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Sarcofago-INRI I feel guilty in spending the money I need to live on, but fuck it in the words of Suckowar: "I need mettalll in my life, just like a bird needs to fly"!!
I'm having the same problem. Oh well, some extra work from one of my wife's customer's paid off one of her credit cards, and our tax return will pay off her other credit card and mine, so then we'll just have the big credit card left to take care of.
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Dark Fortress - Tales From Eternal Dusk The Ruins of Beverast - Unlock the Shrine Mournful Congregation - The Dawning of Mournful Hymns
I'll be picking up Rain upon the impure next check, that album is very good will probably make my top ten best bm albums after a few spins. 50 forts upon the Rhine is an incredible song.
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Re: New Purchases/Acquisitions My local FYE is going out of business, so I grabbed all of these for 40-50% off: 40 Watt Sun - The Inside Room Deceased - Surreal Overdose Winterfylleth - The Mercian Sphere Taake - Noregs Vaapen Hour of 13 - The Ritualist The Gates of Slumber - The Wretch Therion - Symphony Masses: Ho Masses Ho Megas Lemming Project - Hate and Despise Demonical - Death Infernal Hell - Human Remains Napalm Death - From Enslavement to Obliteration Primordial - Redemption at the Puritan's Hand

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nice haul' date=' it's very rare to get metal albums discounted here since most of them are special imports[/quote'] That sucks, but I would still rather buy than download, and in some cases we have to pay import prices for music here too. There were still a few things that I left in the racks, I think I'll go back by on closing day when they're discounted even farther and see if they're still there.
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my problem is that the nearest place which actually sells metal albums is nearly 45 minutes from where I live so it's just easier to get them on iTunes
It's always worth the trip. I made some of my best friends in CD's shops. Latest purchase: TON - Slow, Deep & Hard shirt!!!!!!!
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Re: New Purchases/Acquisitions oh for the properly good cd stores its well over an hour away, the closer one just has a small section up the back and out of sight for metal, and most of what they have is garbage, that being said I have picked up a few gems from that store, but most of my early collection came from the only place IN MY STATE that sells exclusively metal albums, yeah in a state where the capital city is also called "the city of churches" there really isn't much love for metal, which is something I've complained about in other threads so I can save a lot of time by not bothering here

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Re: New Purchases/Acquisitions Cynic-Carbon based anatomy Manilla Road-Voyager Manilla Road-Gates of fire Grave Digger-Excalibur Doomsword-Resound the Horn Cauchemar-La Vierge Noire Graveland-Will stronger than Death A5 digibook ltd 1000 The Black Dahlia Murder-Ritual Destroyer 666-To the devil his due Dead Congregation-Graveyard of Archangels Absurd-Blutgericht Funebre (Fin)-Children of the scorn Bathory-Bathory Black Flag-My War Angel Witch-Angel Witch The Ruins of Beverast-Rain upon the impure Mutiilation - Vampires Of Black Imperial Blood CD Cannibal Corpse-Torture Earth-Angels of Darkness, Demons of light pt II and a Nifelheim s/t/Graveland Immortal Pride shirts.

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