Wall of Mouths

My copy arrived yesterday (USA). My random thoughts: It gets better with each listen just like crooked timber. I could do without the instrumental though. I immediately thought of Fugazi when I heard Before You, With You, After You the first time. Then the buzzing reminded me of some of the old Nation Of Ulysees. So a different direction for T? IMO. Overall, I like it. :)

Don’t get me wrong, when the last slayer album came out I purchased it immediately and enjoyed it(still do), but there was nothing groundbreaking or new or stand out on it. It was just slayer which is ok. Personally I think it was a step back from God Hates us All but that’s just me. In the end they just seem to be on auto pilot just like Metallica.

I’m going to call it now. This album will suck. Not that I want it to, but I’m tired of getting disappointed since that tragedy after and justice for all.

Every time there’s a new album about to come out, lars will say it’s a throw back to the old days, the heaviest since kill ‘em all, more challenging than master of puppets, and then the first single is something like “Aint my bitch”. This time will be no different. I’m just being realistic this time.

Also, a nice surprise this year already is that the new Testament amazingly is brutal as fuck. And I wasn’t really a testament fan back in the day, but it is awesome to hear that style of music with todays production “standards”. as far as I’m concerned thrash is not dead though some of the founders should probably die or retire. Slayer included.

Mine just arrived from across the pond. I’m digging the hell out of it.

So… can I send someone some money for a cd-r of this to be shipped to the states, since it’s fucking impossible for me to obtain it through legal means, and begging for a cd-r seems to be a little higher on the moral scale then scavenging bit-torrent.

I got # 308 on saturday

Billy Blue wrote:

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Ps, how have Apple been allowed to get away with this? Nazi’s!

Actually Steve Jobs posted an open letter to the recording industry to address this.

http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughtsonmusic/

I’m in no way an apple fan boy / apologist but jobs reasons make sense to me.

I’m glad that some people who can actually force a change are finally going public with their dis-satisfaction on the whole drm thing.

I’m one of those musicians that has music for sale through ITunes and a variety of other places that is wrapped in garbage to restrict peoples usage. I(the owner of the content) don’t want it, and neither do the few that buy it.

I was not asked if I wanted that garbage “protecting” my creations.

Alas, be mad at the suits in the big 4 labels. They seem to be the only ones that want this. No band that I like has endorsed that crap to my knowledge I could be wrong.

I’m sad and happy at the same time.

Always happy to hear T? song I haven’t heard.

Sad, for the download only, mainly because of the choice of stores.

ITunes is the best of the ones listed. But some of us, hate the drm/hardware lock in/quality restrictions that comes along with it.

I imagine this is the labels doing more so than the bands. Or some weird compromise to get rights to distribute the material.

Nonetheless if I can get it in the US, I’ll find a way to get it likely from Itunes.

Oooh I forgot about the We Are Scientists, that album was pretty fun.

Besides One Cure Fits All
A lot of my music money went to emusic this year.

Killing Joke - Hossanna from the Basements of Hell
Ministry - Rio Grande Blood
Revolting Cocks - Cocked and Loaded
Mission of Burma - The Obliterati
The Young Widows - Settle Down City
The Blood Brothers - Young Machetes
Melvins - A Senile Animal
Cinemachanica - The Martial Arts
Sepultura - Dante XXI (Shockingly good album)
These Arms are Snakes - Easter

Also enjoyed

The Flaming Lips - At War With The Mystics
The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
Trail of Dead- So Divided (No Idea why critics give them shit for this one it’s great)
NOFX-Wolves in Wolves Clothing
Mastodon - Blood Mountain(my faith in metal restored)

And a bunch of local stuff(Cincinnati Ohio USA) that probably no one on here would know or care about :D

Pretty good year for Music for me I think.

I got Katorz a while back. I wasn’t as excited about it as much as the previous releases, because I know it will be the last I’ll ever here of my personal guitar hero. It is awesome though.

I think I’m actually one of the few that actually dig Phobos and Negatron.

I saw the video for nowhere on MTV(probably 120 minutes or headbangers ball)

Bought troublegum, loved it, bought nurse, liked it, loved it about 3 years later.

Spent an enormous amount of time and money trying to get a hold of semi-detached in the US, finally got a copy through amazon.

I have yet to see them live though. :(

Hot damn I got it!!!!!

Videos work swell on linux too, I was worried about that.

Oh yeah and the gig is fantastic.

Thanks Therapy?

Thanks Rene for getting this fixed in a timely manner and emailing me to let me know I can download the stuff.

I may write a review some time this month hopefully.

The software engineer in me is very much disappointed with e-junkie. :D

OMG OMG OMG

First Hi all. Therapy fan from the USA here.

Second, I’m so glad that the band decided to do this web gig thing. It’s brilliant and I can’t wait to see it.

And Third, looks like the d/l links don’t work I’m getting 0 byte mp3 files. This is torture!!!! Arghhhh!!!!

And fourth I hope that the technical difficulties are load related and that it really means that a massive amount of raving T? fans crushed the server with demand for new T? digital audio and video, thusly , possibly self funded is a reality? maybe?

Anyone tried the videos on linux yet? I’m assuming/hoping mplayer or vlc will be able to handle it, otherwise I just bought a big bunch of nothing.

Hope the stuff is fixed soon.