A topic to speak about the stuff you bought recently, ok ?

BARABBAS "s/t"
THE GATES OF SLUMBER "the wretch"
PLACE OF SKULLS "love through blood" re-issue with 2 bonus live
PENTAGRAM "last rites" + "first daze here too"
GRAVE MIASMA "exalted emanation" + "realm of evoked doom"
ST VITUS "V" re-issue from Southern Lord with video from the 1st gig with Wino
CHURCH OF MISERY "live Roadburn 2009"
ALTAR OF PLAGUES "tides"

I just posted mine in the "Talk about your record/CD collection" thread in general discussion, but I think a seperate topic would be great

To rehash, I got the following over the course of the week:

Pentagram - Last Rites (Ltd. color vinyl)
Apostle Of Solitude - Sincerest Misery (handnumbered ltd. vinyl)
Ulver - Nattens Madrigal (re-issued vinyl)
Graveyard - Hisingen Blues (Ltd. color vinyl)

And awaiting:

The Grotesquery - Tales Of The Coffin Born (Ltd. vinyl)

I'd love to get Pentagram's First Daze Here soon, since it's pretty much the album that made me fall in love with them. I hope to find the vinyl edition for a decent price somewhere soon (I think it only came out in Canada in a limited supply, if I recall correctly).
There's so much stuff on my to-buy list

The last thing I bought was the new MDB release and I won't have that until next month probably.

Iron Man – Dominance EP and the Paradise Lost re-release was the very last things I actually pay for. I generally don't have to buy much anymore, 80% of it I get for free. I used to spend $500+ a month on music, now its around $150 and nearly always limited edition type stuff, mostly vinyl.

I am really poor, but last week I bought the Acid Witch embroidered patch and button for my vest.

As you should be, lols

The Flight of Sleipnir "Essence of Nine" limited LP.
and the split are my last orders.

I plan to buy the limited LP of Devil "Magister Mundi Xum" released recently.

yeah, i need to get a shirt too. i was way slow getting into them and then all of sudden something happened and i started liking them a whole lot.

just coming back from a 4 days journey in Barcelona with my wife (nice town...)
bought compilation stuff from the 2 best spanish hard rock/heavy metal classics, I just already had 2 lps from each that I bought something like 25 years ago !!!

BARON ROJO "25 anniversario" compilation 2 CDs + 1 DVD
OBUS "vamos muy bien - 30 grandes classics" compilation 2 CDs + 1 DVD



great stuff !

WEEDEATER "Jason the dragon"
WOODEN STAKE "dungeon prayers..."
EVOKEN / BENEATH THE FROZEN SOIL split CD

Last night I swung by Weirdo Records in Cambridge MA. Great little record store that only sells really really weird stuff.

I got two tapes, two 7"s, and an 8-track for $10. the 8-track is new too. it's this guy from maine that makes all sorts of strangeness called ID M Theftable.

One of the tapes is some killer drone stuff by these guys called "The Fortieth Day".

the 7"s were both old garage rock kind of stuff.

I just got the new MDB release 'Evinta' and it was NOT what I was expecting. Its minimalistic, ambient, classical music with very sparse vocals, 0 guitars and almost 0 drums. I got the triple disc book version and I really enjoy what I got. The book is more or less a visual history of the band with a paragraph or two thrown in every so many pages briefly describing what was going on at the time. Its more or less the singers wet dream come true. It was fun trying to figure out which songs I was hearing and then trying to remember what album they were from. Its worth getting if you're a die hard MDB fan only.

I swung by Armaggedon records in Harvard Sq. (cambridge MA) on saturday. I got a Quiet Riot-Bang Your Head 7", "Louder Than Hell" 7" comp, which has Toxic Narcotic, Municipal Waste, Hirax, The Accused, and Voetsek. Killer stuff.

and I got the 12" of "Thirsty and Miserable" by Saint Vitus. been listening to that one non-stop.

The last thing I ever bought was a Electric Wizard hoodie, cost me $60 including postage. The funny thing is I didn't look at it closely enough. It has a spread-legged naked woman on a altar on the front lol, damn I wont be able to wear it anywhere, it is far too explicit.

I love Electric Wizard, but I have to say, their shoit is way too effing expensive. I don't know if it is just the label or what the deal is. I would have bought one of their records on saturday, but they were all like $40. eff that, I need to pay rent.

I buy a lot of EW merch because I love their artwork, t-shirt designs and vinyl packages but man, you pay through the nose for the stuff. I agree it should be a more DIY approach and stuff should be cheaper. They claim to be a band for the people yet most of their gear is so expensive. I think in these cases, you can't blame the band. As far as I know EW has little to do with their merchandise but yep, too costly. I have always admired bands like Sourvein & Weedeater, they have great shirts and they are all under $15. I bought a Sourvein shirt a few months back, $13 delivered to my door and it is super high-quality.

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drdoommetal wrote:

Ed wrote: I buy a lot of EW merch because I love their artwork, t-shirt designs and vinyl packages but man, you pay through the nose for the stuff. I agree it should be a more DIY approach and stuff should be cheaper. They claim to be a band for the people yet most of their gear is so expensive. I think in these cases, you can't blame the band. As far as I know EW has little to do with their merchandise but yep, too costly. I have always admired bands like Sourvein & Weedeater, they have great shirts and they are all under $15. I bought a Sourvein shirt a few months back, $13 delivered to my door and it is super high-quality. I know what you mean! I bought a Weedeater t-shirt for 10 euros at their concert and another one for 5 after the end of the show...They wanted to sell out and they did it!

Yeah those bands are great because they want as many fans as possible to have their shirts and other merchandise so they keep the costs right down. I know these labels like Rise Above, Relapse etc have to make money but they don't need to make THAT much money. It is mostly greed. I know you can get a good quality two-sided shirt made for around $5 a piece or less if you order enough of them so to turn around and charge $30 - $40 for a shirt is a rip-off. Clothing like hoodies cost a lot more but even then $20 - $25 is a fair price, not $50 - $60. CD's are usually made for around $2 at the most a piece so you can do the math on how much profit some people are making off this stuff.

Some stuff i have bought over the last month or so:

cds

Primordial - Redemption At The Puritan's Hand
Mirror Of Deception - A Smouldering Fire
Pentagram - Last Rites
Wooden Stake / Blizaro
Condenados - A Painful Journey Into Nihil
Black Sabbath - Born Again (Delux Expanded Edition)
While Heaven Wept - Fear Of Infinity
Bedemon - Child Of Darkness
Nightbitch - Sex And Magic
Argus - Boldly Stride The Doomed
Gallow God - False Mystical Prose

Vinyl

Druid Lord - Hymns For The Wicked
Condenados - La Gran Muerte
Cough / The Wounded Kings - An Introduction To The Black Arts
Saint Vitus - Saint Vitus/Born Too Late (live 2009)
Candlemass - Don't Fear The Reaper
Devil - Magister Mundi Xum
Twisted Tower Dire / The Lamp Of Thoth - Hail Britannia II
Wooden Stake - Black Caped Carnivore
Spiritus Mortis / Pale Divine - Imperial Anthems No. 6

Just arrived today - couple of splits

Lord Vicar + Funeral Circle
Apostle Of Solitude + Rituals Of The Oak + The Flight Of Sleipnir

Both are excellent.

IN SOLITUDE "the world, the flesh..."
AUTOPSY "macabre eternal"
HELLWITCH "syzigial miscreancy" re-edition with 3 demos as bonus
HANGMAN'S CHAIR "leaving Paris"

Dismember - Pieces EP (re-release)
Monarch - Mer Morte

Ordered my copy of Pentagram's Relentless on vinyl a few days ago. The guy I ordered it from is attending the metal market on local metal fest Graspop. I'm heading to the campsite tomorrow, probably picking it up this sunday so I'm sure it will get home alive and well

Just tonight I bought the new Ice Dragon from icedragon.bandcamp.com
and the I bough the new Premonition 13 full length on vinyl/tshirt/digital copy from Volcom

Just ordered a Reino Ermitaño 2009 tour shirt, looks awesome in the pic, hope it looks just as good when it arrives.

These guys are so great. Wasn't easy to find though.

Just got back from Graspop Metal Meeting here in Belgium, I picked up the Relentless vinyl I mentioned earlier, as well as Witchfinder General's Death Penalty on colour vinyl. It was a little pricey, but I couldn't put it back