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Oh man, I'm so psyched right now. I somehow managed to bring my 5th gen iPod Video back from the dead. I've had this damn thing for 10 years and thought it was completely dead since last summer, but as it turns out the battery was so drained that it literally couldn't start up. Since I have Spotify, I decided to restore it to factory settings and fill it up with stuff I know for a fact isn't on Spotify.

Another shameless self-promotion, I'm @passiveimagination. (Link is in my signature.) As of recently, a mix of pretty sunsets, cool buildings and plants, selfies, me being sad, and records I get in the mail.

Preach. Unrelated, I was so close to going to NYC during the first week of June, but it looks like the trip has been postponed until mid-July. Which is fine, as long as I go I don't really care when it happens.

The parental units gave me a $100 Amazon card for my birthday, and I have no idea what I want to buy. Other than a 5-pound bag of those Haribo gummy twin cherries (seriously considering that), any suggestions?

The CD hasn't left my car's CD player since the day I got the record in the mail. That's how much I'm digging this album.

One final bump for With Roots Above! You know you want it...

Make ya offers now while the getting's good, y'all.

And also a reminder that I'll be taking offers on this until Monday!

I'm 23 today. Gross.

The "I know it hasn't been a full day yet but I'm bumping anyway" bump. Exquisite. Also, please remember to read the ground rules before making an offer!

I'm hoping it was a one-time thing, but the way I've been feeling recently, it might just be the first of many. Still, it did feel really good after the fact.

I cried really hard for the first time in months today. It wasn't fun, but it was needed.

NEW RECORD FOR SALE BUMP! Hopefully this'll be in more people's budgets than the Periphery album.

BAMP Since I'm going to be away from my collection today and tomorrow, I'm accepting offers until Saturday (the 25th)!

Bumping because I want all of you beautiful people to see this.

I'm being let go from my job on the 30th (which also happens to be my birthday; what a great B-day present, right?), and as of right now, I have nothing lined up after that. I have enough left in my savings to keep me going for about a month, maybe two if I starve myself, but that's it. In honor of this momentous occasion, I'm selling some of the rarer records in my collection to keep my head above the water until I'm gainfully employed. Or until I win the lottery, whichever comes first. Now that that's out of the way, time for some ground rules: Since I have a very limited number of mailers, I'll list one record at a time, and will accept offers for a few days. Best offer gets the record. Serious offers only, no trades. PayPal only; no gifting, buyer pays fees. International offers will be considered, if the price is right (offer in USD, please). Also, please don't offer if you have less than 100 posts or two positive feedback scores as a buyer, or a decent amount of feedback from another site. With the influx of new people from the RSD frenzy, I want to make sure I'm doing business with a reputable buyer. Pretty straightforward, right? ------------ This time, it's my copy of The Devil Wears Prada - With Roots Above and Branches Below on purple vinyl! Played two, maybe three times total. Both sides and the bottom of the inner sleeve have been split, but from what I gather, that isn't uncommon with this particular album and the record still stays inside. The outer sleeve is in very good condition, with minor shelf wear. I'm gonna take offers on this until next Monday (May 4) at midnight EST. Also, I can post a picture or two if y'all want to see. Only reason I didn't already is because I...well, I didn't think about it before updating the post, honestly.

I just read an article about how the limited edition Lilly Pulitzer for Target collection went on sale today and sold out almost instantly nationwide. People waited in line for hours before stores opened. Plenty of people were able to get what they wanted and are happy with their hauls, but a ton of items have been put up on eBay, new with tags, for ridiculously over-inflated prices. So many people are thoroughly pissed off because they wanted to buy those clothes/accessories to legitimately enjoy, but are instead either forced by a select few jackoffs into the secondhand market to overspend on that dress or purse they've been wanting for weeks, maybe even months, or just walk away, disappointed and with nothing. The parallels, right?

Woke up at 2:30pm. Decided to see what all Wuxtry had left, wasn't expecting much. Got there at 3pm. Saw a single copy of Oneohtrix Point Never - Commissions II, walked out with it. Spent a grand total of $15. Best and cheapest RSD to date. They also had both Shugo Tokumaru albums, but I'm broke as hell and I know they'll probably still have them for a few weeks.

Even though I can't afford to get everything I had on my list, I think I'll go to Wuxtry whenever I get around to leaving my apartment this afternoon just to see what they have left. If by some miracle they still have OPN's Commissions II, I'll probably get it, but if they don't, I can always just grab a copy online in the near future.

Nah, I can't afford RSD this year. But they did post a bunch of the releases they got this year on their Instagram, including a pic of all five copies they received out of the 100 they ordered. I would really hate to be a BN fan in a few hours, that's all I'm saying.

Apparently, Criminal ordered 100 copies of Deja. They probably won't get all of the copies they ordered, but geez...

Maybe going to Six Flags tonight will help me take my mind off of everything that's going on (or, more specifically, everything that isn't going on) in my life right now. Fingers crossed for a job interview sometime soon, lord knows it's been too long since my last one.