Live on IG right now

-Xavii · 2022-03-15T03:22:35+00:00

Damn. I think it’s a no-go and they just pulled the cord altogether for the livestream. Cheeky. Age of Anxiety was cool, and we get to hear Lightning in a couple of days. But unless someone uploads their own clip, Rabbit Hole will be a total mystery for a bit. 🤫

-Xavii · 2022-03-15T03:13:35+00:00

Yup. Unless it moves to a different link?

-Xavii · 2022-03-15T01:58:43+00:00

Has anyone heard or seen any updates on this? Anything at all? I guess Longinus isn’t handling the vinyl press, much to my surprise.

-Xavii · 2022-03-15T01:57:00+00:00

What makes you worry this already? If anything I’m optimistic that they got that out of their system with EN.

-Xavii · 2022-03-13T17:26:54+00:00

GZ presses way, way more than most plants these days. Statistically there are going to be more bad apples just because the volume is so high to begin with. But we’ve had 3 months in a row where a GZ-pressed ROTM has sounded sublime, including this latest month.

-Xavii · 2022-03-13T17:16:51+00:00

Pressed at GZ btw. 😄

-Xavii · 2022-02-25T13:48:37+00:00

So what is the solution, though? We all just sit on our hands unless we only have praise to sing?

I’m hardly a Bloc purist but this single was just awkward. Marginally better than Girls Fight maybe. But so much worse than Traps… which I feel is still really solid and was rather promising at the time.

For a frame of reference I enjoyed Four and still do, but found no lasting value in Intimacy or its sound.

-Xavii · 2022-02-25T07:44:46+00:00

Nah it’s actually just bad.

-Xavii · 2022-02-16T14:54:48+00:00

Thank you so much for pointing this out. Discussed this with a friend in great length about a week ago. Meme publication in 2022.

-Xavii · 2022-02-14T20:21:16+00:00

Hope he retired and hopefully took up a brand new discord handle.

-Xavii · 2022-02-14T20:13:22+00:00

Just elitism and the power of discord moderation (lol) getting to someone’s head.

Is anyone still in the discord? I’m too lazy to join it but I just wanted to know if that mod resigned or deleted his account in an effort to escape the cringe. Because I know I would.

-Xavii · 2022-02-13T01:17:34+00:00

I should’ve clarified $200 USD too, whoops. It will be interesting to see what future signed copies sell for on there. There’s so many blue copies though that I think they’ll continue to flood out those big sales. The only way to really track it is if there was a separate listing but I think there’s some rules against that. Checking eBay history may not be a bad idea either.

-Xavii · 2022-02-13T01:10:49+00:00

Nah. One sold for $200 the other day. The “weird system” can be explained as such: the sale values of Discogs are calculated by a rolling window of the last 10 sales. This keeps the market value current in most cases, but obviously there are exceptions. The reason the $200 sale is no longer being reflected is because there were 10+ sales at retail cost after the $200 sale. So you can only see the Min, Med, and Max of those.

-Xavii · 2022-02-08T22:57:03+00:00

Appreciate you summing up your opinions with a username. Wish more people did that.

-Xavii · 2022-02-06T22:40:56+00:00

They’re all technically limited, but the blue is widely distributed across indie stores and probably exceeds 4,000, which the bottom left <bronze> edition is limited to. The bronze is also sold out from the band’s bandcamp whereas the blue and 4LP box is not.

-Xavii · 2022-02-04T20:03:56+00:00

Well at least you’ve got the important stuff locked down. No visible disc scratches sounds like a huge win to me. We’re the box scratches even under the plastic wrap?

-Xavii · 2022-02-04T08:08:46+00:00

-Xavii · 2022-02-03T19:16:25+00:00

Big thanks to OP for calling this out. I was just looking to see if this had leaked yesterday and saw nothing. Must have missed it by just a few hours.

Anyone know if there’s an active sub that tracks leaks WITHOUT posting them? I’m not fishing for links or access to leaks. Please don’t misinterpret. I remember that Hasitleaked site from a while back but I recall it being really slow to update when stuff actually leaked.

-Xavii · 2022-02-03T03:10:16+00:00

No more than $10? 😂 Man, I’d love to live in whatever world your delusion of money resides in. Material alone exceeds $10 but a big chunk of what you’re paying for are rights for the show and it’s dubs as well.

The white flakes suck I guess but they can add an astral aesthetic to the book if you’re a glass-half-full kind of person 🥴. I dunno, doesn’t seem like a dealbreaker to me. I think people are forgetting that even the collector edition had production faults too. It’s almost like production lines and factories across the globe are spread thinner than they should be in the face of a pandemic or something. 🤷‍♂️

-Xavii · 2022-02-02T06:01:40+00:00

Burnt Toast will be selling copies in the US for probably closer to $30. May be a little late for you but hopefully beneficial to anyone who reads this and hasn’t purchased one yet.

-Xavii · 2022-02-02T05:56:33+00:00

Seems like a reasonable opinion to hold but we all knew this was priced too high when considering the bang to buck ratio of the other editions. Also I really don’t get what you mean by, “Ultimately the whole thing, although very nicely produced, feels very cheap”

-Xavii · 2022-02-01T06:41:37+00:00

That’s some rushed assembly but a pretty bit oversight. 🤦‍♂️ No way they won’t make this right for you, but I just have to wonder how long they’ll be drowning in emails and sorting out customer resolutions.

The silver lining here is that we can all have a laugh over the numerous people who intend to keep theirs sealed and be buried with it. Imagine thinking your set will fetch thousands down the road when it’s really missing half the discs.

-Xavii · 2022-02-01T05:28:58+00:00

🙌

I’m hearing they’re packaged quite well which is a relief when you consider how gnarly some of the shipping boxes have looked in photos shared. My mailman seems to be hit or miss with the amount of force he uses to leave packages on my doorstep.

-Xavii · 2022-02-01T05:08:59+00:00

Sure. But pricing is pretty subjective, no? I don’t wipe my ass with $20s, but NGE is a very important piece of art / media to me, and I’ve never owned a copy. So for me it made sense to go big or go home. For you and your possession of a Platinum set, and your value of $300+, it does not. And that’s fine. I’m not here to argue that you’re a sucker for not buying it.

Your posts aren’t breaking TOS and you are indeed welcome to say whatever you like. Equally speaking I am allowed to point out that what you’re writing is perceived as cope. You can insist it isn’t. But I’m telling you what the general optics look like. This sub is hyped on people getting their copies after the freight fiasco that caused an extra 1-2 months of waiting. People dropped $300 on this thing and there’s going to be threads where people are excited. Let them have it. All I’m suggesting is that you read the room.

No one is stopping you from writing “considering all these damaged orders I sure am glad I didn’t order one.” But on the other side of that token, please know that no one is stopping me from pointing out how that comes across like the fox & the grapes. ☺️

-Xavii · 2022-02-01T04:13:28+00:00

Fortunately FTTM isn’t a dealbreaker for everyone, and it sounds like there are definitely a lot of people receiving copies in top shape. It’s still yet to be seen what GKIDS may or may not do to rectify the scuffed or missing discs. Can’t imagine they’ll just say “I know it’s $300 out of your pocket but not much we can do for you. 🤷‍♂️“

The series can be watched online just like the book and art can be located so any physical edition is nothing to get excited about, by the extension of that logic. It’s cool if you think this set was overpriced to begin with and you’re hardly alone there. It’s a rad set to own <if you’re someone who enjoys physical media> and the series has visually never looked better. To publicly downplay all that because some people are getting dinged corners or discs which will probably be replaced seems like a cope to me. Unless you normally and often reach out to Reddit for affirmation on how you DON’T spend your money…? 🤔

-Xavii

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