There's $$ left over for rice (New records/CD's/etc)

[narlus]

i got YOB's _Demo_ LP via ebay yesterday...good stuff.

[narlus]

 

http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/report_music_industry_made

[davy]

Ha. 

[jm]

Not purchased yet, but seriously considering pulling the trigger on this once I get paid.  Because I haven't been able to find that shit anywhere.

[narlus]

huh. the only thing i recall is their record on pitch-a-tent, and then the reissue on tUMULt

[jm]

Honestly, I'm just going by the fact that I heard a small handful of their songs back around 2001 or so that I really liked, the only one of which I've been able to track down being When I Was a Baby (which didn't surface until after The New Pornographers covered it), and haven't even found the compilation anywhere.  That is, in actual record stores as opposed to online. 

The Wikipedia entry says that the first records were released on Cryptovision, which the thing I linked to claims to be, so I'm going on a massive lack of information (which is in keeping with this band in general) and some sincere hope.

[narlus]

got the newest C93 LP yesterday...i'd forgotten that i had ordered it

http://copticcat.greedbag.com/buy/monohallucinatory-mountain-lp/

[Ah_Pook]

today i bought some used devo albums

(the infinite zero reissue)


edit: man i havent heard  oh no its devo in so long. fuckin great album.

[Benmont Tench]

Another month, another Yourmusic queue shipment:



The Specials - The Singles Collection

[auto-da-fey]

just picked up the new Drive-By Truckers. on one listen, I'm not blown away, but they're one of those Sonic-Youthy bands who set the bar so high for themselves, so seemingly effortlessly, that it can be difficult to assess, because their failing to transcend their own songbook is such a relative phenomenon. looking forward to living with it for a while, though, and that's not a bad thing.

[davy]

It's been so long since I've felt anything new about a Drive-By Truckers album that I think I must be doing something wrong.

[davy]

Scored some cheap Julian Cope vinyl from Wax 'n' Facts in Little 5 Points today:



The Teardrop Explodes - Kilimanjaro  /  Julian Cope - My Nation Underground & Saint Julian

[davy]

My jury duty check went towards these things:



The Method Actors - This Is Still It: The Early Recordings




Alela Diane - To Be Still  /  Charlotte Gainsbourg - IRM


I almost pulled the trigger on the new She & Him LP--it's a great-looking record, I enjoyed the last one, and it was only $10. I held off, though, and now that I'm listening to some tracks from it, I might be happy with that decision.

[elpollodiablo]

Zooey Deschanel has the worst voice ever

[davy]

Well, I think her voice is sorta cute. It's fucking M. Ward that just bores my damn balls off.

[auto-da-fey]

I tried to get into that Charlotte Gainsbourg album, and I just couldn't do it; nothing actively irritates me about it, but it just doesn't stick. I've played it on the subway, while making breakfast, and during amorous escapades, and I can't remember a thing about it. I wanted to like it, but I give up.

[davy]

If it had come out last year, I probably would've ignored it entirely. This year, it's on the all-star team.

[narlus]

got in a pile of goodness today...

from All That Is Heavy

Black Pyramid 2LP
Ancestors Neptune With Fire LP
Baroness Blue LP
Saviours Accelerated Living LP
Obsessed Lunar Womb cd
Spirit Caravan the Last Embrace 2cd

and they threw in an Elder cd for nothing...and i love that record, was gonna buy a copy after hearing it this weekend. 

also from Soft Abuse, i got the 2nd and 3rd Ulaan Kohl cds w/ the wooden box to house them, and the Grouper/Pumice split 7"

i'll be busy for a while.

[Benmont Tench]

Serena-Maneesh - No. 2: Abyss in B Minor

That black label you see is a sticker that wraps around the top and down the back, which wouldn't be an issue if it were, say, on the shrinkwrap and not attached to the digipak itself. It's almost as if this is 4AD's way of taunting those who still opt to buy the CD version of anything.

[Good Intentions]

Aren't you supposed to cut the seal with a blade, like with LPs of old?

[davy]

The Method Actors - This Is Still It: The Early Recordings

I am really enjoying this, and I'm sure that a fair amount of you would, too.

[Benmont Tench]

Aren't you supposed to cut the seal with a blade, like with LPs of old?

Perhaps, but for aesthetic purposes I felt compelled to peel the whole thing off. Which I was able to do successfully without tearing anything, though the further from release date it gets the more difficult such a task becomes.

[donblood]

Hip vinyl LP trick for breaking the seal:  put the side of the jacket with the opening on your jeans, rub vigorously side-to-side.

[Benmont Tench]

The Dillinger Escape Plan - Option Paralysis



The xx - xx

[jm]

From a post a week or two ago, this came in today: