Sonic Highways by Foo Fighters
Roswell Records
http://shop.foofighters.com/collections/sonic-highways/products/sonic-highways-vinyl
The most frickin’ expensive record I paid for last year and I’m not happy about it. The shipping cost was almost the price of the record, than I got nabbed for duty, than UPS thought I didn’t pay and tried to make me pay a second time… arrrrrrr!
Why did I go through the trouble?
Well, there was this cardboard 7” cover of Roky Erickson’s “Two-Headed Dog” that came with the pre-order. You could only get it through the advance order and I’m a sucker for cool collectibles, so a small fortune was paid out. Funny thing is people on e-bay are trying to sell that same 7” now for between $60 and $90.
Sukierae by Tweedy
dBpm Records
http://wilco.kungfustore.com/music-and-books/projects/sukierae-vinyl-lp.html
Another problem record but this time there was an easy and awesome resolution. My initial copy was warped and played like crap. I wrote the distributor and was expecting to jump through a bunch of hoops. Nope. They fired a message right back that a new copy was on the way. So, I only had to wait an extra few days. With the ‘yellow swirl’ vinyl was a copy of the CD (standard with the vinyl purchase) and I was a very happy camper.
Commonwealth by Sloan
Yep Roc Records
Great record! This double album came in two 180 gram vinyl records with download card and a 12” poster of the band as playing cards.
They Want My Soul by Spoon
Republic Records
Outstanding record musically and came as a copy of 180 gram white vinyl. Beautiful piece of work.
Oh yeah I almost forgot to mention this folks…
Real fans BUY their music!
(and great fans buy the music from the band directly because they know the artist will actually see some money from their work.)
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