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thats what i was thinking, sounds like its his band

First, you don't do it in the press. It makes it less awkward after he's back in the fold, as was the case with Anthrax and Joey Belladonna.

Second, take lessons from Kids In The Hall.

Song wise i say Break Stiff by Limp Bizkit

Good MMA walkout song

There are still some small record store around. Not the same tho. I miss it too. Today you just click on Spotify or pandora and that's it. No reading the album cover or the jacket. No lineup of who played on the album. Nothing. You don't own nothing. You just click...

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You need to look for boutique record stores. My city isn’t big but has several amazing shops in varying sizes. My personal favorite feels like a garage hangout: it has a craft beer bar, moonlights as a head shop, but the focus is always on vinyl and hifi equipment. The beertenders are super conversational and have their own strong tastes for music; I honestly can’t remember the last time I went there and didn’t start up a discussion with them or even someone else browsing.

I was thinking the same thing lol. They still exist

Try bring your whole crew by DMx

Yeezus-Kanye West

According to your history, you live in or around San Jose - where there are PLENTY of record stores. Check out Streetlight, Needle to the Groove, and On the Corner.

Threshold by slayer

Give that one a try

Yeezus by Kanye. On Sight, Black Skinhead & I Am A God are the first 3 songs. Ruthless

Your friends sound more basic

Don’t pull punches…tell them YOUR opinions, not what others have said. Honest heartfelt and stern!

Sorry, in the band world…you gotta be honest early!

Get an external CD burner, they're like $20 now.

I don't turn to music when I'm passed off. At least not when I'm hot. Maybe afterwords when I'm reflective

Good times. But you can still track some physical stores down and they usually have some awesome intimate live shows from great artists trying to support

I live in a city that claims to have the oldest currently operating record store in the country. No idea if that's accurate. Owner is awesome. Walked in there one day and flipped through his new albums in front (normally check out the used section) and stumbled on Lonesome n Blue by the Rolling Stones. It was still a fresh album at the time. Asked him what he thought; I said it seemed like a sort of unique Stones album. He said it's his favorite Stones, "it's all blues, baby."

I bought that album lol

Strongly disagree with this “lyrics are of low value” and the rest you said. I could hear the best music ever and if someone gets up with some nonsensical shit then it immediately sucks. Subjective. To each their own.

I know what you mean. Both my brother and I discovered many bands that we purchased the music for just by going over and asking the assistant "what are you playing at the moment?" as it wasn't main stream chart music for much of the time.

Honesty is the only way. Just tell him that you're now an instrumental only band

I think even windows media player can burn CDs.

Just do a 20sec google search and you will find a billion ways to do it.

When I was a high school kid in rural Alaska we didn’t have any real record stores but a local church would have a group of volunteers fly in from Seattle a couple times a year and bring an entire plane load of records and posters. They had a setup in the church basement where we could listen to the new music and buy any that we liked. Oddly they never once tried preaching or pushing religious views on us. Since there was no television available and the only radio station we could pick up was old twangy country that basement was always full of teenagers ( and the occasional progressive adult).