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Alan Lucas
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Clint Anderson , Chris Bellevie , incidental derogatory mnemonics
Date:
Tue, 14 Aug 2018 12:02:51 -0400
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Re: AE_STORE - Your order has been dispatched
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Oh god, yes. I still really enjoy everything up through Dos Dedos, but things that have come out after that (post-Mansell) have been hard to get excited about. tDR's work for the Two Fingers My Friends remix collection was top notch. Zero half-measures, as it were. On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 11:56 AM Ed Tyler <hekula@googlemail.com> wrote:
quoted 72 lines Ah, fond memories of tDR's PWEI work now! Although recently listening to> Ah, fond memories of tDR's PWEI work now! Although recently listening to > them for the first time in years was a bit disappointing. > > On 16:53, Tue, 14 Aug 2018 Alan Lucas, <alucas@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I got the CD version mainly because of $$$. I'll likely never listen to >> the actual CDs, but I do love me some nice tDR packaging. Can't imagine the >> CDs are going to sound any better than the 24-bit WAVs. >> >> I also agree that splitting All End across sides of vinyl seems a little >> odd. But again, the actual physical manifestation of that is probably going >> to be pretty amazing. >> >> On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 11:47 AM Clint Anderson <clinta@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> k everyone with the vinyl version please just don't say anything to us >>> >>> Clint Anderson >>> Systems Engineer >>> "Freedom -- paint me a picture!" -- Burton Cummings >>> >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 10:46 AM Chris Bellevie <c.bellevie@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Oh, I meant I got the CD, but expect as soon as everyone starts talking >>>> about the vinyl, I will regret CD. >>>> >>>> I opted for the CD version mostly because I felt the listening >>>> experience would be better. It didn't hurt that it was much cheaper. >>>> >>>> The vinyl looks like it will be available in stores, so maybe I will >>>> break down and buy only parts that seem to work and are not too broken up. >>>> >>>> On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 8:12 AM Clint Anderson <clinta@gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> i got the cd so we can compare lol >>>>> >>>>> i was tempted to get the vinyls but i have a couple stupid self rules >>>>> about vinyl purchasing >>>>> 1. if there is a CD and the album wasn't originally ONLY vinyl >>>>> pressing/master, then I buy the CD because to be totally honest, it's >>>>> cheaper, probably half the price, and, it probably sounds absolutely >>>>> perfect. >>>>> 2. i try to only buy new or newly reissued vinyl so maybe possibly it >>>>> somehow benefits the artist or label in the least minimal way, although i >>>>> do buy tons of old stuff that i 'always wanted as a kid' lol >>>>> 3. only buy the deluxe mega-dolla bling big spenda edition if it's >>>>> like one of my ultra favorite artists which was a hard call with autechre >>>>> but, the fact that a lot of the tracks seem too big to fit on one side >>>>> without some real compression also made my decision >>>>> >>>>> maybe i should just buy both says my brain >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Clint Anderson >>>>> Systems Engineer >>>>> "Freedom -- paint me a picture!" -- Burton Cummings >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 10:04 AM Chris Bellevie <c.bellevie@gmail.com> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Can't wait for this to arrive, but almost more excited to hear how >>>>>> the vinyl turned out so I can start regretting not picking that up instead >>>>>> of the CD version. >>>>>> >>>>>