My best friend and I stumbled upon $700 round trip Tokyo plane tix for next March and scooped em. Insured em of course, but man it'd be nice to travel internationally again.
5 years ago this month, I decided to get really into collecting, and signed up for a record service called v*nyl m* ple*se. Discovered they had a forum shortly thereafter. The rest is history.
TIL Stephin Merit of Magnetic Fields wrote an entire concept album on a series of unfortunate events, a monumental, mindblowing crossover of interests fron different parts of my life:
Insane release day status #2: I enjoy Flower Boy and Igor, but I've been looking forward to Tyler really rapping again, and this project is that and then some. Dude goes absolutely fucking nuts on this thing, just hit after hit. Feels so good to hear him just go in with his current level of artistic maturity. Maybe my new AOTY.
Insane release day status #1: Some purists may hate it, but this Modest Mouse album is great, actually. My expectations were optimistic, but tempered, and I was really pleasantly surprised. Easily their most consistent and enjoyable since Good News.
Modest Mouse, Lucy Dacus, Faye Webster, Cautious Clay, Lightning Bug, Darkthrone, and now officially Tyler the Creator all dropping records next Friday, absolute insanity.
Yeah, it's normally about $1200-1400 here with 1-2 stops, but it'll occasionally have insane drops like the one we were able to grab.