Dark Matter: Official Album Thread

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EBowie wrote:I still haven't heard it. I'm hoping I get lucky with a delivery to my mailbox in the next day or two...otherwise I'll wait till Friday. I'm so thrilled to hear that so many of you are loving it though.
Pearl Jam had a peak of getting things to us a day or two ahead of release date, and that rocked, but they've long since switched to this system of making us pay a bunch of extra money to UPS for a super shitty delivery system that is apparently more environmentally friendly. I think there's a dude leaving Seattle on foot Friday morning with an old paperboy sack full of Dark Matters to deliver across the US. You'll get your vinyl in 2025, but the carbon footprint is nearly zero!
Everything's perfectly all right now. We're fine. We're all fine here, now, thank you. How are you?
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B wrote:
EBowie wrote:I still haven't heard it. I'm hoping I get lucky with a delivery to my mailbox in the next day or two...otherwise I'll wait till Friday. I'm so thrilled to hear that so many of you are loving it though.
Pearl Jam had a peak of getting things to us a day or two ahead of release date, and that rocked, but they've long since switched to this system of making us pay a bunch of extra money to UPS for a super shitty delivery system that is apparently more environmentally friendly. I think there's a dude leaving Seattle on foot Friday morning with an old paperboy sack full of Dark Matters to deliver across the US. You'll get your vinyl in 2025, but the carbon footprint is nearly zero!

This made me lol
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Listening to the cellphone leak last night, Upper Hand really hit me good. I was picturing them opening a show with it, with the epic intro and Ed walking on, and the crowd singing along. The song is going to be a classic. A modern Yellow Ledbetter.
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B wrote:
EBowie wrote:I still haven't heard it. I'm hoping I get lucky with a delivery to my mailbox in the next day or two...otherwise I'll wait till Friday. I'm so thrilled to hear that so many of you are loving it though.
Pearl Jam had a peak of getting things to us a day or two ahead of release date, and that rocked, but they've long since switched to this system of making us pay a bunch of extra money to UPS for a super shitty delivery system that is apparently more environmentally friendly. I think there's a dude leaving Seattle on foot Friday morning with an old paperboy sack full of Dark Matters to deliver across the US. You'll get your vinyl in 2025, but the carbon footprint is nearly zero!
I got Gigaton in the mail 5 days before release and I'm in Massachusetts. It seems to be a crapshoot.
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Val wrote:
EBowie wrote:
Val wrote:
EBowie wrote:I still haven't heard it. I'm hoping I get lucky with a delivery to my mailbox in the next day or two...otherwise I'll wait till Friday. I'm so thrilled to hear that so many of you are loving it though.
Is yours on vinyl?
I ordered one vinyl and one CD - both via 10C.
I’m thinking about a turntable, but from I was given to understand, the hassle free ones that work via wireless protocols aren’t worth buying because of the inferior sound quality as opposed to ones that require dedicated amps, passive speaker sets, you know, the works. Is that true? Because if it is I better forget it. I can’t have audio cables slithering all over the place, that would drive me nuts.
I bought a turntable a couple of years ago....just a mid level Fluance turntable with a separate pre amp, receiver, speakers. My assumption is that you are correct that going wireless and "hassle free" probably negates any sort of "sound advantages". Though for me occasionally going vinyl is as much about the experience, and sort of forcing myself to go back to listening to albums rather than playlists.
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B wrote:
EBowie wrote:I still haven't heard it. I'm hoping I get lucky with a delivery to my mailbox in the next day or two...otherwise I'll wait till Friday. I'm so thrilled to hear that so many of you are loving it though.
Pearl Jam had a peak of getting things to us a day or two ahead of release date, and that rocked, but they've long since switched to this system of making us pay a bunch of extra money to UPS for a super shitty delivery system that is apparently more environmentally friendly. I think there's a dude leaving Seattle on foot Friday morning with an old paperboy sack full of Dark Matters to deliver across the US. You'll get your vinyl in 2025, but the carbon footprint is nearly zero!
:haha:
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Arthur Morgan wrote:
scrub12 wrote:
Arthur Morgan wrote: I can’t wait to read lyrics tonight. Some of the lyrics I have caught onto seem to imply Ed is looking back at the beginning and contemplating he is the last man standing, a little but maybe not.

I am excited for those who have not heard it to hear it.
Are there going to by lyrics at this thing? I thought it was just the album and then the album with a bunch of visuals on screen.
The Pitt just confirmed lyrics will be on screen!
eh really
can we request they be turned off
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hlniv wrote:
Arthur Morgan wrote:
scrub12 wrote:
Arthur Morgan wrote: I can’t wait to read lyrics tonight. Some of the lyrics I have caught onto seem to imply Ed is looking back at the beginning and contemplating he is the last man standing, a little but maybe not.

I am excited for those who have not heard it to hear it.
Are there going to by lyrics at this thing? I thought it was just the album and then the album with a bunch of visuals on screen.
The Pitt just confirmed lyrics will be on screen!
eh really
can we request they be turned off


At this point I don’t think we can turn the Pitt off, sorry
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Lordy. The waiting. Dying here.
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At the end of the day, I'll be going to the movies tonight by myself to have a listen.
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B wrote:
EBowie wrote:I still haven't heard it. I'm hoping I get lucky with a delivery to my mailbox in the next day or two...otherwise I'll wait till Friday. I'm so thrilled to hear that so many of you are loving it though.
Pearl Jam had a peak of getting things to us a day or two ahead of release date, and that rocked, but they've long since switched to this system of making us pay a bunch of extra money to UPS for a super shitty delivery system that is apparently more environmentally friendly. I think there's a dude leaving Seattle on foot Friday morning with an old paperboy sack full of Dark Matters to deliver across the US. You'll get your vinyl in 2025, but the carbon footprint is nearly zero!
You mean like carbon footprint by making 12 different versions of the exact same thing?
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hlniv wrote:
Arthur Morgan wrote:
scrub12 wrote:
Arthur Morgan wrote: I can’t wait to read lyrics tonight. Some of the lyrics I have caught onto seem to imply Ed is looking back at the beginning and contemplating he is the last man standing, a little but maybe not.

I am excited for those who have not heard it to hear it.
Are there going to by lyrics at this thing? I thought it was just the album and then the album with a bunch of visuals on screen.
The Pitt just confirmed lyrics will be on screen!
eh really
can we request they be turned off
I think it’s only for the second playthrough…for the first playthrough you get to stare at the back of a dozen sweaty balding heads uninterrupted.
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Jaeti wrote:Lordy. The waiting. Dying here.
Enjoy this moment. We only get a few. Excited for you.

I have heard the record and find it hard concentrating today
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Coach wrote:At the end of the day, I'll be going to the movies tonight by myself to have a listen.
me too, at the end of the day
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I'm excited for those of you going to the theater tonight. I hope there are no crying babies.
Spoiler: show
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Alas I could not solve the two kids picked up at the same time problem
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pearl jam sucks now
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Same.
Going by myself 9:15 this evening once the kids are in bed

Looking forward to hearing this on a big sound system

Hopefully the crying baby will be there during the Segway from WFS into Running
I'm really going to miss that part - it went so well with the beautiful music
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Hahaha, it's wild that I really am going to give this phone bootleg a listen in a few days after I've actually heard the real thing, just for this baby.
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Clem Halibut wrote:Same.
Going by myself 9:15 this evening once the kids are in bed

Looking forward to hearing this on a big sound system

Hopefully the crying baby will be there during the Segway from WFS into Running
I'm really going to miss that part - it went so well with the beautiful music
Our friends daughter beats the hell out of that revving motorcycle from the door clip
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