The verses have something of a Kill Uncle vibe about them
He's not exactly Crass, is he?
I am delighted the tracklisting reads exactly as it should, far more amusing than the failed attempts of any internet knobbos or Quanticks.
Also the version of his 7" single on offer at Crash records costs £6.49.
There's not much to be said that hasn't already but I love the ominous phrasing in the title of this thread. Morrissey continues, like an apocalyptic storm or a lingering urinary infection.
Plenty of albums around the £30 mark though, which is frankly absurd. The new Saint Etienne album, for example. And I remember Pulp's His'n'Hers was about £35 when I bought it a few years ago.
£20 for a new album is pretty standard, but albums are longer these days and often take up two platters, plus most are usually pressed on 180 gram unlike the wafer thin cack of the 80's. So that's fair enough.Nearly £7 for a single, however....
Yeah but 180 gram doesn't have any bearing on quality; you might get more plays out of it and it'll warp less, but neither of those are issues if you have ok carts and look after it.In the 80's at least they had good mastering engineers, there's not many left now and the revival means that they're often too tied up to do a good job, which means you end up with poorly/unmastered shite cut with digilathes that sounds wank. Had my fingers burned with that a few times, oddly it's usually bigger artists you'd think labels would want to do properly.
An awful lot of them use GZ Pressing in the Czech Republic, which can vary wildly in quality even in a short run of 200 to 300, are automatically mastered most of the time - and digilathes, too, like you say (and whose environmental record is appalling, if you care about that sort of thing). How 'heritage' labels like Back to Black can charge 30-odd quid for 240gm vinyl represses that are done there is just bare-faced robbery.
I actually really like the single. Sorry everyone. He still sticks out like a sore thumb (for better or for worse) on the radio so that's something these days I suppose.
