Needles & Grooves

Give it a few years and it'll receive the MoFi treatment.

I was saying it wrong until a couple months ago too.

I still fight the urge to say Why-ess

I always think of Wise Potato chips

“Ways Blood”

@Melt Face Molly Drop Way-ess

What's for dinna ma?

Curds and Weyes Blood.

Curds and Weyes Blood sausage. A very Irish dish, I assume.

Ask @Joe Mac if he's ever had curds and weyes blood sausage.

Mmmmmm black pudding! I love black pudding even if it gives me heartburn...

@wokeupnew yeah honestly I know my stylus can be unforgiving but it's really the crackle and pop I can't deal with, the warp is unplayable on both copies but I can deal with that, but when I'm getting 8/10 pops in a row in certain places with no visible scratches that's a problem. Do you have the loser Edition or the black?

@Mather I have the loser edition. Next time I listen I’ll pay close attention to see if there’s any type of distortion

@wokeupnew yeah it's actually not distortion, it's just pops, lots of them. Just sounds like dust but the records been vacuumed. Lots of people on Cogs saying the same thing. I can deal with the lifeless mastering but the pops are brutal, not to mention the fact that the warps on both are so big I can't even play the first track on either...

According to Discogs, it was pressed at RTI which makes it seem weird to me that it would be poorly pressed.

@High Rant District I agree! But here we are... I see no indication on the deadwax that it was pressed there. I don't think I believe that claim on cogs.

@Mather After doing a bit of searching on the SH forums, Sub Pop do have at least some records pressed at RTI and folks have had complaints about the pressing quality. I had no idea. Oddly enough, I always equated RTI with quality pressings and Sub Pop as crapshoot pressings.

Yeah, Sub Pop has always felt like a DIY label to me, and never equated as an audiophile one by any means. Really any indie-esque label has a certain level of DIY aesthetic.

Yeah I mean I by no means expected audiophile. But I DO expect to not have like 8 to 10 pops in a row here and there. Some pops are fine obviously, but I have other Sub Pop records and both of these copies have been light years worse not to mention literally unplayable warps on both. Even with my clamp I can't touch the first track...

I'm by no means an audiophile either. The reality for me is simply that if there are pops and clicks I'm probably not going to listen to the record much or at all, and it needs to go.