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You're definitely looking at well over 100 with that sculpture.

Would people bitch and complain once that site started covering STP side-projects too?

Jesus Christ, calm down. The statistic was off, fine, big fucking deal. You didn't have to go and fucking crucify me for it.

A remix album shouldn't be 50% a compilation of shit we got for free last year. That's a waste of CD space. That's what I'm annoyed with; paying again for remixes I already have. But whatever, I'm going to buy it anyway, so I'll bitch if I want.

I knew they'd pull that previously released remix shit. Whatever. I'll still get it. Cover art looks sick, though.

It wouldn't be like High Voltage or My December on Reanimation because those had been previously released and were remixed for Reanimation anyway. I doubt we'll get anything beyond remixes for each album track and ALTNC. LP isn't the band they were eleven years ago. I'm still excited, though. There's always the chance that we might really get a great remix album. Just not something I'd put money on.

The rumor's been going around since the contract issues before MTM. LP will never leave Warner because they have zero reason to throw away the deal they have now. Deal with it and shut the hell up about it for once.

I'm not going to say either way on that, but that sculpture cannot be sold under 100. Especially if it's an ultra-limited run of 500 like someone said in like, the ALTNC thread or the questions thread or something. If they're selling the package under 100 they're probably taking some sort of loss on it.

500 makes sense, because that price is gonna be high as fuck.

That sculpture is going to throw it above 150, almost certainly.

Oh, it comes with LT? Now we know why we didn't get a limited box last time around - they were waiting to release this one.

The post stated that ALTNC has to be unlocked before pre-orders on iTunes are available. Obviously if they're nowhere near reaching the goal a month from now, the pre-orders will open up anyway, but it just seems like a stupid, arbitrary thing to do.

Like I posted in the ALTNC thread, I'm very excited for this. Reanimation 2 is real and it's happening. I'm pretty sure no one's playing that game now, though, which is a problem because I don't intend on physically buying this album.

Oh my God, they're doing a remix album. Eleven years coming. Now I'm excited.

I wrote a quick thing, mostly as an exercise in writing an opinion piece: http://yellingaboutthemusic.tumblr.com/pos...cks-now-and-its I don't really have the energy to hop in on the discussion here otherwise. Maybe a little later.

I always thought that MY>DSMBR was a shitty remix because it's just a beat swap, with someone doubling Chester's vocals at the end. It's good as a song, horrible as a remix, especially on Reanimation where very few of the other songs are this lazy. That's why I've always wanted to hear the Team Sleep remix - surely that one's much, much different.

I was 12 when I first got Hybrid Theory, and that album was on repeat for months afterward. LP shepherded me through the evolution of my musical tastes, so much so that they actually kind of...shepherded themselves right out of my favorite bands after ATS. I'm a firm believer that there's a huge line in the sand between HT/Meteora and the albums afterward in regards to the emotional maturity of the songs. One way I like to refer to it is the difference between "emo teen" music and "grown-up" music - and that's only partially satire. MTM and ATS took very strong steps towards that "grown-up" area - but, as I've discussed before, there's a gigantic stigma surrounding the sound of their first two albums, and that stigma has skewed my perception of those albums in the intervening years. The fact that I consider ATS to be LP's greatest musical accomplishment goes a long way towards turning me away from HT and Meteora, as well. To be quite honest, the only reason I follow LP and frequent LPL at this point is because of tradition and a respect/admiration for the musical tastes of my late childhood. Linkin Park was the first real band where I thought "I love this music and I want to immerse myself in it", and while I no longer share that sentiment with my 12 year old self, I can still respect and appreciate it as a 20 year old man. Basically, my love of LP faded with time, though they may be able to drag me back in if they don't make another fucking LIVING THINGS.

I care more about butthurt reactions to everything STP does than the actual music they're putting out.

Yo, guys, chill out. Shit's been getting weirdly heated the past few weeks around here. Anyway Below Empty's admins suck.

That rubble pack looks mega dumb. Only useful thing there is the USB drive. Which I know is pretty much the point, but still.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_dance_music vs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Dance_Music They are the same genre. IDM is a distinction made primarily here in the US that's pretty much pointless.

You know, the majority of the people in the topic discussing the forum name change are actually being level-headed about it, so at least there's that. Why are we talking about this shitty STP forum? The people on there don't even like being there from what I read.

It's funny that you cite Aphex Twin when he himself said that the IDM/EDM divide is pretentious bullshit.

It's the legal bullshit surrounding STP v. Scott Weiland, presumably. He's butthurt that he got kicked out of the band so he had his legal team demand that they stop counting Chester as a full member and add the "with Chester Bennington" addendum instead.

The Making Of deal is most likely to entice overseas buyers to buy locally as opposed to importing, especially in Japan, because the local prices are fucking insane. I see that they's completely given in to not calling Chester a full member of STP. Fucking Scott Weiland, this is entirely his fault. Jackass. Hopefully this EP will sell well. I'll probably buy the digital version.