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Go ahead, you crazy kids. https://store.taylorswift.com

Really digging their new album. If someone bought the glow in the dark from RFC and is having buyer’s remorse, hit me up.

They should have called me, I got a guy.

Better late than never - here’s a list of the albums I really liked in 2023: NATL PARK SRVC - Magician Algiers - Shook Fireworks - Higher Lonely Power How Strange It Is - In the Light of the Blistering Moon Parannoul - After the Magic Rebuilder - Local Support Peter Gabriel - i / o Crowhammer - Vol. 1: Tales from Vertexia Joe Henry - All That I Can See HMLTD - The Worm There Will Be Fireworks - Summer Moon The Low Blow - The City of Glowing Metal Jaimee Harris - Boomerang Town SUSTO - My Entire Life Ok Goodnight - The Fox and the Bird Lankum -False Lankum Jaimie Branch - Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war)) Olivia Rodrigo - GUTS Young Fathers - Heavy Heavy Jeffrey Martin - Thank God We Left The Garden Cave Paint - Before Then, Now The Mountain Goats - Jenny From Thebes Complete Mountain Almanac - S/T Curling - No Guitar phoneswithBen - phoneswithChords Wires - The Golden Age Holly Humberstone - Paint My Bedroom Black HalfPace - The Same Place You’ve Always Known Home is Where - The Whaler Jason Hawk Harris - Thin Places The Anchoret - It All Began With Loneliness Dead Selves - Rico Small Leaks Sink Ships - Low Tide The Ashtray Hearts - Gold Century Robopumpkin - yourhouseistheonlyplaceifeelathome Elliott Green - everything I lack Innerlove. - Roscoe bunsenburner - Rituals Parchman Prison Prayer - Some Mississippi Sunday Morning Superviolet - Infinite Spring EPs The Collection - How To Survive an Ending Exploring Birdsong - Dancing in the Face of Danger Big Loser - Left on Delmar Drive Vivat Virtute - June First Orson Wilds - This Burning House (We All Fell Asleep In) Proper. - Part-Timer Mildura - June & July The Republic of Wolves - Why Would Anyone Want to Live This Long?

I have a general aversion to harsh vox, but I dig what this band is doing: https://thesaltpalecollective.bandcamp.com/album/a-body-that-could-pass-through-stones-and-trees

With my luck I’d be the one who actually gets the Danzig record. Not worth the risk.

Most of what I pick up anymore is new releases/new reissues. I've pretty much plateaued with my older records, as I have most of what I want to have and am down to maybe 10-15 records on my Wantlist on discogs that I'm pretty convinced I will never own because they are either too expensive or too rare, or are only available overseas and I can't quite bring myself to pay overseas shipping for them (or some combination of those). I do still really like collecting, but it's pretty rare anymore for me to be excited about a find in a record store - I used to travel for work and went to a lot of records stores when I traveled, so I've been to enough places (and really good stores) that I was able to find a lot of what I wanted over the years, but I also know that the things I still want I'm probably not just going to stumble across at one of my local stores in St. Louis (though there's plenty of fine stores). I do still really enjoy "THE HOBBY" although I have cut back on buying, and have pretty much sold off my variants (like others have said) except for a couple of certain things. It's probably irresponsible financially given my life with two kids and a wife who limit what I can put on the turntable unless they are all out of the house, but I figure I need a hobby of some kind and this is as good as any because I'm still pretty passionate about music and like to support the artists I like. I'm probably due for purge I keep putting off. As far as purchases in the last year, it's been things I'm fairly certain no one here cares much about but have been on my Wantlist for ages and I finally found at a good price, like Strange Bird by Augie March, Strange As We Are by Campfire OK, and Swordfishtrombones by Tom Waits, and then reissues of things I didn't think I'd ever own on vinyl - The Frames reissues, Before These Crowded Streets, and Razia's Shadow by Forgive Durden.

https://stormchasersltd.bigcartel.com/product/into-it-over-it-standards-lp

I think I first listened to it around that time. I must have seen someone tweet about it and decided to check it out but I have no idea who it was.

As of an hour ago, per an email from CI, there are only about 35 left of the new pressing of 500, so jump on it if you’re interested.

20th anniversary tour of Is A Real Boy announced. I don’t love their other albums but I’ll ride for this one and couldn’t resist getting a ticket. https://x.com/sayanythingmuz/status/1732447056793350266?s=46&t=cLrE-3h2uw3rACxhQZYEvg

One stop shop for major publications’ AOTY lists: https://www.albumoftheyear.org/lists.php

I appreciate the implication that previous physical releases were not playable.

I really like the new Holly Humberstone. There’s a bunch of vinyl variants out there. https://hollyhumberstone.bandcamp.com/album/paint-my-bedroom-black

Higher Lonely Power & All I Have To Offer is My Own Confusion represses. https://lnk.to/Fireworks-FPC

Ordered the OBI cuz I’m a damn sucker.

Big Wilco sale. I picked up the gold 7 LP YHF for about $60 shipped (the 11 LP still too rich for my blood). Some good deals on other albums as well. https://wilcostore.com/collections/vinyl

PO up at 12 EST on Friday.

Oh wow. Was hoping this might happen after they did Razia’s Shadow. I’m all over this. I’m

One of my favorite albums from last year coming out via Refresh. Highly recommend. https://www.refreshrecs.com/products/749634-a-place-for-owls-a-place-for-owls https://aplaceforowls.bandcamp.com/album/a-place-for-owls

Dig this band. Gonna try to catch them on the tour with awakebutstillinbed.

More on the discogs debacle. https://www.stereogum.com/2241158/the-discontent-at-discogs/columns/sounding-board/

Managed to squeeze in Evil Dead Rise, Train to Busan, and The Omen. All fun ones!

Might sneak in a few more, but here’s what I watched this holiday season: Rosemary’s Baby, Host, His House, They Live, The Exorcist, Poltergeist, Candy Land, Coming Home in the Dark, Lamb, Watcher, and Scream VI. Really liked Host and His House and liked Scream VI more than I expected.

Re-release of this via Side One Dummy for those jokers who missed out the first time. https://sideonedummyrecords.shop.musictoday.com/dept/carpool?cp=113753_113939