Pre-Order Thread


Reel Big Fish - Turn The Radio Off

A tad pricey but WORTH IT! (Not pricey compared to Discogs/2nd market, but it's a lot for a repress)

@EmeryRK

Funny, the 2016 translucent green repress, there's a note on Discogs - "It's available on their website for $20, so don't pay the markup". Now the band is the obscene markup.

I saw them a few times 1995-97 when they came through Chapel Hill, but hard nope on paying that much for a single disc.
 
US link via Stones Throw
Finally an answer to why there is a "Sire" Edition...


We have a limited edition vinyl of MF Doom & Madlib’s collaboration that we’re calling Madvillainy (Sire Edition)

Pre-order available now for July 3 release. This release is available exclusively at Stones Throw, Concerto (Amsterdam), and Rough Trade (London).

• Transparent yellow vinyl, 2/LP • Metallic silver sleeve with die cut holes • 16-page lyric book

Photos by Eric Coleman. Original design and repackage design by Jeff Jank. The Sire Edition was made in reference to a subtle detail about the original Madvillainy cover:

“an inside joke of mine was that the black and white photo of Doom reminded me of the first Madonna album cover [on Sire Records, 1983] … it said MADONNA and the O was orange. I saw the two pictures side by side and thought it looked like a version of Beauty & the Beast. So I put a little piece of orange up in the corner, partly because it needed something distinctive, and partly to match the color with Madonna.” – Uncovered: The Story Behind Madvillain’s Madvillainy (2004) with Jeff Jan

I feel better now.
 
I’m as big a Stooges fan as anyone. I try to buy all their albums, including variants and the shitty live albums that get released. This, however, seems like overkill...


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I’m with you. Hard to justify $$$ but it does look really well done. There is a 3 part YouTube video on the box set.
 

Whenever a link comes up somewhere please post it!
 

Whenever a link comes up somewhere please post it!

 

Not up yet, but I think it will be cheaper than Rough Trade
 
Look I’ve made Train jokes around here before (at least around the old joint). And I have realized from watching this thread that, given the demographics of vinyl buyers, there is a substantial appetite for pressings of pretty much anything that was released between say 1995-2005.

I will also admit publicly for the first time to having owned this album on CD and listened to it several times in my car during the summer of 2001. It filled me with shame and I kept it a secret from everyone I knew even at the time. Having read the incredibly backhanded description on the Mofi page I finally realize why - it was a tough and confusing time in my life and this record was a gallon of ice cream for anyone raised on AOR.

But seriously, the “Overview” is the funniest thing I’ll read all day. It begins with “There's definitely nothing wrong with...” and includes the following:

”Remarks of jealous critics aside...”
”Free of the harshness, boxiness, and flatness discernible on the CD...”
“...the sound of what happens when concerns about trends and coolness are put aside...”
“...eminently listenable fare...”

Anyway if you ever catch me in the What’s Spinning thread listening to Drops Of Jupiter, please call in a wellness check on your boy.
 
I saw Train last year at a manufacturer's convention with my old man and Patrick Monahan was very annoyed by the end that people were more interested in the open bar than his band's set. I walked up to the stage afterwards and picked his guitar pick from the ground. 10/10 would see again. They fuckin' killed a few Led Zeppelin covers though. I was also next in line for a meet and greet beforehand when their manager cut the line off for the band to get ready. Wah wahhh.
 
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