Adorable - Against Perfection (No way it's worth that much!!!!)

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yeah it's a nice album and all, but is it really worth $75.00?

eBay
http://cgi.ebay.com/Against-Perfection-Adorable-CD-1993_W0QQitemZ4018995007QQcategoryZ307QQssPageNameZWD1VQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

― Christopher Costello (CGC), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 00:13 (twenty years ago)

$40 on amazon

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000008CPN/qid=1126660375/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/002-6240720-3684013?v=glance&s=music

― Christopher Costello (CGC), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 00:13 (twenty years ago)

Damn, I love that album, but it may be time to sell. I think I found my copy used for about 6 bucks last year.

― wmlynch (wlynch), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 00:29 (twenty years ago)

those prices don't really mean squat unless someone actually buys them (which seems unlikely to me as this album is piss easy to find secondhand)

― jimmy glass (electricsound), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 00:31 (twenty years ago)

the ebay rule applies as much to this as anything else... i've seen that chapterhouse greatest hits/rarities 2cd go for $250. for a cd. that's completely insane. i've also seen it go for $90. and $40.

same shit for against perfection. i found a cd store in paris that had all these rare shoegaze cd's. i bought them and posted them on ebay, thinking i'd make a killing. i'm pretty sure i ended up losing money.

and no, it's not worth $75.

― milosz, Wednesday, 14 September 2005 00:52 (twenty years ago)

It is however very good. So I will play my copy right now.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 00:57 (twenty years ago)

i never liked adorable, i think it was mostly down to the interviews.
argh, i am now reading that mahogany's album is now pushed back to april.

― keith m (keithmcl), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 01:31 (twenty years ago)

when you're making the record to crush the cult of loveless, sometimes tthere can be delays

― jimmy glass (electricsound), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 01:33 (twenty years ago)

it was supposed to come out in 2003

― keith m (keithmcl), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 01:35 (twenty years ago)

On track with Loveless, then.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 01:36 (twenty years ago)

but now i read that the june brides 2xcd reissue is finally out next month.

― keith m (keithmcl), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 01:37 (twenty years ago)

Actually speaking of reissues I just got the latest LTM mailout....

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 01:38 (twenty years ago)

loks like the Northside reissue has been delayed until Nov. I hope there is not public disquiet as a result.

― keith m (keithmcl), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 01:42 (twenty years ago)

Hey did Adorable release anything else worth hearing?

― wmlynch (wlynch), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 02:20 (twenty years ago)

Back in the day (last year and earlier) you could find like all of Adorable's stuff on a fan site for download. I can't imagine that the CD is worth quite that much in this day and age. Except maybe to a completist or something. Though if you were an Adorable completist it is likely going to be an expensive slog by now.

― gspm (gspm), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 02:23 (twenty years ago)

wasn't there a second album? and then there was Polak. don't know if any of it was essential.
x-post

― keith m (keithmcl), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 02:24 (twenty years ago)

the second album was ok. polak released one good single (their first) and got progressively worse from there.

― jimmy glass (electricsound), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 02:36 (twenty years ago)

Though if you were an Adorable completist it is likely going to be an expensive slog by now.

with a little patience i'm sure the lot could be had for under 50 smackers

― jimmy glass (electricsound), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 02:37 (twenty years ago)

that reminds me, i have a flexi from when adorable were called the candy thieves, with a cute but kinda rubbish demo version of homeboy on it. wonder if it is worth anything? i got it for free from this nice guy i bought a grand worth of indie vinyl off..

― jimmy glass (electricsound), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 02:38 (twenty years ago)

I've got all those downloads, made a little CDR out of 'em. V. handy.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 03:23 (twenty years ago)

I think I sold my copy of it for less than a dollar, I'm sad to say.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 12:00 (twenty years ago)

I thought the 2nd album (Fake) was a bit crap really. Sold it on Ebay, got about £12 for it, which I was pretty surprised (and pleased) about!

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 14:05 (twenty years ago)

2nd album was great. a bit more understated, the brashness gone, a sense maybe of a moment passed,

― terry lennox. (gareth), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 14:40 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

come on, the b-sides, folks, Adorable B-sides.

― think you're a fookin' bat, eh? (Bimble), Saturday, 7 February 2009 11:39 (seventeen years ago)

or A-sides mixed with the B-sides.

― think you're a fookin' bat, eh? (Bimble), Saturday, 7 February 2009 11:40 (seventeen years ago)

I used to have a promo Adorable t-shirt that a friend who worked at a record store gave me. It was a plane white tee with "Adorable" in small black print laid in a semi-circle around the shirt's front collar. I wore it in my 11th grade school photo. The photos were a big hit with my family, who enjoyed the tongue-in-cheek factor & still keep them around to this day.

Another promo item from the same friend (which I still have, inexplicably): a Gene "Sleep Well Tonight" pillowcase.

― Ricky Apples (Pillbox), Saturday, 7 February 2009 16:37 (seventeen years ago)

Hahahahhaah a Gene pillowcase LOLOLOLOLOL there is no hope for mankind, I think.

― think you're a fookin' bat, eh? (Bimble), Saturday, 7 February 2009 16:55 (seventeen years ago)

*"plain white tee", duh. Don't judge me plz - I just woke up

― Ricky Apples (Pillbox), Saturday, 7 February 2009 17:03 (seventeen years ago)

Haha oh, that's okay, mate. Don't worry about it. I'm just being silly.

― think you're a fookin' bat, eh? (Bimble), Saturday, 7 February 2009 17:40 (seventeen years ago)

one month passes...

Okay this band fucking rules.

― Goth As A Moth (Bimble), Sunday, 8 March 2009 02:11 (sixteen years ago)

three years pass...

clearly not worth $75.
however, the price on amazon is still holding up.
so, clearly there is a demand for this rather wonderful album.
of all the creation material, i still think this is the one of the best albums the label put out.

(r.i.p bimble .. )

― mark e, Sunday, 11 November 2012 18:59 (thirteen years ago)

I still love this album.

― NoTimeBeforeTime, Monday, 12 November 2012 00:30 (thirteen years ago)

Go pick up the "Footnotes" best-of, it covers just about all you need.

― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 12 November 2012 01:17 (thirteen years ago)

i actually saw Adorable live at the Whiskey A Go Go on the Sunset Strip. so much fun and think it their only appearance in the States. could have also played the East Coast but i'm not sure if that actually happened.

― Bee OK, Monday, 12 November 2012 03:46 (thirteen years ago)

They played in Grand Rapids, MI around that time, so they must have done a full US tour.

― suggest butt (Pillbox), Monday, 12 November 2012 03:49 (thirteen years ago)

i think i prefer fake. it sounds heavier.

― brimstead, Monday, 12 November 2012 05:01 (thirteen years ago)

really though they should just throw out a 2 or 3 disc completist thing with all the bsides.

― brimstead, Monday, 12 November 2012 05:45 (thirteen years ago)

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