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Post by daved on Jun 23, 2020 11:33:59 GMT
Still trying to figure out what banned asshole he used to be. So am I...Thinkgreen has to be a repeater. Some of these fuckin' guys are just too goddamn stupid to take the hint, they're like a turd that just won't flush... I've spent about an hour perusing SHiTEland after saying fuck it and walking away from the place at the end of 2018. Looks like nothing has changed there and, if anything, has only gotten worse. Honestly I have spent less and less time there in the last few months. It used to be where you'd at least get some rare moments of discovering something new or something you overlooked. Now it's a giant collection of brainless twaddle like "songs with a plant in the title" or "your favourite Beatle who fucked a chicken" or some fucking garbage.
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Post by hugofuguzev on Jun 23, 2020 11:39:15 GMT
So am I...Thinkgreen has to be a repeater. Some of these fuckin' guys are just too goddamn stupid to take the hint, they're like a turd that just won't flush... I've spent about an hour perusing SHiTEland after saying fuck it and walking away from the place at the end of 2018. Looks like nothing has changed there and, if anything, has only gotten worse. Honestly I have spent less and less time there in the last few months. It used to be where you'd at least get some rare moments of discovering something new or something you overlooked. Now it's a giant collection of brainless twaddle like "songs with a plant in the title" or "your favourite Beatle who fucked a chicken" or some fucking garbage. I'm actually kinda surprised the place was still around...or that Huffy is still alive and didn't die from Covid 19 or choke to death on his own bile or something. Like I said, I spent about an hour lurking about and was like, "Yeah, now I remember why I left in the first place!"
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Post by daved on Jun 23, 2020 11:41:59 GMT
Honestly I have spent less and less time there in the last few months. It used to be where you'd at least get some rare moments of discovering something new or something you overlooked. Now it's a giant collection of brainless twaddle like "songs with a plant in the title" or "your favourite Beatle who fucked a chicken" or some fucking garbage. I'm actually kinda surprised the place was still around...or that Huffy is still alive and didn't die from Covid 19 or choke to death on his own bile or something. Like I said, I spent about an hour lurking about and was like, "Yeah, now I remember why I left in the first place!" I mean, one of the biggest pieces of garbage there just posts reams and reams of bullshit: Still waiting for alexpop to fucking die.
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Post by ledzeppelin2rl on Jun 23, 2020 19:39:17 GMT
Honestly I have spent less and less time there in the last few months. It used to be where you'd at least get some rare moments of discovering something new or something you overlooked. Now it's a giant collection of brainless twaddle like "songs with a plant in the title" or "your favourite Beatle who fucked a chicken" or some fucking garbage. I'm actually kinda surprised the place was still around...or that Huffy is still alive and didn't die from Covid 19 or choke to death on his own bile or something. Like I said, I spent about an hour lurking about and was like, "Yeah, now I remember why I left in the first place!" Last Moptop Beatles Song forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/last-moptop-beatles-song.970863/Thnkgreen is probably jealous he didn't think to start this shitty thread.
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Post by daved on Jun 25, 2020 11:29:16 GMT
Mental case Chee:
Yep, Gregg Allman certainly looked like an average guy and NOTHING like a rock star.
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Post by daved on Jun 25, 2020 11:31:06 GMT
Holy fuck this guy.......
Box Set You Wish You Owned Just For The Liners or Packaging
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Post by hugofuguzev on Jun 25, 2020 11:46:48 GMT
Mental case Chee: Yep, Gregg Allman certainly looked like an average guy and NOTHING like a rock star. Gregg Fucking Allman, an "average person"?! I just read Gregory's book a little while back- dude was anything but average...or normal. He married CHER, fer chrissakes!
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Post by respiratoryproblems on Jun 25, 2020 12:06:16 GMT
Holy fuck this guy....... Box Set You Wish You Owned Just For The Liners or PackagingNext up: ‘The most embarrassing album in your iTunes library.’ Jesus Christ man, fuck off.
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Post by mudflapslim on Jun 25, 2020 13:00:16 GMT
Holy fuck this guy....... Box Set You Wish You Owned Just For The Liners or Packaging LP You Wish You Owned Just For The Whiplash Mailer
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Post by Chicken in Black on Jun 28, 2020 22:53:29 GMT
You heartless cynic! Also don't forget this one with its actual panties coffee beans.
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Post by Felonious Spunk on Jun 28, 2020 23:11:24 GMT
Ahh yes. The era of the overpackaged CD box set. That was the time of my entry into “the biz”. I worked at a place that did manufacturing for what was then Polygram now Universal. They had several Verve sets with elaborate packaging. I specifically remember a Jobim set which had to be assembled by hand because it was damn near origami. The end product looked like a fish. There was also a Mercury r&b set that looked like a plastic olde timey radio. Even when I knew the artists, I had to wonder who was buying this stuff. The job sucked. Graveyard shift and tons of mandatory overtime they didn’t mention in the interview. I was out of there as soon as I found another job. I think it was having my weekend taken up unexpectedly so they could rush our a Mancow CD which pushed me over the edge.
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Post by Brick Wall on Jun 29, 2020 0:51:42 GMT
Oh, come on. Fuck all that. While the cheesy packaging is up for ridicule, Rhino - and by proxy Inglot and Hersch - reissued some of the finest music on fucking earth in digital form early on. Not only that, Inglot often scoured the vaults for the correct versions. So puking all over that is ridiculous. Just looking at the artists in that - disputably packaged - box: Marvin Gaye, Spinners, Stylistics, Sly Stone, Tempts and Bill Withers...give me a fucking break, already. Peopsons were happy to have those comps on CeeDee at the time. Packaging or no.
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Post by mintyjackhole on Jun 29, 2020 1:17:45 GMT
I remember the late 1990s, the height of the CD box set bullshit era. The labels were pumping out all sorts of crap that, apparently, people would snap up for premium prices. Each week brought with it more and more ridiculous packaging. I remember spotting some (Rhino?) soul box, with fake 8-track tape protrusions glued to the front of this flimsy cardboard. It had to be one of the stupidest looking things I had ever seen. Imagine paying top dollar to recreate a filthy thrift shop vibe in your very own home. What an insult to the music contained somewhere in the box. I wondered just who would buy this and what they would actually do with it. Would they display it proudly? Brag to their friends and family that they had spent nearly $100 for this gorgeous object? At the same time you also had hitherto interesting labels like Revenant going full on style over substance up their own asses, flinging out elaborate, expensive kitsch junk like the Charlie Patton box and the Albert Ayler Holy Ghost set. The actual musical content was obviously the least of their priorities, filling up the Patton set with multiple discs of useless interviews with record collectors and other sundry white dudes, whereas the Ayler set could have been edited down to two or three discs of musical substance (that is, if you are into rough demos and poorly recorded live performances) and sold for a midline price, which is precisely what the material actually warranted. But, no, you had to get this stupid plastic box filled with crap like a pressed flower and a hardbound book of flimsy page count and scant information that you already knew. To top it off, Revenant actually mailed out a postcard bragging that their box o' garbage had been nominated for a Grammy design award. At this point, you may as well have been collecting editions of Italian Vogue. I'm still angry about the Ayler box. At least I sold my copy for a good price.
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Post by hoffa_nagila on Jun 29, 2020 4:48:24 GMT
I know we are trying to reduce the amount of plastic in the world, but nothing beats a good old fashioned jewel case. But beyond that, a quality digipak works. Or if you really wanna go wild, a nice little 5x5 box with individual sleeves is ok. Anything more and you're moving into excessive but acceptable territory. The 7x5 or 10x5 books are still ok but already pushing it. Once you reach the point where the size of the box dwarves the amount of musical content (perhaps for inclusion of crap trinkets) or is shaped oddly, then you've gone too far.
I'm glad that I'm now extremely limiting what physical doodad see dees I buy. It's like a weight lifted off my shoulders. And you guys certainly helped the process.
In other news, I can't wait for my $600 Flaming Pie box set.
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Post by respiratoryproblems on Jun 29, 2020 6:52:26 GMT
Oh, come on. Fuck all that. While the cheesy packaging is up for ridicule, Rhino - and by proxy Inglot and Hersch - reissued some of the finest music on fucking earth in digital form early on. Not only that, Inglot often scoured the vaults for the correct versions. So puking all over that is ridiculous. Just looking at the artists in that - disputably packaged - box: Marvin Gaye, Spinners, Stylistics, Sly Stone, Tempts and Bill Withers...give me a fucking break, already. Peopsons were happy to have those comps on CeeDee at the time. Packaging or no. I have no problem with the music. I did state that this shitty toy packaging was an insult to the music, and it trivialized the entire thing. I bet that Bill Inglot, if he were being honest, felt similarly. At least I would if I had put all that work into getting the selection and sound right, then to watch the record company present it in this stupid manner. I don't buy the idea that packaging the music in this way helped increase sales. If anything, it decreased potential sales, because the entire reason for this elaborate trash was to sell it at inflated prices. SHite types may have fallen for it, but that's about it. The rest of the world was more than happy to switch to downloads as soon as the technology existed. I am still mad about the Ayler box as well. And I am still stuck with mine. Revenant promised this amazing trove of unheard Ayler and delivered instead a fucking bauble filled with barrel scraping shit that should have stayed in whatever closet this stuff had been sitting in. As an owner of that horrendous 70s soul box set (very cheap, second-hand*), I’m gonna stick up for it just for the content but go one better and confess that I actively like the record box design of the Beg! Scream! Shout! set, which is sort of a companion set for 60s tracks. Six CDs each mounted on a fake soul 7" with a sleeve, and a booklet replaced by a bunch of trading cards. It's obviously put together by nerds (nerds who perhaps don't know where to draw the line), but I appreciate the effort, and unlike the 70s box set, it's actively interesting to look at. *if anyone knows where I can get a replacement booklet for it, please tell me as that’s why it was so cheap. They went too far with the Have A Nice Decade CD box set, which is not only full of horrendous AOR shite, but is topped with actual 70s shag carpet. Who thought anyone would want to display something you put your dirty shoes on?
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