A total shocker - I just ordered a compact disc! The album was only pressed once in the UK and the lone copy for sale on the net is obscenely hyperinflated in price, so I've decided to settle for the CD.

I don't even own a CD/DVD player, but it's more a historical piece than a useful object.

What is that you bought? What's the CD of?

Future Sound of London's avant-garde ambient classic, Lifeforms. Featuring contributions from Klaus Schulze and Robert Fripp, and spanning two discs of cerebrally-engaging experimental atmospheric textures, it is an album I hope to one day own on vinyl. Just ordered the original double-CD to hold me over.

There were two pressings issued in 1994 on Virgin, on in the UK and the other in all of Europe. The median sale price is $75 but the only copy currently listed for sale online is $130. FSOL's work is a bit of a niche interest and fairly hard to come by, (796 Discogs users have marked the pressing of this album as "wanted"), so it's a bit of a grail.

Fripp provided guitar textures on "Flak" (as well as abstract sounds by Ozric Tentacles) and "Omnipresence" was co-written by Schulze. The album certainly isn't for everyone, but for leftfield/illbient/dark ambient/avant-garde electronic enthusiasts it's a bit of a milestone.

http://i.imgur.com/cSKAYkWl.jpg

Also just scored a wonderful piece of hacker culture history! (x-posted from a pending submission to my member journal).

As many of you may recall, this famous whistle was packaged in boxes of Cap'n Crunch cereal in 1971. The whistle emitted a tone at precisely 2600 hertz and could be used to make free long distance phone calls. (Remember, this was back when long distance calls were expensive.)

The whistles have at times commanded over a hundred dollars on eBay but I picked this one up for a very reasonable price. It will make a wild necklace to sport my maker-culture pride!

http://i.imgur.com/TQypxWrl.jpg

Impressive, Rostasi! Again, you have exquisite taste.

Illbient, like ambient dub, glitch, downtempo, and the hundreds of other microgenres of 90s electronic music still have microcosms of life. As I'm sure you're aware, the internet age has removed the former geographic borders of music like Berlin School or Detroit techno, allowing each nuance of musical interest to thrive and uniting obscure music fans the world over.

I would very much be interested in your copy of the LP (and possibly the pic single as well which I've seen floating around both eBay and Discogs.) If you'd consider parting with them, shoot me a PM !

And cheers to the MB community - you've got some brilliant members here! :)

That's right - I'd wager that, were you to throw all of your deadstock up on the Discogs marketplace, that you could make a decent bit of cash just letting your inventory sell itself. The great thing about Discogs is that someone somewhere is looking for just about anything, and the fantastically-well-organized crowd-sourced catalog they maintain makes hunting even the most elusive titles a 2-3 second task.

Electronic sells well, and Discogs' market statistics will tell you how much the average copy of a given title in a given condition has successfully sold for on their market over any given period of time, so it is very easy to accurately price your stock.

And their new official app features bar code scanning from your phone, so inventory building is easier than ever.

I'd be happy to help you get started listing if you'd like to liquidate your dead stock. I'd just hope that I'd be granted first-dibs on all of your Orb-y downtempo goodness! :)

Roger that. Whatever you elect to do, I'll be first in line to buy! Keep me posted, and thanks again!

I bought some underwear for the first time since I was 14 or 15. I thought that I was just starting to prefer going commando until now.

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I grabbed a NextBook tablet on Saturday. I needed something quick and cheap.

I bout to buy some music tickets

I need some music tickets.

Don't we all.

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Bought this about a week ago.

I only started really playing with it last night and tonight.


I also just found out I can watch the Olympics in VR and I'm so ****ing glad that I bought this.

Sometimes, you need to permit yourself a gift of sentimental joy. Tonight is one of those nights.
Pictured below, my new near-complete set of Fisher Price Sesame Street Little People.
One figure is missing. Can you name him?

http://i.imgur.com/SfsveaLl.jpg

Elmo?

A great guess, but Elmo was not part of the program in 1973-4.

Really? This is news to me. Then again, I'm sure I haven't seen any episodes that old.

Wiki sez:

I bought incenses, not the real life ones though, but the ones from Pokemon Go.

Hey, I'm an adult and I can do what I want.

You are missing the count yes yes?

Seeing this collection I feel like posting my Civil War Pop Figure collection.
hmmm brb going to get a pic.
Also I'm missing one part of my collection as well. The Giant Ant Man but I have a regular size Ant Man

What level are you and what team did you decide to pick?

Don't see Beeker also. Oops wrong show. LOL

lol yeah Muppets man! def wrong show.

^still the best video on the internet.

Correct! (And hurry up with the Pop Figure pic - we'd love to see them!)

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com...89b7355ef1.jpg

I can't believe I've not seen that before. Thanks for posting it!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...809_030932.jpg

I feel like I should take Agent 13 off of Capt's side because she wasn't really battling at the airport with the rest of the crew and it makes Capt's side look more beefier than it was.

Oh and Crossbones is just chilling on top of a souvenir that I got from St. Kitts.

I'm still missing Giant Ant Man to complete this collection though.

Dish soap.

Just took care of some adulting. Needed new sheet sets for the bedroom so my wife and I picked out vintage Sesame Street and Pac-Man sets for a fun upgrade. She had the JC Penny Sesame Alphabet sheet set as a child and it brought her to tears to reclaim them for our home.

http://i.imgur.com/CK9tlYtl.jpg

The classic maze print was only manufactured in a twin size...

http://i.imgur.com/lq6gZfnl.jpg

...but as the owner of (unofficially) the world's largest collection of vintage Pac-Man Fever merch, I was stoked to dress our bed in Atari retro nostalgia.

http://i.imgur.com/X9YNsc9l.jpg

Nice!

What the ****?! You're crazier than a box of frogs and I'm assuming you don't care.

OMFG, I had those sesame street sheets when I was a kid also.

Ha! Very cool. Did you have any of this crap as well?

http://i.imgur.com/QxegNo6.jpg

Pacman is boring.

Only the Pac Man glass on the second shelf from the top looks familiar everything else is alien to me.

Oh and the Atari console with joystick but that's about it. I guess I wasn't big into PacMan as a kid.

I had Ms. Pacman for my Atari 2600. Never played it much. I was more into Dark Chambers and Desert Falcon. That reminds me I need a new power supply so I can plug that old piece of trash in again. Bleep bloop pew pew - not sure I miss those games so much. My Atari looks exactly like the one on the top shelf.

Good games need just 1 big red button.

Here's one of my favs -

http://i.imgur.com/9toGf12l.jpg

Nah, good games use 12+ buttons :p:

Arcade games are awesome though. I just prefer arcade games from circa 1986 and up in general.

I've never seen the game above. Looks pretty cool in a B-movie sort of way. Half the fun with Atari games is to try and reconcile the vision of the game shown on the artwork with what's actually shown on screen.

A 1/12 scale 4" X 6" miniature Persian area rug (arrived today - pic in my member journal)

and a limited edition Manos: The Hands of Fate print (Christmas gift for a friend.)

Got a Sonic Youth shirt and a Television shirt at a head shop.

Go to hell.

At least I didn't get them at Urban Outfitter's.