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Just when i gave up completely on this whole fucking vc you guys come and give me hope. I really enjoy reminiscing about most of these bands. 
 

X - Los Angeles should be in every punk rock top ten.
 
Here's some Texas KBD.
 

FEAR, The Record is great.

World Inferno is bad ass

So damn true. I have almost all of their 7"s, haven't run into any LPs at the record store yet though. Crass is awesome. They really opened up what was possible to do in punk lyrically and sonicly. They are on an entirely different level, and they really helped develop anarchism as a staple in the music- dammit they're so good. Speaking of Crass, how many Flux of Pink Indians fans do we have here? They kill it too.
 

 
and just to throw a wrench in the gears a little, how about Ghost Mice? Love all the Plan-It-X stuff.
 

No Metroid fans in here, huh? I'm stoked for Prime 4 and a new side scroller on the 3DS!

Discovered this at my local liquor megamart today...
 

 
I have enjoyed the Redemption High Rye several times at $27-30 a bottle.
 
This is a 9 year aged, premium product at $81.99 on the shelf. I told my wife to add it to my birthday/Christmas list.

I got a bottle of lagavulin 16 for festival from my in laws and really enjoy it.  ron swanson would be very upset with you...

NPR had as many critical stories about the DNC as anybody else.
 
There's really no slant there. That's why it's great.
 
(AP is the same. Also I don't watch cable news because it's all slanted...if you're selling ads, you're selling and if you're selling, you're lying. Take it from a salesman.)

The left didn't even defend Kathy Griffin's dumb little photo shoot. Which despite being stupid, falls under free speech. Bad art is still art.

I can't wait to hear the president acknowledge the two men in Portland who were stabbed to death. I guess that doesn't align with his narrative. 

Here's a current, ever so slightly crooked photo of what I'm working with these days:

Supporting skateboarding by buying real brands is super important. Your shop wants you to buy the bigger brands, trust me. I still skate, collect boards, and support the shit out of my local shop. In the end, buying anything from a local shop is the main priority, but buying bigger brands ensures that you're spreading money to all the tiny moving parts that is the skateboard industry. I was pretty devastated when Alien Workshop/Habitat closed shop and I'd like to keep shit like that from happening as much as I can. 

I don't think I've popped in with the big life update yet: We lost an original member of the crew at work which is sad but he is on to better things, but for me this means a new position in the company, I will be the head record/cd buyer, only pricer and record processor so I will fulltime be working with records with the occasional pop in up front to help customers starting next week after I help train the new hires this week. Other duties include repricing things that sit, culling out multiples and keeping track of used record stocks. It's pretty exciting stuff it comes with another raise if I prove myself I was told. Life is good
 
Also on a huge country rock, jangle pop kick i'm been ferociously buying all the Byrds, Gene Clark, Gram Parsons, Ian Matthews and other related artists I can get my hands on. I did pick up another Fugazi record yesterday just in case you thought I was going all the way soft on you

I loathe Danbury because I generally just loathe Connecticut. It's an irrational hatred born out of having to drive I84 every time I want to visit my folks, and I84 is a parking lot for about 65 miles no matter what time of day it is. 
 
Even though I'm from western PA and therefore sick to death of people saying "oh, Pittsburgh, that's right next to Philly isn't it?" I actually really love Philly. Except the Flyers. And the Eagles. Mütter Museum is cool as hell, 30th St. Station is gorgeous, there's a pretty awesome music scene...yeah, Philly' s alright.

Whoever Subpop uses is top notch. I have the 6 LP Eugene Mirman set and it's the same thing. For a release like that or the Bob's Burgers set it'd be real easy to let quality slide, but props to Subpop. 

Holy shit YES.
 

It reminds me of when I was in college like 10 years ago and a professor explained white privilege and like 20 dudes angrily raised their hands and were like "I'm white and my mom died of cancer and we were poor, so white privilege doesn't exist!"

I really love Cock Sparrer, but the new record is even better than I thought it would be.
 
 
 

Ok so
Hanss T-30 Turntable
Hanss PA-23 Phono Pre Amp
Drawmer HQ Preamp
Genelec M40 with a 5040 Sub.
Clearaudio TT5 Arm
AT OC-9 III Cart (normally have the Grado Statement Sonata but it needs a retip)
 
pics as follows  
 

Just moved into a new place and got a new turntable, since I was using my old roommate's for the past few years. Set up is a blue U-Turn Obit Plus with the cue lever upgrade -> Onkyo TX-8020 -> KLH AV-830 and around 130 records in two wooden apple crates. 
 
 
 

 
 

Well to be fair, I actually didn't pay for the speakers, won them from Vinyl Me Please a couple years ago.

@Blumplum Very nice room! But a $1600 chair and $400 speakers? I think you've got that the other way around.

Here's my cozy, simple setup