Double 0 Soul

I blew the dust off my RMC N-1 before I sold it.

You could ask them to remove the Eu tax for a UK sale, the tax would then be incurred at the UK border so you wouldn't be any worse off.

Some nice garb there @tooth .. i like this style, my neighbours daughter and cat sitter is the embodiment of it.. lots of layers, lots of hand dying, lots of patching and repairs, lots of linen and shapeless knitwear.. i used to love looking at their washing line on her laundry day but rather than expensive brands, her style is either vintage or re-cut vintage where she has bought oversize menswear, unpicked the pattern and cut/sewed it into something that works for her.. alas, she now lives in a yoga retreat in Wales where she works as a gardener... 'gardening, commune, yoga, mindfulness chic'

Ranting moi?

I've just updated my WH 506 flipbook with before and after wash photos ..here are some more post-wash photos besides

It depends on the customs facility rather than the carrier.. EMS don’t care if you’re charged or not, they’re only paid to courier the item from Jpn to the Canadian border.

EMS don't charter their own flights, they pay airlines to piggyback your goods in the spare cargo space of commercial flights.. therefore your items pass through the customs facility at Coventry (before they're collected by Parcelforce) which is fully automated, much like the drop box in Decathlon where you just clumsily dump an armful of items in the box and 3D scanners pick up the barcode / QR and weight. If it detects a customs fee a sticker is applied.. everything passed through this machine, there is no way to avoid it... FedEx, DHL et al.. use their own customs facilities.. i've never had any luck avoiding their fees either, i'd assume in this day and age, if Decathlon run a 3D QR scan, FexEx would too.. but maybe it's a bit more like the mailroom from Elf

Were you driving the train?

You could.. but then you would have to pay 10% Jpn consumption tax + domestic shipping cost +20% VAT +duty +international shipping +£12 admin charges by the courier... i mean! what the hell! it's cheaper just to fly to Japan

What could be more worrying.. i've noticed a recent trend with Japanese retailers or bike parts to simply refuse to ship items when you select English language.. Unfortunately, we cannot ship ******* overseas. Due to the weak yen, These products are more reasonable to buy from Japan. However, from the perspective of overseas' ******* distributors, the retail price in Japan is so low that it is no longer fair to the overseas market. Lets hope purveyors of fine denim goods don't develop such a strong moral compass

Im looking at an album as a body of work by that artist, of course not every track will be a banger but it’s a capsule from that era, a piece of tangible art, it looks beautiful, it sounds beautiful, the lingo, the expression the lyrics the musicianship all reflect thoughts and feelings which will inevitably change over time, to not appreciate it as a body of work is like going to a Picasso exhibition to see Guernica, and walking past the rest of the filler hanging on the walls.. But yes, most albums do suck but a lot of them only suck in comparison, when you have very few records, very few of your records suck, when you have 1000s most of them suck.. like you say, “7 or 8 of those tracks are filler” but you only consider them to be ‘filler’ when you have 1000s of better tracks at your disposal. I'd grown up in an era of the £16 CD, this was when i was earning less than £100/wk so my CD collection had to be very carefully considered, i only bought music from artists who i aligned myself with and even then.. i'd have to save up to buy their album .. the period following / when i had a larger disposable income coincided with the era of 2x CDs for £5 from Fopp so every Saturday i would rummage around Fopp for bargain CDs.. I'd come away with something like a random Lee Perry album and The Northern Soul of Philadelphia for instance.. was this because I aligned myself with these artists? No of course not.. they were 2x for a fiver I've since reduced my CD collection down from around 2000 to around 350, it was 300 but i've bought more to fill gaps.. ..but surely the beauty still exists in the lesser? .. like the aural pain of Black Angel's Death Song .. or to quote De la Soul.. "Sometimes the body needs to feel stressed to appreciate the joy"

The 'Live' photo is hillarious!

Got up this morning and Leonard had made a new friend ..made some coffee WH 506 drying on the line after it's annual wash ..rode up to Burbage ..stopped for a drink, wearing Odd Future Vans ..rode to The Surprise View ..this is where Porsche drivers plummet to their deaths.. y'know, not paying attention, singing along to Maroon 5 on the radio.. just picked the wife up from her bi-monthly session of lip fillers and anal bleaching, rushing to get to the golf club for a Cinzano.. when all of a suden "Surprise!" and you're off the cliff.. and here's you thinking Sheffield's only contribution to society was steel and synth-pop ..it's actually just over the border in Derbyshire but that doesn't quite fit my narative. ..can you spot the chalked out routes? .. Empty Rubicon can came in handy / Keeping Britain Tidy ..Rode through Hathersage to Hope and stopped to drink my coffee at The Adventure Cafe.. my bike was far too cool and aloof to mix with the others. ..lovely oak gate on the way to Edale Edale ..in the foothills of Kinder Scout ..up the back of Mam Tor ..down t'other side ..broken road 😍 ..home pottery in Castleton selling hand made ceramics ..Lady Cannings on the way home ..and when i got home after a 5.5hr ride feeling absolutely exhaused, my wonderful offspring had bought me a big bottle of Lychee Mogu Mogu ..the worlds greatest non-alchoholic drink

They look painted / printed to me.. just compare the uniform spacing of the arc stitch to the uneven spacing of the pocket stitch.

What’s he digging for Paul? I ‘sneaked’ us into Phonetics (only because I know the folks running it) last month to see Homeboy Sandman and Scratch Perverts which the boy loved.. .. still no interest in listening to the albums tho

Oh it def still is for our generation and gen y having rediscovered vinyl.. i just worry about the album format for gen z who've only known streaming.. my kid has a massive music library but owns zero tangiable media and the album format is almost alien to him.. this might change, his approach to film is the opposite, if he watches a film he likes, he'll note the director and seek out others.. but film is yet to be distributed in 10min shorts

Indeed.. my first Walkman had a ffwd button, but no rewind for this very reason

Will artists even bother to put out 'albums' in the future or will it just be a list of singles and collaborations..

I've never used a streaming service so i don't actually know how it all works.. i still download lots and i'm a massive fan of the 'mixtape' format for music playing around the house but for actual 'sit down an listen'.. i'm still using CD format and i'll play an album. The offspring grew up with this music environment.. he always used to ask "who's this? i'll add it to my Spotify" so i would say.. if you like that.. you'll like this.. and i'd email him mp3 playlist from my itunes library which he'd play and add to his Spotify playlist if he liked it.. i've also got a few old 30G ipods (the batteries are dead but they still work plugged in) which he picks through so his Spotify was built around strong foundations rather than generic playlists. Nowadays.. i hear stuff coming through his headphones.. yesterday it was an Mc Solaar track which i hadn't heard so it's me saying "who's this you're listening to? " .. it cuts both ways i suppose. . Solaar wasn't one of mine so Spotify suggestions can't be all bad.. but as i say, i don't know how it works so correct me if i'm wrong.. he just has zero interest in searching out albums or back catalogues..

My next door neighbour (who was born in Hackney) gave my son some 80s / 90s era vintage footy shirts a few months ago.. he's not really into football but he does like the attention.. he was walking through the park wearing a purple Tottenham Hotspur shirt from the 90s with a pair of baggy Levi's and some Jordans.. a runner ran past and shouted "Up the Spurs" to him. I'll tell ya' what, Spotify / apple et al.. have completely ruined the 'album' as an artform, my kid has had a pair of fancy headphones perma stuck to his head for the last year or so.. before that it was airpods.. he's never not listening to music.. evn when we're playing tennis, he's wearing headphones I hear a tune he's playing by whoever and say.. "Have you listened to any of their albums" "No, just this song and maybe one other" "I've got all their albums on CD.. check out such n' such album.. it's incredible" "Are all the songs as good as this one" "Well no, that's probably the standout track of the album, but it's a body of work by that artist, evn the track listing will have been carefully considered" .. "So it's 10 tracks and 9 of them are not as good as this one" "Yes that's correct, a couple of them could even be shite but that's not the point" .. "So then Dad.. with all the incredible music in the world, you want me to spend time listening to music which isn't as good as the music i'm listening to now, just because it's on an album?" "Yes exactly"

From my perspective Charlie, he just wouldn't appreciate them, he wants his jeans to be baggy af and look hella' fly.. beyond that he doesn't really care for the details.. he cares even less for Levi's or their associated history so to give him a pair of jeans which carefully reproduce this history is lost on him.. The equivalent would be a philatelist giving me a collectable stamp.. Ooh! look at this one from the postal union congress.. the perforations are simply exquisite! Pfft! I don't give a shit.. lick it and slap it on a letter for all i care.

Wow! what a hero .. even giving my jeans away to my only son ( a' la @Dr_Heech ) .. feels like a major trauma at this point What jeans were they?

Who else is a new kid on the block. @reubensangwich.. @PartTimeBarista.. you've already wasted $10 on your joining fee, you might as well waste 10mins telling us how you found us here at sufu-land.

It seems we've had a recent and very much welcome expansion to our group of online denim-misfits.. @okimoto @Lorcan @Well27 @TripicalMidbooster @LoneWolfWelding and others.. (a belated welcome to the forum) but i can't help but wonder.. this doesn't seem like your first rodeo, have y'all come here from other denim fora or have or just been lurking for the last decade?