RTX - Transmaniacon drops tomorrow

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I've been resisting buying one off eBay for $18 because I really want it on vinyl. Drag City site, naturally, has no info whatsoever about pre-ordering or if there will even BE an LP release, and, if so, if it will be the same release date as the CD. Anyone know if / where I can buy a vinyl copy, like, today?

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Monday, 20 September 2004 19:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Forced Exposure had the lp listed in their update today.

― Sean Witzman (trip maker), Monday, 20 September 2004 19:27 (twenty-one years ago)

There is an LP release! I was at Amoeba Saturday and they had vinyl copies for 13.98 already.

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 20 September 2004 19:28 (twenty-one years ago)

13.98 = too expensive

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 20 September 2004 19:42 (twenty-one years ago)

no way

thanks sean! i'm on my way...

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Monday, 20 September 2004 20:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Someone should tell DC about Amoeba breaking street dates... that's fucked up.

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 20 September 2004 20:34 (twenty-one years ago)

It was like they just snuck a few in. There were about 3 CD copies and 2 vinyl copies.

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 20 September 2004 20:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I am just curious. Why are street dates so important?

― Justin Farrar (Justin Farrar), Monday, 20 September 2004 20:44 (twenty-one years ago)

It represents fairness to the retailer.

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 20 September 2004 20:47 (twenty-one years ago)

awwww. poor retailers.

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Monday, 20 September 2004 20:51 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah fuck street dates

anyway, has anyone heard this album yet?

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Monday, 20 September 2004 20:52 (twenty-one years ago)

So y'all think $13.98 is a reasonable price for a new vinyl copy of an indie-rock album?

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 20 September 2004 20:53 (twenty-one years ago)

That seems to be about what they go for around L.A....
And don't most labels generally lose money on vinyl, but continue to press them for the few rabid fans who insist on it (and bands who request it in their contracts)?

― Taxi Dancing in the Soft Prison (Ben Boyer), Monday, 20 September 2004 20:56 (twenty-one years ago)

It depends on the album. I would spend $25 to hear the new RTX. I wouldn't spend $.25 to hear the new Kustomized. (Don't ask why I picked them. Are the even a band?)

― Justin Farrar (Justin Farrar), Monday, 20 September 2004 20:58 (twenty-one years ago)

awwww. poor retailers.

retailer = commercial outlet for artist

therefore:

poor retailer = poor artist

maybe one day when someone wants to donate money to your art project you can call them a fascist and slash karate chops into the air and draw hexagons into your forehead with an exacto knife. yes you.

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 20 September 2004 21:00 (twenty-one years ago)

oh, grow up. jesus christ, amoeba let 5 copies of an album that'll sell a few thousand copies out a few days early. if that destroys drag city, RTX, or the music industry i'll buy you a coke.

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Monday, 20 September 2004 21:04 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, man. Support local retailers - that includes indie record stores, chump. No one's saying they're gonna stop stealing DVDs from Best Buy or nuthin'

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Monday, 20 September 2004 21:04 (twenty-one years ago)

amoeba is my local retailer cockfizz.

but the fact that they put a high mark-up on a broken street date and then employ their PR guy to post it no less than 2x on ILM is enough to represent (to me) the end of P2P sharing. go back to scotland.

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 20 September 2004 21:08 (twenty-one years ago)

er, wot?

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 20 September 2004 21:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I AM NOT IN TEH EMPLY OF AMEBOA

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 20 September 2004 21:20 (twenty-one years ago)

So, I hear there's a new RTX album....

― Jennifer Herrema, Monday, 20 September 2004 21:25 (twenty-one years ago)

psyched, but not an ILM regular.

― rvssignonald's, Monday, 20 September 2004 21:31 (twenty-one years ago)

If that is really you then I am telling you right now that I LOVE YOU. There I finally got got to say it.

California rules, doesn't it?

― Justin Farrar (Justin Farrar), Monday, 20 September 2004 21:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Funny this is even mentioned at ILM. Wouldn't the RTX record cause scores of pale English boys to spill their milk and run screaming across the village green, yelling "Rockist! ROCKIST! ROCKIST!!! BURN DA WITCH! BURN DA ROCKIST WITCH!!!"?

― Lefty, Monday, 20 September 2004 21:36 (twenty-one years ago)

LOL

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 20 September 2004 21:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I love you too, Justin, but, sorry, that wasn't really Jennifer. I wrote that. Jennifer's too busy burning spoons, listening to limited edition Howling Hex vinyl, and looking after Ace Frehley's stuff to sit around looking at ILM.

― Lefty, Monday, 20 September 2004 21:40 (twenty-one years ago)

"burning spoons"

i hope not

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Monday, 20 September 2004 21:42 (twenty-one years ago)

"No foolin,' it's a fucked up world
So be cool, my little junkie girl"

-Walter Becker

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Monday, 20 September 2004 21:42 (twenty-one years ago)

ILMers run screaming from Jennifer's new rock and roll beast here.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 20 September 2004 21:43 (twenty-one years ago)

hahaha!

What a great thread.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Monday, 20 September 2004 21:43 (twenty-one years ago)

GO BACK TO SCOTLAND!

― adam. (nordicskilla), Monday, 20 September 2004 21:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I mean I was just excited about having it early gygax!

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 20 September 2004 21:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Damn. I knew it was too good to be true. Hanoi Rock is good.

― Justin Farrar (Justin Farrar), Monday, 20 September 2004 21:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm ... cautiously interested. It's not going to be the Howling Hex, I know that. I guess I can resign myself to an entire disc of "Waterpark" rip-offs. Well, maybe it's better than that. I hope so, anyway. Will find out one day, as I live in a place where the nearest "street date" happens only on amazon.com.

LA Weekly feature on Ms. Herrema no one here could be bothered to point out:

http://www.laweekly.com/ink/04/42/music-chamberlin.php

― Lefty, Monday, 20 September 2004 21:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I feel like the only one who posts on these threads who doesn't get psyched about the umpteenth Neil Hagerty album.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 20 September 2004 22:23 (twenty-one years ago)

IS THERE ANOTHER ONE COMING OUT??

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 20 September 2004 22:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Tim did you hear the last one? Side two at least was killer

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Monday, 20 September 2004 22:27 (twenty-one years ago)

how can you not love the Hag?

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Monday, 20 September 2004 22:39 (twenty-one years ago)

He's a bit boring

― adam. (nordicskilla), Monday, 20 September 2004 22:40 (twenty-one years ago)

there's a fair-sized interview with Ms. Herrema in the latest issue of ARTHUR. Photos are a little scary, but few junkies age well...

― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 20 September 2004 22:45 (twenty-one years ago)

The "Neil is my best friend ... we email each other every day" stuff sure contrasts sharply with what he usually has to say about the matter. But I wonder if Neil has email auto reply and she's been too smacked out to really notice that all he ever seems to say every day is "I'm out of the office ..."

Neil is aging very well, but Jennifer - good lord! Hard to believe she's only 32???!!! It's sad, I tells ya.

― Lefty, Monday, 20 September 2004 22:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Gaze upon her works, ye crack-smoking hipsters, and despair...

― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 20 September 2004 22:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I feel like the only one who posts on these threads who doesn't get psyched about the umpteenth Neil Hagerty album.

(you're not the only one.)

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Monday, 20 September 2004 23:10 (twenty-one years ago)

sadly, "Speed To Roam" is probably the best song on the record

― Russ (Russ), Monday, 20 September 2004 23:19 (twenty-one years ago)

"Speed to Roam" is the only song I've heard so far (the mp3 freebie at Drag City). I hope that's really not as good as it gets.

And, if this song is any indication, that guitar player really sucks. Maybe the skeptics need to hear more of this guy's playing in order to start getting excited about the umpteenth Neil Hagerty release.

― Lefty, Monday, 20 September 2004 23:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I want it I want it.

― Elisabeth (Elisabeth), Monday, 20 September 2004 23:32 (twenty-one years ago)

well, er, great cover at least, am I right?

I bought the LP and haven't had a chance to listen to it, with my turntables packed up in boxes. The only CDs I have unpacked to listen to for the next few days are Body Language, 6 Ft Deep by Gravediggaz, Favourite Colours by the Sadies, and Daily Operation by Gang Starr.

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 20 September 2004 23:35 (twenty-one years ago)

"Their album sounded like squirrel-meat-eating stoners tinkering with a gas-guzzling Monte Carlo."

Please.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 01:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Me and my friend shouted at Jennifer once for putting on a very poor (and extremely short) show. She just smoked at us in reply.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 01:14 (twenty-one years ago)

"Most of the instruments are handled by Jaimo Welch, a 22-year-old friend of Eisenman’s who previously played bass for a jam band called Fung." = CLASSIC!!!

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 01:18 (twenty-one years ago)

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I got tickets for the RTX show next week. I'll be right in front drooling small puddles of orgasms.

― stevie nixed (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 16:10 (twenty-one years ago)

miccio, you cra-zay! it's good but not THAT good. Listen to Accelerator or Cats and Dogs again and tell me you still think Transmaniacon is in the same league. I think it's a very, very good album, but the new Howling Hex blows it away.

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 23:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Ok I'll fess up to not having heard Accelerator, but Cats & Dogs does nothing for me (and the only other albums I haven't heard are the self-titled pair and the 2CD)

― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 23:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Hacks over Hagerty, hyuk.

― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 23:37 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost: so you've skipped out on their best work, then?

― The Argunaut (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 23:40 (twenty-one years ago)

if you feel Twin Infinitives, C&D, Thank You, Sweet Sixteen, Veterans Of Disorder and Pound For Pound don't qualify.

― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 23:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Cozen, you should hear it.

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 23:48 (twenty-one years ago)

hear one "junkie nurse" and one "sincerely yours, confused" then call me back.

― The Argunaut (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 23:49 (twenty-one years ago)

actually, I think as Hagerty fans we should all find Miccio's opinion VERY REASSURING!!

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 00:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I must say that I don't really get Hagerty's career trajectory. I used to think he was really great, but (I know I've said it before on here) I thought Trux started to get a little hack (just keepin' on keepin' on) around Sweet Sixteen. And now he's already got SEVEN solo albums out.

Sometimes I wonder if it's all still conceived as some kind of rock music career satire.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 01:18 (twenty-one years ago)

As he used to suggest in early interviews.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 01:21 (twenty-one years ago)

i was gonna say, story otm. why anybody pays attention to what miccio says about music is beyond me.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 03:46 (twenty-one years ago)

hagerty's solo career doesnt start getting realling good until the Howling Hex. that said, the songs on all-night fox tend to be a bit overlong and not equal to the three LPs and first Howling Hex album.

― jack cole (jackcole), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 04:15 (twenty-one years ago)

good cover

http://dragcity.com/images/spl_hag.jpg

― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 08:55 (twenty-one years ago)

sorta scg-ish no?

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 09:11 (twenty-one years ago)

god blount have you not bought transmaniacon yet?

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 09:29 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, I said it.

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 25 February 2005 11:04 (twenty-one years ago)

RTX is awesome!

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 25 February 2005 11:04 (twenty-one years ago)

SO FUCKING GOOD.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 25 February 2005 11:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I love how "Joint Chief" takes the awesome "Shockwave Rider" and basically turns it into Def Leppard!

― haitch (haitch), Friday, 25 February 2005 16:27 (twenty-one years ago)

"Kitty Grom" off the new 4-song RTX single is so gOOd...

― Russell (Russell), Sunday, 27 February 2005 20:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I wonder why the "All-Night Fox" thread has sunk without a trace and this tribute to Hagerty's cast-off, inferior half continues to go on and on and on .... ?

― Rawka, Monday, 28 February 2005 05:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Not that I've heard it, but how much is there to SAY about the SEVENTH Neil Michael Hagerty album (I wonder)?

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 28 February 2005 06:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, RTX = popist, NMH = smurfist. [runs for cover] (besides Transmaniacon > All Night Fox, and talk about Hagerty's wank-chops gets tired after a while. :)

― Omar (Omar), Monday, 28 February 2005 08:10 (twenty-one years ago)

dude, it's not really that hard to like RTX and Neil. Or chocolate and peanut butter. Or tasting great and less filling. Get out of your singular mind, sheesh.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 28 February 2005 10:53 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

Just saw this on Truxrox.com (the whole interview is pretty great, actually):

Unpeeled: Royal Trux always had more soul in their music than other white indie rock acts. Why do you think the soulful aspects of rock music today are largely ignored and/or derided by white indie rock acts?
Jennifer: Maybe because "indie rock" sucks ass.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 21 April 2005 14:38 (twenty-one years ago)

The hits just keep on coming:

answers to 3 questions from italian magazine.........

1) Why did you choose to name your new band “RTX”? Doesn’t it reminds too much to Royal Trux? Was that your aim?

uuuhh well....it is my band & i was 1/2 of royal trux sooo....yeah maybe it might remind you of royal trux...i took the letters RTX and gave neil the OYALU.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 21 April 2005 14:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Fuckin genius.

― Schwip Schwap (schwip schwap), Thursday, 21 April 2005 14:47 (twenty-one years ago)

three months pass...

I still love this album. The production is incredible. How much heroin do you think I'd have to buy Herrema to get her to produce my band's album?

I decided this morning that it sounds like a band of punk/metal kids playing along with a CD of Poison or Def Leppard or G'n'R in their garage, and mostly you can hear the kids rocking out but sometimes in the background you can hear the CD too.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 19 August 2005 14:35 (twenty years ago)

Ha ha. YES.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 19 August 2005 14:40 (twenty years ago)

It's good.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:31 (twenty years ago)

I want to go home and listen to this really loud.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)

I listened to it in my kitchen with Sarah this morning whilst drinking espresso.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:45 (twenty years ago)

On our stereo that only has one speaker, so some of the guitar stuff that's panned all the way to the left was missing. It was still awesome!

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:45 (twenty years ago)

it's GREAT, adam.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:51 (twenty years ago)

I agree with everyone who says it's great!

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:54 (twenty years ago)

pundits as diverse as hstencil and n/a!

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:54 (twenty years ago)

it is AWESOME

― gear (gear), Friday, 19 August 2005 16:42 (twenty years ago)

Another fine ILM debate for the ages.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 19 August 2005 16:49 (twenty years ago)

it isn't better than every single trux album however, wtf (i missed that miccio opinion upthread)

― gear (gear), Friday, 19 August 2005 16:57 (twenty years ago)

I am listening to "heavy gator" at work. Thanks mpsyapec!

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 19 August 2005 17:14 (twenty years ago)

eleven months pass...

http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n130/hugh_manitee/Jenfan-1.jpg

Look for the new RTX album
WESTERN XTERMINATOR
9 songs on Drag City in February 2007!
While you're waiting, run over to the official RTX site and buy exclusive EPs...
MYSPACE.COM/RTX
You must be totally psyched!
http://rtxusa.com/

Ummm, yeah, sort of! Checking the myspace page I see that they're peddling a dvd-r of some Royal Trux 1995 promo thing.

Also, check out some nutty fan art in the pics section here:
http://profile.myspace.com/herremafanlove

― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 18:49 (nineteen years ago)

five years pass...

listened to this album on the way home from work today, first time in a while ... still love this shit. some of my favorite rock production.

― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 30 September 2011 01:07 (fourteen years ago)

YES!

― john. a resident of chicago., Friday, 30 September 2011 01:55 (fourteen years ago)

hi john, i met you, right?

― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 30 September 2011 02:19 (fourteen years ago)

Maggie's birthday party...yep, that was me!

Fucking love this album. I'll have to dig it out for the drive down to Urbana this weekend. Always loved the cover too...

― john. a resident of chicago., Friday, 30 September 2011 03:03 (fourteen years ago)

Man I wish I had been at old Mags' birhday bash to bro down with the Transmaniacon dudes

― uhhhhhh (admrl), Friday, 30 September 2011 05:06 (fourteen years ago)

The cupcakes were amaaazing...

― john. a resident of chicago., Friday, 30 September 2011 05:30 (fourteen years ago)

Aren't they always, though?

― bro down with the Transmaniacon dudes (admrl), Friday, 30 September 2011 05:44 (fourteen years ago)

Guess you had to be there.

― john. a resident of chicago., Friday, 30 September 2011 05:47 (fourteen years ago)

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RTX - Transmaniacon drops tomorrow - who's psyched???