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The ARRRGH! Thread

CryojenXCryojenX Posts: 32
edited October 2008 in The Porch
Ever get gypped bigtime? Recall your ARRRGH! moments here!

Me myself, I just started listening to a vinyl lp copy of Pearl Jam's "Ten" that I got just recently at a retailer I won't name *cough*rhymes with ground chop*cough*, now as any pearl jam fan can tell you an original copy is quite an expensive item, so I thought I had lucked out seeing that this was an official 2007 UK reissue. I just want the music yknow?

Well I thought something was amiss pretty early on when I had to turn the volume WAY up just to hear the music (I'm all against the loudness wars and what not, but WHA??), but things also seemed just a bit "right-heavy" if you know what I mean. I just kinda shrugged it off, but about 3/4ths of the way into "Even Flow", I noticed that the left channel (which is where most of Mike McCready's awesome solo work is just started intermittently cutting in and out.

I thought it was my headphones, but by the time I had gotten to "Black" I had to accept the inevitable conclusion, this appears to be a cheaply produced cash grab for Sony/Epic with technical issues that make me want to listen to the cd instead, which is saying something. PJ Fans deserve real audiophile reissues along the lines of what Warner Bros is doing for the Metallica catalog.

As is... I got screwed out of 16 bucks.


Anyone else got any ARRRGH moments?
Crystal

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  • not for me?not for me? Posts: 501
    I ran out of milk today.
    AAAAAARGH!
    Nathan
  • topetope Posts: 37
    I have bought every single pearl jam album on vinyl ever since ten. However, I did not buy their last one, self titled, because for some STUPID reason i told myself that there would be heaps and I'd always be able to pick one up sweet as (I was really very broke at the time when I would usually have ordered it, just before the release). But NO! I cannot find it anywhere other than ebay for a fuckin mazillion US dollars which equates to waaaay too many NZ dollars. AAaaaaaargh!!

    I do console myself with the fact that I just got given LOTL as a belated birthday present.

    But still: aaaargh! AND here's my ultimate aaaargh: why the hell haven't we seen Pearl Jam here for TEN FUCKIN YEARS? oooh I'm on a roll with this aaaargh thing now, great thread for me right now. I am seriously in withdrawal of live Pearl Jamming. Please tell me they will be here early 2009?

    Oi, PJ, nau mai, haere mai!! Aotearoa, NZ
  • CryojenXCryojenX Posts: 32
    tope wrote:
    oooh I'm on a roll with this aaaargh thing now, great thread for me right now.

    Well I don't like to complain or be seen as a troll, but sometimes a good old fashioned catharsis is good for ya. I feel much better now.
    Crystal

  • possomistspossomists Posts: 428
    is aaarrrggh like ugg? or is it like a pirates aaarrrggghhh? Im confused by this thread, is it because columbus was kinda considered a pirate and tomorrows columbus day and thanksgiving day in canada
    "you can say that we're, nocturnal, posssomists"
    -ed july 8th MSG 2004
  • CryojenXCryojenX Posts: 32
    possomists wrote:
    is aaarrrggh like ugg? or is it like a pirates aaarrrggghhh? Im confused by this thread, is it because columbus was kinda considered a pirate and tomorrows columbus day and thanksgiving day in canada

    No that's ARRR! as in ARRR me mateys! ARRRGH! is the venting of steam and frustration. In a healthy way of course. Tho really someone needs to call Sony/Epic out on that cheap-ass reissue =p
    Crystal

  • harmless_little_f***harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    I have an AAAARRGH moment every time someone mentions the new album.
    '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
  • gozzo5058gozzo5058 Posts: 611
    Aaaaarrrgh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    s

    Montreal/98, Toronto/00'03'05'06x2, Brad Toronto/02, Buffalo/03, Kitchener/05, London/05, Hamilton/05, Late Show Taping/06, Cleveland/06, Pittsburgh/06, Bridge School Benefit Concert/06, Hartford/08, Mansfield 1/08, EV Montreal/08x2, EV Toronto/08x2...
  • BlackCorduroyBlackCorduroy Posts: 1,374
    Before Hawaii 2006, i thought i would check Ticketmaster just in case something good came up. So when I did, I was shocked to see a 5th row center come up (Ive never been that close and never will unless I win the lottery) I tried to buy it but it kept saying i typed the incorrect password to my ticketmaster account. I kept trying and trying until I eventually ran out of time and lost the ticket:( What I had forgotten is months and months earlier, I had let a friend use my account (I dont remember the reason) and for some reason I had changed the password for him.
  • CryojenXCryojenX Posts: 32
    BlackCorduroy wrote:
    Before Hawaii 2006, i thought i would check Ticketmaster just in case something good came up. So when I did, I was shocked to see a 5th row center come up (Ive never been that close and never will unless I win the lottery) I tried to buy it but it kept saying i typed the incorrect password to my ticketmaster account. I kept trying and trying until I eventually ran out of time and lost the ticket:( What I had forgotten is months and months earlier, I had let a friend use my account (I dont remember the reason) and for some reason I had changed the password for him.

    OUCH! Having never been able to attend a single PJ show I have to say, that's GOTTA hurt >_<
    Crystal

  • smile05smile05 Posts: 600
    not for me? wrote:
    I ran out of milk today.
    AAAAAARGH!

    I ran out of cereal, togther this would be a nightmare
    1:Black 2:Corduroy 3:All Those Yesterdays 4:I Got ID 5:Smile

    They can buy but cant put on my clothes
    Throw down my ace in the hole~~~~~~

    Let's go for three in a row, no sorry i can't think of anything thats not funny. - Paul Merton

    London96,Manchester00,Berlin06,London07
  • demetriosdemetrios Posts: 93,714
    I Keep Fucking Up!!!!

    Arrgh!!!!

    :(
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