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I have fully committed financially to the goal of buying a home, unfortunately that means a complete hiatus on record and gear purchases (outside of component failure). It’s definitely a first world problem, but buying records was the only thing that got me out of my apartment outside of work, haven’t been to a record store since January. In the end the short term “sacrifice” will be worth the long term results.
Printed inner sleeves are the devil!
zomgbear
zomgbear
I do what @kvetcha does. I received a used record that did this and have been doing it ever since to save room
TrainFan73
TrainFan73
I got my copy of Pysence Fiction yesterday and the discs had so much static that they were effectively glued into the sleeves. I actually split the seam on the first disc getting imthe damn thing out.
TrainFan73
TrainFan73
FTR, I keep printed inners and they go back in the jacket. All records get rice paper sleeves and go between the jacket and the outer.
Happy 5 years of Needles and Grooves, everybody. The ashes of the VMP forum provided the perfect fertiliser for something truly beautiful.

Also…Hey @Dead C I don’t get on insta all that much or here either for that matter, but I do follow and I wanted to say thanks for doing me a solid and turning me on to Hey, Nothing.
Was going to buy a ticket for Jessica Pratt on her Portland stop next month at $25 pre fees, but the online + ticket fees made the grand total just over $38. Over 52% of the ticket price. It wasn't even TicketMaster, but rather eTix.
Noped out.
Snagged a last-minute face value ticket to Sleep Token tonight after refreshing official fan resale all morning. Fuck Ticketmaster anyways.
Corycm
Corycm
Always and anyways.

On top of that, the ticket drop was a complete shitshow.
EvanBenner
EvanBenner
@Corycm The worst I've ever experienced. Surprised the band didn't acknowledge how awful everything was after the fact considering their own presale code distribution was botched.
23 years ago today was the first time I saw Saul Williams live, accompanied by a full band at a club in the Gastown district of Vancouver. It was also the day Tool released  Lateralus, which I first listened to with my discman, absolutely baked off my gourd in the back alley behind the club. One of my absolute favourite days of 2001!
Big Firesale will be happening in the next few days. Be on the lookout for great N&G deals
Pitchfork sure is giving out a lot of BNM these days.
TrainFan73
TrainFan73
Didn’t used to be even one a week. You’d be lucky to have one a month. There’s two on the front page right now.
jamieanderson1968
jamieanderson1968
This is a meritocracy. Everyone gets a gold star for showing up
ayayrawn
ayayrawn
Eh, it's about as common as it's been the last 6-7 years. They frequency might have increased, but they're also reviewing a lot more stuff than they used to. And there's quite a few BNM designations these days, but the average rating is a lot lower. Nowhere near as many 9+ ratings as there used to be. It's a wider net graded at a higher curve, it seems like.
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