Where were YOU when you bought the AVOCADO?

Music For Rhinos
Music 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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  • CHANGEinWAVES
    CHANGEinWAVES 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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  • SENROCK
    SENROCK Posts: 10,736
    SWEET!!!! :) i'll be back with my answer......
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  • South of Seattle
    South 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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  • washedinblack91
    washedinblack91 Posts: 3,079
    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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  • SVRDhand13
    SVRDhand13 Posts: 27,016
    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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  • Brainofdz
    Brainofdz 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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  • norm
    norm 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....:)
  • Lukin66
    Lukin66 Posts: 3,063
    I had gotten the songs a few weeks earlier, but I got the actual CD from the 10C
    deep, deep blue of the morning
    gets to me every time
  • Julien
    Julien 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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  • restlesssoul
    restlesssoul Posts: 6,952
    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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  • CitizenRick
    CitizenRick 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.
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  • Red_Dot
    Red_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 wolf
    the 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_inMT
    NoCode_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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  • yellowledbecca
    yellowledbecca Posts: 100
    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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  • Evolution6579
    Evolution6579 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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  • washedinblack91
    washedinblack91 Posts: 3,079
    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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  • PJamGrunge10
    PJamGrunge10 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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  • catefrances
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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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