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11 hours ago, iwokeinrelief said:

Good deal! Like I said, it was a great show and an amazing opportunity we couldn’t miss. Matt was super nice and chill also.

 

We’ve seen Dave Bazan / Pedro the Lion a couple times via Undertow’s living room show setup, and he’s (unsurprisingly) awesome in the uber-small setting as well.

Those shows are cool. I attended one few years ago with Eric Bachmann from Crooked Fingers/Archers of Loaf. 

Represses of hard to find but pretty unpopular late era R.E.M. albums (and I say this as some who considers them my favorite band). Limited editions up on the R.E.M. site with the /500 of Around the Sun already gone, but it looks like standard issues will be available through regular channels. 

https://store.remhq.com/collections/vinyl

https://craftrecordings.com/collections/r-e-m

No vinyl for this one but I’m digging it:

https://halfpacefl.bandcamp.com/album/the-same-place-youve-always-known

My want list is so obscure at this point the scammers won’t even bother with anything in there, but I appreciate knowing this is going on. 

I was so-so on I Became Birds but the first song is good and I’m a sucker for a concept album so I’m in. 

Easy peasy for me.  Went to the more popular shop about an hour after it opened and picked up Poe, then swing around to the less popular which had just opened snd only had a few in line and got their only copies of Tori Amos and Wilco. Was thinking I would grab a Taylor for my daughter if I saw it (she’s a huge fan but only ten and more in the Fearless/Speak Now/Red stage than Folklore) but the girl ahead of me got the last one and was super excited so I didn’t mind (and I probably would have given it to her anyway if she’s been behind me).
 

Seems like Poe will be pretty easy to get. 

The new Evil Dead looks pretty sick (and pretty sick). 

20% off vinyl at No Sleep. if someone wants to really dive in, a 10 record mystery box is $64 . . . 
 

https://nosleeprecords.com/collections/sale?_kx=psglVzVnSg5IfKTI6DHkA-sve9zX9qhTx-CkwCZwNKw%3D.Sc3Vdx

3 hours ago, andrewlucas said:

So… has anyone listened to their copy? Everything good?

Got my B&N pink variant and it’s actually Denzel Curry. 😐

I saw this happened on discogs. I was like - wait there’s an MO/Denzel Curry version?

If we’re doing classic rock entries, I pulled out In the Court of the Crimson King recently for the first time in a while and, man, it’s still tough to beat. 

Bruit apparently backing M83 for a tour. Definitely didn’t see that coming. 
 

https://www.facebook.com/100054865459146/posts/pfbid0GTR2Texmh1sTY4aH5DYVNEbuDmq4XkYa4vwvyy9BzXQQ67fMBvCj6CiDkJmSt54wl/?mibextid=SDPelY

Not so much in music I listen to - I’m about as busy there as I’ve ever been. I have some tags I have saved on Bandcamp, so that sends me some recommendations almost every day and several blogs that I follow where I actually check pout a lot if the stuff they recommend. I follow bands on Twitter and if they mention a band it album I’ll hit it down and check it out. It’s actually a pretty low percentage I really like and end up purchasing, but that still gives me a good number I’m picking up monthly. 
 

I am in kind of a rut on the vinyl collection side of things. This probably happens to everyone eventually, but I’m definitely getting to the point where I own most everything that’s old that I want to own except for the things that are probably too rare or too expensive for me to ever own unless I really luck into something. It’s kind of frustrating - it’s more and more likely that I spend an hour looking in a local store and walk out empty handed. I guess it’s good for the bank account but takes some if the fun out of it that everything I but anymore is new stuff. 

32 minutes ago, Rip said:

Only thing I would change is the variant name.  I know each record varied, but it’s technically supposed to be a “rainbow strip.”  There were some that had more white than rainbow though for some reason.  Just a gamble you take with wax mages I supposed.

Yeah, I knew it had a name I just couldn’t remember/find where it was. 

Put up a discogs listing for this today  (cause no one had done it yet and I needed to have it up before I finally put it away for a bit). Feel free to make changes or add your version as appropriate. Still digging this album! 
 

https://www.discogs.com/release/26540966-SeeMoreGlass-Roaring-Paper-Spring

Sold my SRC black last year and kept my rainbow. I’ll probably give this a shot. 

14 hours ago, DecayToDeath said:

not that i care what pitchfork thinks but i was googling the album to see what the actual anniversary would be and saw their review of it for the first time, which is fucking awful. props to @scottheisel for recognizing perfection right out of the gate, on the other hand.

“The title track sounds like Smash Mouth” made my jaw drop. 

16 minutes ago, DecayToDeath said:

I was about to say the same thing...if it's a band I don't know by heart then sure regular repress but maaaaaan these guys' discography were so scant with any extra b-sides, demos, or anything besides what made it on to file sharing sites that I was really hoping for some bonus stuff when I clicked on the thread. Shit, I've probably listened to reconstruction site four times already this week, so I was caught by surprise with it!

This is where I’m at as well. I’m all for repressing great albums (and this sure qualifies) but if you giving me a repress of an album that is pretty easy to obtain currently, I need more than a different color to sell me. I could be wrong, but I don’t get the sense there’s a large contingent of Weakerthans variant collectors eager to gobble this up. Most people who want to own this album probably already do. 

7 minutes ago, wiscodeman said:

I only own a couple albums that came with OBI strips. I wish I had them for a few of my albums where the spine faded from being in my sunny apartment...

Honestly, there’s probably a pretty penny to be made making custom OBI strips for existing records. Like that dude who made sleeves for Deja Entendu with a cut out for the astronaut. 

Assai OBI version, but only available to UK addresses:

https://assai.co.uk/products/boygenius-the-record-vinyl-lp-clear-colour-assai-obi-edition-2023

5(!) LP boxed set version of the First Lady Lamb album (when she was Lady Lamb the Beekeeper). I really really love this album (Bird Ballon’s is such a banger) and even I can’t see myself biting on spending $120 on a boxed set of this.
 

https://ladylamb.bandcamp.com/album/ten-years-of-ripely-pine-box-set

On 1/6/2023 at 4:16 PM, Rip said:

Yeah how the hell these guys gonna drop the AOTY on the first of the year?  It’s not fair.  Can’t think of anything that could compete with this.

So I finally gave this album the time it deserves (my excuse is that I was at Disney World when it dropped and it wasn’t exactly something my family was going enjoy me blasting) and I agree it’s my AOTY leader in the clubhouse.

Anyone hear when a vinyl PO might drop?

Bruit EP from last year is available from ATA now. Maybe it was earlier but I just remember it at Pelagic initially. 
 

https://www.athousandarms.com/collections/shop/products/bruit-apologie-du-temps-perdu-vol-1-lp

Just got my black. Packaging is top notch. 

Love MO but Sangria is sold out and I’m not sure I need to spend $22 on an EP. Might just go digital this time (though let’s be honest I’ll probably talk myself into a BV copy in the next half an hour). 

Got my package last week and looks great.