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I am confused by the US charts. Aren't the album charts the relevant charts here? They are on #2 there right now. https://www.billboard.com/charts/top-album-sales

Oh wow, amazing find. That picture gives us a date of the performance: 1998.6.24 Would you mind sharing how exactly you found the picture? Did you just go through all image results for "Backside Records"?

#3 in the German album charts.

Seems like they took it down a couple of minutes ago. I guess we have to wait for the official release now.

I agree with that sentence but for me personally a historic song gets a more "holy grail" status compared to any other random song that might be finished but I guess everyone sees that a little bit different. In general I think the concept of "holy grail" is not really worth it anyway. We get whatever we get, it makes no sense to seek for one specific thing in my opinion.

Well I guess Mike might have just mentioned a new holy grail? 😄 https://clips.twitch.tv/ResilientMagnificentElkAMPTropPunch

I took pictures and annotated everything with Skitch. It was a pain in the ass but maybe it helps that other person to actually try to understand it.

Maybe they just thought it looked cool and used it on their normal merch that everyone was able to buy?

It was a very generic email. I am 100% sure they didn't even properly read my initial mail.

It‘s not even written in proper German. I assume they have that support outsourced and the first reply is just the generic answer they always give 🤷‍♂️

Warner Germany also sent me a generic „if you have a faulty product, please return it and we send you a replacement“ reply...

I totally agree with you here. Reality is different though. Probably not the best comparison, but in software development it is totally normal that you ignore bugs that just get a low amount of reports. If all clients complain you typically throw all your resources at it and you make sure to fix it as soon as possible. At the end Warner is a business and I wouldn't be surprised if it comes down to a calculation of "how many people do we piss off to safe money", in which case the number of reports would make a difference (I am exaggerating here, I am sure most people there, like Adam for example, care about a delivering a high quality product without compromises).

I don't doubt that they don't know. There is a difference if 10 people or 200 people complain about a problem though. Also I am not saying that anyone should bitch around. It is totally possible to complain about the situation in a friendly way which should be the default anyway.

I would argue that everyone who is unsatisfied with the problems should contact them instead of relying on information from other people. The more people make it clear that they are unhappy with the situation the higher the chances that they will do something.

I used the contact form on the European store.

Wrote a mail to the warner store about the whole EU downgrade situation. Let's see if they have anything to say about it (even though I doubt that I will get a reasonable answer).

He did it on Instagram live. It's available on Instagram TV or however that is called. I didn't really watched it, just saw that strap. To be honest this is kinda unsatisfactory. I feel like the EU got an inferior product which to me is inexcusable at that price point.

I just watched the unboxing video of both Mike and Joe. There boxes both have like a "strip" on the right side that makes pulling out all the vinyls much easier. Is that strip there for everyone in the US? My EU box doesn't have it.

I think the "send e-mail to all subscribers" feature on twitch is just super broken. I don't know a single streamer who uses it. Most streamers use other platforms like Discord where people can connect their twitch account and they distribute subscriber exclusive content over these other services. I assume that twitch is not maintaining the e-mail feature well because of the low usage.

So far it looks like it is only a EU problem.

The first song in the "Linkin Park Complete Playlist" on Spotify is Pictureboard. Whoever was responsible for that, it is a really nice touch.

After I missed the first subscriber mail (the font) I found out that there is a setting in your twitch account settings that specifies if you want to receive those emails or not. It was turned off for me. If you turn it on make sure it to wait a couple of minutes, refresh the page and check if the setting was really applied. It didn‘t work properly for me for days. I tried contacting twitch but their support is complete trash and they never even read my ticket. Eventually the setting was applied and I never touched it again. Sadly that won‘t make previous emails appear but at least you can make sure you get all future mails.

This is so random. Both the sample itself and that he just casually dug up that vinyl today.

Watching the PR02 show right now. Incredible performance. I am just a couple of songs in but that is probably my favorite HT era show we have. I only listened to it on TV speakers yet but the mix sounds incredible.