The Return Of My Bloody Valentine

Me too, also in Oregon.

yes but i'm in california, the couriers may have died somewhere between here and the mississippi

don't worry everyone, rest assured that the poorly packaged mbv LPs are slowly bumping and rolling their way west across the U.S.

aargh thanks for the image there

rolling and scratching

that leap across the grand canyon will be particularly intense

Hope someone has put a ramp down for them.

kevin shields was asked about this issue in an interview the other day btw. kevin, they asked him, you're that much in control of your records that you're even mailing out the records yourself. what's in the packaging to make sure that the vinyl doesn't get all scratched up? nothing is, he quipped

"I lined the inside of the vinyl sleeve with Brillo pads in order to make sure nothing moved around."

At least it's not taking him 22 years to go to the post office.

I confess I lolled, Nick.

Was pretty blasé about this in response to all the hype, but man, this is actually a great record.

Sounds like he's doing it on purpose, not content with damaging people's eardrums.

for some reason that reminds me of

"Flip it over for a needle-destroying playable b-side etching hand carved by Wolf Eyes into the original laquers. Grooves cut in their own home lathe. Play at your own risk"

Haven't ordered mine yet. Nothing like an anal retentive.

Are the LPs being delivered by USPS?

See, for me the packaging with no bubble-wrap is completely in line with the whole picture regarding this LP.

Basically, it's like an album made in 2000, left in a corner, then eventually picked up and handed to you.

Not preserved in protective layers...

Dink right in the middle of the first track and a couple of clicks and skips on side 2. I don't need KS ageing my LPs any faster than I will do so myself, thank you very much.

He says this release is just part of the whole framework. What will the actual 'new' stuff sound like?

Jolly Belgian chants.

Oh splendiferous I do hope so

The CD sounds better than the 320 kbps MP3s. Hearing some things I didn't catch the first 50 times. Doesn't sound as muddied, in general.

The 320kbps MP3s they offered for download are actually 128kbps MP3s transcoded, so I'm not surprised.

Yeah? Bizarre. How do you know?

haha @ the second review

http://freq.org.uk/reviews/my-bloody-valentine-m-b-v/

There was a lot of talk on What about the transcodes, as there are loads of anal retentives on there.

Received the vinyl/cd combo today. Twelve days from Southall, Middlesex to the center of the NorthAm land mass. Not bad. Better time, in fact, than Media Mail drop ship from, say, Illinois. No dents. No dings. Don't understand the complaints about the cover art, which I find stark and stunning.

My vinyl/CD package arrived earlier this week. I finally opened it today It was rattling around in the box with no padding - not even a plastic shrink-wrap to protect the cover. During transit the LP has cut through the inner-sleeve and through the actual album cover itself at the bottom end: so a couple of millimeters of the disc actually hang out of the cover if I hold it upright. Will have to send this back.

Got my vinyl/CD yesterday, haven't listened to it yet. No padding, but physically it seemed to be OK.

hooboy mine is going to be in pieces

still haven't gotten mine

same. and with this weather we've been having i can only imagine that it's sitting in a pile of snow somewhere

still waiting

FFS http://i.imgur.com/MhQTIVi.jpg

my bloody fuckup ...

i don't think i'll even open mine

kinda hope it never turns up

some friends of mine in the US got theirs and had split spines etc on the vinyl, pretty shitty for $40

crap

got mine today (texas) and it's actually nearly flawless, which is pretty incredible... they just dropped it in a record mailer, no padding at all and free to bounce around. but even the corners are uncrushed! this I guess represents the other end of the spectrum of mail handling from the mailman who used to fold my 7" records in half to get them to fit in my mailbox.

LOL at that last bit

got mine today in Oregon and it is flawless as f.hazel said, NO THANKS TO YOU KEVN

probably the worst inner packing job I have ever seen (the box itself was taped up just fine). the CD was rattling around loose.

Good God. I'm still waiting for mine in the West Coast of North America.

It rained today, so we'll see.

Kev really knows how to keep us on the edge of our seats!

for fucks sake. oregon, texas. denver is right in between the two, if not even more accessible. i imagine they all sent these out feb. 22, right, regardless of when you actually ordered? i didn't get my credit card information processed til about 2 hrs after the initial release.

overthinking yes

lol at everyone bitching about the packaging and then admitting everything arrived undamaged

They wanted to make sure I got mine in time to hit people over the head with it during SXSW.

lol at everyone bitching about the packaging and then admitting everything arrived undamaged

The Return Of My Bloody Valentine

The Return Of My Bloody Valentine

The Return Of My Bloody Valentine

Anyone besides me still waiting for their vinyl to arrive?

yup

Cool.

That photo above is basically what my LP is like. I wrote to the mbv website yesterday about returning damaged goods, but have yet to hear from them.