MMA Best of Year 2019 Results

Nice to see our #1 also got a lot of love over your side. Would have been pretty awesome if we'd both voted the same album as #1, but pretty close is good too. 

Just posted the Progarchives 2019 Collaborators top albums today. I definitely don't go as deep in the list for cover art or descriptions.

As usual a lot of crossover on the 2 lists. As a matter of fact, Waste of Space Orchestra is in the exact same #8 spot on both lists.

PM's would have gone out today if the site hadn't been down, so those will have to be forthcoming. For now, I'm pleased to announce a special follow-up event to this: The Best of the Decade 2010 - 2019!

I've used it a couple of times. Prices vary greatly. My previous experiences with it were a success and I got some better deals than Amazon or ebay could offer, but some listings tend to look a bit iffy. I'm not sure how regulated it is compared to ebay (as one example). Some sellers write listings in such a way that breaks UK law on distance selling and when you get that I just know if something does go wrong they are going to be a pain in the arse to deal with. So I don't bother. I've only used Discogs as such when all terms are laid out clearly and don't try to extort extra shipping for registered post by claiming they are not responsible for loss if only regular is paid for (sorry sellers, but you are responsible until that package arrives with the buyer regardless of what was paid for, not when you want to shirk it). 

Probably like business sellers based here they can set up an arrangement to send as many (or at least a very high volume) of packages for one set price. Individual (unsigned) artists cannot do that because they'd never sell enough (or even press enough copies) to make it worth it. 

I have bought a few physical copies from Bandcamp profiles but anything I've looked at lately has had the postage cost gone not just through the roof but into orbit. I bought both previous Wilderun albums from there (the second even came with a hand-written thank you note for the support) but when I looked at Veil of Imagination the cost was around that of a second CD. And that's the norm even when the band I look at is from the UK like Dark Forest. 

Possibly but for the amount I use it it's not really worth it. 

I usually run it off my my TV to be honest. Sometimes on PC. The adverts don't bother me enough to be worried about any work around, though around Christmas I was ready to scream if I heard 'so here it is Merry Christmas' in the background of an ad one more time... I do miss the days when Ad-Block worked though. Ad-block's day is over. Too many websites can block the ad-blockers now. It became more trouble than it was worth. That's why these days I use Gener8 instead. I get a few non-intrusive ads and can earn money back for my own pocket with it. 

There's quite a few from last year that under earlier circumstances I might have bought but didn't because of one or two reasons:

I still heard quite a few awesome albums last year, as well. My thing is, I'm slowing down with my music, for almost entirely unrelated reasons. The biggest of which essentially boils down to: I'm in a living situation where I basically have to use headphones, and yet, using them for too long tends to make me sick. So, yeah, I kinda don't have a choice, unless I wanna literally torture myself.