The Poopy Diaper Vinyl Thread

[allegate]

Ah yes, "tracking down where that noise is coming from". It's a lot like riding a bike in that you only notice it while it's in motion and you can't do anything about it then either, just stop moving, make adjustments, and try again.

[Max]

I feel like it's really easy for the whole experience of listening on vinyl can easily turning into "listening on vinyl" activities that never end, and not actually being able to just listen to the record. Like Do I have the right equipment, am i cleaning it right, why is there noise, why is the record wobbling, is this a good print of the record in the first place... before you know it you are a crazy old Gandolf-looking audiophile in a Hawaiian shirt who never actually listens to records for what they are saying, but just for how it sounds. I feel the pull sometimes, but it makes me realize this is way more complicated than it needs to be and i run back to digital.

[halo eighteen]

Amazon currently has a promotion for buy 3 for price of 2 on select items, including vinyl and some NIN albums are part of this: The Downward Spiral, With Teeth, Not the Actual Events, Add Violence, The Fragile: Deviations 1, Watchmen: Volume 1, Watchmen: Volume 3

I'm not sure if this is just for Prime members!

*10/17 edit - TDS and With Teeth are no longer part of the sale*

*10/19 edit - that's a wrap!*

[muad'nin]

I thought posters to this thread might appreciate this.

My favourite Australian band TISM are releasing their first work in almost twenty years, and it’s a 100 minute album on vinyl, which consists solely of silence. The relevant parts of the press release follow -

With its lesser dynamic range, worse signal-to-noise ratio, inferior channel separation, variation in playback speed, limited sound capacity, and susceptibility to heat, dust and damge, vinyl is an inexplicably re-emerging gimmick for pox-addled hair-lipped shut-ins who are trying too hard to compensate for their goitered lives.

But why pay for multiple TISM albums in vinyl format when you can buy only one? The TISM Omni-Album is an all-purpose album cover containing liner notes, artwork and song listings suitable for all six TISM albums. The TISM Deluxe Omni-Album comes with an actual vinyl disc, filled with 100 minutes of total silence, so as not to detract from the sound quality and thereby allowing you to savour the full vinyl experience: you will extract the soon-to-be scratched disc from the soon-to-be bent cover, place it on a revolving turntable powered by the latest in 1920s technology, and then attempt to drop a tiny, fragile and expensive needle on to an inconsistently revolving wax groove.

With the TISM Deluxe Omni-Album, all the features of analogue listening are yours: turntable rumble, extraneous cartridge noise, clicks and pops as the stylus hits dust, and of course, the repetitive insanity of a needle endlessly skipping over the permanently damaged surface. And remember, with The TISM Deluxe Omni-Album's carefully mastered total silence, you can listen to TISM's music in any non-analogue format you choose (these formats are available for separate purchase.) The TISM Deluxe Omni-Album is the ultimate TISM listening experience.

Needless to say, as a fan I picked up a copy... And if it’s not clear, TISM spent their entire career taking the piss out of popular culture, their fans and themselves (they have a song called ‘TISM Are Shit’, so none of it is to be taken that seriously).

[Max]

I thought posters to this thread might appreciate this.

My favourite Australian band TISM are releasing their first work in almost twenty years, and it’s a 100 minute album on vinyl, which consists solely of silence. The relevant parts of the press release follow -

With its lesser dynamic range, worse signal-to-noise ratio, inferior channel separation, variation in playback speed, limited sound capacity, and susceptibility to heat, dust and damge, vinyl is an inexplicably re-emerging gimmick for pox-addled hair-lipped shut-ins who are trying too hard to compensate for their goitered lives.

But why pay for multiple TISM albums in vinyl format when you can buy only one? The TISM Omni-Album is an all-purpose album cover containing liner notes, artwork and song listings suitable for all six TISM albums. The TISM Deluxe Omni-Album comes with an actual vinyl disc, filled with 100 minutes of total silence, so as not to detract from the sound quality and thereby allowing you to savour the full vinyl experience: you will extract the soon-to-be scratched disc from the soon-to-be bent cover, place it on a revolving turntable powered by the latest in 1920s technology, and then attempt to drop a tiny, fragile and expensive needle on to an inconsistently revolving wax groove.

With the TISM Deluxe Omni-Album, all the features of analogue listening are yours: turntable rumble, extraneous cartridge noise, clicks and pops as the stylus hits dust, and of course, the repetitive insanity of a needle endlessly skipping over the permanently damaged surface. And remember, with The TISM Deluxe Omni-Album's carefully mastered total silence, you can listen to TISM's music in any non-analogue format you choose (these formats are available for separate purchase.) The TISM Deluxe Omni-Album is the ultimate TISM listening experience.

Needless to say, as a fan I picked up a copy... And if it’s not clear, TISM spent their entire career taking the piss out of popular culture, their fans and themselves (they have a song called ‘TISM Are Shit’, so none of it is to be taken that seriously).

That's hilarious. I own and play vinyl, and sometimes I wonder why. It is a LOT of trouble and a couple years into it I still doubt the whole experience. But then again, since the internet seems to be causing the destruction of the whole world and flooding us with misinformation and enslaving us to social media, maybe these plastic discs will be the only thing we care about in 20 years when we lives down in the tunnels.

[tony.parente]

I thought posters to this thread might appreciate this.

My favourite Australian band TISM are releasing their first work in almost twenty years, and it’s a 100 minute album on vinyl, which consists solely of silence. The relevant parts of the press release follow -

With its lesser dynamic range, worse signal-to-noise ratio, inferior channel separation, variation in playback speed, limited sound capacity, and susceptibility to heat, dust and damge, vinyl is an inexplicably re-emerging gimmick for pox-addled hair-lipped shut-ins who are trying too hard to compensate for their goitered lives.

But why pay for multiple TISM albums in vinyl format when you can buy only one? The TISM Omni-Album is an all-purpose album cover containing liner notes, artwork and song listings suitable for all six TISM albums. The TISM Deluxe Omni-Album comes with an actual vinyl disc, filled with 100 minutes of total silence, so as not to detract from the sound quality and thereby allowing you to savour the full vinyl experience: you will extract the soon-to-be scratched disc from the soon-to-be bent cover, place it on a revolving turntable powered by the latest in 1920s technology, and then attempt to drop a tiny, fragile and expensive needle on to an inconsistently revolving wax groove.

With the TISM Deluxe Omni-Album, all the features of analogue listening are yours: turntable rumble, extraneous cartridge noise, clicks and pops as the stylus hits dust, and of course, the repetitive insanity of a needle endlessly skipping over the permanently damaged surface. And remember, with The TISM Deluxe Omni-Album's carefully mastered total silence, you can listen to TISM's music in any non-analogue format you choose (these formats are available for separate purchase.) The TISM Deluxe Omni-Album is the ultimate TISM listening experience.

Needless to say, as a fan I picked up a copy... And if it’s not clear, TISM spent their entire career taking the piss out of popular culture, their fans and themselves (they have a song called ‘TISM Are Shit’, so none of it is to be taken that seriously).

If that press release isn't directly inspired by the pretentious not at all tongue in cheek vinyl mission statement i'll eat my shoe haha

Also I feel like they asked @Helpmeiaminhell to write the first section of that description.

[Max]

Hey poopy diaper people - for those of you complaining for years about no CD’s, there are a bunch of CDs on sale at the NIN.com store. Limited supplies. Today is your day.

[Jinsai]

Hey poopy diaper people - for those of you complaining for years about no CD’s, there are a bunch of CDs on sale at the NIN.com store. Limited supplies. Today is your day.

While we're talking about outdated media formats though, I definitely would have grabbed one of those Closure laser discs before they sold out.

[botley]

As someone who did a pro-quality digital transfer of "The Day the World Went Away" cassingle for the sadly departed WHAT.CD tracker, purely for the "Starfuckers" mix exclusive to that release, I would have been alllll over a "Reptile" cassette. But, alas...

[fillow]

"Starfuckers" mix exclusive to that release

Say what now
It's different from CD?

[botley]

Say what now
It's different from CD?

Yep... full ending, with the crowd chanting to fadeout but no "Complication" guitar riff.

[Mank]

As someone who did a pro-quality digital transfer of "The Day the World Went Away" cassingle for the sadly departed WHAT.CD tracker, purely for the "Starfuckers" mix exclusive to that release, I would have been alllll over a "Reptile" cassette. But, alas...

I miss that site. Never found someone who had an alternative. I would totally post some rare stuff on there.

[TheBang]

I miss that site. Never found someone who had an alternative. I would totally post some rare stuff on there.

Like what?

[Erneuert]

Like what?

I second this.

[Mank]

I miss that site. Never found someone who had an alternative. I would totally post some rare stuff on there.

A few NIN/TRAR tracks, and some of other artists as well. But like I said I never found an alternative and I got on ? without even meaning to (I got a surprise invite afterward from a person who asked a big favor).

[neorev]

As someone who did a pro-quality digital transfer of "The Day the World Went Away" cassingle for the sadly departed WHAT.CD tracker, purely for the "Starfuckers" mix exclusive to that release, I would have been alllll over a "Reptile" cassette. But, alas...

I'm confused, why rip the tape when the TDTWWA CD single also have this crowd outro mix as well? They 3 track digipack with the Quiet mix. Starfuckers has that crowd outro. Is the cassette version different?

[botley]

I'm confused, why rip the tape when the TDTWWA CD single also have this crowd outro mix as well? They 3 track digipack with the Quiet mix. Starfuckers has that crowd outro. Is the cassette version different?

Yes, it is. As I explained above, there is no "Complication" intro mixed with the crowd on the cassette.

[neorev]

Yes, it is. As I explained above, there is no "Complication" intro mixed with the crowd on the cassette.

I never noticed the Complication riff, but, yea, it's quietly there in the background. Probably cuz once the album came out, I mainly listened to the album version.

At least now we can just splice our own HQ version between The Fragile remaster and Deviations version of Starfuckers, Inc. To be honest, I prefer the CD version of The Fragile with the way tracks blend and flow into each other, but the way Starfuckers, Inc. just ends and chopping 10 Miles High intro always irked me. But the CD mixing helps enhance the journey feel of the whole album.

[Leviathant]

Yes, it is. As I explained above, there is no "Complication" intro mixed with the crowd on the cassette.

I want to pause here to appreciate all the weird minor differences between TDTWWA & Starfuckers between the CD single, the cassingle, the double-CD album version, and the 3xLP album version. It was kind of maddening but also kinda fun to chase down and identify.

[botley]

I want to pause here to appreciate all the weird minor differences between TDTWWA & Starfuckers between the CD single, the cassingle, the double-CD album version, and the 3xLP album version. It was kind of maddening but also kinda fun to chase down and identify.

Don't forget the "Starsuckers" promo!

[halo eighteen]

With Teeth DE looks like it's gotten another batch; back in stock at both Amazon and NIN store US.