Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion (2009)

I'm powerfully behind Curt1s on this one. This strikes me as a genius scam by a very mediocre band.

― Sickamous Mouthall (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, May 13, 2009

this strikes me as ... FFS I've only been sorta into them since the last album but you guys are all retardedly boring now with the need to be all Geir on Funk about this band.

Go have a little cry or something if it's that upsetting.

not sure why people are so mad about this!

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Asking why people are mad about this is a lot like Conservative bloggers asking why liberals are so angry about Dijon-gate. Can't they handle a little ribbing? Of course, what they're missing is that no one is angry about Dijon-gate, they're laughing at how ridiculous the whole thing is. SO TO HERE -- SO TO WITH ANIMAL COLLECTIVE.

it's no different to regularly going *facedesk* or pointing & laughing at asher roth or lady gaga or la roux or any of the other dreadful acts around at the moment, which half of ilm does

this album is good

hate on this, haters
http://www.exclaim.ca/images/up-acsingle452LG.jpg
A1 “Summertime Clothes” (Album Version)
A2 “Summertime Clothes” (Dam-Funk Remix)
B1 “Summertime Clothes” (Leon Day AKA L.D Remix)
B2 “Summertime Clothes” (Zomby's Analog Lego Mix)

Hollindagain is totally their best album fyi.*

This is nowhere near approach a Bjork style object-fetish piss take.

Title didn't really strike me as having anything to do with crack, more like work that mines the cracks between albums or something. Like cracks as the repositories for detritus material. But whatevs. They've never been interested in making daft drug references before, don't see why they'd title their box set after it, but then again I could be wrong.

How long before this shows up on r4pid5hare blogs, looking forward to cracking this box, even in mp3 format.

*Strawberry Jam h8r

some real acute analyses of AC distaste up in here. bravo

Asking why people are mad about this is a lot like Conservative bloggers asking why liberals are so angry about Dijon-gate.

Godwin's Law lite.

“Summertime Clothes” (Zomby's Analog Lego Mix)

Shame it's not 'My Girls' that he's remixing, but Zomb y vs AC? Can't really hate on that, they're weirdly similar acts.

Think i read some interview where the AC boy were going on about how much they loved "Where Were U in 92"

makes sense - 'where were u' and 'mpp' are sonically similar. i think it's something to do with the quality of the bass frequencies they use.

I maintained some hope of ebaying this, but um. Guess now would be a good time to cash in on those Purple Bottle and Peacebone white labels, eh?

Sure, why not?

if indie rock was as organized as /b/, we could hunt down jerkoffs who buy litmd edition records just to turn them around on ebay the next week

jesus christ

say what you want about animal collective, that shit is a dick move

no way--that is smart

gtfo, go read some ayn rand

how is it a dick move to sell limited edition bullshit on ebay

if anything animal collective are the dicks for making so few copies of this stuff

when you buy a copy of a limited edition record just to sell it, you are taking it out of the hands of an actual fan of the band who wants to buy it at an affordable price. this isn't rocket science

you have to be trolling, this is like indie rock 101

expecting people to adhere to "indie rock 101" nonsense is retarded

and animal collective is supposed to be clueless about this stuff? after hyping their super-limited, beautifully-packaged, never-to-be-released again rarities collection.

fuck the band, the seller, and whoever is dumb enough to buy that imo.

Thank god I neither care about physical music artifacts (and would have no problem downloading this stuff), nor about Animal Collective, otherwise I'd be super pissed.

when you buy a copy of a limited edition record just to sell it, you are taking it out of the hands of an actual fan of the band who wants to buy it at an affordable price. this isn't rocket science

when you're a wildly successful band and people ebay your limited shit all the time and get lots of money for it, and then you release a limited edition box set of 1000 copies, instead of printing 10,000 or 50,000 or whatever, you're ensuring people will Ebay that shit

seriously this shit pisses me off. they still could've moved 1000 boxes based on vinyl appeal and packaging alone even if they had released the actual music on itunes 2 weeks later or something.

people would still ebay that shit

how is it a dick move to sell limited edition bullshit on ebay

if anything animal collective are the dicks for making so few copies of this stuff

when you're a wildly successful band and people ebay your limited shit all the time and get lots of money for it, and then you release a limited edition box set of 1000 copies, instead of printing 10,000 or 50,000 or whatever, you're ensuring people will Ebay that shit

― Mr. Que

http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z197/nieve19_2007/RealTalkDVD3-1.jpg

xp of course they would but in that case fetishistic artifact dorks are on their own. at least the thousands of people who like the band but are not insane could hear this stuff legally.

que, you seriously sound like a five year old being like "if the store didn't want me to steal candy, why did they make candy so yummy?"

when you buy a copy of a limited edition record just to sell it, you are taking it out of the hands of an actual fan of the band who wants to buy it at an affordable price. this isn't rocket science

― @kanyewest (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, May 15, 2009 3:50 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark

wow, you know who could have prevented this whole sordid scene? THE FUCKING BAND.

if the store didn't want me to buy the limited edition candy and then re-sell it to kids at school then they should make more candy so everyone can have some

Count me in the camp of those that consider this a dick move all around. I hope those douchebags on eBay get ripped off by the buyers.

the key is in the wording, this kind of thing ALWAYS gets reissued...

This is a single edition of 1000 copies, with no digital or CD version planned." - Catsup Plate.

If you really wanna hear this stuff, but don't wanna pay a fortune for it, I've seen it floating around the pirate-webz.

you don't say!!

lol

Tbh, I wasn't positive that an Animal Collective rarities boxset would immediately get ripped/posted. Guess I misgauged their popularity.

I guess eBay could've told you that as well. Allthough right now it's full of people offering this thing up for insane amounts, but noone seems to bite.

http://www.yooouuutuuube.com/v/?rows=36&cols=36&id=GxhaRgJUMl8&startZoom=1

thanks for posting that video, great video btw!

fyi, the video is for "Summertime Clothes"

Everett True has his 2c on Animal Collective here:

Defending The Indefensible #7: Animal Collective

defend the indefensible: Everett True more like.

that blog post is sub-ILM snrub-ILM jeez, he gives every impression (always has) of being unable to think his way out of a wet paper-mache box, blind to his utter corniness and conformity. Not for the first time unable to tell the difference between 3 bands connected only by appearing in the same press sentence of which the difference is... one sounds completely fucking different to the others. Hello??

He probably thinks he's genuinely railing against the mainstream, that's what's so hilarious. He's behaving completely to type.

The type being "Indie lover conspicuous in dislike of popular band gaining popularity and critical praise whilst still keeping a modicum of cred intact" other bands in this series: Nirvana, Radiohead.

I'm not even convinced he has heard the album though, you could cut and paste someone else in there and it would make very little difference as he hardly even seems to mention anything musically specific, really.

I love the atlas sound track "walkabout" with panda bear.
great summer vibe.

I mean it he even said "god Panda Bear's vocals are so transparently faux-weird" I'd think, ok he's listened, and it bugs him. That would be fair enough but no it's just pure teenage old-man autopilot posturing. Sad as fuck.

i hate being the dick who likes the original, but the atlas sound thing is like one eighth as good as what am i going to do by the dovers. that group have been torn to shreds in the past few years.