there was a glitch in the Amazon time/space continuum where if you ordered a certain Danzig album from them, they sent you pretty much anything other than the Danzig album you ordered until they figured this out and then started sending out the correct Danizg album. It was also like $11 so...
they also got me back for another full year with 8 more free albums (I had a 1/1 subscription date in 2023, so I got 8 free last year and 8 more free this year) but I agree the curation this time around has been lacking outside of Old #1 and Master of Reality. This next quarter doesn't appeal...
there's also a standard 50th anniversary pressing of this as well
https://store.dead.net/en/grateful-dead/special-collections/from-the-mars-hotel/from-the-mars-hotel-50th-anniversary-remaster-dead.net-exclusive-%5B1lp%5D/081227817251.html
my American Beauty just showed up and I didn't do a proper A/B with the Mofi but my initial impression is that this is very Jerry forward both in vocals and guitar and that the harmonies really shine. I remember not really caring for the 50th anniversary, and I've had an early 00s copy that...
listening to Candy-O now, and it's a vast improvement over the 70s beater copy I had. my American Beauty shipped separately for some reason and is out for delivery now
can't wait for Storf or Paulie to clear up this whole thing in a venue only a microscopic percentage of their users frequent
something heartwarming about them time traveling straight back to 2018 this morning for the hell of it