Pre-Order Thread

Twentytwo said:
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New Moon Exclusive 2LP

A Newbury Comics exclusive color vinyl pressing. Smith produced a large body of work that includes five solo albums, as well as From a Basement on the Hill (2004), a collection of songs completed before his death in 2003. New Moon contains 24 songs recorded between 1994-1997, a prolific time in...
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dansomeone said:
Great album. Terrible color variant.
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I hate it when anyone - but Newbury is a particularly regular offender - issues an awful color variant of a good album.

Pinwheel is the Fruit Cake of the vinyl world.
 
TheThinWhiteDuke said:
I just got the blue one from their Bandcamp which I think matches the artwork better. Great sounding record and the jacket has some nice gloss accent finishes
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Yeah, completely agree. If people are looking for a colored vinyl pressing of any Thrill Jockey releases they are best checking out the artist Bandcamp or the TJ web store. They frequently go out of print but it also seem like Thrill Jockey almost always represses their titles and most are under $20 nothing against Newbury if that’s their jam but Thrill Jockey colored pressing are pretty great.
 
Shaymoose said:
Never been a fan of picture discs. I’ve also heard they don’t usually sound too good. Is that true?
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Correct. If your buying an album for listening you’ll want to avoid picture and glow-in-the-dark vinyl. If you are buying for novelty both can be fun and collectible. The frustrating part is when an act only puts out a picture disc then you really have to do some soul searching if you want to actually listen to the music on the release.

Even still every one is different, some can sound alright while other will sound like garbage. None will likely sound great though.
 
TenderLovingKiller® said:
Correct. If your buying an album for listening you’ll want to avoid picture and glow-in-the-dark vinyl. If you are buying for novelty both can be fun and collectible. The frustrating part is when an act only puts out a picture disc then you really have to do some soul searching if you want to actually listen to the music on the release.

Even still every one is different, some can sound alright while other will sound like garbage. None will likely sound great though.
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Great, thanks for the info 👍🏻
 
ranbalam said:
I can report that my O Brother Where Out Thou picture disc is on the garbage end of things. But, it looks great in a frame, and I bought another copy...a non-pic-disc.
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Yeah, I have one die-cut picture disc single and one Glow-In-The -Dark album both are from the band Air. Neither sounds terrible but I still am much more likely to spin my standard black version of Moon Safari than either.
 
ShawnPVD said:
It's going to be a picture disc version of Opiate.
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Curious whether you know that or it's speculation? If that's what it is, I'll stop thinking about it b/c I have no interest in picture discs or Opiate. The only Tool albums I'd buy on vinyl -- assuming quality master/press -- are Lateralus and Fear Inoculum.
 
TenderLovingKiller® said:
Correct. If your buying an album for listening you’ll want to avoid picture and glow-in-the-dark vinyl. If you are buying for novelty both can be fun and collectible. The frustrating part is when an act only puts out a picture disc then you really have to do some soul searching if you want to actually listen to the music on the release.

Even still every one is different, some can sound alright while other will sound like garbage. None will likely sound great though.
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Counterpoint (although your statement probably stands true more often than not): I had the Green Jelly - Cereal Killer Soundtrack RSD 2019 pressing. It is pressed by GZ and glow-in-the-dark. It sounded fantastic. I sold it because it is more of a novelty album for me and not something I listened to often. But still sounded really good.

But yea....pic discs. I except them to sound anywhere from acceptable to shit. That's not great.
 
Portland Sheriff said:
Curious whether you know that or it's speculation? If that's what it is, I'll stop thinking about it b/c I have no interest in picture discs or Opiate. The only Tool albums I'd buy on vinyl -- assuming quality master/press -- are Lateralus and Fear Inoculum.
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I was joking because it's the most readily available Tool release and is usually <$10, so there's probably no one that would need that material on a bad sounding picture disc. But Tool is also aware they could move 10,000 $30 Opiate picture discs to their die hards.
 
Lord Diaper Baby said:
Counterpoint (although your statement probably stands true more often than not): I had the Green Jelly - Cereal Killer Soundtrack RSD 2019 pressing. It is pressed by GZ and glow-in-the-dark. It sounded fantastic. I sold it because it is more of a novelty album for me and not something I listened to often. But still sounded really good.

But yea....pic discs. I except them to sound anywhere from acceptable to shit. That's not great.
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holy shit that would be the most hilarious Tool-related web exclusive they could possibly put out, some old school Green Jello/y Cereal Killer vinyl
 
I'll say this about picture discs, I think they've gotten better at them and if your choice is between a cheap picture disc or an absurdly expensive regular pressing, it may be worthwhile. Like, I'm sure the Orange FYE version of Reputation is probably better sounding / longer lasting than the picture disc standard, but you'll also pay 10x+ more (probably closer to 20 now) for the orange version and the pic disc sounds fine for what it is.
 
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