Ethos99
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100% flip profit!
Vinyl Me Please (store, exclusives, swaps, etc)
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100% flip profit!
jamieanderson1968
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Don't plant those ones. They grow 5G towers and spread the 'Rona
Bohnjaggs
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Ready for my hot take? The Divine Fits LP is the best album that Britt Daniel has ever made.
TenderLovingKiller®
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Better not go into the VMP R&HH Thread then.
TenderLovingKiller®
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...And the giants. Plant the beans and the giants will come.
I mean I’d like someone who likes hip hop to sign up for ours and add diversity. My only criticism with them so far is that a lack of diversity in pickers has led to a lack of diversity in picks. I’d like to encourage them to come into ours and add to the mix because I don’t think we’re a big enough forum with only 1,000ish members to be running all sorts of competing versions of the same thing.
TenderLovingKiller®
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That’s not right, It’s a good album but it isn’t in the same realm as Spoons best.
Have you ever checked out that Home series; Vol. 4 is a spit between Britt Danials and Bright Eyes? Britt’s couple of tracks on that are pretty great too, not equal to the best Spoon tracks but still some nice hidden gems.
Bohnjaggs
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No I haven't heard of that. I'll have to check it out.
I will say though that as much as I love Spoon, I've probably played that Divine Fits record more than most of the Spoon albums combined. It's perfect.
MikeH
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The majority of people here came in because they were VMP members. It's as simple as that. There are still VMP members here who want to discuss the various tracks. I don't see consolidating tracks as anything other than people disliking VMP (which is 100% warranted) and not wanting their presence on the forums. If I don't want to talk about the VMP stuff, then I just stay out of the VMP threads.
I also would be down with a N&G RHH of the month thread and I know a bunch of people in the RHH thread are for it. I don't see it as competition. People can (and likely will) do both. And if not, then it will likely help drown out the VMP threads if that's what people want.
TenderLovingKiller®
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Also, if you dig Ben Gibbard, I would recommend checking out Home, Vol. 5 too. Some good tracks there also.
Yeah I mean I was opening an invite not trying to shut it down, stronger together and all that, but whatever
TCell
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Why are we ranking Spoon albums? Other than it's more fun than debating the merits of a jumped the shark vinyl company we’ve all spent too much time and money on, but brought most of us together in the first place.
My Favourite Spoon albums:
1 - Gimme Fiction
2 - Girls Can Tell
3 - Kill the Moonlight
4 - Ga ga ga ga
Series of Sneaks and Telephono are fine, but a band trying to find itself, so inconsistent.
The last three are very good, but I haven’t spent much time with.
My Favourite Spoon albums:
1 - Gimme Fiction
2 - Girls Can Tell
3 - Kill the Moonlight
4 - Ga ga ga ga
Series of Sneaks and Telephono are fine, but a band trying to find itself, so inconsistent.
The last three are very good, but I haven’t spent much time with.
MikeH
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I did see people suggest in the Hip hop thread for someone to sign up for N&G ROTM which would be awesome. I have only tangentially followed along with the N&G thread but will likely be spending more time over there now! Excited to dive into it more
Id love it. We’ve had so many genres and good picks but I think the fact that most of the people who have signed up have been white blokes we’ve had a lot of picks that have essentially also been white blokes playing lots a different types of music. To mix some rap or hip hop or modern rnb or anything else that anyone likes, and thinks they should share, into the equation would be welcome.
tvham
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Also one of my all time favorite Spoon tracks. And agreed that Transference is underrated.
Bohnjaggs
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TenderLovingKiller®
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Yup!
Lots of discussion about threads going on.
Basically this place is member run on the most basic level. If people are using and posting in threads, we shouldn't intervene and shut them down just because of vendettas. If stuff isn't being used it'll fade away.
I think the RHH is a good example because that place is like its own ecosystem. Shutting it down just because VMP sucks would hurt those that are there for reasons beyond whatever VMP is doing.
Basically this place is member run on the most basic level. If people are using and posting in threads, we shouldn't intervene and shut them down just because of vendettas. If stuff isn't being used it'll fade away.
I think the RHH is a good example because that place is like its own ecosystem. Shutting it down just because VMP sucks would hurt those that are there for reasons beyond whatever VMP is doing.
And yeah I haven't been involved with the N&G ROTM but if people who are super active there want to go into the RHH threads and actively recruit non 'white blokes' to pick the next record that sounds like a great idea.
Nathan, I say this out of deep love and concern but I don’t know how sound of a strategy spending your retirement fund egg on records, traveling OR food is. To me that’s indicative of a pretty serious and seemingly destructive shopping habit. We seem to be around the same age and moving out of my parents house at 21 has really shined a light on the value of a savings and a rainy day fund. You seem to have the idea that you’re supposed to actively be splurging your money towards something, and by all means we should all have hobbies that we invest into, but at our age that’s like $50-$100 a month (MAYBE) not dozens of records a month ESPECIALLY not if you’re going after APs, MoFis, and One-Steps which can very quickly create GIANT monthly spends. I think we owe it to ourselves to always be watching the road ahead and how our actions now will affect our experience then. Time starts moving fast right around 25 and I am only now getting to a place where I feel prepared for a “rainy day” and that’s with a little more than half of your former retirement fund saved up. Only now am I realizing how daunting life can be if we aren’t financially responsible. I just get the sense that 5 years from now you’re going to wish you had an extra savings pool to throw at a house down payment or a move or maybe some investment opportunities. Like seriously dude, you saying you’ve withdrawn $15,500 out of your retirement fund to immerse yourself in vinyl makes my insides scream “OHGODFUCKNO”I splurged on travelling when I was 18-24, now I’m splurging on records and food and I’m very grateful for that. As indulging in record collecting is expensive, especially when you start getting a lot of AP pressings and quite a bit of MoFi Supervinyl pressings, taking out $15,500 has really helped me immerse myself in the hobby and as a result, I’ve experienced it very well - and I couldn’t be any happier about that. I’m living the high vinyl life, just like i was with travelling. Overall, absolutely no regrets for me. I just want you to see how the joy of taking out money from your retirement fund can do! Yes....it’s less responsible, but...baby monster ain’t having any kids anytime soon!
I know you said you don’t plan on having kids or anything like that soon but in order to have kids at all you need to do your best to prepare years in advance. Like if you want kids in 5-10 years you should ideally be putting away for the little goober now. My fiancé and I desperately want a house and kids but it will probably be another 5 years or so before we can pull the trigger on those goals and that’s as a household that currently brings in $100,000/year. When you start working and have your own place and car and insurance and all that stupid adult shit, money will often leave faster than it comes in and it takes YEAAAAARS to build relative financial stability. It takes a long time in my experience to save $15,500 but you can spend it all in a minute. Something I like to think about to help me with my savings goals is the following:
“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, the next best time is right now.”
Anyways, I know you didn't ask for my opinion and I’m sure it makes you want to roll your eyes but just maybe take a biggggg chill and build yourself a hard budget for vinyl spending, you will most likely thank yourself at some point! ❤
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