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Non-Music Shit / Anybody know anything about external soundcards?

« on: December 18, 2006, 12:32:00 PM »

Hey. My laptop lacks a Line In jack and I'd like to transfer some recordings from my 4 track and burn some CDs. I'm okay on software, but the world of USB friendly external soundcards seems pretty vast. Can somebody recommend an affordable and decent quality one?

Thanks in advance.

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Music Shit / Re: my space wretchedness

« on: December 17, 2006, 01:01:18 PM »

I like guitar and recording junk alot, but I'm weirded out by bands that list off the specific equipment they use.

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Music Shit / Re: Are www.buycrime.com cunts?

« on: December 16, 2006, 08:45:57 AM »

Really hilarious. This has made me feel okay about the three orders Crime has fucked up and all the bullshit they've put me through each time to get my money back.

I feel I should clarify my problems with Get Hip's mailorder. I bought some records from their website last year to give as Christmas gifts. None of the records I wanted were in stock aside from that Fevers single. I asked them to reconfigure my order for two copies of that, and to refund me the rest of the money. I had ordered like 12 records so my refund shoulda been like 40 some dollars plus shipping. They refused to refund my money, telling me that you can't give a refund with Paypal. I informed them that they certainly could and even explained how. They didn't believe me, or decided to ignore the possibility of giving a refund. In the end they wound up giving me store credit for the cost of the out of stock records and sending me the two Fevers singles. They ignored the differance in shipping costs. So I paid to have two records shipped to me for what I paid for the initial order. (The inability to recalculate shipping costs for an order that's been signifigantly skimmed down is a problem I've had with Crime as well.)

I wound up using that credit eventually, but I never did get the shipping thing figured out with them. Even with everything I ordered I still had $1.00 credit, so I asked them to just throw a dollar bill in with my order. They said they would, but instead sent me a piece of paper that said $1 credit.

Maybe Get Hip has gotten hip in the past year, but I think they qualify for cunt status.

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Music Shit / Re: Are www.buycrime.com cunts?

« on: December 09, 2006, 05:34:45 AM »

This place and Get Hip are the worst mailorders I've ever dealt with.

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Music Shit / Re: Exile On Main Street...

« on: November 02, 2006, 05:05:49 AM »

I think there's certainly better Stones material, but I love the way this record sounds. The vocals especially.

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Music Shit / Re: Bones

« on: October 29, 2006, 09:09:55 AM »

I'd really like to see some of the guitars that they made.

from: http://www.powerhat.com/tusovka/tus.ch1.html

Another problem the youth confronted when beginning to form groups to play rock 'n' roll, was the shortage of instruments and equipment. Electric guitars were almost non-existent in the USSR until the early sixties. Most instruments were manufactured in Eastern Europe and sold in the USSR in small numbers. The most notable were ten guitars that appeared in an East German-sponsored instrument shop in Moscow in 1966. All ten of the guitars were bought in the first hours that the shop was open and immediately resold at twice the price of purchase on the black market. Many groups were forced to make their own instruments or purchase copies of Western guitars that were produced by unofficial manufacturers. One of these manufacturers in 1969 managed to publish in a popular mechanical magazine a technique of converting an acoustic guitar into an electric one using a telephone voice coil, and shortly therafter there were reportedly no functioning public telephones in all of Moscow.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: COOL BLOGS

« on: October 27, 2006, 08:30:57 AM »

I like these:

http://www.kbdrecords.com

http://www.strangereaction.com/

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Music Shit / Re: "oldies" bands you've seen live?

« on: October 25, 2006, 07:27:23 AM »

I've seen the Mysterians too. Either last year, or the year before. The show was really impressive. ? still has a great voice, and some real sexy moves.

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Music Shit / Re: sweet soul monkey new mp3 single

« on: October 20, 2006, 08:18:19 AM »

Recieves my seal of approval. This is hot shit.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: so how do you deal with other peoples stupidity?

« on: October 17, 2006, 08:10:28 PM »

Here's some stupidity that found its way to our myspace inbox recently.


----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: bryan welz
Date: Oct 12, 2006 12:46 PM


heart beet really sounds like blitzskeeg bop. ans yes i know i cant spell. i added you all to my freinds list hope ya exsept it so i can atleast find ya agin you all cot some really good bands on your page.you all sound better live than recorded. what are you all recording on anyways. i used to record on a dule casset payer and while i was dubbing the first track i was playing or singing into the mic jac. the his was just ....... well if you like hiss it sounded fucking great!
i was wondering whats the fashion-ation with the 50's ive noticed latlly. or has it always been there you think scence the ramones and MC5?

brian wells
or
bryan welz

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Weird porn

« on: October 16, 2006, 08:03:21 AM »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Fhq08gtX-0

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Music Shit / Re: Emo

« on: September 29, 2006, 07:27:42 AM »

Plays Pretty for Baby is a work of pure genius. Really.

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Music Shit / Re: Jetsons 45

« on: September 25, 2006, 08:07:05 AM »

It'd be cool if Gulcher issued a CD. I'd like to hear more than just the 4 songs that are out there.

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Music Shit / Re: What's everyone listening to?

« on: August 25, 2006, 12:07:47 PM »

Monkees "Greatest Hits" (I just saw that Rhino reissued the first two Monkees records. I went to download them, but couldn't find them, so I'm listening to this instead. I dunno who wrote or played these songs, but damn some of them are really good.)

Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart, the greatest hit writers in history, wrote most of their tunes. The Monkees themselves laid down the vocal tracks, while studio musicians did the instrumentation. However, I've heard that Peter Tork played a few guitar tracks on the first record.

Let's Dance On is my personal fave.