...I can only remember, that I bought it before breakfast (which means a lot in my case)...okay, it wasn't THAT early...I'm a college student ... I believe it was 10 in the morning and I remember meeting a neighbour on my way to or back from the store (a large media store...nearest by to my home) and telling about this...I think she was laughing or smiling about my pre-breakfast-Pearl-Jam-mania It was a pretty sunny and warm day here in Oldenburg, North-western Germany...
Around these days of the release me and my girlfriend from that time had a very hard time, she wanted to end the relationsship (for understandable reasons) and I went crazy... "Come back" was killing and healing me both..."Life wasted", "Inside job" were perfectly fitting songs for this time of my life ... the kept me going on in a way...
2000: Hamburg 2006: Berlin 2007: Munich * Düsseldorf 2009: Berlin * Manchester * London 2010: Dublin * Belfast * Berlin 2012: Amsterdam I & II * Berlin I & II * Stockholm * Oslo * Copenhagen EV 2012: Amsterdam I & II 2014: Amsterdam I & II * Milan * Trieste * Vienna * Berlin EV 2017: Berlin 2018: Amsterdam I & II * Prague * Krakow * Berlin 2022: Berlin- Vienna - Prague - Amsterdam I - Amsterdam II # 2024:Berlin I & II
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“It is curious that while good people go to great lengths to spare their children from suffering, few of them seem to notice that the one (and only) guaranteed way to prevent all the suffering of their children is not to bring those children into existence in the first place.” ― David Benatar - Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence
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.
Me too! But I only waited 12 hours for mine, bought the cd a little after midnight, got the free Irving Plaza ticket. I remember Clive Davis showed up & gave out crispy creme donuts, un-fucking real!!! What an awesome experience I remember meeting a lot great fans that day, I will never forget their kindness & hospitalities. Just for the historical record, Tower wasn't on Union Square it was on West 4th Street and I think they ended up giving out WAY more then 400 tickets that day, that line went around the block.
Also I remember the day of the show some lady who must have been some kind of "mystic 10C ticket fairy" handed out a bunch of tickets to some fans who were out there looking for scalpers, unbelievable.
Things were different then. All is different now.
I tried to explain...
I was sitting in the same spot I am sitting in right now......my desk at work.
I bought it through the 10 club.....than got another copy from Best Buy after it was in the stores.
Pre-ordered from 10C, but never want to open the speacial edition from them, so I went ot my local record store, Bull Moose Music and bought another copy to wear out ; )
This record store, by the way, somehow gets EVERY piece of promo shit that the band puts out...and they're cool enough to hand it out!!!
For instance: I have a really cool Avacado display with a pad of paper on it that counts down the days until the release; I have one of the "Lost Dogs" plush dogs; and a screen print of the cover of "Immagine in Cornice"
All from this rockin store....cool beans I think : )
Wow can't believe I was in high school when it came out. Damn time flies by quick.
Anyways I got it 4 days early because I pre-ordered it. Got the NYE Boot with it too. Rocked out to it 4 times that night and spent a night on the boards. Now that seems like a distant memory as all it does is collect dust on my shelf.
Arrived home from a heavy night of drinking. Decided to check the mail and to my surprise found it in my mail box. My hang over was gone just like that. Threw it into my computer and blasted it loud. My mom wasn't to happy about that seeing as how I was a senior in high school and still lived with her. But she understood when I told her it was Pearl Jam. She understands my obsession.
Shows:
San Diego 2003
Grand Rapids 2004
Grand Rapids 2006
Detroit 2006
Columbus 2010
'Twas a rainy day in Boston. Bought the album at Newbury Comics after work and my first listen was through headphones. The best part about it was that I had only heard World Wide Suicide up to that point. Patience pays off (speaking only for myself of course).
waited in line for 23 hours in NYC, got it at midnight along with the ticket to Irving Plaza, one of my favorite shows! Listened to it on the 2 1/2 hour drive home afterwards. Was a little disssappointed that my 10C version came like 2 days later and I didn't get it early, but oh well. Listened to it for 5 days straight until Irving, I don't do leaks, ruins the experience
And I've probably listened to Avo too many times since then, it's actually scratched... Life Wasted is one of my top 5 fav PJ songs.
Rock on, can't wait until June!
Wouldn't it be funny if the world ended in 2010, with lots of fire?
'Twas a rainy day in Boston. Bought the album at Newbury Comics after work and my first listen was through headphones. The best part about it was that I had only heard World Wide Suicide up to that point. Patience pays off (speaking only for myself of course).
Hey that was me you saw at Newbury's. I was the one that was drunk.
"If you're not living on the edge you're taking up too much room."
Gambling=a taxation on stupidity.
Remember, you can walk anywhere, as long as you have the time.
I got locked out of Tower. I got there too late. I waited for about 9 hours. I ended up getting it at Compact Disc World the next day. That kinda sucked, but PJ delivered on this one, of course.
90 shows and counting...some of my favs: Randall's Island night 2, Milwaukee '95 night 2, Hawaii '06, St Johns '05, PJ20!
i got the pre order download but waited till the plane ride to toronto to see the two opening shows of the new tour
wow
the best time ever
cant wait for hartford and mansfield 08
I picked it up at a CD store in my mall on my lunch break from school. I remember I had the afternoon off because I was in the drama club playing the princes father in Cinderella lol. So naturally I smoked a few hash bowls, said my few lines, sat in the back of the auditorium and rocked out to my walkman. Twas a good day.
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.
came home for lunch from work and it was in my mailbox from 10C, though i got it a week early. put it on the "big stereo" in the living room and ate a tuna fish sandwhich with my wife and we listened to about half of the record. the other half in my car on the way back to work.
I was living in Prague at the time and when I got done with class that afternoon I went on a hunt for the CD. I spent A LOT of time on the metro and trekking the streets of Prague for this cd and was VERY frustrated that I couldn't find it. :(
After several hours, I was tired, very sad, and I had to get home, I was just about to give up when I walked into another music store and I saw a poster for the new album. I was SOOO excited. But then I went to Pearl Jam section and it wasn't there! :eek: I asked the guy and he said he hadn't unpacked it, and since the store was closing soon they wouldn't put out the cds until tomorrow! NOOO! I begged him for a cd and told him how I had been EVERYWHERE...and I think just to get rid of me he went to the back and got me one. I actually said "THANKS! I LOVE YOU!" and he looked at me like I was mad...
I was a VERY happy girl and put it on as soon as I got back to the flat. So that's my story!
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Around these days of the release me and my girlfriend from that time had a very hard time, she wanted to end the relationsship (for understandable reasons) and I went crazy... "Come back" was killing and healing me both..."Life wasted", "Inside job" were perfectly fitting songs for this time of my life ... the kept me going on in a way...
2006: Berlin
2007: Munich * Düsseldorf
2009: Berlin * Manchester * London
2010: Dublin * Belfast * Berlin
2012: Amsterdam I & II * Berlin I & II * Stockholm * Oslo * Copenhagen
EV 2012: Amsterdam I & II
2014: Amsterdam I & II * Milan * Trieste * Vienna * Berlin
EV 2017: Berlin
2018: Amsterdam I & II * Prague * Krakow * Berlin
2022: Berlin- Vienna - Prague - Amsterdam I - Amsterdam II #
2024: Berlin I & II
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“It is curious that while good people go to great lengths to spare their children from suffering, few of them seem to notice that the one (and only) guaranteed way to prevent all the suffering of their children is not to bring those children into existence in the first place.”
― David Benatar - Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence
Me too! But I only waited 12 hours for mine, bought the cd a little after midnight, got the free Irving Plaza ticket. I remember Clive Davis showed up & gave out crispy creme donuts, un-fucking real!!! What an awesome experience I remember meeting a lot great fans that day, I will never forget their kindness & hospitalities. Just for the historical record, Tower wasn't on Union Square it was on West 4th Street and I think they ended up giving out WAY more then 400 tickets that day, that line went around the block.
Also I remember the day of the show some lady who must have been some kind of "mystic 10C ticket fairy" handed out a bunch of tickets to some fans who were out there looking for scalpers, unbelievable.
I tried to explain...
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I bought it through the 10 club.....than got another copy from Best Buy after it was in the stores.
This record store, by the way, somehow gets EVERY piece of promo shit that the band puts out...and they're cool enough to hand it out!!!
For instance: I have a really cool Avacado display with a pad of paper on it that counts down the days until the release; I have one of the "Lost Dogs" plush dogs; and a screen print of the cover of "Immagine in Cornice"
All from this rockin store....cool beans I think : )
Anyways I got it 4 days early because I pre-ordered it. Got the NYE Boot with it too. Rocked out to it 4 times that night and spent a night on the boards. Now that seems like a distant memory as all it does is collect dust on my shelf.
Gambling=a taxation on stupidity.
Remember, you can walk anywhere, as long as you have the time.
http://www.ryanmontbleauband.com/
http://www.myspace.com/jessedee
San Diego 2003
Grand Rapids 2004
Grand Rapids 2006
Detroit 2006
Columbus 2010
"With my own two hands I can change the world."
And I've probably listened to Avo too many times since then, it's actually scratched... Life Wasted is one of my top 5 fav PJ songs.
Rock on, can't wait until June!
Hey that was me you saw at Newbury's. I was the one that was drunk.
Gambling=a taxation on stupidity.
Remember, you can walk anywhere, as long as you have the time.
http://www.ryanmontbleauband.com/
http://www.myspace.com/jessedee
2006: Camden 1&2, East Ruth 1&2
2008: BONNAROO, MSG1, MSG2, Hartford
2009: Philly 1, 2, 4
2010: Hartford, MSG1, MSG2
2012: Made in America
2013: BK1, BK2, Hartford
2015: Global Citizens
2016: MSG 2 (ISO MSG1)
EV Solo: NJPAC 2008; Tower Theatre, PA 2009; Hartford 2011
no more shows
2005 - 9/15, 9/16, 9/30, 10/1, 10/3
2006 - 5/5, 5/12, 5/13, 5/27, 5/28, 5/30, 6/1, 6/3, 6/23, 7/22, 7/23, 12/2
2007 - 6/27, 8/3
2008 - 6/14, 6/19, 6/20, 6/22, 6/24, 6/25, 6/27, 6/28, 6/30, 7/1
wow
the best time ever
cant wait for hartford and mansfield 08
5/25/06 - Boston
6/28/08 - Mansfield
6/30/08 - Mansfield
8/2/08 - Eddie in Boston (FRONT ROW!)
came home for lunch from work and it was in my mailbox from 10C, though i got it a week early. put it on the "big stereo" in the living room and ate a tuna fish sandwhich with my wife and we listened to about half of the record. the other half in my car on the way back to work.
After several hours, I was tired, very sad, and I had to get home, I was just about to give up when I walked into another music store and I saw a poster for the new album. I was SOOO excited. But then I went to Pearl Jam section and it wasn't there! :eek: I asked the guy and he said he hadn't unpacked it, and since the store was closing soon they wouldn't put out the cds until tomorrow! NOOO! I begged him for a cd and told him how I had been EVERYWHERE...and I think just to get rid of me he went to the back and got me one. I actually said "THANKS! I LOVE YOU!" and he looked at me like I was mad...
I was a VERY happy girl and put it on as soon as I got back to the flat. So that's my story!
East Troy '03
Boston I '04
Pittsburgh '06
Lollapalooza '07
DC '08
MSG I & II '08
ive been listening to the album a lot lately....good stuff....LOVE army reserve, what song.
i pre-ordered it. two years already?? wow, where has the time gone...