Drowned in Sound launched 19 years ago today

What if you did a preorder for them though and manufactured after the fact?

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HBDIS

I have no memory of this, but aww, that is nice.

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Sometimes I imagine all the super productive things I could have achieved if I hadn’t wasted years posting on this website

but then I realise that life isn’t about being productive, it’s about farting around, don’t let anybody tell you any different

so thank you DiS & @sean for the friends and the beeves we made along the way :pray:t3: :heart:

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I’m almost at my six month anniversary so I feel like a babe in arms compared with most of you. Still been the best community to be part of for that short time!

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Think it’s coming up for nearly 10 years for me. Got me through a lot of crappy days and uncertainty at uni, found so so much good music, and was glorious seeing some of the classics Dissisms unfold in real time (Tool Academy was a personal fav).

DiS forever and ever, 100 years DiS

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80 years from now, @Lo-Pan s grandson posting an “Can someone get Billie Joe Armstrong outta bed”.
What a legacy.

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boards helped me many times with everything from irl problems to which speakers to buy to getting me into deerhunter, very good place to hang out imo

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Hold up! that means Kid A is 19 tomorrow, which leave me only 1 year to save up for the super mega 20th anniversary blip-tastic edition.

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Who are the most long-standing members out of interest?

Why would you want to do that for an album that only got 4/10 on DiS?

Dunno when I started posting here but I became aware of DiS with this tour in early 2003

Went to the London show (got handed a badge outside) and then the Bedford show (no badge, but did get tinnitus from it for I guess the rest of my life)

I probably started properly posting about 2004 or 2005? I moved to London in late 2003 but we didn’t have internet that first year, and I mostly worked shit temp jobs. I got my first proper office job in late 2004, that was the dull one I was at for years where I racked up like 100k posts or whatever, even tho DiS was blocked for like half the working day.

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They got there eventually.

Been posting as casinobay since 2008. Was posting as something else for about 2 years beforehand.

I started coming to DiS around 2002 because they reviewed my band.

I was user number 56 on the original forum, but I’m sure there were others like Theo or TheWarn who were before me, maybe.

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I reckon I was early noughties. Maybe around 2002/03 as well.

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get a life, you saddo!

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Reckon there were probably about 55 users before you

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Yeah, but 18 of those were Maoasms’s alts.

Have I told the story about my one drowned in sound review I wrote as a naive 17 year old, and there was such a row in the comments underneath I was too terrified to write another one :see_no_evil:

I loved the DiS layout Sean posted, especially the cursor turning into a crosshair :heart_eyes:

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