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The DVD " Inside The Zeitgeist" is info about each song, footage in the studio, follows the track list of the album, pretty cool!![/quote:19mcc2ej] yeah, sounds interesting
i really wanna get it now
whoa… that trailer was cool. looks really creepy and deranged. im definitely gonna have to check that out
it looks like you just answerred your own question.
i think 200 euro is about normal for this rarity. you don’t see it too often on ebay. on top of that, this one is in perfect condition, with letter and bag. it’s normal that people go nuts.
i’m more surprised by the crazy amounts people are willing to pay for mcis 3lp every day.[/quote:1ces5t4c] yeah, it makes sense. after all, how many were released? it wasn’t many, and to still have the little bits as well certainly makes it collectible.
and i think the MCIS vinyl reaches high numbers because 1) it is somewhat rare, and 2) there is an emotional appeal to it. many pumpkinhead list it as their favourite album, and the album means quite a lot to them. naturally, they’d want the ‘rare’ version of it. well, that’s my theory on it anyway.
What is your most prized Pumpkins possession?
=> Hard to say. RIAA Platinum US Sales Award for The Aeroplane Flies High box set? En Concierto En Mexico promo CD? Billy Corgan’s Mellon Collie gold acetates set, send by Howie Weinberg?[/quote:akkjtjhx]
don’t brag… you’re making me jealousand for someone who’s a)completely devoted to SP and b) has spent a small/large fortune on SP related items, i’m somewhat surprised that you haven’t flown to, say, america just to see them. like during one of their residency stints? just a thought
How’d you get the boxset to hang on the wall like that?[/quote:bkcxjosx] i think… it’s on the floor and the lighting/angle makes it look like it’s on the wall…
Yay!
i’m looking forward to seeing future designs too, if of course you decide to design more in the future
yeah… ‘shouters’ on any website are annoying. the only thing i find more annoying are people wHo CoMmEnT lIkE tHiS. but you only find those on myspace and livejournal… usually.
anywho, 10000 pressed doesn’t make it that rare, but then again MCIS vinyl had 10000 pressed (right?) and it is still somewhat sought after. please correct me if get the numbers wrong
http://www.spfc.org/band/faq.html?faq_id=43
SPFC has a part of it’s FAQ dedicated to this.
Billy has been known to use a few words or phrases several times, so to keep
people from constantly re-‘discovering’ them Here’s a list: june: 1979, Bye June, Mayonaise, Rhinoceros, Tales of a Scorched Earth, Where
Boys Fear to Tread,my one and only: By Starlight, Lily, XYU, Zero
Boys Fear to Tread: Where Boys Fear to Tread, Cherry
On Q101 radio (Chicago), 10/95, someone actually asked about this- the reply
was that he simply did that to see if people would notice. A more likely
explanation is simply that he likes those words, and/or they rhyme well…
[/quote:2tlfw06p]What year did you fall in love with the Pumpkins? 2007
Who is your favorite member of The Smashing Pumpkins?: Billy Corgan
What is your favorite lineup of the band? MCIS era probably, although i’m really loving the current one
What is your all time favorite album?: MCIS
What is your all time favorite song?: 1979
What is your all time favorite video?: Tonight, Tonight
What is your favorite song from the album ‘Gish’?: I am one/Daydream
What is your favorite song from the album ‘Siamese Dream’?: Silverfuck/Mayonaise
What is your favorite song from the album ‘Pisces Iscariot’?: Blew away
What is your favorite song from ‘Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness’?: 1979
What is your favorite song from ‘Adore’?: Humm… not sure really. Probably Tear. Or Daphne Descends.
What is your favorite song from ‘Machina: The Machines of God’?: Try, Try, Try
Machina 2? Real love/ home/ go
Favorite Zeitgeist song? (Come on) Let’s go!
What is your favorite b-side/rarity?: Boy, i think it’s called? one of the 1979 b-sides on TAFH
What is your most prized Pumpkins possession? Zeitgeist limited edition (i don’t have much rare stuff)
Have you ever seen the Smashing Pumpkins in concert..? Yes. Once
Have you ever seen Billy Corgan solo in concert?: He played 1979 on his own? does that count?
Have you ever met any members of the band? Alas, no.
How many Smashing Pumpkins CDs do you own?: 18, including my burnt copies of MII
How many Smashing Pumpkins boxed sets do you own?: None, but i really want TAFH
How many Smashing Pumpkins t-shirts do you own?: 3 – New Zero, Green Zeitgeist tour, SPfreaks
How many Smashing Pumpkins posters do you own?: One, but it’s technically a Billy Corgan poster. it came free in Kerrang! but is only A4 sized
How many Smashing Pumpkins dvds do you own?: 0
Have you ever named a pet after a member of the band? Not Yet
Have you ever named a pet after one of their songs?: Not Yet
Have you ever named your child after a member of the band? Not yet
Have you ever named your child after one of their songs?: Not yet.
Do you have any Smashing Pumpkins related tattoos?: Considering getting the SP heart in the future
Do you own Billy Corgan’s solo album?: no…
Do you own James Iha’s solo album?: Nope
Do you own Melissa Auf Der Maur’s solo album: Nope.
Do you own ‘Mary, Star of the Sea’, by Zwan?: Nope
Have you ever seen Zwan in concert?: Nope
Have you read ‘Blinking With Fists’, by Billy Corgan?: Nope
Do you own ‘Life Begins Again’, by the Jimmy Chamberlin Complex?: Nope
Do you like A Perfect Circle just because James Iha is now in the band?: He’s in it? and nope
Have you seen the Zeitgeist tour? How many times? Yep, once – reading festival 2007
Recently we’ve added that many items to SPfreaks.com, we now have reached over 5,000 images on the whole Collection website! As we speak we are on 5,013. But believe me, it’s going to be tons more as there are still piles of CDs and other stuffs waiting to be uploaded!Arthur[/quote:3azs1v6w] you really are a dial-up users nightmare, you know that?
although in all fairness, anyone who is still using dial up pretty much deserves to be shot
there is no benefit to dial-up…forgot to mention that the servers went into meltdown with the shear number of votes (over a mill in 36 hours apparently) so you can’t vote for a while
but last thing i heard was gerard is at ~120,000.
(by the way, i know none of you care about mcr, and probably judge me for being as obsessed with mcr as sp, but screw you!
)has anyone else noticed that the shade of purple is similar to the purple used on the cover? (look at the pic with the vinyl placed on the cover)
do you reckon this could be related?
meh. i’ve seen better.
just kidding
pretty damn cool. but try it again, but with all your other stuff!
and by the way, i just realised something. on your ‘adore’s they usually have black/no stickers saying ‘smashing pumpkins’. however, in some of the HMV’s i’ve vistited i’ve noticed that the sticker is a pale brown/creamy white colour, not black. my Adore has the black sticker and no, i’m not going to buy this different stickered version because i really need to keep my money for something else. i was just wondering if anyone else was aware of this, and if this little bit of info was useful? (i checked the collection, and have not found an Adore that has been stickered like this)
aaaaaand i can’t listen to it because 1) i don’t have this new edition and 2) i can’t buy it because i’m saving up to pay for around half of a playstation 3 (my parents paying the other half).
ah the perils of being a teenager and not being able to get a part time job…
yeah i know, i was tired and really couldn’t be bothered to be logical/coherent/accurate.
i was just ranting.
and i actually forgot about the time they spend recording the songs, and that (in my opinion) is the biggest reason as to why stealing music is incredibly unfair.
but more often than not it is the record companies who are complaining about stealing music. i don’t hear so much about musicians who complain hugely about music piracy. most of the cases i’ve heard of are from pop bands who don’t really write their own songs and Lars Ulrich (who infamously sued the Metallica [he’s their drummer] fans who used napster to get Metallica songs. for a start, it was only a few hundred downloaders i think, and they’ve sold millions upon millions of records. it really was a trifling matter that he shouldn’t have cared about, but he made just about everyone lose respect for him, and lost Metallica a lot of fans).
i’m not justifying music piracy. it is a crime. but i have seen statistics elsewhere (not sure where however) that has shown that whilst they are losing potential revenue, they are still getting more revenue than when music piracy was not a problem.
and you’ve also got to take this into account: just because you downloaded something illegally for free, doesn’t mean you would have bought it in the shop if you didn’t have access to that download. so in actuality, the loss of potential revenue is quite a bit less than the figures being given.and i am not a downloader of music. nearly all the money i get is spent on cd’s (i have well over a hundred, which is quite good considering i get about £20 monthly allowance). the only music i download is if i am checking out a band (if i like them i get the cds) or if it’s a b-side (or similar) that i would never have bought the single to get/is on vinyl or itunes only.
and the couple hundred of quid was an exaggeration. i know that there are quite large sums of money, but i was simply exaggerating.
and by the way, it’s in my nature to defend the underdog, or take the opposite view and argue it, usually. i have no idea why. i don’t agree with music piracy, but for some reason i will defend it tooth and nail if people are attacking it. if i find people justifying it, i will go on the attack against music piracy (which has been the case with a lot of my friends
).I paid $411 for my copy (still w/i the Reflex mag). Very steep, but oh well. I like it.
[/quote:1s3edx9g] i think my friends would have a heart attack if they saw this post. they can’t believe that i’d spend £2 on a single, how would they react to someone paying $411 for a single song and a mag?they’d just tell you to download the song.
my friends have no collectors sense.
Oh yeah, of course. i’d think the disc itself is highly collectible, but with the magazine as well?
gonna raise a bit of cash
But wouldn’t the added flexibility make it harder to play?
it’ll be… floppy and stuff.but then i think logically and assume that it is somewhat firm, and can be bent without any harmful effects and will return to it’s original shape, no?
hey, that’s pretty awesome
by the way, what’s the difference between a regular vinyl and a flexi-disc? i’ve never figured this out. but i assume it’s more flexible or something
oh noooooooo, are the multi-billion dollar record companies losing out on a couple hundred of quid because people don’t want to buy their overpriced cd’s? noooooo
fuck this, it’s getting annoying. personally, i’m not a big user of p2p sites (i only use them if i want to check out a new band – if i don’t like them, i delete the music, if like them, i buy their records) but i do disagree with using it as the only way to get music. i don’t call anyone a fan if they don’t buy their preferred bands music. because its not supporting them. but please, the music industry doesn’t need the lost revenue, and when they are multi-releasing an album (*cough*zeitgeist*ahem*) can you blame the downloaders?
the musicians get rich off of ticket sales and merch more than record sales anyway, so they shouldn’t be complaining (yes, i’m talking to YOU, Lar$ Ulbitch). Also, p2p sites are great for new, unsigned bands – they can spread their music to places where their records aren’t available.
it is still stealing, of course, but the only real losers are the multi-billion, faceless record companies. and besides, are you really gonna fork out £15 for that compilation album that has 2 tracks you like on it?Thank you Cool. Does anyone want to host the pics for me?[/quote:zv1cw2nc]
go to photobucket.com it is fantastically good. i use it a lot
you have to register, but it’s free and gives you a lot of bandwidth for pics, as well as vids and other stuff.note – never, ever, EVER use imageshack. ever. that applies to everyone. you get ‘gold frogged’ all the bloody time… it sucks. use photobucket
