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I’ve been ordering from them for around half that time and never had any issues with them before either, but its very telling at least to me when the one time I do, I get one condescending reply and then ignored. I’ll buy their releases secondhand from now on. I guess I can’t place all the blame on them - QC in general has seen a steep decline in the past 3-4 years, about 1/10 (if not more than that) new records I receive are warped. For context I’ve been buying records since 2006 and that number used to be closer to 1/100.

No Sleep is consistently trash and takes months and months to ship anything. Poor customer service experience with Zegema Beach Records (USA store). I received the new Crossed LP from them badly warped (hovering 1/4” off the platter). Emailed them about a replacement and they informed me ”We actually noticed that nearly all of our copies arrived like that “ and “sounds like it plays” and suggested “there is a way to unwarp records but I've never tried it”. So they sent out an entire 300pc run of warped records knowingly instead of having the plant redo it or trying to flatten the records themselves. I offered twice to ship the record for a refund and he stopped responding. DIY = GFY apparently. Gave him 5 days before filing a chargeback.

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It does make quite a nice difference. I have a few other records like this, Hail to the Thief comes to mind, new Interpol will have a double 45rpm LP option. I've noticed that records cut at 45 with about 10 or 12 minutes of music on each side always sound really good.

Haha Dave's old number is out of service, I've called the other number on the b-side which is Mike's number before.

I agree, a similar color scheme would be great for this record. Talked to Goose tonight, he said it probably won't come out. I'm guessing this is because Virgil doesn't have the cash to do so. Sad.

Last time I asked Adam about it, which was August 2009, he said that if they did it would be part of a box set with all of their albums. Not sure if that's the case still though.

*bump Wondering if there's any new info on this. Also, Virgil, if funds are an issue keeping this from getting pressed I would be willing to help fund it, or even fund it entirely if VC is no longer interested in pressing the record. Not to be impatient, but it's just very important to me that this record comes out on vinyl. I'm sure everyone here feels that way about a certain record/band.

I'll probably be passing on this, I've already got every non-split record they've released in some form. It does look tempting though. My only problem with Viva Hate is the ridiculous prices (or conversion rates I guess), which applies for mostly all european distributors though.