mrrom92

Originals will sound better, and are readily available for less. If you think they sound the same… more power to you.

Are all the pressings derived from the same stampers regardless of year? Never got an answer on this in other threads

Sounds like a bias issue. The electronics really just need to be gone over and calibrated. Honestly, not really worth bothering with. If you have a scope I guess you're in luck but otherwise it's never going to perform within spec

Whoa. I just saw the instagram post, that's pretty funny hahah. Good timing I guess. I'm not surprised they had a few of those left, I think everyone close to the band probably still does… a long time ago there were rumors that they destroyed all the remaining demo CDs but thats a pretty dumb rumor to be honest, not so sure what that would accomplish hahah. Anyhow, as has been stated, those are the demos, not the 1/2002 disc. Relatively speaking there's a bunch of those demos out there, not a lot or anything but if you went to their shows early on, you proooobably have one. On the the other hand, there's only one of the 1/2002 disc. Please note that there are VERY clear photos of the original disc in that upload, from which the exact disc can be identified. Anyone attempting to fake one of these will be caught & met with the swift hand of justice

Tough crowd huh? TOYPAJ - $15 ppd uncensored Aladdin soundtrack - $7 ppd Billy Joel 52nd Street 35dp 1 - $45 ppd

dankja entendro

Thanks for the thanks, nice to hear from at least one person

The only thing that really grinds my gears is the amount of pictures I've seen today of $40 records on $80 turntables…some with quarters taped to the headshell so make that an $80.25 turntable.

Post-RSD bumpaaaaaage

He was buying one for the board obvs

Hahahah I get it. I am usually pretty anal about this kind of thing but I'm the same way with hype stickers, even reciepts sometimes. I put that in there too. I also would've put the ticket that reserved my copy in the store if they let us keep that. It's just me at one extreme of caring about that thing, the other would tearing the whole thing off and putting it in the garbage. Whatevs.

Also, I also would rather keep the packaging complete ( I even kept the pull tab inside the bag) I will probably separate the jacket from the bag so I don't have to actually open the bag to remove the jacket, but if anyone finds a suitable outer that is big enough to house both, please do let us know which. Preferably something resealable as I like those, but it'll probably be one of those slip on style ones.

Yep. Actually quite a bit of surface noise and clicks all over the records but it's especially annoying there. There is also some weird quiet mid-pitched hum, maybe intermodulation distortion from a high pitched tone? I'm pretty sure it's a DMM cut so that could explain it. All that said - I'm actually reaaally pleasanty surprised with the mastering. I'm almost positive it was "pre-mastered" and had a tweaked file sent over to get cut flat. But the cut is real good. Great seperation and the high end is super clean. (again, DMM) the album overall sounds more dynamic than I remember on CD - and miles better than any of the original pressings I've heard. Just sucks that the pressing is such dookie.

Please do Please

this is dumb as shit. I almost want nothing to do with this and just to get the regular reissue. The only thing stopping me from putting this up on eBay is that I'll have nothing to show for that stupid ordeal lolol. Honest criticisms: The paper bags are not conducive to actually listening to a record. I'm going to have to devise some sort of way to slip everything into an outer sleeve that keeps everything together and makes everything accessible. The records have to go in new inner sleeves. The black ones are very heavy duty and look exceptionally nice, as nice as black matte can anyhow. But they're way too fucking tight. Like, unusable tight. But these are all going in frames anyway sooo Records straight out of the package are f i l t h y. Have not cleaned or played yet. Not the worst new vinyl I've seen but close to it. Looks like your basic Gz tech DMM cut, ie. zero effort in mastering, not excited to find out (haven't listened yet, with my luck I guarantee you I got two A/B sides too) Die cut looooks duuuuuuuuuuumb. This really should have been printed on the inners, and properly scaled. But that would make too much sense. I agree with the thought that the bag was a coverup hahah The inserts were damaged, not that I really care about a couple of stickers Anyway, this could have been so much more for the RSD first release. Such a lost opportunity. Special colored variants, autographs, lossless downloads, demos, an actual legitimate remastering… anything But hey, paper bag. My store had something like 40 copies, but you weren't getting one if you got there after 3AM. There were easily a few hundred people queued up but none of us knew if they had more than one until it was confirmed before opening. Pretty much everyone at the front of the line was there for this. The way it was handled was that prior to opening, they went down the line giving people a ticket just for this - the idea being that there wouldn't be a mad rush or riot in the store. They were all behind the counter waiting for you with your ticket when you check out, so that you could just make a mad dash into the store to browse and grab the "less desirable" releases first. I ended up buying no other releases. I had a fairly large list of "maybes" and "must haves", and turns out with a complete lack of mastering details on a lot of the titles, and no desire to actually listen to some of the others, my list was whittled down pretty rapidly. My only other "must haves" were that Elvis 10" (none of the stores in my area got any, hit a brotha up if you can help out) and also that Paul McCartney Sweet Thrash 12" which I had no chance of getting, considering it was limited to 109 copies. I felt bad about getting nothing else and decided to buy a glassjaw tee. It looks pretty rad. To be honest I'm more excited about the tee. The preceding events transpired in front of local news cameras in a piece that could be aptly retitled "kids lose their mind over a paper bag." See it and weep. #madeit

3% of the pressing run is at my local indie. Keep sippin the haterade ✋

Just to cheer up everyone who inevitably won't be getting deja tomorrow. I know alot of you were really interested in hearing that studio disc. Here, courtesy of the (awesome) new owner who gave me permission to share this with you, is a rip of that disc. I'm curious to see what discussion this material might spark. Enjoy!

I don't think the social distortion is a repress

Those Dejas will be Sealed to me

Der terk ur duuuurjuuurrrr

You're effing kidding... is it possible that after doing the digital transfer for remastering they actually plated the original disc? This suddenly just shot to the top of my list.

I'd rather have the 10" 78 replica than the 7" 45 if I were to be paying for that elvis song in any form. I think it's cool. Nobody seems to know yet if it's cut standard groove like the original surely would have been. I'm hoping that's the case but I have my doubts Words out that the pink vinyl basement tapes has an MSRP of $99

For 8 bucks worst case scenario is you got a paperweight... That is very vintage and it is very probable that it will need some work. I probably wouldn't invest any more into it if it wasn't operational as-is but that's just me. At the very least just make sure the heads are still good.

Just a quick update on the status of the TBS CDRs - both are officially SOLD and no longer available As for why the sale was pending for so long - I'm not sure to be honest. A member expressed their interest in purchasing both of the CDs but didn't respond to my message after that, or my other message a while later just to check if he was still interested in them. It's really a strange situation because I've sold to him in the past and the communication was excellent. After a couple of weeks passed with no word from him, I decided to sell to the next person who PMd about them. I feel bad about it as I am sure he would've liked to own these artifacts... I was pretty torn up about it. Ultimately I just hope that they are okay, wherever they are. All the other items in the initial post are still available.