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Blendy posted:Yeah I'm thinking of just preordering the UK release putting down 2 copies (can you put down for 2?) and splitting the cost of shipping with a friend. Sorry, I wasn't clear. They didn't say that. I said it. They should say it though. They're just staying completely silent.
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Well you saying it or them saying it clearly there was a hiccup and I'm really curious as to what can delay a preorder.
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Mar 10, 2012 18:59
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Blendy posted:Well you saying it or them saying it clearly there was a hiccup and I'm really curious as to what can delay a preorder. Yeah, I have no idea. Just let people know what's going on. It takes like, 5 seconds.
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Mar 10, 2012 19:10
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Yeah it's stupid and rude. If I didn't want to avoid the Mondo release I'd just say screw it and forget about Invada but I'm sure the Mondo release is going to be way more annoying than this.
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Mar 10, 2012 19:27
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Could be a case of not being sure how many pieces they will be allotted for their direct sales. Labels sometimes barely handle the records they release, and only get 100 copies or so - the rest have already been pre-sold via their distributor/etc.
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Mar 10, 2012 20:38
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I mean I assume that's the case, but really that shouldn't be a last minute deal that would delay a preoder.
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Mar 10, 2012 20:45
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You'd think, but the record industry is hilariously disorganized with some absolutely dreadful communication and a lot of links in the chain that can break and cause delays, etc. Especially in this case, where there's multiple labels, printers, etc involved. I work at a pretty established label, and even we have tremendous trouble getting our poo poo in on time, or even getting enough stock to fufill our teeny webstore business. And as edition sizes continue to shrink, it's something that one must really take care with. I mean, my experience leads me to guess that they will likely press less than 2-3k copies of the Themes From An Imaginary Film record total across all labels, which is probably pretty close to the number of people who will actually buy it. On the other hand, if it becomes a runaway success, the metal parts are always there to stamp out a few more if it's worth it. The sad truth is that 6 months after a record comes out, it's almost impossible to move copies at full retail, either from the label or secondary market -- that's why everything is 'limited' now. It's either 'sell now or sell never'. Uh, excuse the derail?
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Mar 10, 2012 21:35
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Don't excuse interesting posts. Latest Invada facebook news: Invada UK posted:please be patient.. we wish to make these as perfect as we can.. no one will miss out.. No! More vague! More! 
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Mar 11, 2012 00:34
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Dissapointed Owl posted:Don't excuse interesting posts. But HEY no one will miss out...unless you don't follow them on Facebook or Twitter...
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Blendy posted:But HEY no one will miss out...unless you don't follow them on Facebook or Twitter... I'm hoping someone here will keep me updated because I don't use either of those sites.
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Mar 11, 2012 00:41
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CPL593H posted:I'm hoping someone here will keep me updated because I don't use either of those sites. That's okay, I'll keep you updated on all the developing twits and faces.
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Mar 11, 2012 00:55
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I like how you went with twits instead of tweets and how appropriate it is for the situation with Invada. On other topics I got this awhile ago and it's soooooo good. 
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Mar 11, 2012 01:00
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^^^ Wait, I think I read an article about that. Wasn't it two girls who love metal and Japanese culture or something? I might be thinking of a completely different thing...CPL593H posted:I'm hoping someone here will keep me updated because I don't use either of those sites. They just posted this: Invada UK posted:follow us on twitter for upto the min INVADA news. we will be announcing the DRIVE pre-sale here and on twitter our account is @invadauk Which, again, tells us jack poo poo.
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My wife and I have been collecting records for the past year in anticipation of finally having the money on hand to invest in a decent setup. Yesterday we snagged a used Technics SL-d202 at a local record store, along with a preamp and a couple records. I have a quick question though. The strobe light isn't illuminating, and I'm wondering how simple the replacement of the strobe bulb is. There's a 30 day guarantee, and I'm positive we could get our money back if necessary, or get them to repair it, but the shop is an hour's drive away and they're closed on Sundays. I'm pretty handy with electronics, but I don't want to bust up our new toy.
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Yeah you're pretty much spot on. The full name of the group is Yamantaka // Sonic Titan. Yamantaka is a Buddhist deity and the singer Ruby Kato is of Japanese ancestry. She might be full Japanese, I'm not sure, but they're based in Canada. The group is also kind of a collective but the driving force on the record are the two girls. The music is insanely good and weird. They chant sutras as lyrics and you just have to hear it.. I don't know if this is the article you read, and generally I avoid pfork but this is a good introduction and features some of the greatest songs off the record. Queens, which is at the top, is my favorite track. http://pitchfork.com/features/rising/8752-yamantaka-sonic-titan/ Also their live shows sound AMAZING with such details as ONE OF THE GIRLS DRESSING AS A GIANT DRAGON AND DESTROYING THE SET WHY THE OTHER KILLS HER WITH A GUITAR. I mean just look at those girls, that show has to be crazy. Anyway I'll stop gushing now but totally go check it out and if you can still find a copy the first like 500 pressing were on white vinyl and it's so beautiful.
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Blendy posted:Yeah you're pretty much spot on. The full name of the group is Yamantaka // Sonic Titan. Yamantaka is a Buddhist deity and the singer Ruby Kato is of Japanese ancestry. She might be full Japanese, I'm not sure, but they're based in Canada. The group is also kind of a collective but the driving force on the record are the two girls. The music is insanely good and weird. They chant sutras as lyrics and you just have to hear it.. Listening to their bandcamp page right now. It's really drat good. If I didn't have a vast back catalogue of records I want I'd immediately search out a copy. Won't miss them if they ever venture into Europe, though. Also, 'Reverse Crystal // Murder of a Spider' is killer. e: Off topic, but Bandcamp is one of the greatest things to have happened to music in making it more easily available and easier to support a band directly. ee: 'Hoshi Neko' is really evocative. Dissapointed Owl fucked around with this message at 20:03 on Mar 11, 2012 |
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Blendy posted:Yeah you're pretty much spot on. The full name of the group is Yamantaka // Sonic Titan. Yamantaka is a Buddhist deity and the singer Ruby Kato is of Japanese ancestry. She might be full Japanese, I'm not sure, but they're based in Canada. The group is also kind of a collective but the driving force on the record are the two girls. The music is insanely good and weird. They chant sutras as lyrics and you just have to hear it.. Oh wow thank you for this, I'm really liking it. I'm too poor to afford the vinyl right now especially as I imagine the shipping from Canada to the UK isn't that cheap but I think I have to download this album.
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Glad to spread the message of YT//ST! I just looked at psychic handshake's site and the first pressing is sold out and a second pressing will be coming soon so save up some ducketts. Looks like they also did a sale on it for $20 where you got their 12" and a 7" of your choice. Wish I had seen that. Would have bought it for a friend and kept the 7" for myself. DisappointedOwl Hoshi Neko also has a music video which shows off some of their weird geometric art and other illustrations. You should check it out. http://vimeo.com/36662755
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Starsnostars posted:Oh wow thank you for this, I'm really liking it. I'm too poor to afford the vinyl right now especially as I imagine the shipping from Canada to the UK isn't that cheap but I think I have to download this album. You can always try this: http://rhythmonline.co.uk/entry.php?albumid=190394 Blendy posted:DisappointedOwl Hoshi Neko also has a music video which shows off some of their weird geometric art and other illustrations. You should check it out. http://vimeo.com/36662755 Thanks, I'll definitely check it out, but as a rule I avoid videos to songs that I haven't listened to enough yet. I hate just having the video play in my head whenever I hear a certain song.
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quote:Third Man is a pretty terrible company. All they sell is a bunch of over priced hipster novelty bullshit. I'm really suprised that [Third Man Release] isn't getting a regular domestic release on vinyl due to the popularity of the film and how well liked the music was. When any of that poo poo sells out, it's not even to people who want whatever the item is. It's to dipshits on ebay who sell it for at least triple what they paid. Third Man can shove their [Third Man Release] record up their rear end. Honestly, with the way they market things it's probably going to be one of those records that looks really neat and sounds like total poo poo. As much as I hate paying for international shipping, I'll gladly buy the European pressing just so I can avoid participating in that other circlejerk. I swapped Mondo for Third Man in this post, and it's kind of amazing how well it fit.
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theradiostillsucks posted:I swapped Mondo for Third Man in this post, and it's kind of amazing how well it fit. Also works with Warner Brothers' Flaming Lips releases.
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I got a couple of good car-boot sale finds for a total of £11.40. Still by Joy Division and the Blue Monday 12". Still looked in pretty good condition, but the 3rd and 4th sides are pretty skippy in places, but I was more interested in the studio stuff anyway. I also picked up a big box of records for £5 mainly because I wanted the box, but there was a couple of okay synth-pop 12" in there and a copy on Now That's What I Call Music 3 my partner wants to keep. I'm kind of sadled with a bunch of Cliff Richard, Country and Western and Herb Alpert now though 
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Raising prices is always a terrible way to make up for lower than hoped for sales. I see it everyday in the cafeteria at the factory I work at. They raise prices and less people eat there, so they raise prices to make up for lost sales, and the cycle seems to keep repeating. It's cheaper for me to eat fast food than the work cafeteria, and I don't mean ordering from the dollar menu:( I see new records the same way. I buy maybe 1 or 2 NEW records a year because I don't want to pay 20$ for a new record. If they were closer to 10$, I'd probably buy 25-50 a year. And the prices probably scare lots of people away from getting into it in the first place. Does this sound accurate, or am I just whining about records being too high?
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cosmicjim posted:Raising prices is always a terrible way to make up for lower than hoped for sales. I see it everyday in the cafeteria at the factory I work at. They raise prices and less people eat there, so they raise prices to make up for lost sales, and the cycle seems to keep repeating. It's cheaper for me to eat fast food than the work cafeteria, and I don't mean ordering from the dollar menu:( I agree completely. I have a hard time justifying $25 reissues when they're more than likely  jobs meant to cash in on "the resurgence of vinyl," or whatever the recycled articles that newspapers and websites have warmed over and trotted out on an almost yearly basis for the past 5-10 years are calling it. I wouldn't even mind if labels went the SST route, where it's worth tracking down originals if you're a die-hard fan for inserts and such, but almost that entire catalog (or at least what's still generating sales/what people still care about; i.e., Black Flag and not Henry Kaiser) is in print and very cheap for whoever wants it and doesn't have to have an original pressing.As much as I love Neil Young, the reissues of his catalog have been the poster children for how not to go about a reissue campaign. They reissued a few of his early records last year that were the exact same issue as the last reissue, only marked up wholesale in such a way that they're about $10 more expensive at retail than the last time around. Record Store Day has only further stressed this lovely trend with lovely releases that cost way too much money wholesale and retail and more often than not leave unassuming stores littered with dead stock that was overhyped before its release.
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There is a single exception to the 20 dollar rule, and that is that Exmilitary costs that much and is worth more than 20 dollars to have on vinyl.
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theradiostillsucks posted:I swapped Mondo for Third Man in this post, and it's kind of amazing how well it fit. I don't totally agree with this. Most of their limited edition stuff is readily available on black vinyl at normal retail price(and they do sell the limited pressings they are normal price). I do hate the cult built around price gouging the colored vinyl stuff on ebay, but I'm not a completist and I don't care about that stuff. I just want to listen to the music. And beyond that, I've only ever had a problem with one of their records in terms of sound quality and they were very apologetic about it. I also don't find their prices to be unreasonable. They charge 15-20 dollars for an LP and 6 bucks for a 7". That's the going rate for these things in most cases.
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Refused releasing limited albums for RSD is the icing on the corporate music fest cake
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They Might Be Giants are getting their back catalog released on vinyl, finally. The first four to get pressed are Factory Showroom, John Henry, Flood, and Apollo 18. The label, Asbestos Records, already has Factory Showroom up for pre-order, and it ships in April. This is also the first time John Henry and Factory Showrrom have seen vinyl releases. (Flood is already pretty easy to find if you look around, and Apollo 18 was released in a very limited quantity in Europe.) I'm a big TMBG fan so I'm very pumped about these!
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weirdojace posted:They Might Be Giants are getting their back catalog released on vinyl, finally. The first four to get pressed are Factory Showroom, John Henry, Flood, and Apollo 18. Hah, I used to be a huge TMBG nerd but I guess I kinda "grew out of it". Plus, their later material has been pretty so so. I think I just might get a copy of John Henry and Apollo 18 though. Those were good records.
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 Can anyone identify this album, or at least know what country it's from. There is no english, or even western glyphs on the front/back/label apart from what is seen here "Only Tonight", the stereo designation and the catalog number CS 6036. http://members.iinet.net.au/~bbaddt5/Track6.mp3 A masked URL would just not take for some reason. Go BBcode 
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i am a bee posted:I got a couple of good car-boot sale finds for a total of £11.40. Still by Joy Division and the Blue Monday 12". Still looked in pretty good condition... I've heard Englanders were pretty resistant to tech change back when. And there's been several waves of excellent music from there (british invasion, british folk, new wave, etc) So is England a digger's* paradise? Small Faces / Nick Drake / Joy Division albums for all? or is it the same as over here - everybody hoarding they momma's Pink Floyd albums for the retirement fund? * boring, white also, throw the Herb Alpert, etc albums into the trash & never look back
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Ron Burgundy posted:
What in the name of god... How do I know this song? Was this used in a movie or something? Not even, "I know a song that sounds like this" but really just I know this exact song.  wah?
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Ron Burgundy posted:
Pretty sure it's from China. Maybe Taiwan but I'm thinking it's mainland China. The text is all Chinese and the audio sounds pretty much like Chinese to me. I only know Japanese though so I'm not 100% sure.
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milk teeth posted:I've heard Englanders were pretty resistant to tech change back when. And there's been several waves of excellent music from there (british invasion, british folk, new wave, etc) I'm in Scotland, but sadly, not really. Just because there's been some great British music doesn't mean there's many British people with great music taste, and those that do seem to generally know what they have is worth something or worth keeping. The area I'm in seems to mean there's a LOT of corny Country and Western which can be wearying to dig through. I gave the crap to a charity shop, but there was quite a sweet love letter from the mid-eighties hidden away in a Pet Shop Boys sleeve :3 i am a bee fucked around with this message at 20:53 on Mar 12, 2012 |
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Blendy posted:Pretty sure it's from China. Maybe Taiwan but I'm thinking it's mainland China. The text is all Chinese and the audio sounds pretty much like Chinese to me. I only know Japanese though so I'm not 100% sure. Why would it be from mainland China and not Taiwan? Mainland China was vehemently opposed to Western culture until recently, whereas Taiwan was the opposite. I would say it's way more likely to be Taiwanese, with a lesser possibility that it's from Hong Kong.
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First three albums by The Shins for 35 bucks at PopMarket. 10% off with the discount code 'FACEBOOK10'.
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Dissapointed Owl posted:First three albums by The Shins for 35 bucks at PopMarket. Oh sweet, thanks for posting that. Been wanting to grab those for a while, and that's a pretty sweet deal.
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Cool. Just picked up that Shins package. My wife is going to be happy.
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Picked up that Shins thing, awesome.
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Pretty bummed I'm gonna miss out on that Shins deal, instead I wasted my money on this stuff. My brain, it dances.
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