Yesterday I picked up Dire Strats’ self titled album on vinyl from Half Priced Books. I took it for a spin today and thought I would share, mostly for the /r/vinyl folks that might like this sort of thing. The album itself It’s not my favorite Dire Straits album actually. …
Level Grindin’, the latest song from my band, Victim Cache, is now available for Listening, Downloading and Purchasing! Hope you like it!
My new modded GameBoy came in the mail yesterday, woo! What makes it different? It has a Pro-Sound mod, green backlit inverted LED display, new faceplate, and purple buttons. I wanted to do the mods myself and all but the backlight are rather easy to do. I opted to use …
We (Victim Cache) finally finished Symphony of Vengeance, the latest track off our upcoming album, Chipsurf Pipeline. This one is darker than the other tracks – perhaps even more so than Yakuza (which is, itself, a pretty dark song). The difference is that this one has a driving force behind …
Today I picked up Broken Bells at Best Buy – on vinyl. It started by out from this post on /r/vinyl that pointed to a list of Best Buy stores that carry vinyl. It was not well received and understandably so. Buying vinyl is one of those things that’s probably …
This week all the bits and pieces came in for my new vinyl listening setup. My previous setup did its job and without it I don’t know if I would have gotten into vinyl. Plus it was free :) It’s mission was to help me determine if I would like …
Today my copy of Stephen Colbert’s new silly single arrived in the mail. This is my first new vinyl record I have ever owned. It was pretty fun to spin it for the first time, too, I must say! The record itself is a semi-serious sort of gag gift. It …
I picked up some random records from the Goodwill store today. Sadly they didn’t keep their vinyl in good condition :/ They were all crammed together on a shelf that was about to collapse. Next time I should try Half-Priced Books maybe if I want to buy used vinyl locally. …
Last weekend I went over to one of the Game Over stores in Austin and couldn’t have been more impressed. First the goods: In order, I ended up with: Kirby’s Dream Land Super Mario Land ExciteBike Gradius Fester’s Quest Life Force MegaMan 2 Zelda (Gold Air Fortress Some nice finds …
