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TOOT BOOT posted:Thanks for this! 
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last time I posted mp3 codes in plaintext in this thread i got probated for piracy lmao careful out there
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Jan 11, 2022 21:50
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lots of people post codes--mods don't care and it's not piracy. i mean, there's loads of free and legal ways to share music  edit: lol, you posted the  emote and it looks like the mod hit probe without checking the link.
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Thanks for posting. Next time be a little more careful.
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Jan 12, 2022 02:18
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I recently moved and finally got my gear set up so I could play a record my partner gave me for Christmas (one of my faves that I never got around to buying for myself). I was really impressed with the packaging - the lighting in here isn't great, but everything pops really well in person. And no vinyl defects despite being a new pressing!   Bonus rough shot of my set up - still need to do some cable management but folks will be happy my speakers aren't on the same surface as my record player anymore! 
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Jan 13, 2022 03:24
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marjorie posted:I recently moved and finally got my gear set up so I could play a record my partner gave me for Christmas (one of my faves that I never got around to buying for myself). I was really impressed with the packaging - the lighting in here isn't great, but everything pops really well in person. And no vinyl defects despite being a new pressing! What do you usually listen to when you ponder the orb?
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Jan 13, 2022 06:00
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Got a bunch of nerdy poo poo in the mail today. Can't wait to listen to it all.
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CPL593H posted:What do you usually listen to when you ponder the orb? Hahaha someone else I showed this picture to pointed that out as well. I guess OMD is pretty decent pondering music, but I also recently acquired Vincent Price's Witchcraft - Magic: An Adventure in Demonology so maybe I'll queue that up next. (Also just because seeing that picture made me notice something - that isn't an offset fireplace insert; I just temporarily leaned my dog's crate up there to keep him out of the ashes the previous owner helpfully left until I can clean it out\get a proper screen.)
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Jan 13, 2022 06:09
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strap on revenge posted:Has anyone here tried the "put your warped records in the oven for a couple minutes" to try and fix a warp in a record? It scares me but I have a UK 1st pressing of In the Court of the Crimson King that I don't just want to give up on (sounds good besides the fact that the first 8 minutes of each side are unplayable), and I'd like to get some anecdotal evidence before I decide if it's worth trying. Look up vinyl archivist. He has a record flattening machine and you can mail it to him for flattening. He did a great job for me on a rare record.
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Jan 13, 2022 07:12
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Frozen Peach posted:Got a bunch of nerdy poo poo in the mail today. Can't wait to listen to it all. Slightly jealous of that Streets of Rage 4. I debate whether it's worth tracking down a copy. I think it's way longer and has more songs than the bonus CD? Which is what I picked up cheap and the music on there grew on me. I wasn't sure I'd like it at first with out the limitations of a Genesis sound chip.
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Jan 13, 2022 16:43
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Frozen Peach posted:Got a bunch of nerdy poo poo in the mail today. Can't wait to listen to it all. That Klaus Kinski video game had the best soundtrack. marjorie posted:Hahaha someone else I showed this picture to pointed that out as well. I guess OMD is pretty decent pondering music, but I also recently acquired Vincent Price's Witchcraft - Magic: An Adventure in Demonology so maybe I'll queue that up next. I got a copy of that from sporklift. It's a kooky one. Vincent Price did a whole bunch of those kind of records but they're tough to come by.
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Turbinosamente posted:Slightly jealous of that Streets of Rage 4. I debate whether it's worth tracking down a copy. I think it's way longer and has more songs than the bonus CD? Which is what I picked up cheap and the music on there grew on me. I wasn't sure I'd like it at first with out the limitations of a Genesis sound chip. I got it from https://themateriastore.com/collections/video-game-soundtracks/products/streets-of-rage-4-3xlp-vinyl They have so many awesome albums. I'll probably place another order soon.
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Jan 13, 2022 19:15
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Dear friends; gently caress you. Warmest regards, Jack quote:Happy new year, Vault friends!
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Jan 13, 2022 20:06
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pwn posted:Dear friends; It was cool to visit the very small Third Man store in Nashville a few years ago. A subscription for vinyl releases seems kind of gross/weird.
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Jan 13, 2022 20:16
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marjorie posted:And no vinyl defects despite being a new pressing! ok quick question here - does anyone think there were a lot of shoddy pressings coming out between say, 2009 and 2018? of all the new vinyl I have, it seems like anything made between those years has like a 50/50 chance of having some defect. everything I've gotten since then has been perfect or close to it though! speaking of - I got the Garth boxset ($15 & free shipping, LMAO) - they actually sound pretty great don't they??
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JAMOOOL posted:ok quick question here - does anyone think there were a lot of shoddy pressings coming out between say, 2009 and 2018? of all the new vinyl I have, it seems like anything made between those years has like a 50/50 chance of having some defect. everything I've gotten since then has been perfect or close to it though! I was disillusioned for a small while from buying anything new because of being burned on a few purchases and the added stress of looking up discogs/Head-Fi/Steve Hoffman reviews for something while at the store. All of a sudden, this past year I get back into the swing of things and all my new records play like glass. Caught me off guard a little considering all the supply chain back-ups, so go figure.
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Nightmare Cinema posted:I was disillusioned for a small while from buying anything new because of being burned on a few purchases and the added stress of looking up discogs/Head-Fi/Steve Hoffman reviews for something while at the store. With no concrete way to back it up I'm gonna guess that Third Man Pressing going online in mid-2017 had a hand in it, UPI had been the main (only?) plant in the States for years and their work was (is?) hit-and-miss, but for all one can say about Jack White (see my prior post,) he doesn't gently caress around with his pressings. I wouldn't be a bit surprised if he forced UPI to up their QC. Again I must reiterate: i have absolutely no info about this, all feels-based is my post
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Jan 14, 2022 01:35
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I subscribed to the Third Man vault for like a year there around the time Sleep released their newer material through Third Man. I cancelled it when it became clear that the vault was 80% a Jack White vanity project, and I don’t need any more of that.
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Jan 14, 2022 02:20
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Two of my records (Jethro Tull's Stormwatch and Commodores' Heroes) both start looping at the same spot each time I play 'em. Stormwatch has a bit of a scratch that could be causing it, but there's no scratch in Heroes. Is there a way to fix this? Neither album is expensive to replace, so it's not a huge deal, but I was curious if something like this might be fixed with a deep cleaning.
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Jan 14, 2022 02:27
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re third man i once visited the pop-up shop they had here during sxsw since it was just down the street from the record store I was visiting if memory serves, the only thing they had in there for sale was this huge box set covering the entire release history of an antique blues label like i get that you want to do wild projects, jack, but can I just buy one forty-minute album like a normal person. please let me buy one record album.
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Read After Burning posted:Two of my records (Jethro Tull's Stormwatch and Commodores' Heroes) both start looping at the same spot each time I play 'em. Stormwatch has a bit of a scratch that could be causing it, but there's no scratch in Heroes. Try working it out with a wood toothpick. Also check your antiskate.
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We used to put a penny on the top of the needle to fix that :ducks:
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wa27 posted:Also check your antiskate.
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pwn posted:Dear friends; 75 bucks is totally worth it! Especially if the quality of the last bunch of vault packages is any indication! I saw him on his first solo tour. The tickets were like 35 or 40 bucks. He's coming back around. At that same venue in the same section those tickets now cost something absurd like 300 bucks. And at that show I was right up against the railing in front of the stage. Blue Raider posted:I subscribed to the Third Man vault for like a year there around the time Sleep released their newer material through Third Man. I cancelled it when it became clear that the vault was 80% a Jack White vanity project, and I don’t need any more of that. The entire label and everything they do is his vanity project. That said the Vault was originally meant to focus on his various bands so it never really pretended to not be a Jack White thing. But at this point it's pretty clear they've reached the depths of their own vault and are just digging through other people's vaults. I finally tapped out when they price went up five bucks and I decided that I have enough White Stripes live albums. Don't get me wrong, they've released a lot of really cool poo poo through the Vault but at this point I doubt they have anything particularly interesting to get out there especially for 75 bucks. CPL593H fucked around with this message at 04:20 on Jan 14, 2022 |
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CPL593H posted:75 bucks is totally worth it! Especially if the quality of the last bunch of vault packages is any indication! I was pretty underwhelmed by Vault 50. I'm 95% sure the record audio is simply the same audio that's on the DVD with the set, which is someone's handicam recording. Maybe it's a soundboard but whatever it is, it's flat, and doesn't deserve to be on vinyl. It should have been one of those (still-overpriced but not $65) Nugz.net* live CDs they did a bunch of over the past couple years, not a Vault. The photo prints are nice but not worth the premium. And the alternate version B-side of the random Jack White solo single is miles better than the album cut on side A, which doesn't make me want to even listen to the album, so good job on that. As I was playing the live LPs I knew I would never listen to it again. *I bought one CD from them in 2020. It arrives after weeks of waiting and it's a plain black paper case with the art printed on a sticker that wraps around the case, which is designed to house two discs but this is a one-disc affair, and the CD is burnt. All of which I was fine, whatever, but for the label sticker being haphazardly applied, with a big crinkle all down the front side. I asked them if they could send a replacement case, not a whole package since I didn't need a new CD. They send a case with the sticker on a brown three-disc case, which clashes horribly with the black art and felt like an extremely passive aggressive "gently caress you" for having the balls to expect some basic QC on a $25 CD. Suffice to say, it is the only $25 they're getting from me, so... you really showed me?
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This feels like an apropos place to post this. And I am quoting the entire article. The CD is Dead. Long Live the CD. Wired.com posted:You Should Listen to CDs
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I still buy CDs, especially for things otherwise difficult to find. I spent several weeks trying to find a place that would send me a copy of a new Kokushoku Elegy greatest hits album since their previous one is obnoxiously expensive. I will generally rip the disc at high quality and then keep it on the shelf though.
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It came, it finally came!
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I've been thinking of getting rid of all my vinyl for the past couple months and this is the release that's going to finally tip me over https://shiptoshoremedia.com/collections/featured/products/plastic-love I have not been able to get a single album I liked that came out last year on vinyl. Three of the five reprinted or new albums I got in 2020 had hosed up pressings that and had no reprints so you can't get them replaced. Everything old I like is normie enough that I can just get it on Spotify. I think I'm just done with this hobby entirely and going to find new ways to engage with music I like and spend my money on something else abraham linksys fucked around with this message at 13:45 on Jan 14, 2022 |
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42usd for 2 tracks holy poo poo
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Numero group reissued Karate’s records. That’s been a long time coming Just the first 3 so far. BigFactory fucked around with this message at 13:30 on Jan 14, 2022 |
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screaden posted:42usd for 2 tracks holy poo poo Usually anything remotely Japanese/city pop carries a premium there but goddamn. Also STS I love you guys but isn't 1 track per side a single and not an EP? Sometimes I still just straight up be a filthy pirate and rip songs off of YouTube and Plastic Love was one of them owing to the pain of obtaining it physically. And I definitely still buy CDs. It's much cheaper and easier to play the "this looks cool let's try it game" with them when browsing shops. At this point all the cost of vinyl has done is force me to preview everything and really consider if it's worth adding to the collection. I'm not on the back side of collecting records like I am with video games, I haven't been in it long enough: still enamoured with it.
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CaptainBeefart posted:A subscription for vinyl releases seems kind of gross/weird. Back when Singles Clubs for smaller labels were economically viable in the sub-$100 category for 6-12 singles from a label with a cohesive sound that you liked or that had a good reputation, they were rad. But putting now $300 on the chopping block for just four albums that you may or may not have any interest in whatsoever is, to me, madness. Sadly until a new lacquer plant opens to replace Apollo, 7" singles will be a diminished artifact on the landscape. pwn posted:With no concrete way to back it up I'm gonna guess that Third Man Pressing going online in mid-2017 had a hand in it, UPI had been the main (only?) plant in the States for years and their work was (is?) hit-and-miss, but for all one can say about Jack White (see my prior post,) he doesn't gently caress around with his pressings. I wouldn't be a bit surprised if he forced UPI to up their QC. Even at the lowest point in vinyl production in the USA, there were probably eight or ten domestic plants of varying reputations. United has a relatively lovely reputation and they were turning out a lot of the bigger domestic presses. If you ever press at United, be prepared to buy extra stampers, because yours are gonna get broken. I personally wouldn't press anything at United to this day unless I had a giant label's lawyers backing me up to swing dong if something goes wrong. And a lot of stuff was being imported from GZ in that era, and they'll press whatever you send them without batting an eye or giving a heads up if it sounds bad. Lots of medium and smaller labels and off-label bands were getting great stuff from Archer, Musicol, Gotta Groove, and Rainbo in this era. BigFactory posted:Numero group reissued Karate’s records. That’s been a long time coming Two outta three pressed with love at my plant in Chicago.
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BigFactory posted:Numero group reissued Karate’s records. That’s been a long time coming Hell yes I love Numero Group so much
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If anyone missed one or both of the K.G. / L.W. albums by King Gizzard & Lizard Wizard, the represses are available today: https://gizzverse.com/
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pwn posted:I was pretty underwhelmed by Vault 50. I'm 95% sure the record audio is simply the same audio that's on the DVD with the set, which is someone's handicam recording. Maybe it's a soundboard but whatever it is, it's flat, and doesn't deserve to be on vinyl. It should have been one of those (still-overpriced but not $65) Nugz.net* live CDs they did a bunch of over the past couple years, not a Vault. The photo prints are nice but not worth the premium. And the alternate version B-side of the random Jack White solo single is miles better than the album cut on side A, which doesn't make me want to even listen to the album, so good job on that. The Vault packages were originally supposed to be an LP/double LP, 7" record, and a t-shirt. They did the t-shirts a grand total of three times before they gave up on that and replaced it with a rotating cast of stupid trinkets. I have all that annoying crap laying around somewhere and I keep meaning to just sell because what the gently caress am I going to do with a bunch of paper crap? pwn posted:This feels like an apropos place to post this. And I am quoting the entire article. CDs will probably cost 30 bucks in the next year or two when they suddenly are "discovered again" and they become the next casualty of the speculators market and nostalgia wank.
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I try to stick to buying used vinyls so that I don''t burn myself out on disappointment and such. I wind up missing out on a lot of stuff I'd like to own on vinyl, but it saves my pocket book AND I am always thrilled when I find a good score. Just nabbed a used copy of Godspeed you! Black Emperor's "Yanqui UXO" album for $15. 
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I ripped all my CDs to FLAC a few years back, but still have them crammed into one of these sitting in my office because I can't find a better spot for them. Probably a quarter of them have cut up jewel case artwork. When I took my collection to college in CaseLogic binders, my youngest bro raided the jewel cases I left behind and cut them all up for art projects.
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I've been the canary in the coal mine for years and none of you would listen!
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Why do they even release CDs anymore? Is it just so cheap that it's still profitable? Is there some archaic RIAA rule where something can't be on the charts unless it's released as physical? As far as garage sale purchases go, I'm definitely buying CDs the most these days. People just give them away. Then vinyl; cassettes are pretty rare these days. wa27 fucked around with this message at 18:04 on Jan 14, 2022 |
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