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Personally I recommend a stereo receiver for a turntable system, not 7.1 or A/V receiver. I have 2 full setups in my house, one for home theater which I use a 2009 model Pioneer A/V receiver in order to gather up all the HDMI inputs and take one cord to the TV. That has a 200w Klispch center, 2 200w pioneer floor / bookshelf speakers for front, 2 150 watt satellites for surround and a booming polk 12" 300 watt sub. Movies sound awesome, music sounds fine too, but I only play the iPod on this system. The receiver has so many features I use for TV and movies, but would never use for music inputs. Upstairs int he record room I used my old receiver and turned off all the digital conversion crap and run it stereo with no filtering. This sounds better then any of the built in EQs and is running to 2 very large Sony floor speakers. Each of those has a 12" woofer, 2 10" mids and a 2" tweeter. My father found them for me this summer at a yard sale, and paid 1 dollar a piece for them, they are in absolutely perfect condition. My point is there is so much out there, just shop around, go to thrift and pawn shops, don't spend 400 bucks on a A/V receiver when you need analog stereo only. Same for speakers, I shopped for over a year until my pops found those for 2 whole dollars, meant more money for records. The only new speakers I bought were the center and sub, only because those don't pop up used that much.

I don't really know what a "usb audio interface" is, but if your looking for a program to record your records, regardless of what interface you are using to connect to a computer, you should use Audacity Great program, and ITS FREE! http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ You know you can just get a RCA to mini jack (what headphones plug into) and use your computers standard mic in jack to record. You do not need to use USB or buy a fancy box to do it.

I just flipped a Expedit 5x1 on its side and but some books in the holes and then stuck the records in like store style. I like it a lot, but its a little clunky...

Man I guess I should have pre-ordered all 3 to get a tri-color!! I got the first 2 so far and no tri-color, I even had them shipped to my house with an address of 333. Come on Third Man, you bought your studio at that address, hook a brother up! As far as the sound. I have both SFTRI pressings and V2 pressings and XL pressings. I think the sound is a bit better on these, the range seems to be better. I will do a good check soon and play one vs the other.. The artwork is real nice, the blacks are blacker, while it is just a copy of the original release, the are very nice, very vibrant in comparasion.

I have watched and bid on White Stripes stuff since 2000. So I have failed at a lot as time goes by. Live in Las Vegas 3LP set, this came up a few years back, I lost the bid and it sold for 35 or so. It Takes Two promo, outbid at 25 bucks. 1/16 hand painted singles, I bid a few hundred, it sold for about 800. Should have just bid a grand, cause now they sell for 18K+. Not to mention thier first single which I used to think was too expensive at 25 dollars. I kept saying, prices will go down, then a new album came out, oh its just hype, prices will go down...damn!

That Smiths collection is sweet, that one is worth sharing!

FIREBALL ISLAND! FTW!

Black Angels-Phosphene Dream The Besnard Lakes - Are the Roaring Night (incredible album, so thick and lush and layered, can't believe no one likes this one)

Just rent if your going to buy an apartment, share walls and have to pay a monthly fee, and probably have to get fixes and changes OK'd by the evil HOA, that's my theory.

Your info is incorrect. I purchased mine at 8:35 AM and I am in the USA in the Eastern time zone. The link went live shortly after 7am. And on the White Stripes board many international members reported no shipping to their country. Everyone had plenty of warning that it would be on the 1st, their loss if they expected another email or something.

Good luck, they don't reply to emails much either. I asked them Qs from time to time, never get a response, even a simple, are you going to release a LP of this CD only release? Which resulted in no orders from them ever...

King Khan and the BBQ show LP All the White Stripes re-issues Dead Weather - Big Blood Blues 12" Jack Johnson - On & On + Brushfire Fairytails Day Creeper - Tic Tac Totally test pressing (/52 only available at Columbus record stores) Quarterly Vault Package Real Estate 12" Belle & Sebastian - Write About Love LP + 7" MGMT - Congratulations 7" The Beachcomber Trio - Live at the Kahiki (limited to 500, recording from the famous tiki restaurant from 65) A handful of old SFTRI singles. And the White Stripes Vinyl Starter Kit Package! Woot!

TELEVISION - Marque Moon srsly, best album ever, ever, get a copy now.

Pictures??? I justify by not thinking about it. And calling it an investment.

Ditto! Then I remembered I am going to try and spend some xmas bonus cash on that $500 set tomorrow...whoops.

I think it's more like, "umm, hey Jack, we are losing a shit ton of money not selling some of these things on eBay." I think Thirdman should have 1 charity auction for each special release they put out. Give something back to the community.

Colored vinyl... it's important. Actually this is pretty cool, anyone who has followed WS and Jack Whites rambling blogs over the years knows he is really big on community and talking to people in real life. That's why you see special releases for people who actually get out of their house and go to the record store. It goes back to the old days, you know, before the internet and before you could just get on eBay or order records online. Yeah its a bummer for those of use who don't live in the area, but its great for those who do. Just imagine if you have been a big fan of this guy since pre-2000. I've spent years coming to terms with the fact that I can no longer get all their releases at a decent price. It's just not possible, but its fun to try...

The Shins Oh Inverted World - $8 plenty more but I was real happy to find that used for a good price. Love that album.

true, the extra tracks were nice to hear. this one also came with the poster, its hard to get an original w/ the poster now a days Buddy of mine inherited his uncles collection, every single Beatles solo album from all the member, all in NM with posters, inserts and magazine clippings of album reviews, pretty slick collection.

The re-issue from a few years back has more tracks on it anyway. I prefer the original pressing, with the big poster, nice set.

I work in the Payment Industry, at a very close competitor to PayPal, but yet we do business together, and I meet and talk with them weekly. My point is that there are well over 200+ competitors to PayPal. The indie record / collectors market / label people are only going with PayPal. Probably due to general ignorance within the market and not understanding they have other options. Including an ignorance of PayPals ability to process payments and pay out merchants. eBay now allows other services including Moneybookers and a few others. Big Easy said banks should step up, they are. They are in bed with Visa and other card associations and get a lot of money that way. However they are starting to see PayPal take a chunk out of the payments market and they are not getting any of it. Some banks are starting to partner with new payment companies to help get a cut of this. The problem with this is the chicken and the egg problem. No banks want to allow new payment methods unless the payment methods are signed up with large merchants. No large merchants want to signup without bank and consumer backing...At this years DRF conference (the big time payments conference) several banks announced initiatives that are directly in response to PayPals growing share of the payments market. Banks have also been in this business for YEARS. In order to take a credit card a merchant must signup for a merchant account with an Acquiring bank. This bank "acquires" the transactions and takes a interchange fee based on merchants MCC code and the type of card involved. Banks did not want to invent new products, they are making a killing nickel and dimeing merchants. This is the reason why your banks tell you that using a PIN in the store is "dangerous" and why you don't always earn reward points on debit transactions. PIN debit (different form signiture debit) carries the lowest interchange, typically just a transaction fee, no discount rate applied. Then some banks are just issuing banks, they actually print the cards and give people accounts. There is no such thing as a "free" payment method. It might be free to the consumer, or maybe to the merchant, but never both. Its just not possible. People also shop for a Payment Processoring poorly. They fall in to the "digital camera" trap as I like to call it. All anyone cares about when shopping for a camera is pixels. Sure that's one important feature, but not the only one. With payments people only look at the processing rate for a standard transaction. That's very wrong to do for most businesses. There is a huge spread of features and processing around payment processing. In a card not present environment like the internet fraud is a big deal. Charge back support in case that comes in is important. If you just go with the cheapest processor and don't look into it you could get really screwed. You could pay half the discount and transaction fee then the other guy, but end up paying more with a few fraud issues and chargebacks. I have seen many merchant leave our system due to price, only to come back because they paid more in other fees and charges beyond just taking the card. I think in a few years I might do online payments and usability consultation for labels, they need it.

Jack White+Conan=18,000 Reading is essential, re-read the very short article, the whole article this time. The Conan single was not the one that was sold for that price. Almost every month a Jack White / Third Man related item is in the EBay-o-meter section of Record Collector magazine which highlights the top ten highest closing auctions. http://www.twentyfourbit.com/post/1352976136/white-stripes-lafayette-blues-45-sells-for-18-000 He also sold a instrument from the Get Behind Me Satan tour for charity on eBay, that went for $15K. This list and peoples acceptance of it makes me think most new record collectors these days need to branch out and explore more music and find sources of information off the internet. And/or be more skeptical of what they read online. This list is a joke, purely due to the fact no sources and dates of sale were listed.

Ummmmmm, actually this hits us too, unless you magically only buy records released and sold in the US, and if that is the case you might need to expand your taste a bit. What is worse it that as the dollar has gone down its gotten MUCH more expensive to order records from only. I had to stop buying Subliminal Sounds releases due to the massive conversion rate.

Damn I bid on the wrong one, then forget to come back, and they went for cheap.