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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.

I have a whole mess of these: http://www.bostonwood.com/cd.html I started freshman year of college with one 160-capacity shelf and kept adding another one of those whenever I needed one. Newbury Comics always used to have these things back in the day. A few years ago, someone was throwing one out the 900-capacity one one day right around the corner of me, so I grabbed that, cleaned it up, and added a new panel for the back because they had taken it off. I also have one more that's maybe twice the size of the 160 as well. My records I'm doing in a 1x5 cube Expidit shelf for the moment.

I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE!! OH MY GOD I finally found my twin brother separated at birth!

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.

mine are organized first by the mastering engineer, then by the plant they were pressed in, then if necessary by drummer's middle name.

makes sense to me. most people who are into vinyl appreciate sound quality, be it from an analog or digital source. seems like one of the more appropriate tangent subjects you could possibly have on a vinyl board.

whats wrong with demonoid good sir? the quality control in terms of bitrate, mangled files, etc. getting stuff off rapidshare, megaupload or whatever... leaves a lot to be desired. what is a dream for all of this, plus as of a couple of months ago they have extensive release/pressing differentiation (for releases where that makes a difference), on top of multiple formats/bitrates/etc. in addition the members there are such perfectionist nerds that any problems get sorted out quickly. demonoid is great for the occasional app or movie/TV show, but for music I never found it to be compelling.

best overall presentation definitely goes to The Alchemy Index. some of my other faves are: Underworld, Beaucoup Fish Failure, Fantastic Planet Foo Fighters, The Colour and the Shape all the Shellac albums Superchunk, Here's Where the Strings Come In The Dismemberment Plan, Emergency & I Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Orange Jimmy Eat World, Futures Coheed and Cambria, In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 to name a few.

Helmet, Meantime (black) Mastodon, Leviathan (yellow) Radiohead, In Rainbows Tim Hecker, Ravedeath, 1972

demonoid for music lol

Newbury Comics was the best thing in the world 15 years ago. These days they're more of a pop culture items/fashion store that happens to sell some CDs and DVDs and a few records. the Newbury Street and Garage stores have a pretty decent vinyl rack, but most of the other stores don't. 5-6 years ago when I lived in Lowell I used to do most of my music shopping at Bull Moose in Salem, but whenever I go there these days I end up wondering why I made the trip from Boston or went out of my way from Lowell if I was up there. Newbury Comics will probably either evolve almost entirely into a regional Hot Topic-like pop culture and fashion store (and may keep a few racks of music, in the way that Hot Topic has branched out into music, but it will be a tiny part of their business) that is a bit more mainstream as compared to Hot Topic's leaning towards punk/goth/metal-oriented stuff, or they will end up going out of business. I don't see them sticking with music as a large basis of their business for much longer.

it's... beautiful. I love when folks really push the packaging envelope.

yum yum.

I have quite a bit of vinyl that I also have on CD. Most of the older instances of this (mid-late 90s stuff from when I was in college) are mostly the albums I really adored (usually from my favorite-est of favorite bands) and I would buy both at the same time or within a week or two. This was when CDs were in their extreme prime and vinyl was pretty uncommon except for a few things. I bought the vinyl basically as a sort of "collector's item", even though I would play the vinyl occasionally back then and I'm not in it for the money/trading aspects of collecting. I more or less stopped buying CDs and moved to buying/torrenting mp3s (or AAC from iTunes, I guess) shortly after I got an iPod in 2005 aside from the bands I really really liked and wanted the experience of the artwork and all that. At this point I didn't have a working turntable so I probably only bought 2-3 records over a 3-4 year period for lack of a player, and these were pretty much all from random browsing at a record shop where I saw something and really felt it was noteworthy. Now I have a turntable again and I've bought 5 CDs in the last 3 years - one was the Foo Fighters' Wasting Light because it came with a piece of the master tape and how cool is that, and the other three were "deluxe editions" with fancy packaging/extra discs/DVDs/vinyl/booklets/art/etc. I buy vinyl for new music I really dig, and I also buy older music that I already have on CD because I want the vinyl. Some of that older music is 90s stuff getting vinyl presses that didn't exist before, some of it is 2000-decade stuff that either is getting repressed or is just stuff from when I wasn't really buying vinyl. I'd say my current purchase pattern is a rough 50-50 mix of new stuff and stuff I already have on CD, and my entire vinyl collection (a little over 200 LPs) is probably 35% duplicated on CD. At this point, the only scenario in which I would ever buy a CD is if it was a local band who only had CDs and I wanted to support them.

arrived in the mail just now: also came in the other day: Thrice - Major/Minor (2xLP clear/blue spatter) Circa Survive - Blue Sky Noise (trans. blue)

I just found out you guys even exist two days ago. I already got seven records (for $80 shipped, and they already arrived) and an incredible customer service experience. It's pretty excellent that you expect to undercut ORG directly by a sizable margin.

Lol. Can't believe it took you an hour. The same LP was available for $13 at the same time. $15 for an LP with screened covers that cost $$$extra$$$. Dumb ass. so you admit that there are other factors that might drive the price of an LP above your demanded price? $13 in current dollars would have been worth about $4.50 or so in 1980 dollars. did new records cost $4.50 in 1980? oh, they didn't? they cost roughly twice that? interesting.