Ripping, I say, what? Absolutely.
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The man never ceases to amaze and entertain. I re-read these for undoubtedly the umpteenth time since first cutting my teeth on them at the tender age of thirteen or thereabouts, and I still had a goofy grin on my face throughout interspersed with frequent guffaws, slapped knees and countless chuckles. The English language hasn't seen a finer writer before or since. Must make all the other writers feel like frightful chumps.
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Beast Mode in the form of a paper shredder. I had a piece of junk 12 sheet (yeah right) paper shredder for my home for years. I would let paper piles build up until they were falling over because using it was so painful. Finally I decided to spend more than what most would consider reasonable for a home office shredder and I couldn't be happier. Anyhow, this beast, I mean paper shredder chews through junk mail without me having to open and unfold it. The noise is almost non existent. It politely hums as it chews through One BS credit card offer after another and with it my junk mail frustration disappears. Some may call it a paper shredder, but I call it peace and serenity.
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In the mood for some gritty, hard-driving, teeth-clenching, head-bobbing reek and roll? Michigans Choke Chains has got you covered. Erupting out of what I can only imagine is a most horrifying garage, this four piece lets you know right off things are gonna get ugly with No Safe Word. Nor does it ease up, from Lets Try Suicide to Rock Paper Rapist. And no, please, I don't even wanna begin to speculate about what the job of Moisture Technician might entail in a Choke Chains universe. This is some sneering, snarling stuff. Think MC5 and the Stooges in the midst of a terrifying speed, alcohol, and murder bender. This album will make you feel greasy, sleazy, and generally uncleanin all the right ways!
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Multiple uncontrollable laughs in reading this one. Read where you can let it rip. This never gets old!  In fact, best ever.
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I've traumatized the children in my house with my laughter.  I sit in pure silence, enjoying the simple task of reading a book in a house full of children, when a 'guffaw' spontaneously erupts, a donkey-laugh that reverberates off the walls and bounces into the heating vents.  Then, as the tears roll down my cheeks, I shake silently, grasping my sides, attempting to fan air into my lungs.  The little ones says "Whatsa matta Crystal? You be okay, aw, you be okay." and rub my back or pat my hand, patiently.  I gulp at the oxygen, make assurances that I am fine, attempt to explain that my tears are those of mirth, but before I can stop myself I explode into another fit of unladylike, unattractive, snorting hysterics that leave me scrambling for kleenex, wiping absently at my leaking eyes and running nose, comforting the children that are now hiding - unsure of what to make of this weeping, shaking, roaring crazy lady that was once their mother and/or daycare provider.
I may lose my job over this.  Such laughter, though refreshing, verges on the sounds often attributed to the insane.

Read the book, but be prepared for the looks you will receive while doing so - because you will laugh loud, and long, and free - in a way that is startling and irreverent.  Probably don't read it in church.
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What more can be said? Blah, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
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It works great. The only thing about mine is that it rips a lot and I got the right size.
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Are you serious, I just want to use some foul language, but I have respect, Good, I will cherish the music, it's complicated to explain so I will say anything is possible, I couldn't quit even if I wanted, some people. That's a separate thought some people. That's all I got to say some people.
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I really hope the audio was ruined somewhere near the end of the process - in conversion to mp3 or on upload to Amazon.  Digital clipping, streaming off Amazon Prime, is VERY noticeable and awful.

other reviewers are saying they aren't hearing the clipping so it looks like some formats escaped it - cd buyers have said they hear no problems.  I would gladly remaster this album for free if it really did get ruined in mastering - but I doubt thats the case.

anyway, I clicked play purely on the basis of the album artwork.  I saw that and said ok whatever someone chose that as the cover for, I gotta hear.  Fantastic.  I only wish more rock was being made like this.  Accessible but challenging music that neither fits a genre nor breaks the mold, but just does its own thing.
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Rips super easily but what can you expect for the price?  Since we didn't get a replacement yet I've just been taping the places that have rips.  Super ghetto I know but it does prevent my daughters accidents from leaking onto the mattress though.
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What can I say? The truth is, THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS. Almost constantly
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I decided a month ago to go all-electronic with my music collection.  I bought a program called DBPowerAmp, which allows you to rip CDs very accurately to a lossless format call FLAC, which you can then play through your home audio system.  In other words, no CD cases hanging around.

My problem came with CDs that were scratched.  DBPowerAmp will try to recover the information, and will tell you if the CD can't be ripped accurately.  Simple clean-and-polish kits allowed me to successfully rip some CDs, but others were too damaged.  Enter the JFJ EasyPro.

So, what will this machine do and not do?  In my experience, it will allow you to repair almost any optical disk (other than BluRay) to make it entirely playable and usable again.  There are several good YouTube demos of exactly how to do it.  The only exception is any time where the TOP of the disc is damaged.  This is actually where the data resides, essentially on the reverse of the label area, beneath a layer of protective plastic.  If you can hold a disc up to the light, and see any light through it, you are toast.

What it won't do is what I bought it for, which is to make a damaged disc entirely perfect, not just playable, but rippable to the hard drive with 100%, total, flawless to-the-exact-bit accuracy.  Not a defect, just a limitation.

If your purpose is to take a damaged XBox disc bought at a yard sale for $2, and make it work fine on the kids' machine, it is great.  It is also well made and a pleasure to use.  Even if I can't make a doorstop CD perfect, it is fun to make it brilliantly shiny again.  My one tip is, less is more.  Start by polishing with the blue stuff for ten seconds, see if it works.  If not, white stuff for twenty, then blue stuff for twenty.  Only very rarely do you want to use either sanding pad.

Also, kudos to JFJ on customer service.  My first machine had a motor failure after a week.  I sent it back, using their tracking slip and at their cost, and they shipped me a new machine as soon as I emailed them the tracking number.
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sucked that is all i can say. I also say that i ripped really easily. But the pattern is col in the trash.
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I'll preface this by saying that I am not, by any stretch of the imagination, 'ripped.'

That being said, I managed to tear through the fabric of the arm band in less than two months - it literally ripped apart.

It was a cheap purchase, so I had no delusions of extreme quality, but my experience does not seem to bode well for the durability of the product.
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I've only listened to the first disc, and I'm throwing all my other CDs, tapes and vinyl into the garbage. I don't really need anything else. Neither do you. This defines live rock.
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This little baby plays BluRay rips completely uncompressed over my network.  I find it jaw dropping that a box this small and this cheap could offer that kind of advanced functionality.
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mine came torn.  just a small rip, but that's all you need for complete failure:-(