Van Halen!

have you ever seen that enforced?

Nope!

I mean, it used to be a fairly regular occurrence that if a record store heard another record store was selling early, you would go buy a copy and send a copy of the receipt to the distro. Then the distro would reach out to that store and they'd say "oh whoops... we're so sorry". Then nothing would happen.

I worked in the electronics dept of a K-Mart and got to buy Pearl Jam's Vitalogy a couple of days early. I don't remember if I cajoled the CD vendor into letting me buy it or just grabbed it out of a box of other CDs and just played dumb. I brought it to my friend's place and people were all "how did you get this?"

Followed immediately by, "What the fuck is this shit?"

I haven't listened to a new Pearl Jam album since, but Corduroy is all-time.

Agreed, but it's not an easy album to warm to at first.

Good album.

the only cd I got early that I was excited to get early was Dying Fetus - Destroy the Opposition, but only cos I was a small-time unpaid critic for a music website at the time and got the promo sent to me.

never got lucky enough to see a cd actually improperly sitting on the shelf early, sadly.

I was never a big "gotta have the new album on release date!" guy but I do remember walking into a Best Buy the day Iron Maiden's A Matter of Life and Death came out, and the guy stocking the CD section said, "I bet I know what you're here for," and I looked down and realized I was wearing an Iron Maiden shirt and honestly felt like kind of a dickhead. But I bought the CD, which is still my favorite of their 21st century albums.

Ted asked Michael McDonald to have a listen. Mike came into Ted's office, sang along with our tape, and Ted recorded his singing. Ted played it for me in the 5150 control room, and when it came to the chorus and I heard Mike sing, "I'll Wait," I knew that was it! I hit the talkback and said, "Ed! Get in here, you've got to hear this!"

I live for this nonsense, thanks Josh

Should probably be a separate thread but what I would give to hear Mike and Mike sing I'll Wait, y'know old arcane legendary recordings that may or may not exist anymore if they ever existed to begin with

"I'll Wait (No Consonants Version)"

"I'll Wait (Michael McDonald feat. James Ingram version)"

I knew he wrote it, but it wasn't until that quote that I pictured MM singing it. Must've been magical.

We need a McDonald sings the VH classics album..."shenorita ah'm in trouble aghain..."

ahdofear tardih

“I ain’t the worst that you’ve seen”
Ain’t it the truth

still obsessed with I'll Wait, can we do an ilx cover where everyone takes a couple lines and does their best Michael McDonald impression

My roommates in college and I used to get very high and do a Michael McDonald Barbershop Quartet at like 3am. Perhaps we can reform for this.