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Emo Philips E=MO^2 LP : $3.99 -- near mint condition

― donut christ (donut), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 04:22 (nineteen years ago) link

Rip that shit.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 04:26 (nineteen years ago) link

(maybe it's just me, but i have never seen the vinyl for this anywhere until today.. maybe it's as common as Herb Alpert's Whipped Cream And Other Delights east of the Rockies for all I know..)

― donut christ (donut), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 04:27 (nineteen years ago) link

(and this was found at Jive Time, one of the stores I listed as best in seattle in that "best and worst record store in your town" thread, and also a store that get's accused of being rip-offs, unfairly)

― donut christ (donut), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 04:29 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.excepter.com/presspics/piLSTD12.jpg
plays great $60 cheap

― Snappy (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 04:42 (nineteen years ago) link

Hot Damn! So what's the vinyl thickness like on that baby, Snappy?

Donut - so why are Jive Time being accused of being rip-offs? You mean
as in charging too much?

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 05:26 (nineteen years ago) link

the sound is outrageous

― Snappy (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 05:30 (nineteen years ago) link

That Emo album is really wonderful. Congrats! He came to my college once to perform, long ago, and brought his own bag lunch (as opposed to having a rider) which charmed pretty much everyone.

The joke with the punchline "Die heretic!" (I think it's on the record you bought) is a gem.

― dlp9001, Wednesday, 19 January 2005 05:32 (nineteen years ago) link

Well, I can believe that! xpost

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 05:34 (nineteen years ago) link

fuck i passed on metal box for $50 when i was poor and in high school and have never seen it again.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 06:21 (nineteen years ago) link

I can walk over tomorrow and get Metal Box for, well, more than $50 if I wanted to... but my $7 copy of the double-album Second Edition sounds good enough for me.

― donut christ (donut), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 06:47 (nineteen years ago) link

well yeah I have second edition, but i'd guess metal box actually sounds better because of the 45 RPM sides. But I dunno.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 06:47 (nineteen years ago) link

(I was really hoping PiL would release a 3" CD version of Metal Box called Metal Tin or something which would be a small stack of six 3" CDs, each representing each side of Metal Box.)

(Actually, that's a really lame idea... can you tell i've had no sleep. :/)

― donut christ (donut), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 06:50 (nineteen years ago) link

well there was a cd version with one cd in a metal box.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 06:52 (nineteen years ago) link

Sure, Metal Box would sound better than Second Edition.. but spending such a large amount just to get an already decent sounding 2LP on vinyl to sound even better as a 3x45 just seems too little of a jump ahead for the high price tag, for me anyways.

Then again, you're sorta guaranteed to be able to sell Metal Box back for the same high price, assuming it's in good condition to begin with and stays in good condition... hmmmmm.

― donut christ (donut), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 06:54 (nineteen years ago) link

why would you ever go back?

― Snappy (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 07:42 (nineteen years ago) link

I can't under$tand why I would $ugge$t $uch a thing either.

― donut christ (donut), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 07:58 (nineteen years ago) link

i got "metal box" for $15 on vinyl. but the difference between it and "second edition" is negligible, to my ears.

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 08:16 (nineteen years ago) link

I got Metal Box with my first salary. It was £7 ($10).

I was tempted to go down to Metal Box headquarters (which is quite close) and see if I could get one cheaper there, but thought better of it.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 09:08 (nineteen years ago) link

coo ur gosh, i didn't know metal box was worth that much. i think i paid 10 quid for mine at a record fair in edinburgh ten years ago.

it's got the little A5 sheet with the typewritten titles on it but hasn't got the incredibly valuable single-page NME advert that had the lyrics on it (i think this is how it worked ... perhaps someone else can put me straight).

wow.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 11:16 (nineteen years ago) link

The lyrics was in ZigZag...

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 11:24 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah, I had the chance to buy it once here in town, but upon asking how much it would cost me I quickly lost interest. Still it's just one of those things I think about every now and then.

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 12:50 (nineteen years ago) link

The hype about Metal Box's amazing sound is pretty much completely hype. One of my first brushes with the unreliability of rock facts that everyone takes for granted. Buy it for the packaging, not the sound.

― dlp9001, Wednesday, 19 January 2005 17:41 (nineteen years ago) link

I remember the lyrics being printed in the NME as well - I think I have the page somewhere. I bought Metal Box the day it came out, ~£15 from Andy's Records in Cambridge. Not cheap in 1979 either.

― Stefan, Thursday, 20 January 2005 19:45 (nineteen years ago) link

15 quid in 1979?! jesus wept!

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 20 January 2005 22:02 (nineteen years ago) link

That seems unrealistically high. Most albums were around a fiver. This was £7, I feel sure about that. It did sell out fairly quickly, and get sold at a higher price at "Adrians Records" and other mail order places...

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 21 January 2005 10:59 (nineteen years ago) link

hstencil and his online ways of persuasion, and the local record store: 1.

Me: 0.

I sold back a whole bunch of used CDs today, and picked the vinyl Metal Box up, with lots of cash to spare afterwards.

Now I have this, and more space in my place, and i'm guessing I can make back the same amount on Metal Box if I decide to resell it, so never mind, score is even.

― donut christ (donut), Monday, 31 January 2005 04:10 (nineteen years ago) link

So is the sound truly all that?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 31 January 2005 04:38 (nineteen years ago) link

what about that CD version of Metal Box that actually came in a tin? Is the sound better on that? I saw it in Tower Records for $30. I was tempted to get it after that goddamn AMG review said something like, "Oh, P.S., the sound on the import is much better... much better." But whatever. If it had any more bass I'd probably shit my pants.

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Monday, 31 January 2005 06:00 (nineteen years ago) link

Plastic Box has the best sound on most of this stuff, I could tell a big difference between it and the old US releases.

― svend (svend), Monday, 31 January 2005 06:20 (nineteen years ago) link

If it had any more bass I'd probably shit my pants.

Either that or the house might just shake off its foundation.

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Monday, 31 January 2005 07:39 (nineteen years ago) link

I have the Metal Box CD in the tin, it's a bit better sound-wise, but it's not WAY better or anything. (I think it was done in 1990, that Plastic Box thing came out in '98 and had a different remastering job again.) Also it has the slightly reshaped track order of the original tin. Some of the track breaks are a bit off. Because I'm, well, kinda obsessed with the album, I re-ripped and put in my own breaks so it didn't sound rubbish on the iPod.

On the other hand, it comes in a tin!!

I would probably buy it again if they did a deluxe re-ish with the better remastering job and demos and the Peel Session and that sort of tat.

― haitch, man? (haitch), Monday, 31 January 2005 12:38 (nineteen years ago) link

Peel Session?

I don't know all I can say is I love my plastic box. I used to try to put it away on the shelf with the other CD's, but it kept coming out again. Too bad it doesn't have Fodderstompf, though. But then that's why I have First Issue on vinyl.

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Monday, 31 January 2005 12:48 (nineteen years ago) link

I read somewhere that the re-issued Second Edition and the CD version of metal box are the same mastering, and I've heard both and didn;t notice any difference.

(I've got re-issued second edition that came as a double with the first album for abt £8. Heh, how's that for deflation :-)

― mei (mei), Monday, 31 January 2005 12:57 (nineteen years ago) link

That Emo album was hellishly hard to find, and always went for the big coin whenever it turned up on eBay.

Thankfully, they released it on CD recently (with the Hasty Pudding album tacked on), so I don't bother looking anymore!

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Monday, 31 January 2005 14:27 (nineteen years ago) link

Too bad it doesn't have Fodderstompf, though

Play "mega mix" from the Plastic Box and squawk "We only wanted to be laaahhvved" yourself!

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 31 January 2005 15:17 (nineteen years ago) link

Sean... you've fulfilled my Emo dreams with that news. (I had no idea.. hello Hasty Pudding!)

― donut christ (donut), Monday, 31 January 2005 22:46 (nineteen years ago) link

(still happy I got the E=Mo2 album, tho)

― donut christ (donut), Monday, 31 January 2005 22:46 (nineteen years ago) link

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