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All of this. The only advice I could give you is to try and keep all your projects one-to-one with the artist/band. Doing everything yourself takes a lot of time, but it's nice not having to rely on anyone else (duplication services, companies who assemble the entire cassette for you and take all the fun out of this).

I recommend starting a label if you are fond of crying losing lots of money being broke realizing 100 is way more than you thought realizing 50 is way more than you thought not having any money having endless stacks of cardboard boxes and bubblewrap strewn across the house bankruptcy okay so there's bubblewrap and that sounds fun but tears

Looks like theres a chance...

This is one of the most overly dramatic threads I've seen on this board - and that's saying something.

wait for the articles about Martin Shkreli buying out all the island packages for himself because he declares himself biggest Weezer fan

Orange /300 I Will Be My Own Hell... and pink /300 DC snuff film are back in stock: http://www.runforcoverrecords.limitedrun.com/products/559835-teen-suicide-i-will-be-my-own-hell-because-there-is-a-devil-inside-my-body http://www.runforcoverrecords.limitedrun.com/products/559837-teen-suicide-dc-snuff-film-waste-yrself No telling how much longer they'll last. Get on em while you can.

Don't do that.

Serious advice: dupliaction.ca doesn't have a 50-100 custom-length blank limit like most of the american sites and they're who I usually use (though shipping to US is killer and can take a bit). Don't forget to factor in cases and J-cards into your financial planning--100 cases will be around $30. Personally I love using professional photo prints for j-cards. You can create a template yourself and print on either 4x7" for a full-page inner panel or the standard 4x6" for a half-page inner panel, my new favorite format. If you order them online or have them done in a store 100 will cost you around $20+ (some stores have a discount one you reach 100 prints though). That way you can still design and hand fold them without having home inkjet printer quality. However inkjet printers can still print out some awesome cassette label stickers if you don't wanna go the professional pad-printing route. if you do wanna get ink printed directly on the cassette shells the price will vary from store to store; some stores can do a run of 100 pad printed for $30-50 but you have to keep in mind strength of opacity, ink-color choice and ability to resist fade will factor in to cost (if you want to get high-quality, long lasting red ink, for instance, the price may teeter closer between 50-100 for the printing). There is the option of paint pens though and I think a lotta people over look them but they have an awesome hand-made feel and you can do anything with them that you can imagine, so that's always fun. If you wanna get professional dubbing the price will again vary but usually be prepared to spend an additional $40-80, depending on high-speed options and whatnot (which you will wanna avoid if sound quality is of concern). Really the best option is to find a tapedeck you're comfortable with online or at goodwill and give it a through cleaning then get to know it's quirks. You'll be surprised with how good you can get a secondhand deck to make tapes sound. Once you find a deck you're comfortable with you can buy an identical model, maybe even two more, and daisy chain them all together so that you can dub two or even three or more tapes at once instead of a single tape at a time. But you still hafta be comfortable and content with the continual process of dubbing dozens and dozens and dozens of tapes. it's fun tho i promise it's great these are tears of joy

damn. you all made Rez a cold blooded poster.

Better idea: bootleg popular bands albums and pray you don't get sued.

The good news is you're in for a treat - his music is pretty incredible. Get yourself a Spotify account and start listening. Ziggy Stardust, Man Who Sold The World, Aladdin Sane, Diamond Dogs, and Low just to start. But even any greatest hits will do to get you going. You might get made fun of for not knowing who he is (or possibly other influential artists), but use it as an opportunity to get your mind blown - if not by Bowie, then by the many artists you've never heard. Some of my first listens to artists like Bowie, Van Morrison, Big Star, Tom Waits, etc. were so important to me in my teenage years....

I don't understand why people buy Brand New music either

Actually I wanted to chime in and ask from what locale Homework has sent records before. I've been scammed once (all went well with PayPal), but it would be interesting if it were the same guy.

In all seriousness, I don't have a cassette label, but I did make copies of my album on cassette to have something physical to release at a show last month. I used a company called duplication.ca, and the customer service was phenomenal. Super-fast turnaround on dubbing tapes, and depending where you are, you can definitely benefit from the weak Canadian dollar. You can have them do everything from dubbing to artwork, or get them to dub (as few as 10), and then print off labels and J-cards yourself (or via any printer). https://www.duplication.ca/quotes/canada/english/cassette-packages.php They sell printable J-cards and cassette labels for relatively cheap too: http://www.duplication.ca/shop/Audio-Cassettes/

Tip: release anything Brand New so much as farted on and you will get people who don't even own cassette players buying in bulk.

Everyone listen to rooks. He's literally on VC all day, every day. We're just going to start removing disruptive users who can't chill out and act like regular people on a record discussion board.

I'm becoming numb to festival lineups.

If you were "declined" a refund why are you still in dispute mode via pp? Shouldn't you have escalated it a claim by now? I would've escalated to a claim the same night I disputed and not given the fucker a chance to even refund because clearly some major fuckery is going on between the N'th of you all. If you're serious about getting your money back call PayPal. And tell them what's going on, if they ask you for proof of a scam screen shot them a jpg of him responding here trying to make it right or use the words of his liaison and tell the person on the phone none of that shit of piss talk has gone through on multiple peoples end.

Fun game tonight everyone. Congrats to Skidroje for winning! 1. Skidroje 2. Chkadea 3. KingTaco Til next time!

$20 just for the right to buy it. Tom's such a great guy

Unless they recorded it 20 years ago it's gonna be garbage.

Yeah, this is really a dick move, and it shames me that the Habs are in on that. Want to avoid having guys like John Scott in the All-star game? Just stop letting the fans vote, simple as that.

I like my tapes like I like my men, black. Or, is that coffee?

How do you figure?

here it is and it's free on youtube

How much?

any festival in the USA with attendance of 80,000+ is not the best festival.

I intended on ordering the VMP version but I just feel like Newbury's looks better. Ugh wish CT would release details of theirs

Morning everyone. Glad that IIOI PO wasn't too steep this morning. The post rock gods have heard my calling as Matt got me a tour press of Beware of Saftey's Dogs for $10. My incoming list is growing..and growing...and growing.

duplication.ca nationalaudiocompany.com tapes.com deltamedia.com

I grabbed If Wolves from I Corrupt with another LP since it is flat 10 euro shipping to the US. Take me off the If Wolves list, but I would like to get a copy of Kokomo S/T LP with this group buy. Thanks!

yup their sophmore full length. Believe me, it's worth it. Echodrug release quality stuff.

Then corrected himself and said metallic gold

This is true. Would buy. In all seriousness, I don't operate a label, but I buy from a lot of labels. I don't think it's a bad idea to help people out. Rambo can probably tell you how much money you aren't going to make and time you'll devote to it. I still think it's worth it. I like cassettes of music I enjoy. I've been recording some vinyl to cassette in order to make listening to albums a little more convenient for when I'm not actively sitting by the turntable. Bonus: if it helps your friends out, they will be ever appreciative.

I have not been this excited about an album in a while. Going to try my best to hold out for the vinyl to be my first listen, but I am weak...

Actually, the band just confirmed it is going up today. 12:00 PM EST https://www.instagram.com/p/BAjzGPpNuk9/?taken-by=cultofluna Edit: Somewhere Along the Highway as well. https://www.instagram.com/p/BAjucAMNutz/?taken-by=cultofluna

Karma is a bitch and I'm basically selling these for gas money to the ween reunion shows in co

a whole day?! like 24 hrs?!

EWBAITE was great. Of the new songs I can't stand "Thank God For Girls", but "Do You Wanna Get High" is great and very Pinkerton-ish. So the new rumored White LP could still go either way for me. And to anyone who says they haven't been good any 20 years, fine you don't like the band move on. They have too. I would hate for any band to sound the same after 20 years. Has Weezer made clunkers, hell yeah ( I would be happy to never hear Beverly Hills again), but they have also made great new songs. Maybe the band has changed over time, maybe you have, maybe we all have. And it's ok to like different things, just no need to smear shit on anything you don't like.

I assure you that - while it may not have been difficult or time consuming - Erin hated having to even delete those emails. If a company doesn't offer to sell something, then it's generally not for sale! You wouldn't email the VP of Operations of fucking Lowes because you wanted to buy a rake that wasn't on the website because that is 100% absurd. I am not intending to shit on anyone because even Juan reached out (and I <3 Juan immensely), but like someone else said: if 5 people posted it, 20 people emailed her. I am also an anal retentive bastard who keeps his inbox completely empty/organized and between work, label and personal emails I field an insane amount of messages each day, so the thought of 20 useless ones bums me out.

So no reasoning for not sending people stuff? Just telling people they're wrong? I don't get it.

Maybe the Admins & Mods are in on the scam!!!

nothing special, just a normal tape rack for me have a bunch of extra storage stuff too. the little one is andy's once i can find a box

I love me some good country: Dolly Parton, Del Reeves, Emmylou Harris, Elvis, George Jones, Cash, Kansas Joe McCoy, Kenny Rogers, Patsy Cline, Roger Miller, Tony Joe White, Steve Earle, Tammy Wynette, Willie Nelson, Zach Brown Band, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, Hank Williams, Loretta Lynn, Townes Van Zandt, I can go on and on. Damn, I love me some good country music. So heartfelt, so depressing, so pure.

Things will never go back to the old way because there's too much threat of banning if you say/do anything. Even when I joined I used to have fun, but so many hot topic kids got so upset that I .gif bombed their thread that I caught a bad case of the ban hammers.