Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up

[Plautus001]

Like the folks down the street from me with 2 Mercedes, a BMW, and a new Range Rover parked in a bungalow's driveway.

That's reflective of high home prices in Canadian cities $.

 

[DACattack]

The rain has stopped and it's time for music while sipping a dram of whiskey tonight.

Listening on the two-channel system this evening. First I played my new vinyl copy of Bennie Maupin's The Jewel in the Lotus from @sixergixer's recommendation earlier this week (I couldn't resist picking up the LP before they vanished). Simply splendid.

Now, via Qobuz, it's this wondrous recording. (Yeah, yeah, admittedly I'm a serious Shostakovich bobo.) The Lento movement from the Piano Concerto No. 1 is playing right now. Glorious!

Hope everyone is having a fine evening.

 

[Plautus001]

Valhalla 3 is back on my desk, and oh boy did I miss it. Listening to my Weekly Q:



Thank you to everyone at Schiit for the quick turnaround.

Not sure which is sexier...amp or cover...

 

[sixergixer]

My friends and I who were early fans of R.E.M. all pick 'Murmer' as #1, but AftP is probably #2.

1. Murmer
2. Automatic for the People
3. Fables of the Reconstruction
4. Life's Rich Pageant
5. Reckoning
6. Document
7. New Adventures in Hi-Fi
8. Green
9. Out of Time

Next week I'd probably shuffle #6-9, but that other release from '98 never should have seen the light of day.

Recall seeing them in the 'Rat' in Boston in Spring '84, then the Orpheum later that year in support of 'Reckoning' playing after Dream Syndicate. Everybody stood up for the whole thing and I became much more selective after that in going to concerts since I found it immensely annoying. Never saw them again.

They are definitely one of those bands, like Radiohead and The Cure, where everyone is going to have a different favorite album and nobody is really wrong. Automatic For The People happened during peak radio-listening and CD buying for me as a youth so I just hits harder. But the early albums are also awesome.

 

[mks100]

They are definitely one of those bands, like Radiohead and The Cure, where everyone is going to have a different favorite album and nobody is really wrong. Automatic For The People happened during peak radio-listening and CD buying for me as a youth so I just hits harder. But the early albums are also awesome.

Purchased the 2017 Vinyl Reissue last night. Listening now. It's been a minute since I listened to the album in its entirety. Forgot how much I love "Try Not To Breathe" and "The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite". Thank you for the reminder.

 

[Moondog55]

That is what I was planning on using.

Deoxit works really well cleaning up goop.

 

[DACattack]

They remain one my favorite bands. Like many do, I believe their best overall records are Murmur and Automatic for the People, but my sentimental favorite remains Lifes Rich Pageant because that was the tour which I enjoyed the most, when they performed in a smaller venue before they hit it huge; and they were on fire that night. (I remember Stipe wearing a top hat and tossing it into the crowd during "Superman.")

 

[Bowmoreman]

That move cost a bit over $30,000.00 ....... Did you have $30,000.00 worth of items to move. Asking because: I move a lot of items into storage for customers. After a month or two, the storage fees cost more then what the items are worth. I know people that give their stuff away because it is cheaper to buy again when they move.

Yes, we did (and do). I filled 2 15 yard drop dumpsters before that actual pack/move. I have thousands of LP’s; we have even more books… old, quality cherry and walnut furniture. 1000+ bottle wine cellar…. Astronomy and knitting hobbies… the list is long (and, physically, real).

Color:

Didn’t use storage other than what the rental house had. Just life use (which, thank God, when Coven pandemiconium hit and both boys had to move back “home”) of our “normal” furniture… Did ultimately put some furniture in climate storage while renting in Texas as it wasn’t big enough for our DR set (and, alas, I had no room to setup the Apogee Duetttas, so into temp-controlled storage they went, but was a small 10x10 unit… again AC’d for what we couldn’t FIT in a Texas rental. But now we have space for all again, so win…

Every move throw out ever more; but hard no on quality furniture, books, and LP’s. Sold some of the wine and LP’s in Texas (profit skimming?)… some of the furniture we have was made in my great-grandfather’s furniture factory in Grand Rapids, MI. Same on my wife’s side (we’re talking over 100 year’s old in many cases). One moves these things. One cherishes these things. They are real.

All said, pining to find a good place here for a proper (again) aquarium setup…. Have all needed (pumps, filters, lights, co2, tubing, heating, etc.) but tank and stand (see: dumpsters and throwing out above). (Or, anyone wanna buy an “everything you need for a killer 65Gal+ aquarium setup, sans tank/stand)? LOLOL”.

Back to OP:

The thought of “giving stuff away because it’s cheaper to buy again” post-move is simply foreign to me (Notwithstanding the furniture we did give away via church, charity, etc. - e.g. we really didn’t “need” 3 separate sofa-beds!)…. Ultimately, we didn’t move consumables/replaceables of any kind that didn’t pass the TEST ((well not counting the dry-iced coolers of some of our fall harvest on the way out of Mass down to Texas (heck, man, we had quarts of berries alone!)… but, sheesh… we grew it to eat it!). Otherwise, we used the golden rule of moving: is this item X worth $1 a pound to pay to move it? Brandy new roll of paper towel? Nope…. A dollar a pound. Period.

Yep… $1/pound… ‘tis clarifying… (note: that was 2018, I’m certain the value is different today). Note well: that is just the instantaneous financial “cost”, one still must physically touch, move, pack, unpack, move and restore as additional “costs”.

That is a very good over-arching logic to apply whilst moving: is it WORTH IT? (So your OG point is well understood/agreed upon).

 

[Paladin79]

Lots of good reasons for using the garage for something other than car storage - your situation is just one of many.

OTOH my brother has 2 cars worth ~$70K sitting in the sun/rain while the garage shelters 2nd/3rd hand furniture, boxes of magazines/text books and hand-me-down kid's clothes worth virtually nothing in actual dollars. His situation is what makes me shake my head and wonder where he learned his sense of value.

Yep a very different situation. Recently I have had my garages filled with audio gear for an upcoming demo so I had two vehicles outside when the tornado hit. Considering the value of speakers alone it was the right move.

 

[mks100]

My friends and I who were early fans of R.E.M. all pick 'Murmer' as #1, but AftP is a strong contender.

1. Murmer
2. Automatic for the People
3. Fables of the Reconstruction
4. Life's Rich Pageant
5. Reckoning
6. Document
7. New Adventures in Hi-Fi
8. Green
9. Out of Time

Next week I'd probably shuffle #6-9, but that other release from '98 never should have seen the light of day.

Recall seeing them in the 'Rat' in Boston in Spring '84, then the Orpheum later that year in support of 'Reckoning' playing after Dream Syndicate. Everybody stood up for the whole thing and I became much more selective after that in going to concerts since I found it immensely annoying. Never saw them again.

Monster? "You wore a shirt of violent green, uh-huh"

 

[theeclone]

No love for "Eponymous"? I know, not a proper album but I really enjoy it as a collection of songs.

I'm not a superfan but Murmur is easily #1 for me. I also really like Out of Time. R.E.M. plus B52s vocalists? Yes please!

 

[Bowmoreman]

You’re missing the point.
You’ve gotta leave the two hundred grand worth of BMWs and Range Rovers out for everyone to see. How else are your neighbors to know that you’re six digits in debt doing really well?

My 2008 and 2013 vehicles live in the garage, thank you. I don’t give a <thing> about what the “neighbors” think. (Hell one’s a guy who works on Audi’s as a hobby and the other raises our local beef cattle…

<grin>

Garages are for cars. All else is secondary; way secondary. Those who don’t agree are brain-dead. [Edit: in MY opinion which is strongly held] It’s financial math, after all. One’s mortgage includes that cost. If one thinks that is (somehow) “cheap general storage”, well then one is being financially unwise [again, my opinion]. (Excepting a minuscule subset that don’t own any cars, but then, why finance a garage?…)

Of course, one can also start/grow an actual business in one’s garage (or bedroom for that matter), in which case it’s an automatic exception to the “cars only” rule.

 

[bcowen]

Garages are for cars. All else is secondary; way secondary. Those who don’t agree are brain-dead. It’s financial math, after all. One’s mortgage includes that cost. If one thinks that is (somehow) “cheap general storage”, well then one is a moron. (Excepting a minuscule subset that don’t own any cars, but then, why finance a garage?…)

Pretty full of yourself, aren't you?

 

[sixergixer]

Purchased the 2017 Vinyl Reissue last night. Listening now. It's been a minute since I listened to the album in its entirety. Forgot how much I love "Try Not To Breathe" and "The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite". Thank you for the reminder.

Hey, this is @Plautus001's R.E.M. world, the rest of us are just livin' in it.

(he posted it originally)

 

[Plautus001]

They are definitely one of those bands, like Radiohead and The Cure, where everyone is going to have a different favorite album and nobody is really wrong. Automatic For The People happened during peak radio-listening and CD buying for me as a youth so I just hits harder. But the early albums are also awesome.

Heck, Green was one of the first CDs I listened to in my car in college (89) when car cd players were expensive.