyjoy-asha/ Ep. 2 was pretty great. The party I was watching with was quite amused when at the beginning of the episode HBO didn't list "Nudity" as being one of the markings in the episode, only to find out that Ep 2 had more bonin' in it that most of season 1.

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In for one. Looking forward to this.

Me. $50 is a little steep for my tastes. I'm clinging to hope that Mondo presses a good amount. They like making money, right? Eh. They like the idea that their shit is rare/collectible more. They intentionally do low print runs to create an insane demand to supply ratio. In the end eBay flippers make 10x more off their releases than they do. Read this article about them. http://www.slashfilm.com/mystique-mondo-changing-face-movie-posters/ Hopefully they decide to press a decent amount of the Drive soundtrack, but I wouldn't necessarily expect to get a copy of it very easily.

I'm a big fan of Company Ink. This is how you put out records the right way.