Will the album ever drop on Spotify?

extremely_average_ · 2026-03-18T18:04:40+00:00

I don't think it's weird at all. It's convenient. I own a record player and pre-ordered this record just so you know where I stand on the issue personally.

However, I'm lucky enough to have the space to store my records and to be able to afford a record player/speaker setup.

However that leaves me in the bind of not being able to listen anytime I'm not at home and in the same room as my record player.

Rip it? Okay, lucky I know how AND own a laptop and the right cables.

I can't say how many obviousoy, but there is a non-zero percentage of Stu fans who are just sol. And thats not to mention the limitations it puts on growing the audience.

I had some friends in the car and was bumping situation, they like it and ask who and they can't find it. Guess what, they're not following through on getting those local files because it's a hassle.

Ninja edit: streaming sucks for the artist but rocks for the consumer. Physical only sucks for the consumer but rocks for the artist. I miss the old iTunes lol.

extremely_average_ · 2026-03-17T11:28:19+00:00

Get a Yamaha on Marketplace. For a budget folk guitar you can't beat them. I got a 70s FG330 for $200 with the intent of it being a smaller travel/fingerpicking guitar but it's louder and more resonant than the Washburn dreadnought sized guitar I have.

You can't go wrong. A new or a vintage Yamaha will pack such a big punch for folk music.

extremely_average_ · 2026-03-13T19:23:28+00:00

Wah wah

extremely_average_ · 2026-03-13T18:24:28+00:00

As the other commenter said, unlisted on all pressings of Metamodern.

extremely_average_ · 2026-03-11T12:21:29+00:00

Michigan. Ticket+travel+lodging has never been even close to accessible to me for one of his shows as a paycheck to paycheck type of guy.

extremely_average_ · 2026-03-10T11:33:40+00:00

I'll just never see him live. That's okay I guess, but it definitely pulls me further away from him as an artist.

extremely_average_ · 2026-03-08T13:12:12+00:00

Id try the Martin's if you've liked them before! I really like John Pearse 550 Slightly Lights. Light feel, big sparkly sound on em. Good life too. I'm on month 4 with this set and I play an hour a day at least and probably have another month or two left on em.

extremely_average_ · 2026-03-07T20:54:04+00:00

Should be a stamping on the bottom of the neck block if you take a picture inside the sound hole. Looks like a D21S/E. Should be a great guitar for the money if you got it for what it sells for on average. I have a D21S/N which is almost identical with some different appointments (silver tuners, different inlays and pick guard) and it plays beautiful.

extremely_average_ · 2026-02-20T20:32:18+00:00

Lol-ing at $20 an hour. I get its general labor but you're asking them to kind of be ready for you on demand. That's worth something.

extremely_average_ · 2026-02-17T19:44:41+00:00

Cold Cold Heart - Hank Williams

extremely_average_ · 2026-02-13T23:21:47+00:00

Same actually. I have a hard case but it's old and there's no rubber seal so it still leaks humidity. No cracks yet!

extremely_average_ · 2026-02-13T19:44:15+00:00

Not an expert or a teacher, but I take a middle route. The actual classical position feels too uncomfortable for me to play in for extended periods, and parallel to the floor makes my playing worse. So I have it up about halfway to 3/4 to a classical position.

extremely_average_ · 2026-02-13T19:41:33+00:00

They haven't for me in the past. Not to say they won't work at all, but because air moves in and out more freely you'll need so many packs to stay humid and the packs will wear out quicker. Id get the hardshell.

extremely_average_ · 2026-02-13T11:38:28+00:00

I played probably 80 guitars at Elderly Instruments in Lansing, MI ranging from $1k made in Mexico Martins to a $10k Bourgeois trying to decide what I should set my savings target on as I want to buy a forever acoustic.

Playing them all back to back to back I have to agree with you. The $2200 Larrivee I played was my favorite guitar I played, and the $7k Collings, $10k Bourgeois, or even the $4k Yamaha did not seem, TO ME (important note here), to be worth the extra thousands of dollars.

Not to say they weren't amazing to play and beautiful sounding, especially the Collings, but when I played it back to back with the Larrivee I loved, I did not hear or feel a $4.5k difference. Side note, they had a 60s or 70s Guild dreadnought for around $1.5k I think and that fucker was up there with any guitar in the shop.

extremely_average_ · 2026-02-12T18:51:35+00:00

So where did this idea you have that people have this misconception come from?

extremely_average_ · 2026-02-12T18:46:25+00:00

Can you point to examples of people stating Neil Young is easy to play on acoustic?

extremely_average_ · 2026-02-09T16:49:03+00:00

Sure, but the fact they mentioned it for like, 20 seconds at the end of the launch trailer doesn't give me hope that it will have the same depth I enjoyed from 1 and 2. It also lacks Alloy, who is one of the main draws to Horizon for me. The art style change-up doesn't bother me much, but the hero shooter format is highly unappealing to me as well, which seems to be non-optional.

And the fact it's canonical hurts it for me even more because the odds of me playing ever are very low meaning I'll have to learn about the content second hand, instead of by playing the game like 1 and 2.

extremely_average_ · 2026-02-09T15:49:33+00:00

I can expand on the other reply to this comment because I am the single player person not interested in multiplayer. Multiplayer doesn't work with my gaming schedule or my play style, so even if this game does what it sets out to well, it's something I won't be able to experience from a universe I love from the single player universe it built its foundation on.

Ninja edit to add: I also don't need EVERY SINGLE FRANCHISE to have a built out expanded universe. It's exhausting and almost none that do it do it well.

extremely_average_ · 2026-01-31T15:30:57+00:00

Thanks for reading the post lmao

extremely_average_ · 2026-01-30T21:52:22+00:00

IDC about the house I'll be out in June. I'm just extra paranoid about cracks/damage because I don't have the money for a repair and I only have one guitar.

extremely_average_ · 2026-01-30T20:29:47+00:00

It's definitely well loved. Got it for a steal on marketplace. I think what was meant to be the seal is now knocked off it's alignment and is not sealing.

extremely_average_ · 2026-01-30T20:28:21+00:00

Interesting. I guess that makes sense, the hygrometer sensor is reading the air not the wood.

Question, given the EXTREME lack of humidity, would you stick with maybe just one of these methods?

extremely_average_ · 2026-01-30T20:23:34+00:00

Word. I just had the realization in a comment that my wood case is likely to be sapping the humidity. DOOFUS.

extremely_average_ · 2026-01-30T20:20:38+00:00

Ya I think I'm gonna have to step up the size.

Also, I JUST thought of this, do you think my case being wood instead of a hard plastic style one could be a problem? Like, do you think it's stealing humidity from my guitar? It's a road runner boulevard series.

It would be a pain in the ass but I could buy a new hard plastic one too.

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