jentenenbaum

Lavender variant about to sell out as well...
 

I would gladly trade you the US Record Store Day experience for universal healthcare. 

I'm actually a big press nerd being on the distrubutor/retail side. I agree with a lot of what birdwell says, IMO Gotta Groove is the best plant in the US (they also have two press operators who make amazing hand pours on the side https://www.instagram.com/waxmagerecords)
There's a newer plant in Kansas called Quality Record Pressings that immediately started pressing for labels only, mainly Legacy and Drastic Plastic, they even do their own electro plating in house which is interesting. 

and cause its ross and ETR aka pure garbage. 

This topic is giving me such a woody.
 
I collected fiercely in the 1990s, in retrospect the best time possible since everybody was dumping LPs. I'd spend $100 or $200 at Jerry's in Pittsburgh or the various stores in Chicago, DC, the East Village, Vancouver, London, San Francisco ... and I'd come away with more LPs than I could carry. Sometimes I had to find a UPS drop-off before I got back on a plane. (There were no UPS Stores back then.)
 
The first of two kids arrived in 1999 and they took most of my time, so I've barely bought any vinyl in the last 15 years. But for her 17th birthday last year the older one got an RP-1 she can take to college ("university" for those outside the US), along with 50 or 60 duplicates from my stash. Seriously, nobody should leave home without Blood on the Tracks and Astral Weeks (green label, natch) at the very least. I've bought a few things here and there when I find nice stuff for less than $25 or even less than $20 per disk. (Seriously? $25 for a single LP? WTH?!)
 
I'm lucky enough to work from home, and we have a semi-finished attic, so the first shot is the view from my desk, and once or twice a day I climb into the chair to listen to one side as a break.
 
Rock and pop is on the left; jazz, blues, and a small batch of classical live on the right. We old guys have a lot of the gems, like the original Art Pepper on the rack to the left above the 'table. Warms my heart that so many youngsters are keeping vinyl alive.
 
https://imgur.com/08cq7ZW
 
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By the way, the plural of vinyl is "vinyl." You no more pick up "vinyl" (with an s) than you pick up "fishes" at the market for dinner. Stop me gnashing my teeth. Please.
 
Be good, kids. Enjoy what you've got. These are good times for music, if for little else.
 
If anybody cares: VPI Aries I with Lyra Helikon cartridge, Rowland Capri preamp, Rowland 102 amp (for summer), Mac Mini file server with Schiit Modi Multibit DAC and two hard drives (one a mirror of the other, backed up every day at 4AM), Quicksilver Audio Silver Sixty mono amps with stock EL-34s (for the cool months), Scansonic 2.5 speakers, Sunfire sub, DIY DH Labs cabling throughout. CDs in the background are all ripped to the server now, along with about 2000 live shows by various groups, especially the Grateful Dead. Anybody want the little silver disks?

If they really wanted to help small shops, they would have a decent return policy for unsold stock. Also they would reconsider a lot of the bullshit. And yes, I know it's all subjective, but there's no one on earth clamoring for a Toto Africa picture disc pressed to the order of 3500. For every one of these, there is a Loveless that goes unpressed.
 
The first four RSD were fun, lots of limited releases, good reissues, indie label stuff... fun standing in line for them. By the time the majors got involved, stupid picture discs, overpriced side-by-side gimmicks at $9 a piece, absolutely unnecessary dollar bin reissues... it's a joke now. And like the local store owner told me, he doesn't see most of those people the other 364 days out of the year. 

How dare you drag Robyn's name in the mud in this manner.

1st of two 3.5h sessions last week on this piece, starting to cover up my first tattoo. Second session early next month, can't wait to get this finished!

Guess who doesnt know how to post just a photo?  This is a link to the last Against Me! piece I got a few months ago.
 
http://www.instagram.com/p/835GtZA3Wz/?taken-by=becky_ashcraft

Bought because if I end up a real adult like Tidal Wave over here I'd have to drink bleach.

I'm doing the best I can with what I got! Starting to find bits and pieces I sorta like. Listened to it in the car last night and only hated 80% of it. My wife however, who is a Menzingers fan, was taking some good jabs at it. "What are we gonna do now that are 20's are over? Get a fucking job and grow up. Put on On The Impossible Past, this is lame."  Ha!

if it was a pun, he was pretty Fearless using it. 
 

Back in my day, people just got high while listening to records for VR

Oh, three?
Oh, three?
Oh, three?

Coke bottle is out of 1,000 as well

word on the streets says Death Grips is releasing Fashion Week for this.
 
Can anyone confirm?

Streaming on NPR!
http://www.npr.org/2016/09/08/491518850/first-listen-against-me-shape-shift-with-me

Yes I agree, most signed things in my collection I've attained in person, but this was a happy bonus. Just weird that it's not a thing in this field, and that apparently $390 is a mind numbing amount of money to spend on a record that everyone needs to make a cheeky comment about. I don't care, I wanted this and I'm fortunate I had the disposable income to drop on it. I didn't even mention what I'd spent and only shared the link to aid with the backstory on this. Brand New is a huge band and a run of 100 of their debut album is scarce.
I run a comic book, original comic art, & vintage collectibles business and a huge aspect of collecting comics is getting books signed by the creators and then having them graded by a 3rd party service like CGC. We deal with a ton of signed collectibles certified by PSA as well. You'd be hard pressed to go on a comic book collecting board and find anyone price shaming anyone else in the hobby out of some misplaced sense of self-righteousness.

Wow. You guys can't tell this story is a joke? Sorry I thought you would find it funny.
I sent a ridiculously over the top email to a record label to let them know of an error on their webpage and they played along and sent me a record and some extras. Then, as a thank you, I sent them a photo and thank you note. 
I would like to think that the person working for the record label found this to be funny and was entertained by it. I'm sure they receive a ton of bitchy nitpicky complaints from overly sensitive record collectors all day long and thought they'd appreciate something different. 
Lighten up people.
 

just got this about a month ago by my good buddy Sam Ricketts at Black Chalice Tattoo, Swindon UK
had to take a 10 hour flight back home to houston the next day after getting it, not recommended, highly uncomfortable haha
 

Bull Moose has it up http://www.bullmoose.com/p/23304869/touche-amore-stage-four-white-colored-vinyl-indie-exclusive-includes-digital-download
(also shameless plug, some of my stores in the Midwest and Texas will have it http://www.vintagestock.com/locations/)

Not sure if I just missed it in the last few pages but, Indie Retailer color is white, out of 1,000

If this wasn't on ETR I would probably pick it up. Wonder what the source is... 
 
 
 
Probably a cd-r he found in a dumpster or that someone left in his 9th grade English classroom.