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Post by minoratheart on Sept 23, 2014 13:53:03 GMT
As far as television goes, there's only one thing that matters: Gilmore girls. Nothing else matters I didn't know my girlfriend was posting on here, haha. Seriously though, although I'd been turned off by the title initially I got quite hooked on this show when I watched it with my girlfriend over the last months. The best movie I've seen this year was Grand Hotel Budapest by far.
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Post by minoratheart on Aug 15, 2014 19:17:42 GMT
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Post by minoratheart on Jul 31, 2014 10:19:02 GMT
Maybe the correct lyrics make more sense to you Interesting, I just copied that from a website. Turns out half of them say nothing, other have says something. Something definitely makes more sense. But I am more curious about why Donkey Kong? I pulled out the record to check the lyric sheet and it says 'something'. Well, as you most likely know the whole part/song is about wasting your time with watching TV and playing video games instead of doing something productive, and the negative influence these forms of media can have on a person in general. Donkey Kong is just an example for the video games equals waste of time aspect I guess. Maybe DK was a particularly popular video game figure around that time, or, more likely, DK was chosen because of the gorilla reference.
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Post by minoratheart on Jul 31, 2014 9:50:42 GMT
Would love to read about it, hopefully Wally will explain the lyrics a bit too. I would like to know what the story is behind these parts: "Instead of thinking we play Donkey Kong. There's something wrong with that." Maybe the correct lyrics make more sense to you
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Post by minoratheart on Jul 24, 2014 12:23:23 GMT
Judging by the username, it was also listed on Discogs today. Those prices on discogs are ridiculous.
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Post by minoratheart on Jun 30, 2014 16:38:43 GMT
Is that Burn s/t 7" on light or dark yellow?
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Post by minoratheart on Jun 9, 2014 16:22:36 GMT
I tried it again and with the yellow bg and stars this thing looks like a website that sells christmas trees back in 1992 Am I really the only one who prefers clean, esthetic and easy on the eye design to a loud and cluttered one? Really? It's almost like preferring to wear your average Carnival in Rio costume over the Judge Schism shirt. Does this really surprise you? Most people using this board seem to be stuck in the late 80s/early 90s anyways (at least musically speaking), so a website looking like it is from 1992 still must look like the future of some sorts
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Post by minoratheart on May 25, 2014 10:58:47 GMT
Can anyone think of another ONE release that was pressed on more variants than that 7"? I can't. Come to think of it, Against Me's Reinventing Axl Rose has gone through a shitload of pressings, too. I think I once saw a picture of someone's collection with the LPs laid out in the yard. The picture was taken either from a step ladder or from a window on the first floor.
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Post by minoratheart on May 24, 2014 14:59:03 GMT
I want someone to put together a catalogue of Jeff Lasich made Have Heart 7"s I roughly estimate there has to be at least 200+ versions of that 7" alone out there lol Can anyone think of another ONE release that was pressed on more variants than that 7"? I can't. Anyone out there crazy enough to even attempt to collect Have Heart?? Sorry about your 15 minutes, haha. I seem to remember reading on some message board that this guy has a complete collection. Even if not, this is still awesome.
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Post by minoratheart on May 24, 2014 13:41:58 GMT
With all these crazy collections going on on this board (Rev and non-Rev), let's talk numbers here. My record list tells me I have a grand total of 67 Bane records, and three more are on the way. I've been well aware that I have a lot of Bane records, but the sheer number shocked me a little bit today, hence the idea for the thread. Next would be Good Clean Fun (51) and Sick Of It All (41) for me.
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Post by minoratheart on May 12, 2014 19:27:05 GMT
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Post by minoratheart on May 8, 2014 15:51:55 GMT
You're right, you can send records with Deutsche Post but only as a letter ('Großbrief'), which is cheaper but also a little less safe than shipping records in a regular parcel. You usually have less space to put protection like cardboard or bubble wrap in there since the rules of measurements are kinda strict. Well spotted, haha. It was the test pressing for the Anger LP by Dangers. Now there are only 4 I always get the stuff in your regular record mailer. Same way as it would get sent from any other country. Maybe it fits under the letter category, I don't know. I just know it's sent via DP. DHL owes me 60 euro. With one or maybe two records in the mailer it usually works, any more and the 'letter' is too big and too heavy.
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Post by minoratheart on May 8, 2014 15:42:40 GMT
You're right, you can send records with Deutsche Post but only as a letter ('Großbrief'), which is cheaper but also a little less safe than shipping records in a regular parcel. You usually have less space to put protection like cardboard or bubble wrap in there since the rules of measurements are kinda strict. Well spotted, haha. It was the test pressing for the Anger LP by Dangers. Now there are only 4
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Post by minoratheart on May 8, 2014 15:17:14 GMT
Getting broken records has to be one of the worst feelings there are. Happened to me only once so far, but of course it was one of the more expensive records I've ever bought. You can't send parcels with Deutsche Post, only letters @poison X Girls. DHL delivers all parcels and packages for Deutsche Post. Most of the parcels I get are delivered by DHL and I can't really say anything bad about them. There are waaaay worse companies in Germany. Attachments:
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Post by minoratheart on May 5, 2014 19:51:19 GMT
Burn on pink.
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Post by minoratheart on Apr 30, 2014 14:04:13 GMT
Went there like 10 years ago. It was ok but it already felt 'too big' back then. I'd love to see a lot of the bands playing Groezrock this year, but I just don't feel comfortable at festivals or shows that big. Anything bigger than 300 people ruins the atmosphere for me. Plus I don't understand all that "exclusive show" bulls.hit. What's the point of that?
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Post by minoratheart on Apr 25, 2014 17:12:24 GMT
The only time I tried alcohol was when I was maybe 12. One sip of sparkling wine at New Year's Eve. Didn't like the taste much, but there are other reasons why I've never been drinking after that. When I was a teenager everyone around me told me that drinking alcohol was the normal thing to do. I've always hated it when people tell me what to do. Also, many of my classmates used to brag about how much they had been drinking on the weekend on Monday mornings and I hated that shit. I never understood that attitude and I still hate who-has-the-biggest-dick-contests. What's more, I'm from a rural area: farms, fields, tractors, the whole nine yards. Drinking alcohol is just so accepted here. Everybody does it, and from a really early age too. I never wanted to fit in with that whole lifestyle. By not drinking and thus negating this social standard, I pissed off a lot of people. Not drinking was kind of my way of rebellion and to be honest the feeling I got from the hostile reactions towards me because of that felt strangely satisfying, haha. Probably the most important reason why I've never been drinking though is that I've never seen the upsides of being a grown up. I always had the feeling that people around me wanted to grow up as quickly as possible and I never understood why. When I was a teenager there were two things that made a grown up a grown up for me: drinking alcohol and drinking coffee. So what better way to postpone growing up than not doing these things? Yeah, not the best logic here, but tell that to my 14-year old self... I just got so used to not doing that and I've never looked back. Anyway, I didn't start listening to punk/hardcore until I was about 18 and I'd never heard of straight edge before I was maybe 19 or 20. At that point I had a deep aversion towards all kinds of labels. So, labeling myself as straight edge wouldn't have appealed to me then. I also met a lot of people around that time who were SXE and took themselves and SXE waaaaay too seriously, which further turned me off of the whole idea. It seemed way to cliquey and like this exclusive club to me, which is always a big turn off for me. I know that it isn't like that at all, but that's how I experienced it then. I wasn't averse to the whole 'fuck around' idea when I was younger either. Not doing that sounded a little too Christian for me, haha. Over the years I found out for myself that one-night-stands are not for me though. I also smoked occassionally at that time, but quitting woulnd't have been an obstacle. I stopped that shit from one day to the next when I was 22 anyways. Probably because I listend to a lot of bands that were straight edge. Looking back, I would have loved to know about straight edge when I was a teenager, because knowing there were other people thinking and feeling like myself would have helped me a lot at that age and most likely I'd have associated myself with that idea. But it didn't work out that way. I'm about to turn 32 soon, have been drug free for close to 10 years now, but I still don't call myself straight edge. Not sure if I ever will, but it'd be the only label I could ever imagine attaching myself to.
On a related note: I still don't wear shirts with any reference to straight edge in public cause I'd feel weird doing that.
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Post by minoratheart on Apr 16, 2014 9:32:58 GMT
Yeah, I do see what you are saying in order to try and justify the insanity behind test press collecting... However, myself and plenty of other collectors will still stand behind not getting involved in test press collecting whatsoever... I know I can speak for others because I have quite a few record collecting friends who think test press collecting is straight up lame as hell. And these friends of mine go back a long way. Sorry for speaking my mind on this matter dude... But again, there are a lot of collectors who feel this way. I am not the only one and nowhere close to the only one. And no, I am not hypocritical or the newest member of the rich man's club and I never will be. There is a HUGE LINE between spending $250.00 to $500.00 on a Warzone orange wax or a Together orange wax and spending close to $1.000.00 on an early Rev test press record or $4.000.00 on a CK... And even if somehow woke up tomorrow morning being a billionaire rich guy who can buy anything I wanted, I still wouldn't collect test presses... It's totally against my hardcore morals... Nothing to be sorry about for speaking one's mind. Where would the fun discussions be if we all agreed on everything? But to be honest, I don't really see the "huge line" between $500 and $1000 you mention. As pillowscars said, anything above 5/6 bucks for a 7" and maybe 15 bucks for a LP is overpriced and thus luxury. Record collecting itself is insanity, not only the collecting test pressing part imho. Unless you see it as financial investment maybe, haha. What I don't understand is how spending $500 fits in with your hardcore morals, but spending $1000 on a record doesn't. Why is it apparently okay to spend a lot of money on coloured vinyl (e.g. Warzone on orange as you mentioned), but not on a test press? After all, you said yourself that there are no rules to collecting. So if you (and your friends) don't agree with collecting test pressings - good for you, but if people want to collect them - good for them.
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Post by minoratheart on Apr 16, 2014 7:24:08 GMT
Well, what you write is not entirely correct and as Reagan said a little black and white. Test pressings sometimes were also given out as promotional copies by labels/bands in the early 80s. There are like what, 80 test pressings of the Minor Threat LP because of that. I agree with you to some degree that test pressings shouldn't be sold by people who were given them directly by the band, especially if the records are personalized. However, I also believe that in everyone's life there can be circumstances where you kind of have to do something like sell your rare records. Money problems, buying a house,… Or what if someone was really into hardcore 25 years ago, but isn't so much into it anymore today? People change. If older guys decide to hand down their records to give younger kids a chance to own some of the rarer records because they have no real interest in them anymore, I think that's pretty cool. Otherwise the whole collecting game wouldn't work anyway, right? I think you're also right about hardcore never intending to be about money. I still love that about hardcore. But collecting hardcore records is a whole different matter. If you read or watch interviews with people who were collecting 15-20 years ago, you'll see that some records back then were already sold for astronomical numbers for that time. Not the money we're talking today, but a lot of money back then, too. Lastly, talking about affordable records on revcollectors seems a little hypocritical since most of the early records, especially the colour ones, sell for outrageous prices. So if you're talking about a rich men's club of record collectors, welcome, you're its latest member
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Post by minoratheart on Apr 15, 2014 8:07:45 GMT
Well, compared with the last one on ebay that one was indeed a bargain, haha.
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Post by minoratheart on Apr 15, 2014 7:34:30 GMT
Thanks everybody for the input. A buddy of mine and I have been thinking about making the trip for some time. I didn't expect to find a Chung King for $30, haha. I wouldn't say no of course. I'm not only after Rev either. Old hardcore and punk in general will do fine for me. Sounds like this could be a fun weekend.
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Post by minoratheart on Apr 14, 2014 17:18:03 GMT
So, on a scale from 1-10: how good are these record fairs? Loads of old hardcore and punk stuff with quite a few gems strewn in or a rather small section of hardcore/punk vinyl and finding anything rare is just that: rare? Would any of the Dutchmen say they are worth traveling about 6 hours?
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Post by minoratheart on Apr 8, 2014 18:36:51 GMT
I watched that Wasted video again the other day and totally geeked out. I just love looking at those records (like the Warzone Lion sleeve) and hearing his stories. What happened to that guy? Does he post on here (or other boards) and still trade/buy/sell? I guess he probably has everything now but I haven't heard of him being around - or maybe he is and I just don't know it. Does he still maintain the Rev pressing info page or do others at Rev update that with new pressings, etc? Also - I assume there is much more that was filmed than that 15 minute video - are there outtakes or more videos from that interview? There's an 'outtake' on his Chain Of Strength - What Holds Us Apart collection online.
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Post by minoratheart on Mar 30, 2014 17:34:34 GMT
Got a 2nd press Burn 7" and Inside Out on blue this week.
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Post by minoratheart on Mar 5, 2014 8:34:39 GMT
Thanks for the heads up, Nico!
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