Fresh Grabs

Hemotep said:
I received a fairly big box that was stuffed with careful padding and a padded envelope in the center which contained this.
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Signed by Isaac Brock
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The Buffalo Tom reissues had a bundle and sale discount so finally bit and am excited for this listening session.
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And this came from the Target sale, all beat up, but they will only do a refund no replacement and only if I print a label and return it. That's a lot of work for a better jacket...
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Those Buf Tom reissues are great. I need to pick up Birdbrain, even though I have a cd copy
 
Demon Fuzz - Afreaka! (Dawn, 1970 Janus Pressing)
David Mack – New Directions: Essays For Jazz Band (Columbia, 1965 Serenus Pressing)
Tommy Whittle & His Orchestra - Spotlighting (Esquire, 1956 First 10" Pressing)
The Bert Courtley Jazz Quartet – Bertrand's Bugle (Decca, 1959 First 7" Pressing)
Yazz Ahmed - Finding My Way Home (Night Time Stories, 2024 First Pressing)

A great 'haul' from the past few weeks. "Afreaka!" has been a favorite since the first time that I heard it, but it's rare as hens teeth so it's taken a while to find a copy. "New Directions" is the US pressing of David Mack's Columbia release, which I already have so it will be interesting to hear which pressing is better. "Spotlighting" is the final 10" in Tommy Whittle's discography that I was missing. The deal of the week was the Bert Courtley 7" which I lucked out on and typically goes for an eye-watering amount. Finally, a new release from Yazz Ahmed which is actually a first vinyl pressing of her debut release. Great stuff!

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I really want to support BadBadNotGood. You know, buy their physical media and enjoy their new record. It's a great album. But here we are, it's almost 2025, and we still cannot just use fucking polylined inner sleeves. It's okay, the label wanted to save 20 cents per unit and leave the customer pissed off.

This is a $35 record in the year 2024. This is one of the reasons I've been buying CDs lately. I'm getting too old to be dealing with these issues with the vinyl medium. I've gone through two copies with identical results:

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zdkaiser said:
I really want to support BadBadNotGood. You know, buy their physical media and enjoy their new record. It's a great album. But here we are, it's almost 2025, and we still cannot just use fucking polylined inner sleeves. It's okay, the label wanted to save 20 cents per unit and leave the customer pissed off.

This is a $35 record in the year 2024. This is one of the reasons I've been buying CDs lately. I'm getting too old to be dealing with these issues with the vinyl medium. I've gone through two copies with identical results:

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I hate to tell you but they did say it was bad bad not good. 😜
 
zdkaiser said:
I really want to support BadBadNotGood. You know, buy their physical media and enjoy their new record. It's a great album. But here we are, it's almost 2025, and we still cannot just use fucking polylined inner sleeves. It's okay, the label wanted to save 20 cents per unit and leave the customer pissed off.

This is a $35 record in the year 2024. This is one of the reasons I've been buying CDs lately. I'm getting too old to be dealing with these issues with the vinyl medium. I've gone through two copies with identical results:

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This happened to me twice last month.

I bought the first four Sade reissues from Target during the B2G1 sale; all of them in tight inners. Diamond Life felt damn near glued to the surfaces of the cheap paper inner, and took almost two minutes for me to excavate safely. Love Deluxe was much the same but in a printed inner that had overhanging flaps inside that scratched ~1in from the edge of side A toward the center (had to return and get replacement). All four had a lot of surface dust either way.

I'm tired boss
 
Rip_City said:
This happened to me twice last month.

I bought the first four Sade reissues from Target during the B2G1 sale; all of them in tight inners. Diamond Life felt damn near glued to the surfaces of the cheap paper inner, and took almost two minutes for me to excavate safely. Love Deluxe was much the same but in a printed inner that had overhanging flaps inside that scratched ~1in from the edge of side A toward the center (had to return and get replacement). All four had a lot of surface dust either way.

I'm tired boss
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Fucking printed inners.
 
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