A GROYSE METSIE FROM EARACHE RECORDS
Thursday, October 8th, 2009 at 2:00pm by Axl Rosenberg
First of all, for our non-Chosen readers: groyse metsie is Yiddish for a bargain. Don’t say I never taught ya nuthin’.
So. For the month of October (or “Rocktober,” as some clever marketing types are dubbing it), Earache is offering a whole bunch of truly righteous albums from their catalog for download on iTunes at a retardedly low price: $5.99 in the U.S., £4.49 in the U.K., and 4,99EUR in Europe. (The press release tells me that “prices may vary in other regions.” Ha-ha.) Now, I know that most of us music snobs don’t like iTunes because the audio quality isn’t as high as it could be, and there’s a better-than-average chance that a lot of you own most of these albums anyway. But if you can get past the whole “IT’S NOT AS GOOD AS FLAC! Snort snort” thing and/or for some reason DO NOT already own most of these albums, it’s a really, really killer deal.
A complete list of available albums after the jump. At least six or seven of these are classics, and nine or so are still awesome and could be classics, so they’re totally worth the six bucks or whatever.
And then one of them is by Oceano.
Napalm Death – Scum
At The Gates – Slaughter Of The Soul
Morbid Angel – Blessed Are The Sick
Brutal Truth – Extreme Conditions Demand Extreme Responses
Sleep – Holy Mountain
Entombed – Wolverine Blues
Hate Eternal – I, Monarch
Decapitated – Nihility
Deicide – Till Death Do Us Part
Municipal Waste – The Art Of Partying
Cult Of Luna – Somewhere Along The Highway
Akercocke – Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone
Evile – Enter The Grave
Iron Monkey – Our Problem
Bonded By Blood – Feed The Beast
Oceano – Depths
-AR
I was really excited when I saw the image, but then I saw it was on iTunes. I’m not an audio quality snob, to be honest I cannot tell the difference (though I tell myself there is) between itunes quality and cd quality (maybe a little). But… Arthur Von Nagel said it best- if you’re going to download something, do it for free (he actually said that he can understand why people would do that).
Axl, it definitely is a groyse metsie!!!!
Where did you learn yiddish from, your zeideh and bubbeh???
Ugh, this Rocktober stuff is always so cheesy.
Too bad I already have all of the albums on there I care about.
Purchasing “Holy Mountain” as we sleep… I mean, speak.
Ever seen the movie ‘The Holy Mountain’? Talk about a mind fuck…
LOLOLOL OCEANO IS OUT 2 MONTHS AND ALREADY IN THE BARGAIN BIN AHAHAHA
SERVES THEM RIGHT FOR SOUNDING LIKE WHITECHAPEL TRYING TO RIP OFF WHITECHAPEL WHILE COVERING WHITECHAPEL
Iron Monkey “our problem” for six bucks!
seriously… of course, that’s the album of theirs that i DIDN’T lose when i moved… d’oh!
best band, though.
Bummer…and yes, that band kicks a ridiculous amount of ass. I would have loved to see ‘em live when they were still around.
and im sad because im STILL shit broke
Wish this deal was out when i bought some of those cds :(. That cult of luna cd is excellent by the way.
I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone talk about Akercocke on this site. They kill, “Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone” is awesome. I highly recommend that you check it out if you’ve never heard of them before. Sleep, Entombed, and Cult of Luna are also being represented by some excellent records on this list.
Sleep’s Holy Mountain FTW.
I’m fine with 256-320kbps quality (FLAC takes up too much space) but I like to have the CDs instead of just downloads for some reason….I don’t know…Just feels more secure (though some of those look pretty good)
HOLY MOUNTAIN. this list looks like it’d have acid bath on it for some reason.
I’m sorry. Fuck itunes.
Don’t you hate it when you see a good deal but then realize you have what they are offering?
IRON FUCKING MONKEY