Sunn o))) C/D, S&D.

just ribbin ya -- i actually don't have much interaction with the whole weird collector scum culture, so it doesn't bug me all that much. I've never met anyone who's super-into all that ltd. edition psych/folk/metal/aquarius records fetishism thang -- though they must exist, right? Are they like 78 collectors?

yes, they are r. crumb

What do people actually do with a £150 (or whatever) ltd edition version of a record they already own?

play it?

Doubt it!

gaze lovingly at it?

what do people do with any of the weird shit people collect? dolls, cars, stamps, shot glasses, etc. shelve it, display it, caress it, obsess about it, buy more...

i used to buy multiples but gave up. dont think i have any multiples of sunn tho.

except for pic disk version along with the vinyl. i dont have any cds tho except for tour ones that didnt come out on vinyl.

so that wasn't a picture of your hundred and leventy million copies of the torch LP you posted? cuz i wondered...

Actually one of the cds had a bonus live disc that wasnt going to be on vinyl so i bought that. But that' not what youre talking about. I havent bought anything off ebay apart from the vinyl of white 2 which i didnt have and i only paid £20 for it anyway(sells for way over that now)

haha naw, i do have 1 of the ordinary vinyls and a pic disk. I know lots on VLV who bought the whole set though.

i do have some mastodon and high on fire doubles, but that for my pension when i retire ;)

Most people tend to buy them to ebay later once they're OOP.

I have all their vinyl up through White 2 except for Flight of the Behemoth. One of them has a big unbroken wax seal on it.

Is this stuff worth anything? The band gave me copies of everything they put out up to that point... Nice guys!

yes

i need FOTB actually. do you have the original grimmrobes? thats worth $200+

all the early stuff is worth around that actually.

is it the grimmrobes with the seal? i bet it is!

on hydrahead?

I'll have to go look. Could be on Hydrahead... I don't remember there being any info on the outside and I never wanted to break the seal because I already had the original cd with the little printed on plastic sleeve...

I mean I knew they were valuable but not $200+ valuable. Stoked!

is it a pic disk? if so thats it

I wish I had that and FOTB on vinyl

Sunn o))) on the front cover of The Wire

http://amplificasom.blogspot.com/2009/03/proxima-wire.html

and you can buy an exclusive colour vinyl of domkirke from something called Hot Topic

http://www.hottopic.com/hottopic/store/muze_new.jsp?PRODUCT%3C%3Eprd_id=845524442196427&FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=2534374302028381&bmUID=1236783588943

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/haha.gif

what exactly is hot topic? this has caused much consternation over on dffd

ok sunn o)))'s decent i guess but the wire has been jerking them off relentlessly for the like the past 5 years

hot topics is an alterna-trendy mall chain supporting the buying habits of teen goths and emo kids

I blame the economy

Urgent and key:

http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/210827/

Just read the WIRE feature - it's top notch.

This SunnO))) album is fucking great as well. It puts paid to that myth that only record collectors buy them. I mean it's not full of humalong songs like 'Learning To Fly' by The Bluetones but what is?

Which album? Domkirke?

No 'Monoliths & Dimensions'.

I shouldn't say this, like I'm sat here with a copy of it. I went to a playback at Southern in London a few days ago.

I mention this because the playback shredded one of the bass cones!

When Atilla's vocals first came in I nearly voided.

Or should that be 00Voided?

Hot Topic is a shitty store catering to overweight mall-punks as mentioned, BUT they are also the only place near me that regularly stocks Relapse releases. So my hand is forced to occasionally duck in, as when they had the Tombs and Obscura albums for $10.99. I may have to swing by to see if they actually have Domkirke tonight.

I'm writing a big piece on them for Signal to Noise and will be hearing the album on 4/3. Consequently I've been listening to a shitload of the older stuff recently. Some of the live albums don't do much for me, but Oracle is rising higher and higher in my estimation. It deserved better than a super-limited-edition release.

There's no record stores in my town now, but even when there was I doubt they would have stocked relapse or southern lord stuff, so i'd welcome a hot topic style shop here as its better than nothing. Only supermarkets sell (top 40) cd's here.

Well, Hot Topic is weird, the one by me has a tiny, tiny CD/vinyl section. 98% of it is your typical emo/mallpunk stuff (AFI, All Time Low, etc), but they carry some decent metal there on a very limited basis. I've picked up Emperor, Immortal, old Cannibal Corpse stuff there before. The Domkirke thing is weird because I've never seen Southern Lord stuff there before.

also, the economy

And Phil OTM, I think Oracle is one of my favorite things they've ever done, but the new one sounds pretty damn promising.

The Hot Topic promo is perversely cool. I hope they use any profits to finance more deluxe reissues of impossibly kvlt rarities.

I'm afraid Oracle is actually the only Sunn project I've hear that I really don't like. Black One, on the other hand, opened the door to a whole new world of music, and totally changed my listening habits. (First Striborg long player all day today, plus the new Menace Ruine)

ppl actually listen to sunn 0)))?

I thought we were just supposed to write articles, talk about them, and buy exorbitant vinyl...

if any journalists need help, I have some sped up sunn mp3s, you can get through their whole catalog in like 20 minutes, it's great they sound like bach fugues

Black One probably ranks right behind Oracle for me.

xpost: "I have some sped up sunn mp3s, you can get through their whole catalog in like 20 minutes, it's great they sound like bach fugues"

You're saying that as a zing, but I can imagine them putting that out. And, yes, damn your eyes, some of us actually do listen to them, though I don't know about any "ppl".

ppl actually listen to sunn 0)))?

I thought we were just supposed to write articles, talk about them, and buy exorbitant vinyl...

you're supposed to see them live. their recorded stuff doesn't really compare.

S: 00Void, Black One, Oracle, and Grimmrobe Demos

re: the record collectors comment, the last london show they did recently was basically full of metalheads
and a minority of 'indie' kids. it was METAL.

It's always been older doom metal guys with beards with a few indie kids thrown in. Plus not all metal fans look like stereotypical metal fans anyway.

first and only experience with sunn o)))...

accidently walked into one of their shows after hearing strange rumblings. very high. wasn't anyone on the door. sat in the door guy's chair. closed my eyes. total fucking bliss.

that's an awesome story! I love stumbling across cool shit, to experience something with 0 preconceived notions or expectations.

also, not to stereotype, but the sunn fans seem grimm + humorless.