PO: Torche: Songs For Singles LP

[kouka]

fyi: Vacation has the "red and splatter" which someone said might be limited to 100-200.

[fordocumentationon]

New song rules!!!

[silentgods]

i'll grab one eventually.

[icecream]

i missed out on teal but it's still up. such a tease

[icecream]

edit: got one ! wooohooo

[struckanerve]

ah fuck caved and got one. judging by the vacation description, i assume it will be a little more involved then we think.

[devinr]

i'll grab one eventually.

[swoopdog]

I really really like Torche but seriously are they trying to recoup their loses from getting robbed in chigaco on this one single LP.

[daniele]

I love Torche, one of my favourite band of the last years, then i ordered a red copy, but man HH is fucking overpricing all their vinyl....

[666666]

What a ripoff. So glad I still like cds.

[troymess]

I don't care about color on this one, so I'm waiting it out until I get to see some packaging pictures.

[darknesscomesalive]

Stereogum and iTunes have the 'first single' (for lack of a better term)

http://hydraheadlines.blogspot.com/2010/08/torche-premiere-new-song-ufo-on-itunes.html

[bogsurfer]

Album is now streaming on myspace. Sounds killer! Actually digging the brevity of the tracks.

[swoopdog]

Waiting for the pricedrop or the preemptive ebay sale before I jump on this one.

[ijux]

grabbed it from amazon, probably end up with a black one, but i dont care, its expensive enough as it is for 20 mins worth of tunes

[franco]

does torche listen to the ergs?

cast into unknown = august 19th

[caitlinryan]

The packaging is cool on this, but it's kind of delicate. The copies I ordered (from a wholesale distributor) came with one corner way fucked up because they weren't packed well enough (which is a whole 'nother rant, you'd expect a music distributor to know how to pack their vinyl better). I also couldn't get the envelope flap on my copy to open smoothly at all so it's kind of torn. It looks rad, but the thin outer envelope is just bending waiting to happen.

[manicdogbert]

Teal Pressing /100

Envelope Outer Sleeve and vinyl

Back of envelope and front of "greeting card"

Opened "greeting card"

I'm not sure it was worth the $23, even for the most limited variant. But I got a free copy of the CD with it so that kinda evened it out.

[bunnypuncher]

The packaging is cool on this, but it's kind of delicate. The copies I ordered (from a wholesale distributor) came with one corner way fucked up because they weren't packed well enough (which is a whole 'nother rant, you'd expect a music distributor to know how to pack their vinyl better). I also couldn't get the envelope flap on my copy to open smoothly at all so it's kind of torn. It looks rad, but the thin outer envelope is just bending waiting to happen.

Yeah, mine wouldn't open either so I just cut it across the top, like you would a letter. But it was an easy decision to make, I bought it at a store and figured it wasn't a rare version or anything.

[troymess]

Still on the fence. I'd like to get this but the cost is a bit much. It looks like black is the only color available now.

[bunnypuncher]

Still on the fence. I'd like to get this but the cost is a bit much. It looks like black is the only color available now.

Yeah, I've been fed up with Hydra Head's pricing for a while. $20+ for an 8-song, 20-minute EP is fucking stupid, PLUS no download.

[caitlinryan]

Yeah I was just going to complain about the lack of download, too.

[jhulud]

Hydra Head tweeted that if you buy the record from the band during their tour that starts next week, you get this to open it: http://yfrog.com/108yqkj

[ijux]

so first press = black only?

180gr?

[manicdogbert]

i'm pretty sure the first press includes the 5 colors and not just black. i'm not entirely sure that the record was 180g. it might be 150g.