Hey Matt great video! Glad you were able to track down all of your grails. Good luck in 2024. I just made my first video and it was a Vinyl Tag. I gave you a shout out because you are one of the people who inspired me to make my first video. Thanks for all you do and keep making great content for us to watch.
Matt, I'm so excited you got all of your grails that you wanted from 2023! Clearly your vinyl community loves you (I know I do!) Best of luck on your list for 2024!!!!
My grails for this year have been on my want list for a while: Neil Finn’s “Try Whistling This” (pressed on vinyl for the first time), Del Amitri’s “Twisted”, Seal’s S/T album, leavv’s “Mind Garden” and Mark Knoffler/Emmylou Harris “All the Roadrunning”. ❤
Nice finds! I need that Cristina Aguilera Back to basics, just recently found out there are only 2 pressings that exist, original from 2006 with a beautiful 3LP set, and then a 2018 red colored 2LP. I hope we get a repressing eventually.
9:00 wow you have brought together a wonderfull community that helps you so much. Super awesome to be gifted hard to find records. I will have to remember to do that for others.
Elemental?!!!!! I am very jealous. I looooooove that record. Well done to Terri for finding you a copy. Let's hope one comes my way. All \the best, Sir!!!
Matt you caught me!!! I did some sleuthing around and saw your comment, the record fit the criteria so I thought this must be it. Big fan of the channel and hope to make it down Portland to visit the shop soon.
The Method Actor record story is almost Shakespearean in its highs and lows. Glad you were able to get it! Always nice when stories like this have a happy ending!
1:30 often times it is worth it to bank on a repress for video game soundtracks. I waited for the silent hill mondo pressings and I am glad I did. free shipping from mondo as well. I only bought 1 and 2 but I will probally buy 3 and 4.
Early pressing of Elemental? Try ANY pressing of Elemental that is either not a fortune or in minty condition lol...what a sweet gesture & what an amazing (& unique) TFF lp! Great vid!
I’ve never heard of The Method Actor & now I’m so intrigued as I adore Eva Cassidy!! I’m wondering if BFMV may wait until 2025 for a 20th anniversary reissue for their debut? I hope for your sake, you get a copy before then 😂
Happy to see you were able to score so many grails this year. Now if you can will into existence a repress of Fruit by Asteroids Galaxy Tour, that would be amazing. I don’t want to drop $400+ on it.
Happy new year, Matt! All very cool. I never heard of the Method Actor album. Sounds great. I’ll have to see where I can stream it. Hope you still have my list handy! Cheers! - John
This video was a fantastic, heartwarming watch. Glad you got all your 2023 grails, Matt! Terri is just the greatest, isn't she? She actually gifted me one of MY grails this year :) I don't have a lot in my discogs wantlist and I don't set out to get a specific number of them each year like you, but this year was pretty great for me in terms of getting grails. Here's the list of the ones I got: Danele Luppi: An Italian Story - this is the one Terri sent me. It's basically a library music record, made with the cream of 70s Italian library music complosers and players. The Bees: These Were The Bees - a discogs purchase from Finland The Bees: Sunshine Hit Me - a very welcome reissue Cornershop: When I Was Born For The 7th Time - another discogs purchase, this time from Germany The Rapture: Echoes - reissued after being out of print for sooo long! Athlete: Vehicles And Animals - another welcome reissue And here are a few I'd still like to get: Brightblack Morning Light: Brightblack Morning Light Little Barrie: We Are Little Barrie Gorky's Zygotic Mynci: Barafundle Sean Lennon: Friendly Fire The Stills: Logic Will Break Your Heart Malajube: Labyrinthes Cornershop: Handcream For A Generation Beck: Midnite Vultures and The Information - c'mon, Beck. Reissue them already! I just don't want to buy them for hundreds of dollars Lemon Jelly: lemonjelly.ky and Lost Horizons - same. I'm hoping for reissues. I just can't pay hundreds for them. As for Ana Frango Életrico, I think we have a pretty good chance of Mr. Bongo reissuing Little Electric Chicken Heart and hopefully her first album, Mormaco Quiema, too. I'm basing this on the fact that before they issued her latest, they also started their Hidden Waters compilation of current Rio artists with her song Saudade (from LECH), plus they put out Bala Desejo's Sim Sim Sim. Let's hope they stay on this modern Brazilian train. (Hidden Waters also has a song by Dora Morelenbaum, plus she's also a member of Bala Desejo.)
Nice list man. As far as Grails that I am looking for: 1. Smashing Pumpkins Pisces Iscariot Original Pressing that ACTUALLY plays NM (I've bought 3 copies online and everyone of them sounds like popcorn popping and was listed as NM sadly) 2. My Bloody Valentine Loveless UK Townhouse Og in NM playing condition 3. The Sun and the Moon by The Bravery 4. Friction, Baby by Better than Ezra OG pressing
congrats! the method actor cover is so pretty. last year i finally got Blond on vinyl, I'm still kind of amazed I ended up getting it, but now it looks like it's just going to be for sale on his page so a little less excited about it. this year I want to get psychopomp by japanese breakfast, it's not that rare but still don't want to pay over 60 when i can hopefully find a good new press at some point and get it for a lot cheaper.
Congratulations on acquiring all of your grails! I have a copy of a Danzig III bootleg on red vinyl, but it's only one LP, not the 2-LP version you got ahold of. Would love a better copy someday! I also have bootlegs of Danzig I and II, which are of decent quality, and will do until something official comes along. Someday I'll get ahold of 4p. Also, I agree with you that the Tears For Fears "Elemental" album is just as good as their first three. That album was in HEAVY rotation for me when it came out in the early 90s!
congrats on the grails Matt!!!! People don’t usually get me records either. I love the NIN session. i had the cd in college - that version of Ringfinger is wacky ha ha - i love it. I think now that you have arexid store that you’ll be getting your grails. it make it no less exciting or heartwarming. I loved the stories. The grails I got last year were Midnite Vultures, Elemental, complete my Karp collection (PNW sludge metal legends - super rare all 3 records), Prince Douglas - Dub Roots and hard to find promo copy, and. a Japanese leasing with fully intact OBI and Robert Snith sticker sheet of The Cure’s Standing On A Beach
@@TooManyRecordsyeah i am a huge TFF fan and that isn’t favorite record. a record store in SF posted 2 on line Mint and i got one and checked with you but you had yours. i saw them live in November and they are still amazing.
Impressive to get all of yours. Good luck this year! Mine for this year are: 1. Destiny 1 Soundtrack 2. The Wall US Promo Copy 1979 3. Mass Effect Trilogy Soundtrack 4. Moanin SRX 5. Maiden Voyage SRX 6. Lulu 7. Manger on McNichols 8. A piece of strange
Matt been looking for MIC for 5 years and here’s the problem: either you find a great copy that’s way too much or a bad copy that’s way too much. Meaning mint copies go for around $500 then you drop down to VG+ copies with different issues for 250-350.
My local store had SO many of those Pretty Hate Machine sessions. They’re shockingly pretty easy to find. I wish it had the Purest Feeling cover though lol
I have the Danzig Lucifuge bootleg (“import”) and honestly for $20 I’m happy with it. Disc isn’t warped, spindle hole centered, and besides a couple pops/clicks, it sounds pretty damn good
I hate to do this to ya but I've actually A-B tested a Lucifuge bootleg to an OG and the OG blows it out of the water... so if you can find one for a decent price, you should go for it!
@@TooManyRecords Oh, I bet it does, and I totally want one. I just meant for a $20 bootleg I’m content. There’s actually a NM/VG+ OG on Discogs for $300 right.
Damn I never thought I'd hear someone mention Sakanaction in a video, i have 2 of their albums on cds and really enjoy them. I would buy them on vinyl if they ever repress them.
Wonderful video Matt. 7 for 7, what a year. I just starting playing Hades with my son after he became obsessed with the games Cult of the Lamb and Death’s Door. I should probably track down the vinyl of Hades. Is it still available?
Nice. The Poison would be a great album to have, so I'm hoping for a repress on that one too. My top 7. 1. Oh Land - Oh Land (one day I'll find it a reasonable price, or just suck it up and pay $200) 2. Air Traffic - Fractured Life (this goes for wayyy too much now) 3. Ben Folds Five - Whatever And Amen (pretty much everything Ben Folds needs a repress) 4. Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2 5. GTA V Boxset 6. Across The Universe Soundtrack 7. Dodie - You (although I'm pushing to have it repressed with her other EP Intertwined as well)
On Danzig the Counterfeit CD comp Misfits 7" Singles comp is way better than any of the official Misfits comps, so that tracks.Also technically Danzig 3 and 4 are counterfeits ( Bootlegs are live recordings). Both Bootlegs and Counterfeits go under Unauthorized, but if your gonna run a record store ...
Watch the Throne is one of my main grails I’m hunting. I’m close, considering the repress is popping up places rn
Congrats on all the grails, Matt! Loved the pic and story of you and Terri ❤
Hey Matt great video! Glad you were able to track down all of your grails. Good luck in 2024. I just made my first video and it was a Vinyl Tag. I gave you a shout out because you are one of the people who inspired me to make my first video. Thanks for all you do and keep making great content for us to watch.
Awesome dude!! That’s exciting.
Your videos and knowledge gave me the confidence@@TooManyRecords
Matt, I'm so excited you got all of your grails that you wanted from 2023! Clearly your vinyl community loves you (I know I do!) Best of luck on your list for 2024!!!!
I'd love to know what's on your list!!
Yes, I'd like to see your list, too, Terri!
My grails for this year have been on my want list for a while: Neil Finn’s “Try Whistling This” (pressed on vinyl for the first time), Del Amitri’s “Twisted”, Seal’s S/T album, leavv’s “Mind Garden” and Mark Knoffler/Emmylou Harris “All the Roadrunning”. ❤
Nice finds! I need that Cristina Aguilera Back to basics, just recently found out there are only 2 pressings that exist, original from 2006 with a beautiful 3LP set, and then a 2018 red colored 2LP. I hope we get a repressing eventually.
9:00 wow you have brought together a wonderfull community that helps you so much. Super awesome to be gifted hard to find records. I will have to remember to do that for others.
Elemental?!!!!! I am very jealous. I looooooove that record. Well done to Terri for finding you a copy. Let's hope one comes my way. All \the best, Sir!!!
Matt you caught me!!! I did some sleuthing around and saw your comment, the record fit the criteria so I thought this must be it. Big fan of the channel and hope to make it down Portland to visit the shop soon.
You're a real Sherlock Holmes. Email me!!
My big purchase for the year was an official pressing of Pearl Jam “Lost Dogs.” It was pricey but I did it. 🎉🎉🎉
And well worth it!!
The Method Actor record story is almost Shakespearean in its highs and lows. Glad you were able to get it! Always nice when stories like this have a happy ending!
It truly was a wild ride, one of the crazier hunts in my 10+ years of collecting.
1:30 often times it is worth it to bank on a repress for video game soundtracks.
I waited for the silent hill mondo pressings and I am glad I did. free shipping from mondo as well. I only bought 1 and 2 but I will probally buy 3 and 4.
There’s boots of that Bullet for my Valentine floating around.
Early pressing of Elemental? Try ANY pressing of Elemental that is either not a fortune or in minty condition lol...what a sweet gesture & what an amazing (& unique) TFF lp! Great vid!
I’ve never heard of The Method Actor & now I’m so intrigued as I adore Eva Cassidy!!
I’m wondering if BFMV may wait until 2025 for a 20th anniversary reissue for their debut?
I hope for your sake, you get a copy before then 😂
Happy to see you were able to score so many grails this year. Now if you can will into existence a repress of Fruit by Asteroids Galaxy Tour, that would be amazing. I don’t want to drop $400+ on it.
Shoutout to Patrick!! Blessing with the nin 🎉♥️
Happy new year, Matt!
All very cool. I never heard of the Method Actor album. Sounds great. I’ll have to see where I can stream it.
Hope you still have my list handy!
Cheers!
- John
This is the year you visit, brother!
This video was a fantastic, heartwarming watch. Glad you got all your 2023 grails, Matt! Terri is just the greatest, isn't she? She actually gifted me one of MY grails this year :) I don't have a lot in my discogs wantlist and I don't set out to get a specific number of them each year like you, but this year was pretty great for me in terms of getting grails. Here's the list of the ones I got:
Danele Luppi: An Italian Story - this is the one Terri sent me. It's basically a library music record, made with the cream of 70s Italian library music complosers and players.
The Bees: These Were The Bees - a discogs purchase from Finland
The Bees: Sunshine Hit Me - a very welcome reissue
Cornershop: When I Was Born For The 7th Time - another discogs purchase, this time from Germany
The Rapture: Echoes - reissued after being out of print for sooo long!
Athlete: Vehicles And Animals - another welcome reissue
And here are a few I'd still like to get:
Brightblack Morning Light: Brightblack Morning Light
Little Barrie: We Are Little Barrie
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci: Barafundle
Sean Lennon: Friendly Fire
The Stills: Logic Will Break Your Heart
Malajube: Labyrinthes
Cornershop: Handcream For A Generation
Beck: Midnite Vultures and The Information - c'mon, Beck. Reissue them already! I just don't want to buy them for hundreds of dollars
Lemon Jelly: lemonjelly.ky and Lost Horizons - same. I'm hoping for reissues. I just can't pay hundreds for them.
As for Ana Frango Életrico, I think we have a pretty good chance of Mr. Bongo reissuing Little Electric Chicken Heart and hopefully her first album, Mormaco Quiema, too. I'm basing this on the fact that before they issued her latest, they also started their Hidden Waters compilation of current Rio artists with her song Saudade (from LECH), plus they put out Bala Desejo's Sim Sim Sim. Let's hope they stay on this modern Brazilian train. (Hidden Waters also has a song by Dora Morelenbaum, plus she's also a member of Bala Desejo.)
I will fight you (lovingly) for lemonjelly.ky
@@TooManyRecords oh, I thought you already had both. Not just Lost Horizons. I know Terri has both of them 😆
Welcome to metalcore. Many bangers that are very hard to find but fun to hunt
Any good recs? I’m really into ADTR and BFMV.
Fantastic video and always look forward to it! Some years I dont go on the hunt for mine so I live through you and tmr 😂
Nice list man. As far as Grails that I am looking for:
1. Smashing Pumpkins Pisces Iscariot Original Pressing that ACTUALLY plays NM (I've bought 3 copies online and everyone of them sounds like popcorn popping and was listed as NM sadly)
2. My Bloody Valentine Loveless UK Townhouse Og in NM playing condition
3. The Sun and the Moon by The Bravery
4. Friction, Baby by Better than Ezra OG pressing
I have that Danzig Boot on colored vinyl sounds great!
Stoked you got that Flamingosis!
Crazy you went 7/7!!! Hope you're able to duplicate the success this year
I'm... not feeling as confident lol
congrats! the method actor cover is so pretty. last year i finally got Blond on vinyl, I'm still kind of amazed I ended up getting it, but now it looks like it's just going to be for sale on his page so a little less excited about it. this year I want to get psychopomp by japanese breakfast, it's not that rare but still don't want to pay over 60 when i can hopefully find a good new press at some point and get it for a lot cheaper.
Congratulations on acquiring all of your grails! I have a copy of a Danzig III bootleg on red vinyl, but it's only one LP, not the 2-LP version you got ahold of. Would love a better copy someday! I also have bootlegs of Danzig I and II, which are of decent quality, and will do until something official comes along. Someday I'll get ahold of 4p. Also, I agree with you that the Tears For Fears "Elemental" album is just as good as their first three. That album was in HEAVY rotation for me when it came out in the early 90s!
Yep am definitely going to check out Method Actor as I love Eva Cassidy. Cheers Matt! 🙏
congrats on the grails Matt!!!! People don’t usually get me records either. I love the NIN session. i had the cd in college - that version of Ringfinger is wacky ha ha - i love it. I think now that you have arexid store that you’ll be getting your grails. it make it no less exciting or heartwarming. I loved the stories. The grails I got last year were Midnite Vultures, Elemental, complete my Karp collection (PNW sludge metal legends - super rare all 3 records), Prince Douglas - Dub Roots and hard to find promo copy, and. a Japanese leasing with fully intact OBI and Robert Snith sticker sheet of The Cure’s Standing On A Beach
damn we both got Elemental?! haha
@@TooManyRecordsyeah i am a huge TFF fan and that isn’t favorite record. a record store in SF posted 2 on line Mint and i got one and checked with you but you had yours. i saw them live in November and they are still amazing.
correction- elemental IS my favorite TFF record
This list is my Roman Empire
Impressive to get all of yours. Good luck this year! Mine for this year are:
1. Destiny 1 Soundtrack
2. The Wall US Promo Copy 1979
3. Mass Effect Trilogy Soundtrack
4. Moanin SRX
5. Maiden Voyage SRX
6. Lulu
7. Manger on McNichols
8. A piece of strange
I will find you one of them.
@@TooManyRecords Be on the lookout for all of them thoug,h and all fo the other ones in my wantlist!
Matt been looking for MIC for 5 years and here’s the problem: either you find a great copy that’s way too much or a bad copy that’s way too much. Meaning mint copies go for around $500 then you drop down to VG+ copies with different issues for 250-350.
Yeah I passed on a copy for $175 that was VG+ on Discogs a few months ago and I'm kicking myself
@@TooManyRecords lol I passed on those too because I was waiting on a copy with better cover or at least a NM vinyl.
My local store had SO many of those Pretty Hate Machine sessions. They’re shockingly pretty easy to find. I wish it had the Purest Feeling cover though lol
I can't imagine they're easy to find now... with zero available anywhere I looked middle of last year.
@@TooManyRecordsWonder if it’s a Midwest thing? Plenty of shops in STL had em in abundance!
My grailz this year are Billy Woods - Known Unknowns (not usually on Discogs, very expensive if it is) and Armand Hammer - WHT LBL
I have the Danzig Lucifuge bootleg (“import”) and honestly for $20 I’m happy with it. Disc isn’t warped, spindle hole centered, and besides a couple pops/clicks, it sounds pretty damn good
I hate to do this to ya but I've actually A-B tested a Lucifuge bootleg to an OG and the OG blows it out of the water... so if you can find one for a decent price, you should go for it!
@@TooManyRecords Oh, I bet it does, and I totally want one. I just meant for a $20 bootleg I’m content. There’s actually a NM/VG+ OG on Discogs for $300 right.
Damn I never thought I'd hear someone mention Sakanaction in a video, i have 2 of their albums on cds and really enjoy them. I would buy them on vinyl if they ever repress them.
Why won't they?!
Score! What a year. Does any of DJ Wags’ collection ever show up in the store?
He occasionally will sell us some cool stuff but he has his own booth over at Crossroads down in SE Portland
Wonderful video Matt. 7 for 7, what a year. I just starting playing Hades with my son after he became obsessed with the games Cult of the Lamb and Death’s Door. I should probably track down the vinyl of Hades. Is it still available?
I think it sold out again ugh
Nice. The Poison would be a great album to have, so I'm hoping for a repress on that one too.
My top 7.
1. Oh Land - Oh Land (one day I'll find it a reasonable price, or just suck it up and pay $200)
2. Air Traffic - Fractured Life (this goes for wayyy too much now)
3. Ben Folds Five - Whatever And Amen (pretty much everything Ben Folds needs a repress)
4. Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2
5. GTA V Boxset
6. Across The Universe Soundtrack
7. Dodie - You (although I'm pushing to have it repressed with her other EP Intertwined as well)
You just need to get Oh Land this year. It's time.
@@TooManyRecords Haha yeah, there's one on Discogs that'd be like $190 shipped. But also my wife would murder me so I'm not sure it's worth it 😂
Also, I don't like having the record for highest price paid on Discogs, I usually aim for lowest price paid lol.
I'm still looking for a copy of the Jars of Clay S/T LP that won't cost me a kidney to afford
On Danzig the Counterfeit CD comp Misfits 7" Singles comp is way better than any of the official Misfits comps, so that tracks.Also technically Danzig 3 and 4 are counterfeits ( Bootlegs are live recordings). Both Bootlegs and Counterfeits go under Unauthorized, but if your gonna run a record store ...
Other than midnight vultures. Mum- finally we are no one.
This is the year for Midnight Vultures!!!
You picked up a Grail, but left a price sticker on it?