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Test presses, boxed set, and a shelf of R.E.M. miscellany all the way to the left (behind the lamp), some random stuff on top. 

Test presses, boxed set, and a shelf of R.E.M. miscellany all the way to the left (behind the lamp), some random stuff on top. 

I'd assume most of the vinyl community has some sort of obsessive mental disorder so not that out of the ordinary we're mostly like this.

drops friday 10/21 at 12 PM EST
 
https://www.wearenearmint.com/products/733228-forgive-durden-razias-shadow-a-musical

Watches this week:
-Finally watched [Rec]. Without spoiling, I’m not typically a fan of the kind of genre it ends up being, but I enjoyed it. Not quite as crazy ultimately as I expected based on hearing others talk about it. 
-I guess I’m one of the few who ended up kind of meh on X. Took a long time to get going and when it did I just wasn’t super into it. 
-Caught a wild movie called Braid on Peacock I really enjoyed. Never really seen a horror movie with a comparable premise. Go into it knowing as little as possible. 
-Like Werewolf by Night for what it is. Hope Marvel does more one hour specials like this. 

Watched The Eyes of My Mother on HBOMax last night. It’s pretty arty, short (76 minutes), and very messed up. I thought it was well done. 

Some good stuff coming to Hulu. Matriarch, Grimcutty, and Dashcam all look interesting. 

Watched the new Scream last night, which just popped up on Showtime recently. It was OK. Thought some of the acting was kinda iffy, but it was pretty fun. 
 
Have a long list of movies in my queue this month that I never got around to including The Night House, in the Earth, Titane, His House, Possessor, and Audition (somehow never seen it!). Should be fun. 

Nine bands covering songs from the bands featured in the very good recent Dan Ozzi book: 
 
You may recall that around this time last yearI released the greatest book ever written, SELLOUT. Well, my beloved bestseller is coming to paperback this month and I thought I’d do something fun to celebrate. So I am releasing a vinyl covers record called SELLOUT SONGS!
SELLOUT SONGS is a limited-run LP that features nine of the very best bands around today, covering their favorite songs from the book. Covering select songs from SELLOUT are:
Laura Stevenson
Gladie
Ratboys
AJJ
Chris Farren
Worriers
The Dirty Nil 
Illuminati Hotties 
Murder by Death 
     
ORDER NOW
This is one of the coolest projects I’ve ever pulled off. Everyone put their own spin on some beloved punk and emo jams and they will all knock your freakin socks off. Printed on beautiful black-and-white galaxy swirl vinyl. These LPs are limited and will probably sell out [har har] quickly. They will NOT be available digitally and I don’t know if I’ll ever repress them. First come, first served. You’ve been warned!

Her best album IMO and was a white whale for me for awhile until I picked up an OP a few years ago, so I figured I’d pass this along. 
 
https://www.alr-music.com/products/jh3-become-what-you-are

Yeah the confirmation email from wax bodega had this in it:
You are entitled to a download of:
- *Available October 28th (EDT) at 12:00 AM* Never Before Seen, Never Again Found
 

Vinyl for that Live Release “Thank You For Being Here”
 
Black 180g - Epitaph: https://epitaph.store/product/22549/thank-you-for-being-here-live-lp-black-180g
 
Orange - Band Exclusive: https://theworldisabeautifulplace.limitedrun.com/products/730953-thank-you-for-being-here-band-webstore-exclusive-lp

New live album/documentary with mostly Illusory cuts plus January 10, 2014 and Heartbeat in the Brain. Haven’t seen  an indication of vinyl release. 
 
https://theworldis.bandcamp.com/album/thank-you-for-being-here
 

FYI, if you like Bright Eyes, check out the Lifted cover comp Take This to Heart put out last Friday. Really good. 
 
https://takethistoheartrecords.bandcamp.com/album/a-monument-to-commemorate-our-time-a-tribute-to-lifted-by-bright-eyes

a lot here that ive got in the queue

Lots to catch up on but here’s what I’ve liked so far:
 
Topiary Creatures - You Can Only Mourn Surprises Gang of Youths - Angel in Realtime  Obongjayar - Some Nights I Dream of Doors Musikeum - Den Udodelige Somand Flower Face - The Shark in Your Water Los Colognes - The New World Spring Silver - I Could Get Used to This Yoo Doo Right - A Murmur, Boundless to the East Sadurn - Radiator How I Left - Birds in the City Spiritualized - Everything Was Beautiful Kill County - All That Remains Georgeson - The Solitude of an Endless Sky Proper. - The Great American Novel Andrew Bergman - Cowabunga Supernova  Riverby - Absolution Charlie Hickey - Nervous at Night Me and Reas - Bittersweet   EPs Madi Diaz - Same History, New Feelings Joseph Lamar - sin act 1 (naked virgins) GILT - In Windows, Through Mirrors Isabella James - Oizys is Birthing Herself  Stay Inside - Blight

https://www.getalternative.com/the-best-records-of-2022-so-far/
 
https://www.stereogum.com/2188409/best-albums-2022-midyear/lists/album-list/amp/

Pledge campaign only runs a few more days if anyone is still interested. 

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.

Not sure if this belongs here or in the Shoegaze thread or in the Sludge/Doom thread, but I’m putting it here because I think it’s where I heard of the album, but I got a Bandcamp message that a new vinyl pressing of Palehorse/Palerider’s “Burial Songs” is going up on Friday. Looks like it will be on Bandcamp. Not sure how many are being pressed. 

Yellowhammer pressing up on Bad Timing.
 
https://www.badtimingrecords.com/products/723788-cassino-yellowhammer
 

Yellowhammer pressing up on Bad Timing.
 
https://www.badtimingrecords.com/products/723788-cassino-yellowhammer
 

Yellowhammer pressing up on Bad Timing.
 
https://www.badtimingrecords.com/products/723788-cassino-yellowhammer
 

Yellowhammer pressing up on Bad Timing.
 
https://www.badtimingrecords.com/products/723788-cassino-yellowhammer
 

New Bartees y’all. All I’m seeing is the tri-stripe and black from 4AD, but maybe there are others out there. Not sure if the tri-stripe is limited. 
 
https://barteesstrange.bandcamp.com/album/farm-to-table?from=fanpub_fnb