Fresh Grabs

Mail day!

First up, Spiritualized. Can't wait to spin it, hopefully everything is alright 🤘

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Next up, Megan Thee Stallion order came through.
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Mint Field's newest, Sentimiento Mundial, got released a few days ago and my vinyl already came through! I think @Selaws was a fan(?)IMG_20200930_170155__01.jpg The AU.RA was a freebie on this, haven't heard it though.IMG_20200930_170418.jpg

Preservation vinyl also came through! Forgot about this sincerely 😂IMG_20200930_170543.jpg
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And the Hudson Hi-Fi Inner and Outers! Biiiig package. Sad to see they bumped the price to $70. Hopefully it's temporary
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MACKJUNT "SIC INTENTIONS" I think it was @Believer101 that recommended this? Don't recallIMG_20200930_165807__01.jpg
 
Hootie and the Blowfish - Live at Nick's Fat City, 1995
The Charlatans - Live It Like You Love It

Like many, I suspect, I despair deeply at the price of new records, especially RSD titles. For these two - suitably price inflated for Norway - I often buy 4-6 OG African records. I'm trying to cut back the amount of new vinyl I buy, but I felt I had to buy these for pure nostalgic purposes as I saw both bands on these tours. Plus 100 new inners - must have gone through more than 1000 of these in the past 18 months or so 😔

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The Beatles - At The Hollywood Bowl
Neil Young - Freedom
Crosby Stills Nash & Young - Deja Vu

My girlfriend's uncle died recently and I was allowed to look over his vinyl collection. A lot of it wasn't great but v happy to get these three to fill out my collection - I'd rather forgotten about them as I'd put them by my Okki Nokki waiting for a clean, which has just happened.

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Yosuke Yamashita - Banslikana (Enja Records - 1976 / 1st Japanese press)
Yosuke Yamashita Trio - Montreux Afterglow (Frasco - 1976 / 1st press)
Bingo Miki & Inner Galaxy Orchestra - Back To The Sea (Three Blind Mice - 1978 / 1st press)
Maki* - 浅川マキの世界 (Express - 1970 / 1st press)
Masabumi Kikuchi - Susto (CBS Sony - 1981 / 1st press)
Masahiko Togashi - Spiritual Nature (East Winde 1975 / 1st press)
Kunihiko Sugano Trio - Everything Happens To Me (Audio Lab Record - 1975 / 1st press)

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Blacksea Não Maya - Máquina De Vénus (Principe - 2020)
Telectu ‎– Camerata Elettronica (Holuzam - 1988.2020 / OG record, repackaged sleeve)
VA ‎– Illuminati Bounce ((Holuzam - 2020)
15-60-75 - Jimmy Bell's Still In Town (Needles & Grooves AotM picked by the great @Yer Ol' Uncle D) (Exit Stencil Recordings - 1976.2013 / 2xLP first reissue on black vinyl)

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So, here's a fun little story:

I ordered Idles "Ultra Mono" black yolk in clear with bonus mix CD, gatefold cover, Rough Trade exclusive forever ago whenever the many variants all went on sale. So, two days ago, I get it in the mail, except it is clear vinyl in a f***cking PVC sleeve.

So I contact Rough Trade and say, "hey, I didn't get the variant I ordered or the mix CD." They respond that they can send the CD. I say, "thanks, but I wanted your exclusive variant." They say, we are out of that now, but we can offer you a 25% refund. I am cranky.

This morning, I go on Discogs to see if the clear version is worth keeping, and realize that it is the actual mono mix pressing. This is somewhat intriguing, and reason enough for me to keep it in the collection. So I write back to Rough Trade, again, and say "please send the partial refund and the bonus disc if it is still available, thanks."

Because I wanted the stereo mix, and the RT variant, and because I have mental health issues when it comes to records, I go on Discogs and order the RT variant M sealed from a flipper for twice it's original value.

Only then do I wonder what the hand-written number on my mono pressing is (#525, if anyone is still reading) and go to where I put the album in case I decided to return it, sitting on top of the packaging. The package that was sent to me by... Partisan Records.

So of course then I finally, three days into this "situation," go back through my emails and remember (kinda) that I ordered the exclusive through Rough Trade and the mono through Partisan and that I am obviously an idiot who buys too many records.

I just wrote an apology email to Rough Trade asking them to please disregard the three days of back-and-forth emails. And then sent a message to the flipper on Discogs hoping to get him to cancel the order before it ships. I'd already paid, of course.

Checked the tracking on the Rough Trade exclusive and it should be delivered today.

The mono mix sounds really good, though, so I guess it was all worth it.

The End.
 
Bloodlemons said:
So, here's a fun little story:

I ordered Idles "Ultra Mono" black yolk in clear with bonus mix CD, gatefold cover, Rough Trade exclusive forever ago whenever the many variants all went on sale. So, two days ago, I get it in the mail, except it is clear vinyl in a f***cking PVC sleeve.

So I contact Rough Trade and say, "hey, I didn't get the variant I ordered or the mix CD." They respond that they can send the CD. I say, "thanks, but I wanted your exclusive variant." They say, we are out of that now, but we can offer you a 25% refund. I am cranky.

This morning, I go on Discogs to see if the clear version is worth keeping, and realize that it is the actual mono mix pressing. This is somewhat intriguing, and reason enough for me to keep it in the collection. So I write back to Rough Trade, again, and say "please send the partial refund and the bonus disc if it is still available, thanks."

Because I wanted the stereo mix, and the RT variant, and because I have mental health issues when it comes to records, I go on Discogs and order the RT variant M sealed from a flipper for twice it's original value.

Only then do I wonder what the hand-written number on my mono pressing is (#525, if anyone is still reading) and go to where I put the album in case I decided to return it, sitting on top of the packaging. The package that was sent to me by... Partisan Records.

So of course then I finally, three days into this "situation," go back through my emails and remember (kinda) that I ordered the exclusive through Rough Trade and the mono through Partisan and that I am obviously an idiot who buys too many records.

I just wrote an apology email to Rough Trade asking them to please disregard the three days of back-and-forth emails. And then sent a message to the flipper on Discogs hoping to get him to cancel the order before it ships. I'd already paid, of course.

Checked the tracking on the Rough Trade exclusive and it should be delivered today.

The mono mix sounds really good, though, so I guess it was all worth it.

The End.
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