Pre-Order Thread

Woah! SIGNED SERJ TANKIAN VINYL!

Signed presses of all of the Music On Vinyl reissues of Serj Tankian's catalog! Including a (so far) unannounced reissue of the Elect The Dead Symphony live album!

These are pricey, but really cool! Both the US and EU color variants are avaliable! Direct from his webstore! Most of these are limited to 100 signed copies, so act fast if you want one!

 
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Woah! SIGNED SERJ TANKIAN VINYL!

Signed presses of all of the Music On Vinyl reissues of Serj Tankian's catalog! Including a (so far) unannounced reissue of the Elect The Dead Symphony live album!

These are pricey, but really cool! Both the US and EU color variants are avaliable! Direct from his webstore!

I really want that signed elect the dead but I need to buy a car next month :( hope discogs is friendly with this one
 
Which Serj album is his best solo one if your opinion?

Elect The Dead is the most diverse, experimental and powerful, in my opinion. It tackles subjects of suicide, imperialism, poverty and environmental destruction in new ways that leave you to answer the questions the album proposes. Try the songs Empty Walls, Sky Is Over and Feed Us to get a good feel of the album. It's an incredible record.

Though, they're all amazing in their own ways. Imperfect Harmonies is more of an orchestral/alt rock record. Harakiri is more of a punk rock/alt metal record. All are fantastic!
 
Ayyyye! Appreciated! And @Dead C only cuz Mexican Summer sent me 2 of Jassbusters instead of 1 Jass and 1 Forever Dolphin Love

I think it's lasted because people see me in the rap hip hop threads all the time and assume my taste in other genres is skewed. IT'S KEWL GUYZ


Oh speaking of taste. This isn't for me but maybe for one of you lol New Iggy Azalea preorder

Did you ever end up getting Forever Dolphin Love? Curious to hear how that one sounds on vinyl. I'm gonna look to pick that one up as well. Been on a big Connan kick lately ever since I saw him live last month.
 
Woah! SIGNED SERJ TANKIAN VINYL!

Signed presses of all of the Music On Vinyl reissues of Serj Tankian's catalog! Including a (so far) unannounced reissue of the Elect The Dead Symphony live album!

These are pricey, but really cool! Both the US and EU color variants are avaliable! Direct from his webstore! Most of these are limited to 100 signed copies, so act fast if you want one!

I came here just to post this for ya haha.
 
My two cents on the Wilco controversy: this would be a bigger deal if fans had to pay $500 to have a copy of the record (in other words, if the $500 package was the only one available, and there were no cheaper options to buy the vinyl). Think VMP's Anthology, which required people to dish out big money if they wanted a reissue of certain long out-of-print Blue Note records. Or the Frank Ocean records. That is price gouging.

I feel that what Wilco is doing is different. Fans who want to buy the music can still do so at a reasonable price. Fans who want a $500 luxury item can pay $500 for it. Musicians have to make money to survive and save for retirement, too. If they think enough people will pay an absurd price for a weird book or a freaking axe, more power to them.
1. I think a lot of the Wilco conversation is just based in disappointment. I think it’s a ludicrous price. I’m not gonna not buy the record though.

2. How exactly did Frank Ocean gouge the customer? While a little pricey, neither Blonde or Endless approached egregious pricing and were well under some hip hop limited releases.
 
1. I think a lot of the Wilco conversation is just based in disappointment. I think it’s a ludicrous price. I’m not gonna not buy the record though.

2. How exactly did Frank Ocean gouge the customer? While a little pricey, neither Blonde or Endless approached egregious pricing and were well under some hip hop limited releases.
Ps I also don’t think anthology was gouging. The pricing was in line with similar pressings. Their failure to deliver on all aspects promised is another story altogether.
 
Ps I also don’t think anthology was gouging. The pricing was in line with similar pressings. Their failure to deliver on all aspects promised is another story altogether.
Charging those prices and not delivering on a top end product is 100% price gouging. I have very little problem with high prices as long as the product is worth it, and nothing that I've seen from Anthology is worth the price it was marked at. Hell, I would have bought Anthology no questions asked if I thought they were able to deliver on their promises.
 
Fleecing is fleecing doesn’t matter which market is getting the lion’s share.

Personally, I find the retail market raising its price in reaction to secondary performance more distasteful than a flipper.

Give us a fair price every time. Secondary market will do what secondary market will and the reason I find Newbury distasteful (and Music Matters and VMP - although this is one of their lesser evils) is because they react to secondary market pricing.
The way MM raises their price as stock gets lower is egregious to me. It's so infuriating. I think their regular pricing (especially when it started out) isn't that insane for what you get. I do find the Tone Poets to be of a similar quality though and I have gotten most of those for under $30.

At the rate everything is going though, pretty soon feels like a regular 1LP release is going to be $35-$40. I do think the bubble is going to burst soon and companies like Newbury and VMP are trying to squeeze every dollar out of it before it does.
 
Charging those prices and not delivering on a top end product is 100% price gouging. I have very little problem with high prices as long as the product is worth it, and nothing that I've seen from Anthology is worth the price it was marked at. Hell, I would have bought Anthology no questions asked if I thought they were able to deliver on their promises.
If they make the Shorter and Dexter Gordon albums right, I personally don't think it's price gouging but I understand that I may be in the minority on that. The records sound really amazing and are in line with Music Matters in terms of pressing quality for me. Whether or not MM is overpriced is another story, but the Anthology records were in line with what else is on the market of similar quality. All the extra fluff of the "experience" was never priced into it for me. At $38/record, I'm still okay with Anthology despite the awful roll out and lack of promised extras.
 
Charging those prices and not delivering on a top end product is 100% price gouging. I have very little problem with high prices as long as the product is worth it, and nothing that I've seen from Anthology is worth the price it was marked at. Hell, I would have bought Anthology no questions asked if I thought they were able to deliver on their promises.
The product as advertised would not have been gouging (sort of my point)
 
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