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Ha, can't believe there's two of us! Hadn't thought about the address issue... might have to quickly text a friend who has a sister over there. Pretty sure that makes it midnight tonight they go on sale here.

 

I'm not letting a lack of interested friends stop me. I'm travelling with a friend who wouldn't even come when I offered to pay for her ticket, so she's flying home earlier and I'm relying on Wilco fans being friendly for company.

My girlfriend & I were supposed to be arriving in Toronto in mid-August, but have decided to delay that in favour of Wilco overload.

Tickets on sale 10pm in Perth, so that'd be midnight if you're on the east coast of Australia! I know a Bostonian, but she lives in Perth, so I am hoping that the e-ticket shall be my friend.

I'll be trying to get tickets online from Australia (yes!)... any idea whether they usually post out tickets for this kind of thing, or whether they'll just do e-tickets.

A little worried that if the former occurs that I'm gonna need some sorta North American address, or something equally kooky. Fingers crossed!

I haven't tried playing it again, but count me in as another whose Summerteeth vinyl skips on Can't Stand It. Just picked it up from my local record store yesterday. Everything else on the album plays fine (and sounds great).

Thanks to all for sharing your issues on this.

I also had skips during Can't Stand It, on vinyl ordered from Amazon, but I'm in Australia so posting back to Amazon was a pretty expensive option.

During the 1st play it skipped three times, after reading these quotes I gave it a 2nd play and one skip had disappeared. Gave it two more plays through the skip effected section and lost another skip, but one still persisted through a bunch more plays. I figured that, seeing as running a needle over it removed the other skips, I'd unplug my player and gently guide the needle back-and-forth over the skipping section a few times. And that actually worked. Hallelujah!

That said, try any record scratching at your own risk! I just figured I had nothing to lose...

On a more general note, I buy a bunch of new vinyl and occasionally seem to have problems with skips in the 1st two songs of albums. Sufjan Steven's Seven Swans I returned to the store after a track two skip. Two different Sloan albums I own (pressed in the same lot) had skips in the first song on both sides. My Fleet Foxes LP used to skip during White Winter Hymnal for the first few plays but now just pops there. Figure 8 by Elliott Smith has a skip near the start of side two (apparently that lot of pressing were real duds though, with skips aplenty). Maybe it's this part of the record that more vunerable if there are quality control issues with the pressing.

The appearance of skips on older vinyl is a more rare occurrence from my experience. Are folks at the pressing plants just offering less care these days?

ps. the vinyl version does sound less compressed than the CD version, but there is no extra credit given on the sleeve to remastering job, so maybe it's just my imagination..

Just discovered Emitt recently thanks to a friend lending me a compilation, which contains his whole 1st solo album, then a selection of the 2nd and 3rd albums.

I'd really recommend the self-titled 1st album, it's damn hot. Great songs, and all played and recorded by Emitt at home on a big old 4-track, which psychologically makes it even cooler!

The other records I could easily leave, except "Better Side Of Life" from the 2nd album which is a great Dear Prudence-y type thing.

Yep, he sounds like McCartney, in the voice and the songs.