I’ve been on a Less Than Jake kick lately. I’ve gotten my hands on nearly half of the singles, 7″s and rare releases. I’ve still got quite a few to go according to the official discography list, but I think this is a good start:
* 50th Release Birthday Cake 7″
* Against All Authority/LTJ split 7″
* Automatic Promo CD
* B Is For B-Sides CD
* Birthday Cake 7″
* Birthday Cake 7″ (Moldy)
* Bootleg a Bootleg CD
* Cheese 7″
* Crash Course in Being an Asshole 7″
* Gainesville Rock City 7″
* G-Man Training Target 7″
* Greased CD
* Greased LP
* Live From Chicago 7″
* Live From Cincinnati (Live at Bogarts)
* Live From St Louis
* Live From Uranus 7″
* Losing Streak b/w Mixology of Tom Collins 5″
* Muppets 7″
* Pesto 7″
* Pez Kings 7″
* Rock-n-Roll Pizzeria 7″
* Slayer 7″
* Smoke Spot 7″
* Son of Pezcore CD
* Spoken Idiocy CD
* Unglued 7″
Also, has anyone heard about the Xbox 360 coming in different versions? I know it was a rumor, but I didn’t know it was stated as fact at this point. Xbox 360 (or Xbox 2 if you’re catching up) will come in a regular and a $100 extra special edition. The catch is that the special edition will come with a harddrive, be able to play original Xbox games and be backwards compatable. The other system will not. How pathetic is that. They know most people who are going to run out and get this thing the first day/week/month are probably hard core and have a lot of Xbox games already. How pethetic is it that they’re going to gouge their own loyal fan base for an extra $100. And before anyone says anything, I know that the official line from the company is that it’s to cover the cost of the materials from Nvidia to make backwards compatability possible. Thats a load of crap. The technology, just like the PS vs PS2, isn’t THAT advanced. My bet is the technology they’re using can render a Xbox game just fine. Now, I know they moved to a new architecture and chip maker, but that still doesn’t change the way games are made or the DVDs they’re using. So, I know it’s not a problem with the game itself or the DVD drive… so… it’s the graphics card in the console? The new graphics card can’t handle old games? Even if, worst case scenerio, they changed from a Nvidia chip to the complete opposite Ati chip, it’s still just a small issue of drivers to run the hardware. You can’t tell me that the games are THAT integrated that the software simply won’t work. They would have had to make the equivelant of a PC to Mac switch in order to make things that completely uncompatable. So, do I think it’s uncompatable? Probably. Do I think it would have been an easy thing to fix early on? Hell Yes. Should it be part of the new console at any price point? Most Definatly. Just like this Xbox I have now (thanks to Chris), I’m going to wait a considerable amount of time (and a few price drops) before getting a new one.
I remember when I was first getting into less than jake around my junior year in highschool and I would look at their webpage where they had ALL their collectables and rare stuff listed. I remember thinking who in their right mind would need all of that stuff for just one band. I’m dumbfounded and impressed at the same time that you’ve collected even that much of their swag. congrats.
The 7″s are really just more for fun than anything else. The live stuff I’ve found on mp3 is kick ass though. The three or four concerts are good stuff. One of them (Cinci I think) is old, pre-Hello Rockview even, and a great nostalgic listen. I can send you a few if you want.
Funny you mention the PC to Mac thing: That’s essentially what they did :) the new Xbox 360 is a PowerPC chip with an ATI GPU (essentially a mac – in fact, the xbox dev kits were modified PowerMac G5s), whereas the old xbox was a P3 with nVidia.
the change was for many reasons, some most likely the fact that it saves money, and it prohibits piracy, as now the games won’t run on run of the mill PC hardware.
the 360 backwards compatibility is an issue. Since they moved to PowerPC from Intel, the instruction sets are totally different at a hardware level, not to mention any particular shader model differences between the Nvidia chip in the xbox and the new ATI chip.
To properly enable backwards compat, you’re going to have to do it all in a software emulator (think VirtualPC) and not only fake an Intel setup, but also an nvidia driver on an ati chip. I am sure that this is a pain in the ass. Not to mention any hardware-specific shortcuts any developers took along the way to make sure that they got every ounce of power out of the hardware they could.
Apparently the new xbox lite is going to be designed to be uber portable, and any new games won’t need a hard drive (but also apparently won’t do Live). So people will be able to lug around their consoles and presumably save games and other data on the 512MB or 1GB+ memory save cards if not some alternative media. Or, you get the less portable one that will have the HD, do Live, and I guess have backwards compatiblity.
FWIW, the PS2 is one of, if not the only console in the history of gaming to have backwards compatability (with maybe the gameboy being the other). It hasn’t hurt any of the other players in the industry, and I think that they’re hedging their bets that backwards compatibility isn’t as big a thing as people think, because hey, you’ve already got the original one sitting there.
See, I was unaware about the switch to a power pc chip. Now it makes a little more sense. Those were the two options in my head, they either A)changed it radically or B)hate me. It figures that as soon as you said that I read that part of the cost is that they had to buy legacy nvidia parts in order to get it to work correctly.
Either way you slice it and for whatever reason is given, $100 still sucks. It just seems a little more justified now. Sucky, but justified.
I’ll probably still be waiting though. Unless there are a plethera for launch titles that rock, I can hold out for a bit. I’m up to 20 or so Xbox games at the moment, all choice titles that I’d replay over and over again if motivated to. I pick my games very carefully and only buy the ones that will give me both instant and long term satisfaction. 99% of launch titles suck. They come out with that one good game that defines the console (halo, mario, sonic, etc) and the other 20 launch titles are some bullshit racing/sports/gay platform shooter. We’ll see.
Well I feel like a dumbass. I haven’t been checking here for updates, just watching the LJ RSS thing for your site, which apparently doesn’t work since you switched to WordPress. I need to get all caught up now.
Lol. Sorry bud. I didn’t know it would break things. I’m pretty sure WP has an RSS feed. Dunno if I set it up correctly though. 🙂