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what does that even mean

what does that even mean

i honestly had no idea either were out of press at this point. six, eight, ten years ago, it felt like four presses of both upsides and suburbia (or whatever it ended up being) would be plenty. same with WBPF. you used to see 10 ebay listings a day for all these, now you see maybe one a month. all of which is to say... yes, agreed that they probably could have kept churning these out. i think this makes up for the wait for more-recent followers of the band

(also kind of extremely late here)... i strongly agree with the polished/squeaky clean/sterilized take. which i think is a big reason why act IV and migrant fall super flat for me, and also why i didn't really like act V at first. (i actually hated it.) but revisiting act V... the sheer number of callback makes it worthwhile, but also the production quality really plays up the wide variety of genres throughout the album, unlike act IV/migrant (which is very uniform in their sounds). so, hopefully you did revisit act V and you enjoyed it as much as i do. but if not, it is what it is!

https://magazine.vinylmeplease.com/magazine/tidal-info/
Andrew: This is the first black vinyl Record of the Month we’ve done since, what, Big Bill Broonzy 15 months ago. Why did we end up doing black on this release?
Cam: Fiona’s camp decided that since this is Tidal’s first release, they wanted to try to keep it as much as possible like it would have been if the vinyl came out in 1996. If they were doing the vinyl package in 1996, they would not have put it on color vinyl. They would have included a lyric book identical to what came with the cd. They wouldn’t have added bonus tracks or an additional disc or done alternate art work. It would have just been the album, on high quality black vinyl, and that’s it. So that’s what we went with. And I actually love the simplicity of it.

may have overpaid for the athletics test press (i thought i was inputting  a max bid ebay-style, not just... what the new bid should be), but dan sent the test press and also a lacquer of the 7". so, that was pretty cool. probably because i paid out the ass, but maybe some other folks got cool throw-ins too

i don't give a shit about the size; in fact i think a nontraditional size is actually fun. i love the one 6" i have.* but if i have to buy some special record player for it, then what the fuck? (edit: also, at $10 this is absolutely preposterous. do not confuse this for a defense of the $10 3".)
 
re: blind boxes: it has become the logical extension of any collectible craze, but i will say i loved secret audio club's wax packs from 2014. wouldn't have encountered john moreland or half hearted hero without it, and it was all new songs from every contributing artist.  that said, i don't need a blind box to know i fuckin hate all time low
 
*not a wiener joke. i wish! if only. am i right? ...guys? hello?

I've got the 10th anniversary edition on white vinyl, which was a massive missed opportunity to do red splatter

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been listening to this for a couple of days now and damn is this some '80s-ass shit. in a totally good way, btw. love how subdued it is. very close to hating two songs (violent red, better light) but otherwise it's great and genuinely different from everything else they've done. kudos to them. 10 years later (granted with four lost years) and they still haven't lost me as a fan

i scrobbled successfully for almost 12 years until my scrobbler mysteriously stopped working 13 months ago. happy to announce my last successful scrobble was "they fucked our asses" by tenacious d
https://www.last.fm/user/lordchamberlain
also, if anyone has any idea why this might've happened... for PC folks, i thought we were able to have multiple ipods connected to it, but maybe not. (my newer one broke, so now i'm using an older one... and yes i still fuck with ipods.) i don't even remember the process for, like, "connecting" an ipod to the itunes scrobbler for PC. it's probably easy to look up, but clearly i've been too lazy to figure this out for way too long and then got discouraged that i've lost a year of data. anyway, if someone wants to save me three minutes of googling, let me know

y'all are saints!

please. would prefer not to pay markup but i know how this dance goes. hit me up.

i don't have any full sets on me right now (my wax packs collection is split up between two locations right now) but more than happy to send random (or even specific, if i have them with me now) black copies FREE OF CHARGE to anyone interested, whether it's long-time or first-time collectors. just pay shipping. hit me up!

Bump, back from the dead 

you're right, the email said first 20. i barely read it, i clicked through the link in a panic but then didn't see anything so closed out and just happened to go back out of curiosity like five minutes later. feeling pretty lucky now

cool!

this thread had a crazy good run when we were shaqqing the shit out of it. funny thing is i found this the other day, i remember poorly photoshopping it for this thread but don't remember the context. probably my most upvoted post ever, too. so, for posterity:
 

this thread had a crazy good run when we were shaqqing the shit out of it. funny thing is i found this the other day, i remember poorly photoshopping it for this thread but don't remember the context. probably my most upvoted post ever, too. so, for posterity:
 

this thread had a crazy good run when we were shaqqing the shit out of it. funny thing is i found this the other day, i remember poorly photoshopping it for this thread but don't remember the context. probably my most upvoted post ever, too. so, for posterity:
 

this thread had a crazy good run when we were shaqqing the shit out of it. funny thing is i found this the other day, i remember poorly photoshopping it for this thread but don't remember the context. probably my most upvoted post ever, too. so, for posterity:
 

this thread had a crazy good run when we were shaqqing the shit out of it. funny thing is i found this the other day, i remember poorly photoshopping it for this thread but don't remember the context. probably my most upvoted post ever, too. so, for posterity:
 

feel-good story of the day (slash of my life): used two 45-pound plates on top of a thick folded towel (for protection) for a couple of weeks (only because i forgot to check on it). worked about as well as i could've possibly hoped; almost perfectly flat. bless uppppppppp

feel-good story of the day (slash of my life): used two 45-pound plates on top of a thick folded towel (for protection) for a couple of weeks (only because i forgot to check on it). worked about as well as i could've possibly hoped; almost perfectly flat. bless uppppppppp

feel-good story of the day (slash of my life): used two 45-pound plates on top of a thick folded towel (for protection) for a couple of weeks (only because i forgot to check on it). worked about as well as i could've possibly hoped; almost perfectly flat. bless uppppppppp