glass realms

That means you open it up and you play it and are able to hear it. I was looking at some albums today, not that long till they're out and others only just out in the last few months and not only do I see terms like sold out and limited and varients but I see people doing trades. Then I browse the very few music forums I bother with including this one and I see these same terms and what I did was I looked at these albums that have sold out in just a few months and also to the ones coming out and it's the same kind of thing. This one will be numbered, this one will be red but this other black varient is only 1000 copies.
 
 
Really? Is that what music is now? That to me means it's shit. How can any company or label with a straight face say they care about the music they are releasing when they stick a number on each one, different colours on each one and then places like this talk about it so you end up with all these people buying the damn things just for the sake of it having it as a collectable. Don't get me wrong, if i owned a label, i'd take every penny I could get out of all you people. You deserve to have your money taken out of your pocket, you deserve to be ripped off, you deserve to pay $30 for a piece of cheap PVC plastic stuck inside some cheap cardboard cover. If i was them I'd do the same damned thing because obviously hand written numbers and colours and limited pressings means more than buying something because you want it and it's going to give you pleasure to listen to it.
 
 
I applaud the bootleggers. I wish they would do more. Paragon done some great bootlegs over the last few years with regards to 12" singles. What we need is more bootleggers to start pressing albums and sell them fast and cheap. Let's face it, major labels are just gonna stick the same CD master onto the record anyway, it's not like they're gonna spend any time making sure Katy Perry sounds good on vinyl so I think we need to go back to the 1990s where the white label was king and you all know that anyway. You know the albums you buy from Amazon are just as good as any bootleg, you fool yourselves into believing you're getting something better but it really isn't. I'd rather that than be told there is only 1000 copies of an album being pressed but oh no....that's just a colour, if you want it on black vinyl well, you're screwed cause that sold out in so many hours but don't worry you can still buy some on white vinyl from this cowboy website in America and pay lots of shipping on top of the premium price because remember it's limited!  We could easily press 5 or 6000 of them but we'd rather fuck you up the ass and get what we can while we can. What an insult to me and my fellow music fans.
 
 
It's all money money money. Anytime i read the word varient or hand numbered or limited I will think of the word money because that's all it is about. And don't any of you lot think I'm on your side, I told you people not that long ago it was your fault for killing off the 7" and 12" single and now through sheer greed and ignorance you're starting to kill off the album LP. Shame on all of you that buy into all this hype and talk and throw your money at these money hungry labels. And you can badmouth me all you want like you tried to do last time because I mentioned I liked popular music and this place thrives on guitar driven music and lets sit barefoot singing a song about love and peace and the thing is, at least with my music, i don't need a million options, I don't need money taken from my bank account months in advance because some geek who has more money than sense decides to dive in and buy it for the sake of making a quick buck rather than giving it to me, someone who actually wants it for the right reasons. When Eminem's MMLP2 gets released in a few weeks, and it will be on vinyl in the UK, no word on the US yet. At least I know i can not only buy it on release but I can buy it at Christmas, next year even, maybe next Christmas or Christmas 2015 because real labels don't just pick a number out of thin air, they keep pressing them and keep making them available to suit the demand. It's like the 100,000 copies of Justin Timberlake's 20/20 album. Those copies will last years. That's how it should be done. Infact I don't even want any replies in this thread, I just had to get that off my chest and let you people know what I think and what I think is right, I'm always right so don't try and argue back at me because you know I'm right and I don't care what the excuses are, It's BS and it ruins the very thought of buying a musical album. Music was never about that and it should never be about that.No one should ever have to feel pressured about buying an album because oh no if you don't buy it now then you can't later. All this stuff about colours is rubbish too, no coloured vinyl was ever superior to black virgin vinyl. Hand numbering? That's fine as long as you keep making them, you don't just stop after a certain number, if the demand is there then you keep going, you don't force people onto Ebay or Discogs. Or you do what the big labels do, you press plenty and you do it on black vinyl and you ship it everywhere you can.

Wow. Mostly 'normal' prices for new stuff, but the used stuff seems priced oddly high. I also picked up a new copy of the downward spiral on vinyl.

so I just listened to my 3 copies back to back. I didn't think the RSDs sounded bad before, but now, eesh, the 4th pressing one I have does sound way better than those. The RSDs seem pretty harsh sounding and flat to me. 

Got mine today and it is also black. Ordered second day up as well.
Kinda frustrating because I could have gotten clear 2 weeks ago from my local brick and mortar.

Also could have gotten clear from Reckless two weeks ago. I didn't realize how small of an operation ITR is. Had I known I might have anticipated not having this by release date and would have just grabbed it from them or Permanent.

How about following the bands or the label, you know, the way a "fan' would. Why give freebie advice to lurkers and flippers?

Found this on the tumblrz

Found this on the tumblrz

Found this on the tumblrz

Found this on the tumblrz

Got this in the mail today. It's definitely not a shoegazer album. I Don't Mean to Wonder is not indicative of the overall album's sound. It's nothing compared to Slowdive which was far more about controlled feedback and loud.
 
That said, it's a good album. More space rock than anything. Dancey at times. It'll be a grower for me.

i'm still waiting on my MTS copy of TOYPAJ, any updates on this?

If only hot topic wasn't so narrow minded with the music selections

This will be the best record I never buy.

Warning, this really does take 10 minutes to load because its a spreadsheet with hundreds of photos.
 
This was put together a few months ago. I was waiting to move it to html before posting it here, but I don't think I have the time to work on this. This is the most complete discography on the net. Open the page, go do something else for 10 minutes, then come back and enjoy.
 
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ate-rt-UZaxydDlNM0xwVjFuVFdOZUdCSFU5ejhpZ1E#gid=0

These pressings suck. I will still buy it as a Misfits completist with 13 copies of WAU. But if you want to listen to this album, get the 88 pressing.

Bump because more people need to care about this release.

I concur!

^agreed
 
I could not be more excited for this! It is the next best thing to a new Slowdive record...
 
But the 2 songs so far freaking blew me away! So so so good! THIS IS SHOEGAZE! This and Weekend Jinx will be the 2 best Shoegaze albums of the year! GO SLUMBERLAND!

I'd assume

A friend got his bundle in last Friday. So they're coming.

Mine showed up in Kansas City on Saturday.

Cross posting everywhere to get the word out:
Important Announcement! Some people have been noticing an issue with Side B of their copy of Total from the box set. If you have this problem, please email us at [email protected] and we will send a replacement. Please let us know within the next two weeks as we have to get replacements cut. This only applies to box sets ordered directly from Clearview. Those who ordered from UYT, Fat or Interpunk will be getting the repressed version so they should not experience this issue.
Please check out your set and let us know as soon as possible.

They packed it really well. I wouldn't be too worried about it.

Wow such a huge risk for media mail! I mean for 50$ you'd want that puppy coming in pristine and media mail ships with other mail up to 70lbs.