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haha, Bullmoose shipped my gift card with $0.01 on it. Just got it in the mail today.

haha, Bullmoose shipped my gift card with $0.01 on it. Just got it in the mail today.

Nabbed from Bullmoose. And did the hack mentioned of adding a $0.01 gift card to get the free shipping on orders of $45 or more. Boom!
 

I had no idea that there is a new Tim Hecker album this year until now. Instantly preordered it.

Yea me too... and I have a pretty extensive BORIS collection of forty something records

Are the tickets for all the dates stupid expensive?  Philly is $97 before taxes/service charges.  I'll just stay home, get drunk, and listen to the revisited record instead.
 
Edit: Nevermind.  Looks like all tickets in Philly have been designated as Official Platinum, so they're dynamically priced by the event organizer.  Curious if they were all like this or if some were available at a lower admission price when they first went on sale (obviously I'm a little late to the party).

New Tim Hecker 2xLP
 
https://timhecker.bandcamp.com/album/no-highs

Black vinyl, no-gimmick $22 double LP.  You really can’t beat that.  It was an effortless PO last week, I really like the single from it.  Sounds just dreadful. 🤍
We’re getting something from Rafael Anton Irisarri this year, too.  Fairly confident it’s a new album but can’t say for certain since he’s only been teasing a test press through Dais.

Maybe a little debatable.
I’m with Alan in admitting that I don’t exactly get the purpose of doing this.  You’re 100% right; re-recording an album note for note, it would be goofy to expect something that stretched way outside the box.  I wouldn’t want to hear this album remixed by 12 different artists on 12 different tracks.  Nor would I want a full acoustic / demo version of it.
I guess for me, TAITA was sort of “the” album that opened my youthful eyes to modern genres and bands that became a cornerstone to my tastes today.  I don’t listen to much Thrice in 2023.  I do still have their pre-hiatus stuff on the shelf, even if I seldom reach for it, but I cannot deny that everything about TAITA is etched into my brain from an absurd amount of listens over the last two decades.
I think the OG TAITA was on Island, right?  They seem like a weird black hole for select artists and albums.  (Thinking of Thursday’s WATT, another teen staple of mine.)  Part of me thought that this re-recording was Thrice taking a page from Taylor Swift and trying to do their own “version” of the record that they’d have full rights to.  But I’m also thrown off from that theory a bit, since TAITA has seen several repressed over the years – compared to WATT, again, which feels under lock & chain.
So, again; I’m just confused about the purpose of this thing.  It proves that the band members still have their technical chops even if they’re all older and more tired than they were in 2003.  Dustin’s vocals sound like they’ve held up well, but… I’m still going to be a buzzkill and say that the nuances and production of 2003 TAITA make it its own special record and snapshot of its time.  This new recording doesn’t take me back 20 years.  It feels like a live capture of the record without the audience, with some questionable features (Architects 🤢) and I just don’t know what to make of that.
At the end of the day, it’s neater than a lot of the anniversary approaches discussed above, so I should probably just back off and let it be.  Still think it’s weird though.  Sort of like updated interior inside of a vintage muscle car, or something.  Rides the same.  Still satisfying to drive.  Maybe even has a few new bells and whistles to ooh and aah.  But still kind of misses the mark when it comes to the experience of enjoying something from days gone.

Out today...and sounds so fuckin' good. Taking me back to my days living in Louisville and catching all these bands. 
 
 
 

cannot justify $40 extra for the box set

So optimistic, especially if you're listening to their older stuff. I kept hoping they would find that SOS/59 sound and it just kept getting worse and worse. I know people absolutely love their later stuff, but man, that early stuff is such a different sound. I'm not holding my breath, but I'm open to being surprised and wouldn't be too stubborn to buy their new album if it's anything close to their first couple records
@Shitty Rambo

I really wish that this and all Team Sleep material would get pressed or repressed.

This is next level trolling.
 
All we want are vinyl issues, and Tool is making us $2000 Funko Pops.

I can't imagine adults listening to most of the music posted on this site and yet here I am listening to a bunch of it. (Not Mad Caddies though, never got into them.)

Ever since I started posting these rips, a lot of folks have come forward to loan me stuff for ripping. I'd be happy to do that one too if anybody's got it!

At the request of @iamjordanbanks, who loaned me his copy, I ripped & scanned the Nice And Blue (Pt. Two) 7". My YouTube channel has both the A- and B-sides, but I thought I'd directly link the more exciting of the two above: "In A Sweater Poorly Knit (Demo Version)"
24/96 download + hi-res scans + lineage/info: https://jenripsvinyl.com/rips/nice-and-blue-pt-two.html
EDIT: I published this at nearly 4am and upon waking up in the morning I noticed the speed was ever-so-slightly off. Maybe the belt on my turntable needs to be replaced! Regardless, I've updated the files in the MEGA folder, changed the website to reflect the differences, and uploaded new videos to YouTube. The above is the new video, but if you downloaded the files prior to whatever time it says I edited this post, you should re-download
(Gonna ping everyone who reacted to this post so you know, sorry-- @Mars, @daegor, @rcafilm, @zacooper, @IndigoHollow, @achillesstand7, @iamjordanbanks, @whoa, @ejc625, @throwgncpr)

Reflections had way better grooves, riffs, twists, and turns with the songwriting.  Moments of it feel like it dips into the post-rock well for me and I think that’s why it clicks so nicely for my ears.
Omens feels a little more straightforward with nods to classic prog, which is not my preferred sound at all.  For folks who dig that sound, I can see why Omens would have huge appeal.  Just my 2¢ on where I’m coming from with my previous statement.

I feel the same about their previous albums. I love Reflections, but Omens was a let down. I need to spend more time with Innate Passage. My initial reaction was more positive than Omens (maybe biased by low expectations?), but sonically the album is more similar to Omens than Reflections.

I love and still revisit Reflections quite often, but Omens was a misstep for me.  Not terrible by any means but just a downgrade.  How’s this new one align to either of those?

My mess...
 

They are all Swiss modernist style interpretations show flyers from the 70s-90s, done by an artist named Mike Joyce. He released a book called Swissted, which is 100% pull out posters of his artwork. You can also buy varying sizes of the prints from the book (and tons more that aren't in the book) directly from him.
https://a.co/d/gNGH6Sw
https://www.stereotypenyc.com/

I'm quite familiar with Fantastic Planet, and Failure as a band. I've said it before and I'll say it again, aftermarket prices should have no effect on a new pressing of a release. If that were the case you'd be paying ridiculous prices for most represses that have been OOP for a while.

I just recently moved to flip through as well - I love it!

Yeah, those 5x5s start filling up faster than you'd expect...