Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion (2009)

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

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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.

he didn't really "defend" them did he

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ah, I don't know that track. I'll check it out.

Pile on the Defensible more like

ah, I don't know that track. I'll check it out.

it's so great! you can get everything they did on a ten inch, two cuts of which made nuggets i think. kings of leon are like an affordable dovers tribute group for bar mitzvahs.

err, I don't see anything like kings of leon in the atlas sound track (but I haven't heard anything by them since their first album)

i haven't heard them since then. they just seemed to be going for a kind of breeze rural garage schtick that the dovers emanate. the atlas sound thing is a little loop of the dovers song, and dovers songs in general are forebears to the reinvention of recorded music pioneered by K O L.

You really had me interested in Dovers until you compared them to Kings of Leon.

lol

"You guys should check them out! They mix mid-period Can with the Sonics, filtered through No New York skronk. They also sound kinda like Bloc Party."

lol x2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rclhP1a_o0o

ha ha.
the only space kings of leon take up in my head is just in this horrified oh-man-you-guys-ripped-off-this kinda way.

xp images of melancholic pensive teenagers are not band's own

why is that girl bouncing from side to side, shit is like a ZS gif imo

Pitchfork: Why did you decide to go with the name Universal Studios Florida?

KH: It's based on memories of vacations-- like an idealized version of childhood nostalgia. We wanted to make nostalgia-driven music.

Can we fucking dead the manchild Peter Pan syndrome aesthetic already. It's a dead end. No hope.

I wonder if Fort Thunder regrets spawning like 700 bands called ALF AND THE MELMACS

ha i kind of agree w/ whiney's typical vitriol here -- its like, that narrative could work for maybe one group, but trying to tie an entire 'genre' to this pretty one dimensional narrative is totes obnoxious

i agree with this.. Universal Studios Florida and Ducktails are probably the most cringe-worthy names i've heard in recent memory though i'm not sure how much this aesthetic informs the actual music. i haven't heard USF but i really hope they don't sound like the intro to Wild & Crazy Kids

Pitchfork: Why did you decide to go with the name Universal Studios Florida?

KH: It's based on memories of vacations-- like an idealized version of childhood nostalgia. We wanted to make nostalgia-driven music.

lolz at first glance I just thought this was a parody of an Animal Collective interview. do bands really say stupid shit like this...?

*shakes head*

i think the names of these bands is pretty much a minor fucking issue compared to how slight and forgettable their music is.

otm

I mean, AC interviews circa '03-'04 would ALWAYS say that they were trying to get back to childhood--thus the faux-naivete of the name "Animal Collective."

Personally, I thought it was a great aesthetic for ONE band, but this shit is getting worse than every sub-Elbow clown band using the word "technocracy" in their press release because they like Kid A.

I mean, this gets into a bigger issue.

Like every time I go to the Whitney biennial, every single artist my age and younger can't seem to make art that doesn't have Nes controllers or Captain Planet in it.

It's fucking embarrassing to think this is how my generation is squandering their talents

"Life is good, but GO-BOTS, man. Go-Bots."

yesterday's trash is tomorrow's gold

whiney have you never listened to early K records stuff?