Light In The Attic: can they do no wrong?

In an industry of absolute shit and constant disappointment I increasingly believe that it's important to acknowledge the few people and labels doing commendable work.

About a week ago, LITA had some big warehouse cleaning sale, and I impulse bought a few things, including the big Lee Hazlewood CD box. It was such a steal at $30, I actually thought it might have been a pricing glitch, and almost expected the order to get canceled. I didn't even know whether it was the deluxe version or the regular version (the website wasn't very clear about this), but given the very, very low price for this incredible multi-disc box with a flexi disc and book, I would have been happy either way.

Well, I was pleasantly surprised that it turned out to be the deluxe box. At that price, which is over $70 less than the lowest priced copy on Discogs at the moment, I probably would have been OK if they'd just sent the damn thing in a pizza box. Instead, they sent it separate from the other records I ordered, and packaged it like it was a set of crystal champagne flutes. They included those little cardboard corner thingies to avoid dents, secured it in bubble wrap, and shipped it in a big, heavy box with cardboard fillers. The package probably could have survived a toss over an overpass.

I'm not even a big stickler about cosmetic damage and corner bends and stuff, but I really appreciated the care they put into shipping something that probably doesn't even cover their manufacturing costs, especially when I regularly receive exorbitantly priced LPs from overseas that are sent in what is little more than a manilla envelope. Anyway, just wanted to give LITA some props.

Don't know if they are still running the sale, but if they are, it's worth a look!

Damn I don’t even want to think about what I paid for that thing back in the day.

It's still on sale: https://lightintheattic.net/products/there-s-a-dream-i-ve-been-saving-lee-hazlewood-industries-1966-1971

I was stoked to find it used at Amoeba years ago (and paid a lot more than $30). Worth it for the book alone.

now out of stock

https://lightintheattic.net/products/alfa-yen-records-1980-1987-techno-pop-and-other-electronic-adventures-in-tokyo

looks amazing but I have a lot of these tracks already

same. with tespattern included, maybe that means their album will finally receive a reissue?

the instrumental for “beat the rap” is extremely dope, I made a vaporwave-y edit of it years ago

On a LITA tip, I dug the recent Emerson brothers biopic. Never really thought about what really happens when a long-forgotten and completely ignored record gets discovered and feted by hipsters some 30 years later.

haha see also: delta blues

yeah, that yen comp looks cool... but damn, vinyl is so expensive and I have a lot of that stuff already too...

speaking of things that are expensive, there's also a new-ish japanese "blu-spec CD" that collects all of the tamao koike yen stuff:
https://www.discogs.com/release/29252209-Tamao-Koike-Tamao-Complete-Yen-Years

oh that’s great, the stuff of hers I’ve heard on various YEN/Alfa comps is marvelous

Coming soon, a nifty compilation of Yen Record's YMO and related bands:

https://lightintheattic.net/products/alfa-yen-records-1980-1987-techno-pop-and-other-electronic-adventures-in-tokyo

Alan Jackson reissues, sick

Oh cool! Are they doing more than one album?

This guy was always in the background of my adolescence, it never occurred to me that he was worth paying attention to.

You people are going to have me listening to Garth Brooks next, wtf.

Oh cool! Are they doing more than one album?

Cow art, there’s a good thread on his album Like Red on a Rose, one of my favorite country albums ever

so back in my youth...

the biggest alan jackson album with "chattahoochee" was the blockbuster and in those days, the record stores would often put the artist's prior pre-blockbuster catalog albums on budget price. we were poor, so my mom bought don't rock the jukebox on cassette and we rocked it (er, didn't... you know what i mean). if you like that sort of thing, yeah it's damn good. the title track is a new nasville standard, the ballads are great (esp "midnight in montgomery"), and his voice is just what it's always been: not overbearingly impressive, but strong and familiar. i'm far from a proper fan and i don't know most of his catalog, but i absolutely have fond memories of that album.

I always think this thread is about the Shel Silverstein poetry collection