Where were YOU when you bought the AVOCADO?

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  • rival.
    rival. Chicago Posts: 7,775
    home, ordering it through ten club.
  • EBowie
    EBowie Posts: 533
    '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).
  • a5pj
    a5pj Hershey PA Posts: 3,976
    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.

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  • kh65
    kh65 Posts: 946
    EBowie wrote:
    '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.
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  • Yellow Bedwetter
    Yellow Bedwetter NYC Posts: 2,832
    i was studying in my lounge...raced back and got the digital download then waited the week for my CD/Live at the Academy package
    2005: Borgata 2, Philly
    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
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  • thunderDAN
    thunderDAN Posts: 2,094
    I was in the LAX airport and got it on ITunes
  • Soybeans
    Soybeans Posts: 258
    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!
  • nowayimfaithfull
    nowayimfaithfull Posts: 2,051
    my hometown
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    no more shows
  • No Fear Of Falling
    No Fear Of Falling Posts: 419
    Waited 30 hours at Tower Records... and Irving Plaza rocked my world a few days later.
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    2007 - 6/27, 8/3
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  • stuckinline
    stuckinline Posts: 3,407
    i got it at best buy. the guy behind me in line bought it as well. so we chatted about it and what shows we were going to.
  • Stephen Flow
    Stephen Flow Posts: 3,327
    Waiting in line in NYC @ Tower Records for the CD and a ticket to Irving Plaza :)
  • jam420247
    jam420247 Posts: 3
    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
  • nocodelover22
    nocodelover22 Posts: 108
    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.
  • tmud91087
    tmud91087 Posts: 97
    Bullmoose Records Portsmouth, NH...ill never forget it.
    5/24/06 - Boston
    5/25/06 - Boston
    6/28/08 - Mansfield
    6/30/08 - Mansfield
    8/2/08 - Eddie in Boston (FRONT ROW!)
  • 2-feign-reluctance
    2-feign-reluctance TigerTown, USA Posts: 23,462
    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.

    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.
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  • pearljamjen
    pearljamjen Posts: 13,578
    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! :D
  • jmccue7
    jmccue7 Posts: 119
    best buy on may 2nd. left for amsterdam that night to embark on a 30 day solo trip to europe. got 10,000 days by tool that same day. awesome records
    Merriweather '00
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    Boston I '04
    Pittsburgh '06
    Lollapalooza '07
    DC '08
    MSG I & II '08
  • restlesssoul
    restlesssoul Posts: 6,952
    HAPPY BIRTHDAY LIL AVO!

    ive been listening to the album a lot lately....good stuff....LOVE army reserve, what song.
    Van '98, Sea I+II '00, Sea '01, Sea II '02, Van '03, Gorge, Van, Cal, Edm '05, Bos I+II, Phi I+II, DC, SF II+III, Port, Gorge I+II '06, DC, NY I+II '08, Sea I+II, Van, Ridge , LA III+IV' 09, Indy '10, Cal, Van '11, Lond, Van, Sea '13, Memphis '14, RRHOF '17, Sea I+II '18, Van I+II, Vegas I+II, Sea I+II '24
  • nfanel
    nfanel Posts: 2,558
    tmud91087 wrote:
    Bullmoose Records Portsmouth, NH...ill never forget it.
    it was two years ago...not like we're talking about where you were when kennedy was shot. :cool: :D

    i pre-ordered it. two years already?? wow, where has the time gone...
  • Given to...
    Given to... Wyoming Posts: 5,007
    yep, pre-ordered and downloaded at 56k
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