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I always buy CDs. I never pay for downloads unless that's the only way a release is published. CDs give me a lossless digital copy that also serves as a physical backup. They are easier to rip than vinyl and I can do with it as I please. As long as I have the CD, I always have access to that music. I can rip it, delete it, and repeat that as many times as I wish. I get art with it. I get to support my local record stores. If I grow tired of it, I can sell it an recoup some of my money. I own that copy. Vinyl is expensive by comparison to other formats. However, when adjusted for inf

I'm planning on signing up for this. @ThisIsNowhere, if you want to send me a referral we can each get a free record out of it. http://vinylmeplease.com/refer-a-friend/ If you're up for it, just let me know how you'd prefer to send it and I'll DM my info.

The guy with the Bloodbuzz Ohio avatar feels the need to hijack this thread momentarily with a defense of The National... Toothless? They have moments on disc and live that are as fierce as anybody going right now. Hookless? Maybe he just can't recognize a hook when it's sung in baritone. Mirthless? OK. that one's 100% true, but criticizing The National for their lack of mirth is a bit like criticizing Wilco for their grooming.

Message from Mid-Bar... It's an interesting song, but I don't know yet if it's a good one. It seems like a perfect B-side - a song where the band seems like they couldn't quite finish it to their full satisfaction, but far enough along to warrant being heard. Speak Into the Rose... The title sounds like Ryan Adams. The music sounds like Neu!. In terms of feel, I think it could have been on the album proper serving the same role as Let's Go Away for Awhile on the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds. Rock instrumentals usually represent half-baked ideas, but this song is not that at all. It's quite

Wilco should play at my house, my house I'll show you the ropes, kid, show you the ropes I'll have a bus and a trailer at my house, my house I'll show you the ropes kid, show you the ropes I'll buy fifteen cases for my house, my house Put all the furniture in the garage Well Wilco should play at my house, my house You got to set them up kid, set them up

Full disclosure... I've been a regular Pitchfork reader for the better part of a decade and their reviews are often a factor in my music purchases. I think their review of The Whole Love was fair, and generally positive. The prose wasn't as self-indulgent as many Pitchfork reveiews typically are. I agree with the others who said it read like a review for an album that got a higher score. I began reading Pitchfork in the first place because unlike other outlets that aligned with my tastes, they utilized the whole scale when rating an album. That has changed over the last few years, and t

Keep in mind that those particular words might have belonged to Jane Smiley's boyfriend and not Jeff Tweedy. They lyrics are first-person rather than third-person, after all.

To me, Open Mind sounds exactly like what they said they set out to do on W(TA), but this time they actually execute it. It's direct and sincere, but it is distinctly lacking in cheesiness. In the case of this particular album, yes.

Their record label is going to be pissed!

Early favorite: Black Moon YHF is my all-time favorite album, and to me this song best recaptures that mood.

To each their own, but I think you're hearing it differently than most others (or at least differently than I am). It's chaos at 1000mph - in my view there should be a little sloppiness, a little danger. The outro isn't about having everything in its right place, it's about pushing the song faster and further until it almost unravels, and then drawing it back in at the close. It's an approach that the band has taken on several other songs in the past, but none of them have sounded quite like this. I'm excited about it because I honestly though that Wilco was done making that kind of music

It doesn't seem like it should work, but it does. It is by far not my favorite from the new album, but it deserves my attention.

Same here. It probably took me a solid four years of skipping or ignoring the track before it caught on for me. It's a song that rewards patience, and while it lacks the bombast of "I Am Trying to Break Your Heart" it makes up for it by being a much stronger song lyrically. To this day, it is the only Wilco song where I remember the exact moment and setting where I "got it". My list: Sunken TreasureOne By OneA Shot in the ArmELTI Am Trying to Break Your HeartKameraRadio CureA Magazine Called SunsetMuzzle of BeesDeeper Down

Yes he does. And as it turns out, he's in his own (shitty) band! http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/festival-come-arrow-come/ That's not even music for white people. That's music for coma patients. After seeing the video of his band performing, I think he's compensating for something in that review.

YHF ST AGIB W(ta) BT SBS AM

This guy wrote the kind of review that everybody who hates Pitchfork thinks they always write.

I've been in a similar (off-topic) discussion in another thread, but I'd like to add that I perceive very little difference between 320kbps VBR mp3s and FLAC or the source disc. I prefer to buy the disc because I like having a physical copy. I really don't play them though. I rip them to FLAC and make multiple backups for archival purposes, and then I convert the FLACs to high-quality mp3s for my iPod/laptop. Those are the files that I generally listen to. It's a lot of work to go through to get some mp3s on my player, but at least I know for sure that my lossy files are as close to sourc

FLAC and other losselss formats get you the exact audio quality that is on the disc. That's why it's called lossless. Plus it carries the advantages of being portable (my Discman is in the attic) and being much easier to keep multiple backups.

I'm here to defend ELT. It's a great song, and came in handy for me in a very cathartic sort of way about a year or so ago. Didn't really pay as much attention to it before then. I'm trying to take that kind of thing into account as I examine my own preferences and read others'. Something that really hits home for me may not for you, and vice versa. Some of the songs we're discussing - I may not be into them now, but that does not necessarily preclude liking them down the road. I came to the Wilco cataloge in a strange order: YHF, AM, ST, BT, and then the rest upon release. The songs

Then by his logic he should absolutely LOVE Wilco. What gives?

Lance Armstrong chimes in on Twitter:

I'm referring to FLAC - which in my case I ripped from my CD. Much better than an mp3 which loses of quality and nuance in the process of compressing the file. FLAC is still compressed, but not nearly to the same extent and it happens without losing anything that is encoded on the disc. I'd love to step up to vinyl, but that's a big investment that I can't make quite yet.

...or music? Apparently dude also thinks that Vampire Weekend's music is about "subtle rebellion". I read two other reviews he wrote just to see where he's coming from, and both of the others also prattled on about what white people supposedly like. Whatever. I guess next time I'll know to stop reading when I see the words MIKE POWELL.

Name droppings? Sounds... messy.

Listening to it in lossless for the first time. The only words to describe the difference between this and the leaked version are, "The schnozberries taste like schnozberries" I already liked these two tracks, but I am hearing much more texture in Deeper Down and much more vitality in You Never Know than I was hearing before.