AtomicMess

Omg. Praying indeed. The distribution of the N1A copies is wild to me. There were reddit posts from some stores confirming very, very low stock and essentially "IOU" notices from distributors? But then I have friends where one person's store got 4 copies, and someone else's got 16.

I got to my store at like ~7:30. They opened at 8 and there were like 40ish people in front of me. I was nervous. But everyone around me looked like severely undersocialized and socially maladjusted horse girls and I determined through my satellite ears they were there for Wicked, Laufey, and Gracie Abrams, so then I was significantly less nervous. But then a group of painfully gen-z broccoli haired they/thems with a poorly toned bleach job walked out with copies of N1A in hand, and I got nervous again. But then when I finally got in the door (they were only letting 10 people in at a time), there were 4 copies left. Bag secured, theydies and gentlethems, bag secured.

RIP to the RIP then. Thanks for clarifying. (Also shitty people were losing accounts just for posting clips. Copyright, I get it, but also like...come on man...)

It was live-streamed on the YT channel. If a Mod wants to let me know if it's alright, I can try to post a link to the rip I took once it's done processing.

Recording successful. Both screen record + stream rip. (was my trial run for GaGa and Charli later) (edit: screen record was MUCH better quality than the stream rip wtf that's inch resting....)

The hair, the outfit, I'm here for it.

Watching....and also gonna try to record it.

right? like girl we have olaplex now it won't snap to shit like it did 14 years ago if your stylist does it right go blonde it

You're going to need it. Several posts on Reddit from folks' local record stores have a lot of them talking about how they only received partial shipments of their RSD orders and getting notices that N1A and other records got VERY little/low stock. There's indications that apparently the "full balance" of the records may ship/come in late or well after RSD. Get there early and pray. I'm gonna call and confirm/check with my local stores on their hours tomorrow and try to get there early as well. I've got a boot of N1A but I'd like an "official" copy - I really like the packaging on this one.

Still irritating on the daily that Lana has bootleg vinyls of her unreleased pressed and on the market. And now Chappel Roan has bootleg pressings of unreleased songs on vinyl. But Charli XCX with hundreds and hundreds of unreleased songs spanning many eras and so much material in 320k/lossless.....cannot get a single boot press of shit on vinyl? Do these people running these fake ass pressing plants have no fucking taste? Christ on a crutch we've got a solid chunk of XCX World in lossless is it really that hard to cut a tracklist and press some fake ass shit for us heathens?