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  1. I believe I just got a shipping notice from UPS for the webstore order. It's "Artist Endeavor", yeah?
  2. This Bull Moose shit has me so sad, and also angry as fuck. I've spent thousands of dollars there, including hundreds of visits to the Salem locations (new and old). Regarding the mask piece of the equation: it sounds like a large number of the Salem store staff are not yet vaccinated. I've heard tell of at least one of them that isn't and (IIRC) has to help care for their very old grandmother who cannot get vaccinated. [aside: Salem, NH is a particularly interesting place with, shall I say, special retail challenges. I know this from having worked at the Apple Store up the road from Bull Moose for a couple of years. it's right on the NH/MA border, and because NH doesn't have sales tax, people will drive to NH to save that sweet 6.25%, especially on big purchases like computers in the case of Apple, but also a lot of I'll be kind and say "frugal" peeps will go buy a ton of records at once on a Bull Moose/Newbury trip. Also a heck of a lot of people in southern NH are MA expats who wanted to move to NH for "muh freedoms" and whatnot, particularly in Salem because it's right on the highway to Boston for those people who still work in Boston but think they're being oppressed in MA (I always think this is hilarious because these people pay MA income tax but also the way higher property tax/other local taxes that make up for the fact that NH doesn't have income tax so they're actually kinda getting screwed on both ends, but again, "muh freedoms!" lol). What I'm saying that approximately 2/3 of the people shopping in Salem, which has a mall and miles of strip mall, are either raving assholes or willing to make a scene and start screaming and utterly humiliate a retail worker at the drop of a dime. it sucks ass working in that town.] So anyway, there's a more-than-acceptable number of people who go to the Salem Bull Moose and in the past year have been shitty about wearing a mask, have complained when asked to put one on, have complained about having to wait outside due to the capacity limit, etc. I've seen it firsthand every time I've gone there in the past year. There are absolutely a lot of people who will go there and say "the CDC says I don't have to wear a mask if I'm fully vaccinated and I'm fully vaccinated so I'm not wearing a mask" and will be lying about being vaccinated. It is absolutely a workplace safety issue for the many as-yet-unvaccinated workers. On top of that, the workers there have repeatedly been subject to sexual harassment, homophobic and racial harassment, and have repeatedly tried to report these things to management and have been met with pretty poor responses or ignoring the problem entirely. The Salem store was planning to stop requiring customers to wear masks as of tomorrow, Monday, May 24 (I believe NH dropped its statewide mandate a month ago, but the store had maintained their own mask policy until now). It sounds like some of the workers were talking about staging a walkout out of concern for their safety. Bull Moose released a pretty weak statement that said closing the store wasn't because of masks, but it sort of was inasmuch as it seems everyone was fired because they may have been organizing because of the mask issue (as well as the abuse issues/etc.). Oh also minimum wage in Maine (where all but 2 of the BM stores are) is $12.15 and in NH it's $7.25 and the Salem store workers absolutely get paid less than the Maine store workers do. Anyway I'm done with them forever unless some major, major, major changes happen in upper management. It sucks because they've always been so great as far as customer service goes but this shit absolutely cannot stand.
  3. I don't have to imagine it, since they're a large number of my locals.
  4. kinda curious if the webstore cream and the UK "opaque white" are the same thing
  5. shout out to that Newbury Comics "add $9 to a $25 record" pricing. anyway, webstore (exclusive?) on cream if the picture is to be believed. https://sleaterkinney.kfu.store/preorder-path-of-wellness-vinyl-lp.html there's also an "opaque white" option at Rough Trade which seems to be a UK indie exclusive variant. https://driftrecords.com/products/sleater-kinney-path-of-wellness
  6. I like how it's clearly a song she wrote a gazillion years ago but it sounds like present-day Taylor.
  7. you can literally still buy baja blast at her bandcamp. that's just silly.
  8. I'm gonna be mad when the baja blast shows up at the very cool little record shop that always somehow gets things and I would have saved $6 shipping on a 4 song EP, but oh well
  9. man I slept on this one and missed that splatter. farts. there is also an indie exclusive on "tangerine", which seems to be at most US indie shops. e.g. https://www.bullmoose.com/p/34930082/middle-kids-today-were-the-greatest-tangerine-vinyl-indie-exclusive-w-download-card
  10. I can't speak to the 7020e specifically but the NAD preamps tend to be really good. My receiver is a 7130 and I love it. I also just got a Debut Carbon EVO last week. it was an immediately obvious upgrade from my old Essential, from the very first record I put on. Really excellent table for the price.
  11. I got a new turntable 3 days after this album came in. (upgraded my old Essential Phono/USB to a Debut Carbon EVO and it is SICK.) as I had already listened to this twice on the old one it made an obvious comparison record and man it sounded so damn good. and it already sounded good on the old table. big upgrade tho
  12. That's weird, the same listing had the same image from the Green Day webstore with the orange vinyl just a couple of days ago.
  13. as others have mentioned, the trick is to buy two copies so you're over the $75 free shipping threshhold. I'll just find a friend who wants a copy when they ship. if I can't, apparently I could always sell it and make some big buxxx on ebay!* * I'm joking
  14. apparently she was on GMA this morning and said that's when everything that's not vinyl will be available.
  15. Gives me memories to the time in college a tweeter got broken in one of my speakers during a move, so to fill in the frequencies a bit I ran my receiver into my guitar amp. Worked well enough for a little while until I could scrape together the cash to deal with the speakers. I run my iPhone into the aux input of my bass amp to listen to stuff while I'm setting up or cleaning at my practice space. Sounds great honestly.
  16. 'NATIVE SPEAKER' DELUXE 10 YR ANNIVERSARY LP $25 USD - Limited edition 10 year anniversary packaging - Pressed on spring green/canary yellow vinyl - High gloss jacket for extra punchy colours - Printed inner sleeve with lyrics https://www.braidsmusic.com/product/native_speaker_10yr great album. excited to see a pretty cool variant for it.
  17. I just tried this (not to actually order as I already have all 8 in hand or on order) and got $62. that's fucking insane
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