Trying to gauge interest before going through the effort of organizing, but, would anyone be interested in buying some classic (used) Anberlin merch (from mid-2000s through their “final tour,” sizes S and M)? I have so many cool shirts from them, but I’m coming to the realization that I’m not interested in wearing/keeping them anymore. I also have 3 of the oldest Anchor & Braille t-shirts that exist, which are cool as hell. I can post photos if anyone’s interested in looking.
I broke out my vinyl boxset for the first time in a while. It’s really frustrating, because it’s fantastic. The art rules, all the albums are on 180g black vinyl, the oral history book is great. But everything is discussed with so much finality, where it’s frustrating to look back on it now. It’s also a dumb pet peeve of mine when bands release huge boxsets, then keep releasing albums. It’s kept me from buying the EPs on vinyl so far.
finally spinning my copy of Convinced. anyone else's copy have a gap between Lacerate and Decoder, despite gaplessly flowing into one another on streaming? whoever approved this pressing without making sure the tracks flow into one another needs to be fired.
so close though, fun read as well per usual! i though the ranking is close to what i would put em all at, their first three albums are my three favorites. blueprints always transports me back to freshman year of HS listening to that on my discman
I can’t take a list like that seriously if Blueprints isn’t last, especially over DITW. I also think lowborn is unfairly maligned.
Impossible, Pray Tell, and Art of War are discog highlights, I’ll stick up for DITW any time this comes up.
The enthusiastic pun using "Burn Out Brighter" immediately followed by "Skip it: “Burn Out Brighter” got me for some reason.
Hard Times pivot to edgy discog ratings is fun for the most part, but they def try too hard most of the time.