Whats it like?

Are the Swans any good?

Today I got 4 things in the mail:

Severed Heads: Gigaplus CD, Robot Peepshow DVD

Malfunkshun: T-shirt, 333 DVD.

The malfunkshun DVD is especially fantastic.

I need to pick up some Swans. Can anyone suggest a good place to start?

I would not know abut swans. everything I get from them is pompous and boring. I mean BORING.

swans, and i mean the early stuff, up until children of god (because i haven't heard the early stuff), were fantastic, very grim, very brutal; i haven't given the discs a proper listen but, so far, cop sounds awesome.

i bought ddn deluxe yesterday, sounds tons better than the dgc crap remaster.

COP/YOUNG GOD/GREED/HOLY MONEY
CHILDREN OF GOD/WORLD OF SKIN
VARIOUS FAILURES

From top to bottom, they start of harsh and become more melodic.

Head over to the Swans website, where you'll find some samples on the discography.

Where do you guys buy most of your music? Various internet sites? Local store? Where?

Just curious.

I go to local stores, sound exchaneg and vinal edge, here in Houston, as well as others like Black Dog Records.

I also hit Ebay for records.

Local, independently owned stores. Lucky to have two of them thriving here. I like the touchy-feely aspect of buying records. I don't like buying over the Interweb.

Youngsbower - Relayer


The most notable album that I have bought recently. Really beautiful, and I wasn't even much of a Richard Youngs fan before.

I really need to get that Youngsbower one. The few fragments of it I have heard are ace. It's also worth checking out another collaboration they did, Site/Realm which is much noisier but really good. Worth it for the first side alone I think. Might be a bit tough to find these days.

on cd:

*royal trux - thank you
*steel pole bath tub - scars from falling down
*rah bras - whohm
*bloody panda ep
*lasse marhaug - the great silence

on vinyl.
you're living all over me - dinosaur jr

my favorite part about it is that the vinyl is yellow

AW! Dammit, mine isn't! Where'd you get that.

this record store near my house. crooked beat. the yellow really makes it for me.

hey gmku, don't know if you remember me, i used to be touch me i'm sick round here.

Ah, I think I remember...

Yeah, I'm a sucker for colored vinyl. Probably the favorite one I own is a bubblegum-pink-swirl SubPop 45 of early Smashing Pumpkins (has a couple Gish songs).

ahh that sounds nice.

i got around to buying a record player and i've started up a collection of vinyl. it's pretty pathetic so far, but i never realized how expensive newer vinyl can be.

Yeah, it can be. But I'd rather spend the same amount of money on just a few nice LPs than a bunch of chintzy CDs. I just get more of a thrill out of LPs.

Did you get any of the above on vinyl? I'd like a copy of that Pop Group record on vinyl but I can't find a cheap-ish used copy.

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Bonsai Kitten

I bought Feist's The Reminder from work today... employee discounts RULE.
And as I said in the listening thread... this album is increibly good. I am impressed.

Basso Profondo From Old Russia.
Absolutely beautiful.

i got a pretty sweet thing today!!

mastodon - blood mountain

on white fecking vinyl!!!


ps: feist sucks big fucking time.

Several things:

- Built To Spill: Perfect From Now On (LP reissue)
- Pissed Jeans: Hope For Men
- Neurosis: Given To The Rising
- Liars: They Threw Us In A Trench...

Beastie Boys - HELLO NASTY on GOLD Vinyl



They Might Be Giants - LINCOLN on vinyl

On vinyl :

The Stooges - Fun House

English & 1970 edition.

The new Shellac came yesterday so I shall pick it up very soon.

On CD, all together:





And strangely, considering LittlePuppetBoy's post:



And on unspeakably beautiful quad-vinyl:

Good stuff, man...

At the show tonight:
(6 artist label comp.) Out of Touch Records: Volume II (7")
Be Bad + Attack Mode Split 7"
Gilbert Switzer + The Hold [I think it's titled "State of Nature," but either way... it's a split 7"]

and then cds:
dd/mm/yyyy - Blue Screen of Death: Journey to and Escape From the Fluffly Love Cloud
dd/mm/yyyy - Are They Masks?
Be Bad - Vision Correction

Picked it up today on CD. Saw the vinyl there and the packaging was really nice, it was $30, and the CD was $23, so I opted for the latter. But also mainly because I want to listen to Shellac in my car.

Norma J, the Shellac vinyl has a CD included inside! Two for the price of one dude! You missed out!

haha. you lie better than you fool, Rob.

MM FOOD 2 copies
Diamond D: Stunts Blunts & Hip Hop
SY: Daydream wax box

bought sonic youth's self titled on vinyl. hoorah@

Pretty awesome shit. I bought it last summer.
Destroyer is one of my favorite SY tracks

i was so excited to go home and listen to it. i had never heard the songs onthe reissue version. plus i had fun reading the inside shit.