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Where were YOU when you bought the AVOCADO?

Music For RhinosMusic For Rhinos Posts: 1,693
edited May 2008 in The Porch
It's officially May 2nd here...you know what that means...

Avocado was released 2 years ago today! Sure is hard to believe it's already 2 years old.

Where were you when you bought the album and what were you doing that day? Did you order it from 10club?

Me personally, I made the 10-15 minute drive down the expressway to a local Best Buy to buy it. I had already heard about half the record from when it leaked. Remember taking it home and throwing it on the stereo, checking out the liner notes.

I'll have to spin it a few times today.
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  • CHANGEinWAVESCHANGEinWAVES Posts: 10,169
    I was finishing a project the night before it was do and downloaded it from the pre order. Jammed out to it all night as I pulled an all nighter!
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  • SENROCKSENROCK Posts: 10,736
    SWEET!!!! :) i'll be back with my answer......
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  • South of SeattleSouth of Seattle West Seattle Posts: 10,724
    Music For Rhinos wrote:
    It's officially May 2nd here...you know what that means...

    Avocado was released 2 years ago today! Sure is hard to believe it's already 2 years old.

    Where were you when you bought the album and what were you doing that day? Did you order it from 10club?

    Me personally, I made the 10-15 minute drive down the expressway to a local Best Buy to buy it. I had already heard about half the record from when it leaked. Remember taking it home and throwing it on the stereo, checking out the liner notes.

    I'll have to spin it a few times today.

    I did the same, except I didn't listen to the leak other than what was made available on AOL sessions and such and at listening parties at the record store.

    I did hear it a few days earlier as my buddy ordered the 10c version that came a few days early.
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  • washedinblack91washedinblack91 Posts: 3,078
    i ordered it off the 10c but i didnt listen to the downloaded stuff because i wanted to listen to the songs first off the cd. i was so damn excited running to my mailbox that day :D
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  • SVRDhand13SVRDhand13 Posts: 26,172
    i got it from bestbuy for 9.99.

    they always have new CDs for that price the first week its out.
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  • BrainofdzBrainofdz Posts: 1,617
    I waited in line for 30 hrs at the defunct Union Square(NYC) Tower Records to buy the album which came with a free Irving Plaza ticket for the first 400 people.
    "Stunned by my own reflection, It's looking back, sees me too clearly and I swore I'd never go there again, Not unlike a friend that politely drags you down,down,down"

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  • normnorm Posts: 31,146
    wow 2 years!!!!


    i did the download thing but also bought the 10c version.....might have to put on the vinyl this evening....:)
  • Lukin66Lukin66 Posts: 3,063
    I had gotten the songs a few weeks earlier, but I got the actual CD from the 10C
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  • JulienJulien Posts: 2,457
    I bought it from 10C so the day of its release, i only had the MP3. I downloaded it before going to work in the morning and listeneded to it 3 or 4 times during the day.
    Still a great album two years later.
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  • restlesssoulrestlesssoul Posts: 6,951
    i had the leak in april and listened to it then, bought the ten club version, went to the store and bought the store version, the ten club came a little later.
    what an exciting time: letterman and SNL and Jools. that was all great.
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  • CitizenRickCitizenRick Posts: 1,079
    I went to the midnight sale at Tower Records (R.I.P.) just like I had from Vs. on up.

    When I got home I put it on my cd player in my room (on repeat) and read the liner notes.

    Like most everybody else I had already heard the whole album by then (AOL music)...but it was like hearing for the first time.

    I went to sleep around 4am...but I let the album just soak into my brain all night long.

    Wow 2 years.
    "Had my eyes peeled both wide open, and I got a glimpse...of my innocense, got back my inner sence, baby got it...still got it"
  • Red_DotRed_Dot Posts: 1,454
    I ordered it from the 10C but living in Australia, couldnt wait for it to arrive, so went out and bought it!
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  • the wolfthe wolf Posts: 7,027
    i had heard the record once and only once from the leaks. my 10c copy came a few days early. i rocked the avacodo for days, then went and bought the store version. i listened to it for about 2 months straight. and its now the most spun record in the PJ catalog, in my house.
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  • NoCode_inMTNoCode_inMT Posts: 551
    I was in Mississippi for my Grand Dad's funeral(R.I.P. Pampaw :().
    The morning after the funeral(4/30/06) I went to Walmart with my mom. Turned the corner and there it was!!! 2 days early!!! I was blown away!!! And, to top it all off my mommy bought it for me :). Listened to it all day that sunday, and monday on the plane ride back to Montana... And probly at least 3 times a week since.

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  • yellowledbeccayellowledbecca Posts: 99
    i remember i bought it on the way to work and was late getting there that morning. while driving down aurora, i heard "marker in the sand" for the first time, and that was a special moment...

    i pretty much spent the rest of the day with a shit eating grin on my face. then i forced it on my friends later that afternoon.

    good day :)
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  • Evolution6579Evolution6579 Posts: 624
    I caved and listened to the leaked songs.

    The funny thing is, my copy of the leaked songs had a fuck-up in Severed Hand after the line "with the power to maintain" and when I listened to the album version, it didn't have the fuck-up. I thought the fuck-up was cool since the song is about psychotropic drugs.

    I was at work that day. I worked at a kiosk in the mall. I opened up the kiosk at 9:50 and was at the record store waiting when they opened the doors. I immediately went and got my headphones that I brought for the occasion and went outside for a "smoke break" and listened to the whole album. I know it isn't good business ethics but it's Pearl Jam!
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  • washedinblack91washedinblack91 Posts: 3,078
    Evolution6579 wrote:

    I was at work that day. I worked at a kiosk in the mall. I opened up the kiosk at 9:50 and was at the record store waiting when they opened the doors. I immediately went and got my headphones that I brought for the occasion and went outside for a "smoke break" and listened to the whole album. I know it isn't good business ethics but it's Pearl Jam!

    speaking of pearl jam and business ethics, i was behind the register one day and the store's cd that we get delivered new each month had the ed version of "you've got to hide your love away" from the i am sam album and i stopped what i was doing to dance in the middle of the store ;)
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  • PJamGrunge10PJamGrunge10 California Posts: 596
    I went out and bought it after school that day (my junior year in high school). Went over to Best Buy and it was right in front with a few other newly released cd's and I picked it up and bought it.

    I got home, put it in the stereo and listened to it while I did homework :D
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  • harmless_little_f***harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    I was in HMV, hoping it would be a great album. ;)
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  • dunkmandunkman Posts: 19,646
    i was the first person in the UK to buy it.

    went into a local shop about 5 days before it came out... and he had it displayed.. i thought it was a promo thing.. asked him .. he said no it was the new album!!

    i said "gimme it"

    went back to work.. took pics of the artwork as no-one believed that i had it.

    then i listened to it about 4 times that afternoon at work... i thought the artwork was shit though... it was kinda modern art... ie. shit ;)

    i wonder if that thread still exists... i was uber-excited to have been one of the first in the world to actually BUY it.. not download or promos.. the actual thing.
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • bernmodibernmodi Posts: 631
    In a record store?
  • harmless_little_f***harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    dunkman wrote:
    i was the first person in the UK to buy it.

    went into a local shop about 5 days before it came out... and he had it displayed.. i thought it was a promo thing.. asked him .. he said no it was the new album!!

    i said "gimme it"

    went back to work.. took pics of the artwork as no-one believed that i had it.

    then i listened to it about 4 times that afternoon at work... i thought the artwork was shit though... it was kinda modern art... ie. shit ;)

    i wonder if that thread still exists... i was uber-excited to have been one of the first in the world to actually BUY it.. not download or promos.. the actual thing.

    LOL @ the Modern art reference.

    And I remember that thread like it was yesterday... Ah memories.
    'We're learning songs for baby Jesus' birthday. His mum and dad were Merry and Joseph. He had a bed made of clay and the three kings bought him Gold, Frankenstein and Merv as presents.'

    - the great Sir Leo Harrison
  • Niko80Niko80 Posts: 1,601
    Hmm, its funny how I clearly remember the day I bought VS, but can't remember the day I got pearl jam....
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  • URthekeyURthekey Posts: 1,766
    Waited outside Tower records in NYC to get my Avocado, it came w/a free ticket to the Irving Plaza show. Tasty indeed.
    But I had already pre-ordered from 10C so now I've got 2.
    Actually 3, since I won a signed vinyl copy from the Deep 2 contest.
  • josevolutionjosevolution Posts: 29,610
    usually at the local supermarket ...:eek: ..but really i was home and bought it thru 10c ...
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  • DiRtYyELLoWoCeAnDiRtYyELLoWoCeAn Medford, Ma Posts: 1,605
    Lukin66 wrote:
    I had gotten the songs a few weeks earlier, but I got the actual CD from the 10C



    Same and I bought a regular copy from Newbury Comics!
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  • AnonAnon Posts: 11,175
    i downloaded it
  • Sian-of-the-deadSian-of-the-dead Posts: 8,963
    I didn't buy it til after I saw them perform most of it at Reading in 2006... i'm a bad fan :o

    I did buy it the Monday after and didn't take it out of the stereo for months. I still love it just as much 2 years later :)
    Been to this many PJ shows: Reading 2006 London 2007 Manchester & London 2009 Dublin, Belfast, London, Nijmegen & Berlin 2010 Manchester 1 & Manchester 2 2012...

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  • More CoffeeMore Coffee Posts: 604
    I bought the limited edition copy from 10 Club that arrived on May 2nd. On April 29th I found it for sale at an indie record store. That was my first copy. I opened it and listened to it in the car with my kids. A lot of the songs still take me back to that day.

    I think it's one of the best albums they've ever released. See you in June.
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