Where were YOU when you bought the AVOCADO?

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  • Dylan Stone
    Dylan Stone Posts: 1,145
    Ten Club!

    I love Avocado! :)
  • SENROCK
    SENROCK Posts: 10,736
    Music For Rhinos wrote:

    Where were you when you bought the album and what were you doing that day?
    this is a great thread idea u came up with there pal!
    me and a friend from here went to wait in line at tower records on sunset blvd. There were ALOT of TOOL fans there in line too. We got the avocado and they gave us these like backstage passes for souvenirs. After that we got in my car and cruised up sunset thru beverly hills listening to the cd LOUD. The minute it started i knew it was great. We made a deal we wouldnt look at song titles and just pick our favorite one randomly. As SOON as BIG WAVE started......THAT was my favorite!!! And then i discovered it was the WAVE song everyone was talking about. That was a good night. Thanks for that, you know who u are! :)
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  • tybird
    tybird Posts: 17,388
    Sat at my computer and ordered it from the 10C
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  • Snake
    Snake Posts: 2,605
    I got it at either Target Best Buy or Walmart. Not sure, but I think it was almost a year after it came out.
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  • LloydChristmas
    LloydChristmas Posts: 224
    Best Buy!!!
  • walkunafraid
    walkunafraid Posts: 2,655
    I resisted the temptation to download the leaks. Ordered it through 10C and listened to it for the first time when it arrived in my mailbox a few days before the official release date.

    I remember being blown away by "Gone" and a tad disappointed in the song I had heard so many great things about -- "Inside Job."

    Two years later, the Avocado is my favorite PJ album and "Inside Job" is probably my favorite track on the disc. Oh, and "Gone" still rocks, too. :D
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  • Wobbie
    Wobbie Posts: 31,410
    I got it from 10c but what I really remember was watching the Letterman webcast (at work :eek: ) and just getting sooooooooooooo fired up for the tour :D!
    If I had known then what I know now...

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  • High Fidelity 2000
    High Fidelity 2000 New Mexico USA Posts: 4,439
    I also ordered it from the Ten Club. I think it came a day early or something no? Either a day early or a day late. I didn't download the tracks. I think that was about the last time I looked at the cover art too :) Ugly, ugly booklet.
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  • vonnegutnaked2
    vonnegutnaked2 Posts: 43
    I just remember I was in grad school and I had class all day. Then, that night, I had to go out and do something class related. I wasn't even going to pick it up, because my car lacks a CD player. But I bought it anyway, had it beside me for the entire evening, but couldn't play it until I sat down in my apartment. Then, my stereo was broken, so I had to listen on my laptop using headphones to get any decent sound. It definitely wasn't the fun of buying Riot Act or Binaural, but it sufficed.
  • 3inputchick
    3inputchick Posts: 845
    Thank god I'm decent looking and the guy I was dating at the time showed up with it......
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  • hrd2imgn
    hrd2imgn Southwest Burbs of Chicago Posts: 4,925
    I believe I was in a a store when I bought Avocado
  • Kilgore_Trout
    Kilgore_Trout Posts: 7,334
    i went to target right after school and got it

    already had the leaked version but it was great to have the real deal and crank it in my car on the way to work!
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  • possomists
    possomists Posts: 428
    Brainofdz wrote:
    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.

    thats insane
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  • LONGRD
    LONGRD Posts: 6,036
    I was at Best Buy when I bought it!!! :p
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  • mookie9999
    mookie9999 Posts: 4,677
    Brainofdz wrote:
    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.

    Same here. Great Night! From The 7 foot rapping Jew to Clive Davis handing out Krispy Kremes it was bizarre even for NYC standards! God I love this city!!
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  • LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun
    LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun Posts: 6,097
    uh...wal-mart
  • tvismyfriend
    tvismyfriend Posts: 2,118
    Futureshop, but this was like a year after it's release.
  • South of Seattle
    South of Seattle West Seattle Posts: 10,724
    Aisle A2 in between the garlic and onions.
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  • Lizardking
    Lizardking Posts: 936
    1st one I got from 10c few days before release
    2nd One I got at Easystreet West Seattle at Midnight
    3rd one got from a crohn's Fund raiser, Autographed by whole band.
    4th one I got At Crohn's Portland show also autographed by band

    Then 5th is the Vinyl I got from 10C



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  • vedder_soup
    vedder_soup Posts: 5,861
    Berlin, Germany!
    i bought 10 000 days and stadium arcadium on the same day!
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