My entire order is on the way. NTAE, Broken, Fragile and TDS. Just got the shipping notification a few minutes ago.
I think the existence of the 30 page sandbag thread of stories about how bad sandbag sucks at literally everything it does in gigantically offensive ways removes the purchaser of items from their store from being a victim by giving the purchaser the knowledge of the service they will be recieving.
it would be like me going to the gathering of the Juggalos and then being mad that I smell like cheap cigarettes and soda at the end.
Saw on Facebook that people have received NTAE vinyls.
Spoiler: There's apparently reversed audio on the B-side and the black dust is back.
There's two posts in this group. https://www.facebook.com/groups/NINOurNothingNIN/?fref=nf
Spoiler: Sounds like reptile on the video there.
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So now we can finally hear the satanic messages lol
Is it gatefold? (NTAE vinyl)
Now someone needs to do needledrops of the backward TDS tracks and play them together with their associated tracks in the NTAE lyric sheet.
Spoiler: While also playing selections from 10,000 Days, Dark Side of The Moon and Wizard of Oz together obviously
Had a thought about the Broken reissue and the "secrets included." Spoilers just in case I'm on the right track:
Spoiler: https://www.discogs.com/Nine-Inch-Na...release/128574 The European version of Broken on vinyl came with a NIN slipmat. What if the secret is that the reissue also comes with a slipmat? That's a little more pedestrian than a DVD-R of The Broken Movie or whatever, but I think it'd be a cool little nod to the original vinyl issue.
I'd never really listened to the TDS DE remaster (since I didn't buy it, as I own an original UK copy) – but I just noticed a weird flaw, possibly due to how loud the remaster is, on "March of the Pigs" ... before the first "all the pigs" chorus, there's a huge jump in volume that isn't on the original, probably from the limiter jumping up after pressing down the sound so much during the loud part. (If I play the original very loudly, I don't hear the same effect.) I'm pretty surprised that got past our infamously perfectionist dude, especially since they finally fixed the "Heresy" intro (though I always thought that was intentional.)
We still don't know if the new vinyl keeps the fade-outs, eh? I'm assuming they are.
Months later, I still kinda want to buy the Broken remaster since I always wanted to own that on vinyl but I can't really rage out as much in my middle age so I still don't know if it's worth it. Might save the money for Add Violence since it's so good.
Can't wait to get my copy of The Fragile on vinyl again. I will finally have a physical copy of that photo of Dr. Dre and Trent in the studio, too.
First Discogs Broken sale arrived.
Spoiler: https://www.discogs.com/sell/release/10693965
Has anyone noticed yet that the sticker on every definitive edition says halo thirty with the original halo number underneath.
The 2017 DE download seems to indicate this (none of the side split segues are changed like The Fragile; TDS just plays like it always has), but I really hope they don't do it that way. Nothing frustrates me more than the original/Back to Black pressings just putting shite fades on the tracks as they are, and including the Reptile intro at the end of Eraser. So dumb.
IS there a different help email from sandbag? I sent them one to the uk one, I was wondering if there is a US address.
What are you talking about? What's wrong with the intro to Heresy?
I'm starting to think the stickers were creating using a mail merge which simply replaces the name of the album, the halo number, the barcode #, and the original release date and that "Halo Thirty" was accidentally left on the file from the very first one released (Deviations 1).
@seasonsinthesky I saw your post on reddit. I don't have an account over there, but I dug up your original question. "Someone" answered you (you had me tagged in the original post).
While the blank spaces may not necessarily represent places where they fixed sector boundary errors, it's essentially the same concept as padding sector boundary errors (several frames of 0 bytes added to the end).
What I'm getting at is, the "broken" transitions appear to be intentional (padding) rather than an oversight. I'm not trying to imply that these are sector-boundary aligned, etc. I can see how that is a little confusing in my original post.
There's a little stereo anomaly in the synth at the very beginning – it's always been there, and I thought it was intentional (these are the things you notice when you listen to an album probably close to 500 times in your life, or just a couple of times on headphones if you're obsessed with sound). The sound drops out of one channel. Apparently it was always a mistake, as Trent fixed it on this reissue.
As always, thanks very much Jon, you da man. I either missed or erased the braincell responsible for storing the memory of your reply.
Does playback software notice these blanks and drop them out of the buffer, like they now treat MP3s (if the software supports gapless playback)? Or are these blanks actually occurring on playback and they're just so fast nobody notices? I certainly didn't until I went to make combo-files (Frail/Wretched, etc.).