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She looks boring.... Meanwhile having read about the new album...I think we are in for something good. Fingers crossed. LouieB

Just as an FYI, only one side of the JTE is not available on vinyl and that is the Springsteen cover. Much of what was being sold on RSD was simply PR of material that was already readily available either currently or can be accessed as used LPs or singles at your local record store. So if all you want is to be able to hear "Racing in the Street" you are out of luck (unless you see him in concert), but you can get Justin's current album on vinyl anyway. And you can get certainly get it on CD. Really the whole point (beating this dead horse until it is ground into horse hamburgers...) is t

My sentiments exactly. If they want to keep folks coming into the stores buying stuff (both CDs and LPs) then they have to make it attractive AND get the merch into the stores folks want. If you dangle this special stuff out there, folks will also come in and buy regular stuff. I can't tell you how many folks I saw buying used LPs, and not obscure stuff (hell a copy of two of used Fleetwood Mac on vinyl was sold at Lauries), but just regular current and back cateloge titles at reasonable prices. It is the same thing that all industries do to keep people coming back. LouieB

The unfortunate part about some of this (not all of it, because most stores had record days, pun intentional) is that if there were a larger quantity of these releases then the record stores could still have stock for days or weeks, thus bringing in clientele for weeks in the future. Instead by creating a shortage in such merch as Big Star, the secondary market prospers while the primary market (us!!!) suffers. The whole point of this thing should be that people should patronize their local record stores all year round, not just one day. Many of us do, but still!! LouieB

It was fun but I am glad it is over for another year. I spent alot, got some cool stuff (International Submarine Band, Television, Boddie from Numero), but also some superfluous stuff (Springsteen, Beach Boys 78 (really)) and locally cool stuff (VEEDEE, Justin Earle, Bloodshot comp which I got thanked in). It clearly was a boom for the stores which were packed and selling both new and used stuff. But really the hype is ridiculous. Some stuff was clearly overpriced (Vanguard reissues) and Big Star was nowhere in sight. Oh yea, Bob Dylan. Meanwhile I got a bunch of free stuff as well. The

Contempt? That is pretty strong too. All I see here is how horrible and broken the government is. Yea, in some ways it is, but most ways we get quite alot from the government considering. Could it be better. Oh yea, lots better. Could we have better systems as Cryptique keeps pointing out? For sure. But the MINUTE something fucks up, we are all over whatever government or government agency we think is responsible, but we really don't want to pay for it. Trust me I am the same as everyone else and I WORK for the government. Meanwhile most folks here are too young to even conceive that

Oh please. I don't hate anyone. that's just silly. Just pointing out that some folks are totally freaked out by the way the system works, even when it works for them. Even the hysteria over the systems being so broken they won't be there in the future is totally hysterical (in more ways then one.) We may have to tax everyone more for what they get, but these systems aren't going away any time soon. (Higher premiums are jsut a form of private taxation, which I think is the point about Denmark.) But the fact remains, the medical system has and continues to prosper BECAUSE of health insuran

Actually I think we should go back to the time when there was no health insurance. (There was a time!!) That way ikol can trade his services for whatever meger funds or other types of barter he can get for treating his patients. In those days doctors weren't so rich. They were esteemed, but not wealthy. Sometimes they didn't get paid at all or people died because they didn't have money. Yea, that was the good old days. I find it humorous that the very folks who make out like bandits under this system are the first to criticize it. Tom Lehrer had a great line about treating diseases of t

Wow, super heavy....everyone is going to die. LouieB

Who are they? Members of the Handsome Family and Psychedelic Furs?? I guess all the good band names are gone. LouieB

Many folks in the USofA want the freedom to die without health insurance and without an income and maybe homeless. I guess we need to let them have that freedom.

Yea, that is too bad. I went in there with CHIRP record sale material and they were really nice. I also bought some jazz at the same time. At least HP has somewhere for you to go (walking distance I do believe) so that's cool. edit- I have a previous reissue LP of BS's third album. Do I need another (considering I also have two versions of the CD?); yea, maybe. LouieB

As you have pointed out - there are collectors and there are "collectors". I am with you. I like buying LPs (and CDs for that matter) but they don't have to be either perfect, or collector's items, just something to listen to. I used to love getting cut-outs in the old days, before there were used LPs and before there was a big collector market. Needless to say I have ended up with collectors items as a result, but it doesn't mean I meant to. Lots of places still sell at reasonable prices. I would say the funniest part of the CHIRP record sales (there are two a year, one at Pfork) and proba

Hyde Park records seems to be better than in the past. There will be CD issues on record store day too. In years past they gave out free label comps. That was fun. Not sure if the labels have gotten greedy and decided not to do this anymore. LouieB

Really no reason to mix apples and oranges here. Used records are used and subject to the supply and demand curve, which is high on eBay and low in resale shops and variable in used record stores. New records from indie labels are expensive, for all the obvious reasons; it costs alot more now to produce vinyl records because there aren't that many plants that do it and the demand has suddenly increased (despite this being 100 year old technology.) No indie record label can put out new LPs for 10 bucks unless they want to loose money. Same way with those licensing old material on new LPs.

The Chicago Cubs!! LouieB

Donald Trump then I guess. Because running a government is so much like running a corporation. LouieB

I so badly want one of the Pauls as president. Let's see them deal with shit!! LouieB

I have wondered this for a long time; what happens when there are no more letters to be published. I love reading books of artists letters. Back in the day it wasn't hard to do, because people wrote on paper and people kept letters. Now so much is done by email, texting, blogging, social networking, etc. and it is totally ephemeral. It is actually kind of a sad thought. I haven't written an actual paper letter in years, not even typed one on a computer and mailed a hard copy. I used to do it all the time. LouieB

You ain't off the hook yet!!! They threw water on me IN the show and my jacket was still wet after the show, waiting out in the cold.... Clearly I am kidding. But yes, it was a fabulous show. It taught me that leaving Chicago to see Wilco was a great thing. Also the Wolfe auditorium and downtown Ashville are both very very cool. Great time, except for that. Met up with a bunch of folks I have never met before too. The worst I can say about DMB is that they are inoffensive. Kind of like Ben Harper or Coldplay. Actually in a world where there is alot of crap on the radio, these folks ar

Of course not. I haven't believed in any of this sell out crap for a very long time. I am sure I did back in my dewy youth back in the 1960s, but hardly now. I only half agree with Beltman about great art enduring despite the baggage. Art endures because of commerce. Artists that don't sell don't last. The Sistine Chapel mural was made for money. Songs need to sell, no matter how. There would not be the great Nick Drake hero worship revival without the VW commercial. No one would have hardly heard of him. I know I never did and I was actually alive when he was around and listening to hi

There is no such thing as selling out anymore. There is also some car commercial with Paul Simon's "The Only Living Boy in New York" and another commercial (maybe cars, I can't remember) with a Kinks song in it. Any band these days that wouldn't take a commerical would be a bunch of fools. Bands allow themselves to be used in TV shows as well. It is all fair game. I am just unaware of which of the new bands are in commercials, but i am guess it is a ton. What struggling band wouldn't take a payday and take a few weeks or months off as a result? Selling out is so 60s man!!! LouieB

That is plenty creepy too. To get this off of Wilco and back to DMB. I just don't think his fans are any weirder than the norm. But then again I have not been to see him. But I have seen near fights, or drunks being hauled out by security, or folks who should have been hauled out by security at any number of shows over the years. LouieB

Let me say it was one of the best shows I ever saw Wilco put on and I have seen alot. It was also the furthest I ever went for a Wilco show.It was generally a good time, but it was cold that night and we stood outside waiting for the band to maybe come out and that water on me sure was cold. Could it have been six years ago? Maybe. Rosehill Drive opened (and drove folks out of the auditorium) and it was at the end of a great trip I took with a friend. it probably wasn't you guys. I am fine with drunks as long they behave themselves. If you think I am kidding about the creepy U of C gir

Well yea..kind of paranoid, I admit. At one of the Vic shows there was a girl in a U of C sweat shirt that would not talk to anyone around her, kept stareing at Jeff and then stareing at Sue in the balcony, didn't applaud, sat on the floor during breaks and gave off a seriously creepy vibe to all those around her. She also left before the end of the show. That's what I am talking about. Paranoid, sure!! Creepy?? Oh yea. Then there were the guys who yelled at me in Ashville when I turned around, threw water at me and told me not to turn around again. Was in in danger? Maybe not, bu