dawhizz

Digging this.  Backed!

Oh man, I haven’t listened to these albums in forever. Might need to dig them up. 

41 minutes ago, jhulud said:

Well. If the price is supposed to $169.98 & Amazon made a snafu, they best honor their price. 
 

 

Yes, the always honorable Amazon company will have no choice but to honor their word lest they besmirch their impeccable reputation for honesty and impeccable customer service. 

Tori taking a page from the Tool playbook on the Platinum edition. I’d like to hear the B-sides, but not on a picture disc and not for $200-$500. 
 

https://z2comics.com/products/tori-amos-little-earthquakes?variant=40068629495948

Very cool (even though truth be told I preferred Let’s Walk on the Path of a Blue Cat . . .). 

He also put out a B-sides EP to the album today that’s up on Bandcamp: https://parannoul.bandcamp.com/album/white-ceiling-black-dots-wandering-around

For the two of us that care, this album is back up for preorder. 
 

https://carlageneve.bandcamp.com/album/learn-to-like-it

Here’s an article where she addresses the allegations referenced above:

https://tonedeaf.thebrag.com/perth-artist-carla-geneve-addresses-allegations-of-abuse/amp/

Looks like a new Soldat Hans album will be available for preorder on Saturday as well as a new vinyl version of their first album, Dress Rehearsal. I think both will be up here when they are available:

https://wolvesandvibrancyrex.bigcartel.com/category/soldat-hans

From Facebook:

ANNOUNCEMENT BROADCAST / PREORDER: SOLDAT HANS 'ANTHAUPT' 📣

This saturday, FEB 19, 18:00 (CET) Stadtfilter will broadcast the entire Soldat Hans ANTHAUPT record online or on 96,3 MHz if you are in the Winterthur, Switzerland area.

Preorders for ANTHAUPT will open on saturday, FEB 19 too. Plus in accordance with this release we decided to also re-release the first record by Soldat Hans DRESS REHEARSAL remastered by Magnus Lindberg (Cult of Luna) since it only has been available selfreleased by the band in 2015 as a small run.

So mark your calender, set your timer & tune in ⚔️

More details to follow on saturday.

As usual, the only things I’m even moderately interested in are UK (I’m in the US). Interested to hear what the Original Pirate Material boxed set is all about and if there’s anything new on the Frightened Rabbit EPs. 

Speaking of the Super Bowl, it would be “super” if someone would sell me these. 

Kingprice repress (I assume this link works though it’s blocked for me at work - good thing I have a copy already):

https://linktr.ee/Cassinomusic

Groundhog saw his shadow so sell me these records. 

14 minutes ago, rooks said:

These will be cool to listen to but I don't feel the urge to own them, I guess. 

 

 

Kinda where I am. I don’t tend to buy EPs unless I really like it. I’d like to hear these and assume they will be available digitally and I think that will be enough for me, though I’ll probably pick up the Lifted EP when it comes out because that’s my favorite album of theirs. 

Bump and added the Monsters Build Mean Robots album. 

Elliott!?!?!?!?

19 hours ago, dawhizz said:

Email from A Thousand Arms indicates they will have a preorder for BRUIT going up tomorrow at the same time. Three variants. 

https://www.athousandarms.com/collections/music/products/bruit-the-machine-is-burning-and-now-everyone-knows-it-could-happen-again-lp
 

https://pelagic-records.com/product/bruit-≤-the-machine-is-burning-and-now-everyone-knows-it-could-happen-again-lp/
 

https://www.indiemerchstore.com/search?type=product&options[prefix]=last&options[unavailable_products]=last&q=Bruit

Indie Merch has the most limited edition (It’s Burning) but only in a bundle with shirt. 

Email from A Thousand Arms indicates they will have a preorder for BRUIT going up tomorrow at the same time. Three variants. 

Per the BRUIT and Pelagic Records Facebook, preorders for vinyl of The Machine is Burning . . . go up Wednesday at 10:00 AM EST on the Pelagic website. 
 

https://pelagic-records.com

Making a concerted effort to get some stuff that's been on my wantlist too long.  Not much of a unifying theme here except they are albums I don't own but would very much like to:

Soup - Children of E.L.B.

Will Wood - The Normal Album (/100 w/ silk-screened jacket)

Augie March - Strange Bird

Mandancing - Everyone Else (lathe)

David Keenan - Evidence of Living

Monsters Build Mean Robots - We Should Have Destroyed Our Generals Not Their Enemies

And I'm still on the lookout for a copy of The Mountain Goats' Come, Come to the Sunset Tree if someone wants to make a dream come true . . . 

Love this band. Bartees is producing. Concept album. I’m all the way in.  There are a few PO options. 
 

Not drastically different for me, though I think this is around the time my collection was starting to plateau as far as having grabbed most of the old stuff I could have conceivably found & been able to afford. 

https://deadformat.com/collection/dawhizz

10 hours ago, Derek™ said:

 

What were some of the "YES" answers if you don't mind me asking?

I'll do the same, especially with stuff from 2003-2007 since that was a sort of strong "musical awakening" stage of my life.  But my approach is streaming it while I shower, cook, or clean... and if I find myself wanting to resume it after the task – instead of just hearing a few songs to rattle the ol' nostalgia cage and get my fix – then I'll consider the buy. 

A couple I can recall offhand where a reissue was announced and I needed to listen a bit before I decided to purchase and ended up picking it up:

-Soul Coughing & Beck’s Odelay album - Albums I loved in high school and wasn’t sure would hold up but on relisten definitely did. 
-Juliana Hatfield’s first album - I owned most of her other early albums and trended more to those but in relisten found a lot I liked and it kind of completed an early JH collection so I purchased. 
 

On the nostalgia core topic, I’ve definitely tried to check myself against the knee-jerk buy because “I loved that album in high school!”Now sometimes there’s not a lot of lead time between when I hear something’s out and when I have to decide to pull the trigger, but I find more often than that if I actually sit down and listen to “thing I used to love”, I’ll know very quickly whether or not 42-year-old me needs to own it and it seems like most of the time the answer is not so much, although those times when the answer is a resounding “YES” are pretty satisfying. 

I'll step up with a reasonably genuine response before the T-swizzle gifs.

Been collecting 25ish years technically, but more "seriously" for probably 15-20 years.  I'm sitting at about 1500 in my collection.  I managed to get most of what I wanted before prices/scarcity went way overboard, so I'm at the point where I have about 15 older records on my discogs wishlist that I'm convinced I'll probably never own because of price/scarcity and most of my current record collecting is newly released music.  I still go to record stores hoping this is the day I'll run across that copy of This Desert Life for $20 bucks or something, but I find myself leaving empty handed more and more. I feel like I've reached a plateau in that respect, which is frustrating I guess but fine - it means I have a lot of what I want. 

I would say close to 100% of my collection has been on my turntable at some point.  I've never really been a sealed or variant collector except for the Felix Culpa (check the avatar yo) and the odd album I really love where a cool variant/remastered album/etc. came out later.  I have a shelf of test presses and I'll actually spin the 50% or so where it's only vinyl version of the album I have.  I have a cabinet below the stereo where I put new purchases and it's pretty rare that something goes upstairs (where my collection is) before I listen to it at least once - for some reason I find myself paranoid that I'll buy an album and there will be an issue with it or it won't even be the right music on it and if I don't listen to it, by the time I do it will be too late to do anything about it.  Now I'm married with two kids (brag), so you're comment that your free time vanishes isn't lost on me.  My kids like music and I've had music on the stereo whenever I can for as long as they can remember, so I can often get away with putting something on during dinner or on a weekend when we are all hanging out or playing or whatever (and if I can get Encanto or Frozen or whatever out of the stereo), but I'm obviously limited in what I can put on in terms of intensity/profanity.  I don't listen to anything THAT intense, but there are certainly things that I wouldn't play when my kids are around or that would cause my wife to suggest I turn to something else.  I also can't really play something brand new unless I'm certain the content is OK (found that out the hard way a couple of times).  That type of album also isn't ideal for listening to after everyone's gone to sleep, so they might sit in my "queue" for a while until those blissful few times when everyone else is gone.  Which happens maybe 1-2 times a month and I definitely have to make it a priority to listen to them.  But if I know I'm going to have an afternoon to myself, I get a little excited (lame) because I know I have the opportunity to listen to certain stuff I can't generally spin with the kids around and at a volume that would not otherwise be allowed.

I do make an effort to thumb through my collection on a fairly regular basis (maybe 2-3 times a month) to see if I feel like listening to anything I haven't spun in a while.  If I haven't listened to it, I'll try to figure out if I have a good reason and if I don't I should probably listen to it to try to figure out if I even need to still own it.  I have tried to sell some stuff recently (with pretty good success) and when COVID first started I did do a pretty heavy weeding of records so that I have about two shelves worth I'll trade into the local shop when I get around to it.  I have a very small collection of 7" and I can't really imagine bringing those out to listen to anytime soon, but it's bands I like and they don't take up much space, so I'll keep them around.  Anything I really like (like, say, MCR's Conventional Weapons set) I've since just purchased digitally and I'll do that if I want to listen.

I do have some stuff I bought before you could easily listen to every album to see if you like it and maybe I put on and didn't listen to the whole thing, but I keep around because I think if I revisit it maybe it will click.  Prog rock and old folk records were my two go-tos when I was studying in college/law school. I don't find myself in the mood for that stuff as much anymore when I get time to myself, though I still genuinely enjoy it, so I'll get back around to listening to it eventually, I think.  

There's certainly an argument to be made that given my current lifestyle, vinyl collecting no longer makes all that much sense, and I completely understand that argument except that it's the best and I love it.  Plus, as I think I said in the other thread you mentioned, if I didn't collect vinyl I would have to take up coin collecting or parkour or serial killing or something and I really like listening to music and supporting musical artists, so I guess it's as good a thing to waste my money and time on as any.

30 minutes ago, diabretic said:

I don't trust any list that has 40 fuckin' records listed and none of them were ones I had in my top 10.

I did like the Julian Baker and Fiddlehead records.  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I managed to listen to a truly irresponsible amount of music this year, as I apparently took it upon myself to subsidize the music industry. Consequently, my album list is also irresponsibly long, but here goes:

8. Katy Kirby - Cool Dry Place