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Just when we thought flippers couldn't get worse. Pretty crazy to want to pay $250 to join a flippers club. It would be awesome if bull moose could find who they were/their orders and cancel or ban them.

Think I'll take my chances and wait for a European preorder. Good news though as any pressings of this have been rare/expensive for a while now.

Interesting. Obviously it's just your typical Amazon placeholder listing but it's listed as 2lp. The cobraside pressing was 2lp also but I thought that 15th anniversary pressing might include unreleased stuff etc. Wish Mofi had handled this and given it similar treatment to Love Is Hell.

Pete and Pete vinyl? Just when I think I'm out they reel me back in. I can't quit you RSD! Got pretty lucky last year with Mark Mulcahy releasing Fathering for RSD. No copies made it to anywhere near me for RSD but he had some at the show he played a couple of weeks later in my town and he signed it for me.

Squish! Never expected Gotham to go that extreme. Some nice plot developments this week. Jim's ex is a proper weirdo btw.

There's always a mountain of shit releases on RSD, always some gems too but there's the problem. At my local stores there'll be say 100-200 queued up and maybe 1 or 2 copies of the stuff most of them want and about 50 copies of some repress of some shit album that's widely available. Fans lose out and I'm guessing stores do too.

Got a Megaman today. Been really lucky so far, haven't had to pay more than RRP on any as yet. Amazon lets you sign up for an email alert if/when they get stock in so that's pretty cool. If I can get a Ness and a Ganondorf down the line I'll be very happy.

Playing Majora's Mask on 3DS. When it's good it's very good and when it's not it can be frustrating. I can only imagine that without the tweaks they made for this remake that playing the N64 version without a guide would've been infuriating.

Nintendo confirmed this week that amiibo cards are launching later in the year at a much cheaper price point so if you just want to unlock content it'll be cheaper and more widely available. The figures just look really cool though and Fire Emblem figures etc so rarely see any kind of western release.

I've been buying some. Mainly just my regular faves in Smash Bros. They are proving a real pain in the butt to get without giving in to ebay prices etc but so far I have: Link, Mario, Samus, Pit, Marth, Ike Hoping to get Megaman and Ness at some point.

Sold out!

Once bought a 7" by the band Elbow and one side was a track by Madness. It only cost me £1 so I never really thought about it again until I was doing a clear out of records and I listed it on ebay and detailed the mispress. Ended up selling for £40+. So if you have crazy collectors you might just make some cash, after all some people go crazy for minor changes in labelling/packaging etc.

Nah Benji is a great album. I was with him when he spoke out against people talking at gigs but it's the War On Drugs stuff that is weird/embarrassing. But then if he put both of his WOD songs on a 12" I bet some people here would buy it :-)

Awesome news. Glad I didn't go for the box set now. These will be everywhere I'm guessing :-)

^ just use amazon. They only charge like $6 for shipping to Europe.

Thanks for this. Ordered a gold.

Totally agree 100%.

Well it didn't hurt much. On a brighter note (possibly already been mentioned) American Laundromat has the LP of their 'I Saved Latin' compilation on preorder for $26 but not available until March 2015 http://www.alr-music.com/

*now with 100% substantiation* Ordered both a few days back on amazon.co.uk so just hoping the 7"s end up somewhere with cheaper postage too.

Any other stores gonna have the red? Stores that can post outside of USA?

Nice. Yeah they said it might be 10-14 working days but mine is at my post office awaiting collection. It's gone from the site again so I'll be pleased to have a copy. I guess our crazy accents worked okay in the end!

£13 for This Is A Long Drive and £22 for LCW on amazon UK. Bargain! Ordered both - now let's see what happens.

Seems like a pretty f'ed up system to me. Maybe the fact I wasn't ordering blink 182 or paramore records as well set some kind of alarm off on their system. Hope your Mrs has better luck on the phone than you did.

You're lucky. Phoned them a little while ago. It was an ordeal and a half but at least know it's on it's way now.

Got an email about my order from Hot Topic saying they need verbal confirmation via telephone to process the order. Anyone ever had this? Is it legit? Sounds weird to me.