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Reposting from our record store employee picks: 
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1. Anderson .Paak - Malibu "Anderson .Paak is the doctor’s orders. Easily the album I’ve spun the most this year after seeing the light during a trip home to the States this summer. Paak’s third album showcases the LA musician’s brilliance in combining vibes of 70’s funk and soul, early 90’s hip-hop, and the wild card that is his own voice and take on a genre that has grown new wings in recent years. The past few years have been Kendrick’s, the next few will be Anderson’s. In an industry driven by singles, Anderson managed to put together a double-LP that flawlessly funks and flows from first to finish, and you’re left wanting more. Luckily, he’s on such a roll that he just dropped another album with Knxwledge (Kendrick Lamar producer) under the moniker NxWorries. If you dig this, I HIGHLY recommend checking out my second pick on this list. Voice of an angel."
2. NAO – For All We Know
3. James Blake– The Colour Of Everything
4. Neurosis – Fire Within Fires
5. Ivan Ave – Helping Hands
6. BANKS – Altar 
7. Meshuggah– Violent Sleep Of Reality
8. Bon Iver – 22, A Million
9. Nails – You Will Never Be One of Us
10. Kendrick Lamar – Untitled Unmastered
 

it is just part of your homeowner's or renter's insurance policy. you would need to give your collection a dollar value to insure and then you would pay a monthly premium on that insured amount. it would probably be smart to keep a good list of your records and send it to your insurance company as well.

Dude I don't even have my fucking life insured.

Super sconed in this pic

Super sconed in this pic

Super sconed in this pic

Just watched Almost Famous for the first time in probably a decade.  Totally forgot about this!
 

INT. WINNEBAGO - DAY
 
Walt stands in front of his Google Chromebook in only a cough mask and his underwear.  He yells muffled expletives through the mask, as he stomps his feet.
 
JESSE enters while Walt continues his yelling.
 
JESSE
Mr. White, I gave Badger the Foo Fi- (Jesse sees Walt is upset) Mr. White?
 
Walt removes his mask.
 
WALT
...because of ITEM NOT DESCRIBED?!  They're REMOVING my listings because ITEM NOT DESCRIBED?!
 
Jesse looks down, suddenly guilty.
 
WALT
Jesse!  Can you PLEASE explain to me WHY every listing you were responsible for posting has now been TAKEN DOWN?  Because to me it seems like you INCORRECTLY and SLOPPILY listed all these Record Store Day releases in the marketplace for their FIRST PRESSING release pages!  And that would mean that you PURPOSEFULLY SCREWED our entire operation because you're nothing better than a VINYL HEAD LOSER!  So, PLEASE, won't you explain what happened because I'm sure you have a GREAT excuse?!
 
Jesse starts fuming.  He's had enough of this kind of abuse.
 
JESSE
LISTEN, BITCH!  
 
Walter is taken aback by Jesse's newfound boldness.
 
JESSE
I posted all those RSD copies in their regular, first pressing pages because I wanted to inflate the perceived cost of the original pressings SO THAT THE RSD LISTINGS WOULD SEEM MORE APPEALING.  I posted the listings TWICE, BITCH!  Once in the right release page and a second time on the first pressing release page! Check your Inventory and while you're at it, Mr. White, check your messages because according to my iPhone mailbox we sold 15 records last night!
 
Walter is speechless.  He's never been wrong (or at least he's never allowed himself to acknowledge that he's wrong).
 
WALT
(more compassionate now)
Jesse...I made a mistake in how I read Discog's new email alert notifications.  They changed the titles recently and-
 
JESSE
NO, BITCH!  YOU'RE Rrrrrreeeeaaachhhhiinngggg!  Have fun flipping records by YOURSELF!
 
Jesse storms out of the winnebago and slams the door.
 
WALT
JESSE!  JESSE!
 
Walt, now a sad man standing alone in his underwear, looks at his Chromebook at the messages proving Jesse's story as right.  
 
Walt grabs a cell phone and he makes a call.
 
WALT
Saul.  We have a problem with Jesse.
 
BLACKOUT.

EXT.  VINYL HERMANOS - DAY
 
Walt pulls into the parking lot of a record store.  He exits his car and walks inside the store.
 
INT. VINYL HERMANOS - DAY
 
We see a clean, well stocked record store.  Walt looks around for someone.  
 
Walt sees a 22 year old punk girl.  He shakes his head and focuses on a 56 year old man in a long white goatee and a stained t-shirt.  He shakes his head again. We can tell that Walt might not know exactly who he is looking for.
 
MAN'S VOICE
(cheery)
May I help you?
 
Walt turns and sees a tall, olive-skinned man in glasses.  The Tall Man smiles.
 
WALT
Hi.  I'm looking for...someone who can help me with a...Record Store Day scenario.
 
TALL MAN
I'm sorry but Record Store Day was last weekend.  Would you like to buy a 45 adaptor?
 
The Tall Man holds up a plastic red adapter.
 
WALT
No.  I'll just...browse then.
 
TALL MAN
(voice changes to a more serious tone)
Maybe you should browse over in the jazz aisle.
 
Walt lifts his eye brow.  He understands what the Tall Man is saying.
 
INT. VINYL HERMANOS - JAZZ AISLE - DAY
 
Walt looks at a reissue of Kind of Blue.  He sees the price
 
39.99 
 
and quickly places it back on the shelf.
 
TALL MAN
You would like to do business.
 
WALT
Yes.
 
TALL MAN
You know who I am?
 
Walt nods.
 
WALT
Fring.
 
TALL MAN
Kess Fring.
 
Walt takes a deep breath before continuing.  Kess Fring looks at him, intrigued.
 
WALT
I want to flip 4 copies of the Pete and Pete Soundtrack.
 
Kess Fring says nothing.  He looks over Walt's shoulder at a skinny indie kid who is a little too close to their conversation.
 
WALT
So...can you help me?
 
Kess Fring gives Walt one last slow look over.
 
KESS
(serious tone)
I own a vinyl cleaning plant.  On the other side of town.  Meet me there tomorrow at 1pm.
(cheery)
Hello!  May I help you?
 
The Skinny Indie Kid turns around.
 
SKINNY INDIE KID
Do you have any clear Sufjans?
 
BLACKOUT.

INT. HANK'S GARAGE - DAY
 
Walt looks over Hank's shoulder as Hank clicks the trackpad on the Macbook Pro.  We see that he is browsing a vinyl forum.
 
WALT
So...this is what you do all day?
 
HANK
Yeah, Walter.  It beats giving handies under the ABQ bridge.
 
WALT
What are we looking for...exactly?
 
HANK
Well, right now there's a real scumbag flipping an ETID 7" for a $15 profit.  We have his VC username but we need to find his Discogs account in order to nail him.
 
Walt's curiosity spikes as he takes in this information.
 
WALT
They...make money doing that?
 
HANK
Yeah, the bastards stand in line for 7 hours, buy a limited edition record, and then they flip it for $20-150 Washingtons.
 
Walt points to a JPEG of Deja Entendu.
 
WALT
How much would I...theoretically...if I were to flip that record there, how much would I make?
 
Hank swivels in his leather computer chair to face Walt.  Hank gives him a cold stare.
 
HANK
If you flipped this record...
 
Walt gives a hard gulp.
 
HANK
...you'd make over $200.  
 
Walt's eyes open wide.
 
HANK
But I'd have to take you down.  
 
Walt snaps back to reality.  He realizes he's sweating.  A little too much.
 
HANK
My own brother in law.  (Pause)
 
The ensuing silence is deafening.
 
HANK
I'm just kidding!  You'd never be able to pull off something like that.  You're an adult.  These dickholes are all under 30.  (to himself) Hah! Imagine that.  Walter White flipping White Stripes LPs.
 
Walt laughs along with Hank.  We see, however, that he is up to something in his mind.

kess i normally like you dude...but that was fucking stupid

Dude don't be so quick to judge. Ive sold many things to VCers and never taken advantage. So throwing someone a little extra for going through the trouble to get it for them is "bad" - man your views are little ridged..... 
 
And you're pretty much saying I am going to lie about how much I paid...cant help but feel your insulting me without knowing me! 
 
to the second person:
leave the second box set at the store instead of "100% getting it into the hands of a true fan" if I left it at the store, a flipper could buy it, and another one is on ebay....
 
I am not trying to take advantage at all....and its not just credit card use, I have to drive 40 min to the store and 40 min back, trip to the post office, packaging material and my time (guess you guys live in a state with free gas) LOL, sorry Its ridiculous I even have to point this out, but trying to put it into perspective

...but it's 4/20, breh. What other kinda horse is there?

Definitely this year's top score for me personally.  The shop I work at ordered early with wishfull thinking and much to our surprise received 10 copies   Damn yesterday was fun.

I'll just put this here:  http://www.soundtracksonvinyl.com/
 
 
 
Another that's on my hitlist (also stupid expensive):  Deluxe version of the Almost Famous soundtrack

Norway was and is a cesspool-contagion of rampant metal-dungus.
Norway's enemy , Sweden, was foul with this disease of the milk-brained as well.
But, unlike Norway, to give Sweden credit, it has been pushing out superior prog of late.Acts like Flower Kings, Beardfish (okay, they DID make the rather sharny "Void" cd which had the first half metally),Sagor & Swing, Agusa....many others.
Hail The Power & Glory's Way!
Hail!

thank you for verbally translating the chart.

So, this is a combination of the threads
What Vinyl Boxset would like to see Happening?
Albums That Should Be RE-PRESSED on Vinyl
Albums That Should Be Pressed on Vinyl
 
Nice!

Reading through these lists made me realize how much stuff I haven't listened to. Regardless, here are my faves so far, from all genres (including plenty of things I'm not sure most of VC would be into), in alphabetical order. It's gonna be tough to whittle this down to a Top 10 list in a few months.
 
Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire For No Witness
The Bilinda Butchers - Heaven
CEO - wonderland
clipping. - CLPPNG
Cloud Nothings - Here and Nowhere Else (my AOTY so far)
Com Truise - Wave 1 EP
Every Time I Die - From Parts Unknown
How To Dress Well - What Is This Heart?
Kishi Bashi - Lighght
Le1f - Hey EP (very good queer rap)
Lone - Reality Testing (my other AOTY so far)
Napolian - Incursio (hip hop beats for Internet artists)
Perfect Pussy - Say Yes To Love
Real Estate - Atlas
Spazzkid - Promise EP (ffo: Washed Out, Toro Y Moi, chill music)
A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Sea When Absent
Todd Terje - It's Album Time (definitely Top 10 List material)
Tokyo Police Club - Forcefield
White Lung - Deep Fantasy

This is "Amazing albums with terrible artwork", not "Terrible albums with terrible artwork".

Fuck, you're annoying.

Super excited for this one.
 
Also picked these up 
 
 
180g black/250
 

 

 

 
 

I built this room in my basement from bare concrete up. I still would like to add a couple more posters and some lighting over the player but overall I'm pretty happy with the results. I love having the guitars on the wall! Sorry couldn't get good pics with my cell.

Uhhh... Only I can do this