Liam

Hi folks, The clear pressing was requested by a partner, it was due to be sold by them. We couldn’t share this information earlier because we were waiting on our partner to make their own announcement. The arrangement didn’t come to fruition and we were left with the clear pressing. We could see people were being ripped off by resellers of the black pressing so we decided to put the clear on sale ourselves, rather than wait on another partner to confirm. By putting it on sale now we hoped it might save people buying from the resellers, who would be about to receive their copy/copies of the black pressing which shipped last week. Shipping costs are unfortunately determined by the postal service. Our rates charged for the black pressing postage and packaging were lower than the fees we paid. We increased them for this pressing so that we didn’t continue to lose money on shipping. I appreciate these costs are high for our international customers, had the arrangement with our partner worked out this may have proved to be a more affordable option for some. I think it’s great that VinylCollective provides this platform for healthy debate between the vinyl community. These matters should be discussed. Unfortunately commercial arrangements sometimes prevent you from sharing certain information, but I hope the above clarifies our decisions made. Thank you to anyone reading who picked up a copy of this release, red, blue, black or clear. It was an honour to work on and I hope you enjoy the pressing. This will be the last time we release the record, so apologies to anyone who missed out. There is every chance another label may choose to repress it in the future.