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holy crap. so sad I missed this now that I've seen those pics. daaaaang

This guy. (At least, I'm like 80% sure I signed up for it.)

definitely in for that blue/white/orange. I like the color combo better than the /200 anyway. though seriously I would definitely pay to ship that UK press exclusive. HELLO IT'S ORANGE/ORANGE MY FAVORITE COLOR IS ORANGE MAYBE YOU CAN TELL FROM MY AVATAR SO I WOULD REALLY LIKE THAT WHY CAN'T I ORDER IT :( also grabbed some T/T/T on forest green as I've been meaning to pick up their records and it was a good way to make myself feel like I was getting a better deal out of the shipping price.

yeah $275 is a little fucking nuts.

already gone

"Shame" was already on the vinyl release, even with the etching.

I came at this from the perspective of the most-played records in my collection. So it's basically stuff I owned when I was younger and before the period where I didn't really listen to vinyl much because I didn't have my own working turntable so it would just be when I was at my friends' or whatever. Hum, Downward is Heavenward Shellac, Terraform Superchunk, Here's Where the Strings Come In Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Orange Neutral Milk Hotel, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea Fugazi, Red Medicine Chilmark, "Mosiac" / "The King" / "Shadow" Foo Fighters, The Colour and the Shape Jimmy Eat World, Futures Sunny Day Real Estate, S/T perhaps not super-accurate but I basically just kind of thought of the first 12-15 records that I knew I had played the heck out of at some point, and then cut off the ones I probably hadn't played as much as these ones. If I'm picking a list made up of stuff I've been listening to in the last 2-3 years since I got a working setup again, it'd probably be something like: Prawn, Ships R.E.M., Lifes Rich Pageant Wye Oak, Shriek Tim Hecker, Ravedeath, 1972 Kimbra, Vows Sharon Van Etten, Tramp Paramore, Brand New Eyes Tears for Fears, Songs From the Big Chair Thrice, Beggars Underworld, Beaucoup Fish

didn't this get pressed literally two years ago?

finally filed a pretty big backlog of new records.

I look forward to seeing several copies of these inhabiting the bins at Newbury Comics well into 2016.

You take that back.

I bought this Diamond Version EP a few weeks ago because I liked the cover and it was in the sale bin for $3. Turned out to be some incredible minimal techno. http://www.discogs.com/Diamond-Version-EP3/release/4232064 That one's on my mind because it's so recent, but it definitely has to be in my top 3 best unknown impulse buys in terms of bang for the buck.

in my defense, (apparently the start time codes don't work on this damn website. 1:21)

http://boards.vinylcollective.com/topic/101402-po-sum-41-chuck/

someone was asking if there's anywhere to buy this digitially. per a Circa email list note just sent out, it's on iTunes as of today, and also streaming on Spotify and Rdio.

Probably Brand New - TDAGARIM

Yeah, the Sunny Day track is... ok. It's fine, neither bad nor especially great. I don't understand at all what Circa Survive were thinking releasing their track on such a high-profile split, or at all. I'm not all that disappointed that I didn't find this record.

I don't think that's the real problem.

A "special surprise" for a new Pixies album would be that it is any good.

That sounds downright heavenly.

I've been going to two stores right down the street from each other for years - Bull Moose and Newbury Comics in Salem, NH. The experience at Bull Moose is among the worst things I've ever been a part of. They put the records in some bins and just let everyone in. It's a giant rush to get in, and because the records are in bins you have to flip through, only maybe 8-10 people can actually get anything resembling a reasonable look at the records at once. Despite this, you have 50-60 people seething around like a early-90s mosh pit trying to get a look at the records. It's terrible and I hate them for doing it. If that's how they're doing it again this year, I'm never going back to that store because fuck that. Picture these sort of bins, but they'll be 4 individual compartments instead of 6: Last year they broke it out so there was one set of 4 bins at the front of the store and one set at the back, which I guess at least spread out the mob around each bin, but then you had to fight through two mobs to get at records. The Salem Bull Moose could easily solve this problem by only letting in 10 people at a time, but they've shown no signs of doing this over the 5-6 years I've been going. The Newbury Comics right down the street used to just let everyone in the doors in a mob, but last year they had some good sense and started limiting it to about 10 or so people at a time, and they'd let another group in once those people were in line at the register or had left the RSD section for the rest of the store. It was pretty refreshing after dealing with the worst Bull Moose crowd yet. The "menu" approach sounds really intruiging. I've never experienced that but it sounds delightful and civilized, which is the kind of thing I'd like to see in my RSD experience since it's usually barbaric.

Yes, it's coming out in -2496 days.

I want this but I'm struggling with buying a second copy of the album. eeerrrrgggggg