Bushthrax!!!!

cds or records?

I haven't been home to check the mail in the past few days, but it hadn't arrived yet when I last checked. I think I ordered it around the same time as you, but I sent them an email to which they replied promising that I "should receive it ASAP". The webstore said it can take 4-5 weeks so I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt.

Eh, my christmas presents were in the pictures of a couple of days ago, just picked two random new (not used) ones and made a nice wrap. Gotta love christmas

my xmas gift to myself is finally completing adding and editing all my metal on discogs

Got a few cds for Christmas:

Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain
Agalloch - Pale Folklore
Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972
Moonsorrow - V: Hävitetty

Symptom: Beneath the Ossuary

also this for xmas:

CDs of course.

Oh and finally a replacement CD of Manilla Road - Invasion. I've been rocking the Greek Cult Metal Classics 2CD Invasion/Metal combo for a while now. Now I just gotta wait for Shadow Kingdom Records to release the new Metal reissue with the sick-ass artwork. Then I'll be set for Mysterium.

ha ha is that your happy face

I just got these two albums within the last few days as well. This band is cool.

Found this small haul of used CDs in the local FYE:

Saint Vitus - Born Too Late (1987 SST Records)
Savatage - Dead Winter Dead (1995 Atlantic Records)
Bruce Dickinson - Accident of Birth (1997 CMC International Records)
Bruce Dickinson - Tattooed Millionaire (1990 Columbia Records)
Fight - War of Words (1993 Epic)
Bernstein Conducts Stravinsky (1985 Polygram)
Copland Conducts Copland (1988 CBS Records)
Fates Warning - Disconnected (2000 Metal Blade)
Fates Warning - Awaken The Guardian (1986 Metal Blade - Looks like a First Press but I have to do a little more research on that)
Fates Warning - No Exit (1988 Metal Blade - also looks to be a first press)

Saint Vitus - Born Too Late (1987 SST Records)
original cd? that one isn't on discogs

Stravinsky is a favourite here indeed!

Hahaha. Actually I was going to ask about in the Bootleg thread but I think it may in fact be original. I'll upload some images. There are no IFPI marks so its probably 80's. I was curious if anyone else owned a copy.

EDIT: It's the 1990 press. I think that was the first CD press apparently. The only press on CD listed has the 12" EP attached. This also has that EP.

do it man

edit: either way it's technically a reissue if the lp was out first, first edition on cd? wicked!

Not worth a whole lot lol. Only about 15 bucks. I guess they were printed in a large amount but I'd have to do research on if there were other pressings afterwards that have an IFPI code.

EDIT: There is a pretty obvious IFPI code on it now. It must have been a pressing after 1994. Le Sigh.

For me, I am happier that the Awaken The Guardian discs are original.

ha ha what an alarmist

you know what though man, i like having originals just because they are, not because they are worth anything
eg my original nirvana - nevermind and the faith no more - angel dust original i got recently, neither of them are worth anything
i get waaaaaay too hung up on having to own an original copy, the end result [or the hideous expression i dislike "at the end of the day"] is what it sounds like.

my grandad's 50+ year old magnifying glass

Of course, I have no intentions on selling anything. But it's nice to know what you have and, for me, some specific things I do like to own originals of as a collector such as my Manilla Road collection and no with these original pressings of the Fates Warning discs, I have all the originals of their worthwhile discs. Only missing Night on Brocken.. It's just a completist thing I guess. You know that though, being a collector as well.

Hahah maybe if I had that magnifying glass I would have noticed the obvious IFPI markings

amen brotherman, exactly.

about that magnifying glass: i had been thinking seriously about getting one, about the time i started contributing to discogs probably, when one day mum turned up and among the things she had was this [grandad had died and mum had a few things put aside after settling his estate and stuff, she had to fly to the isle of man to do it too] anyway, she pulled that out and asked if i'd like it, i just about wept, it was EXACTLY what i wanted and it's old and english to boot.
i'm a big fan of interesting coincidences.

nice one grandad [and mum]

the smallest text i have found so far is the BERTELSMANN in arvato digital services BERTELSMANN
and a week or so ago i saw the smallest Mastering SID Code i've seen to date
it was about the size of ant shit

Coincidences are pretty awesome when they occur. Example: apparently my grandma and grandpa were friends with my girlfriend's grandma and grandpa when they both lived in New York. Thirty years later, we find out they knew each other. Apparently they used to hang out together. Small world sometimes. We learned this about 3 years after being together... now it's been 9 and a half years and it still is such a strange fact. I have yet to acquire anything awesome though like a family heirloom magnifying glass.

Time for a Christmas haul!



Metal:
Blind Guardian - Somewhere Far Beyond
Judas Priest - Stained Class
Accept - Stalingrad (CD/DVD)
Earth - Earth 2: Special Low Frequency Edition

Non-metal:
Ornette Coleman - Free Jazz LP

Pretty stoked about it!

That Earth album is ass. Puffy kitties everywhere would be ashamed of you.

The cd first pressing of Born too late was from 1987, it was manufactured by laservideo. I had it but sold it since I got offered $50 for it. The 1987 pressing also has that ep on it. I remember the barcode area had a different color on the 1987 press vs the later repressings, but I don't remember which color since I sold it. This is what the 1987 press looks like:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/SAINT-VITUS-BOR ... 7675.l2557

Just got the new Antestor album Omen, getting my first listen now, so far pretty awesome which is to be expected.

I picked up yesterday -
Slayer - Hell Awaits [First Press]
Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrimes [1$ on cassette]
Morbid angel - Altars of Madness [Repress]
Metallica - Kill em all [Repress]

[Christmas presents list moved to the Christmas presents thread]

Mom and brother got me "Last Fair Deal Gone Down" by Katatonia and "A Sun That Never Sets" by Neurosis for Christmas. I am satisfied.

Anthrax- Fistful of Metal
Anthrax- Worship Music
Bathory- Under the Sign of the Black Mark
Bathory- Twilight of the Gods
Dissection- Storm of the Light's Bane
Entombed- Left Hand Path
King Diamond- Fatal Portrait
King Diamond- Conspiracy
King Diamond- Voodoo
King Diamond- "The Eye"
Marduk- Heaven Shall Burn... When We Are Gathered
Marduk- Plague Angel

I love seeing all the Christmas purchases in here.

A package arrived in the mail yesterday, but I was out of town so i didn't see it until today:



Hoverkraft - Musik Fur Starports cdr
uchuu - Demos: volym I cdr

You know what time it is ladies and gentleman....CHRISTMAS AMAZON GIFT CARD MADNESS!!!! (a humble part 1):

Sortilege - Larmes des Heros
Sortilege - s/t EP
Furze - Psych Minus Space Control

I've wanted to hear Sortilege for a long time, but couldn't pull the trigger on fairly expensive copies. Just recently picked up High Power and Blaspheme, so I feel like I'm getting in tune with the best France had to offer. I'm hoping these aren't some weird greek bootlegs. Even if they are, hopefully they'll sound as good as my Sultan's Ransom bootleg and I'll still love 'em.

I hope you guys are spoiled shits just like me. Fuck yes christmas materialism.

xmas present from my mom:

Ofermod - Thaumiel
Tsjuder - Legion Helvete

Let me get in on that shit:

Taake - Over Bjoergvin Graater Himmerik
Jesu - Jesu
Cult of Luna - Somewhere Along the Highway
Neurosis - A Sun That Never Sets
Nagelfar - Hunengrab im Herbst
Fen - Epoch
Swans - Soundtracks for the Blind
Swans - The Seer

Had to dole out a little money out of pocket but my two gift cards covered the majority of the costs. 'Bout time I picked up some Swans.

on cd? fark, how much did that set you back?

I got Lustre: Welcome winter (mcd)
Svart: Namnlös och Bortglömd (mcd)

Darkthrone - Hate Them
Darkthrone - Sardonic Wrath
Darkthrone - The Cult Is Alive
Darkthrone - F.O.A.D.

Posters:

Mayhem - Of Lord Satan's Mysteries (black and white)
Destroyer 666 - Cold Steel... for an Iron Age (two-sided)
King Diamond - The Spider's Lullaby (looks like an old-style movie poster, very cool)

Nothing metal but I got a Blondie live album given to me and my brother bought me AFI - Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Eyes for Christmas but he didn't know that I already own it . He says buying CDs for me is a pain in the ass because everything that he knows that I like I already own.

Hell yeah! I found them out just couple of months ago and they totally mesmerized me with "The Seer". At first I was a bit hesitant (probably because I wasn't able handle the mightiness of the concept) but it grew on me after few listens and eventually turned out to be my favorite release of 2012, heh.

Got these 2 cds for presents:
Swans my father will guide me up a rope to the sky cd
Autechre EPS 1991 - 2002 5 disc set

Yeah I can't tell if I like the seer or soundtracks for the blind more yet, the seer is easily my favorite album of 2012 also. The live dvd that my copy of the seer came with is really cool too, very good quality.

I got 3 records for X-mas

Revenge - "Infiltration.Downfall.Death"
Whitehouse - "Great White Death"
Kylesa - "To Walk A Middle Course" (Alternative Tentacles repress)