Lugubrious

Understand some people would be disappointed. Unrelated, but I don't get why some music fans in general seem to feel like an artist they like owes them something. Like, what if they just wan't to do their own thing?

Yeah, MBDTF is a great album. Maybe, don't expect every album he puts out to be that amazing and just enjoy it for what it is. 

Why is it that both colors are being reissued at the same time?

Why is it that both colors are being reissued at the same time?

Maybe it would be a good idea for them to give an update?

Of course they wouldn't advertise more to come when they were still for sale, lol. Gotta make believe they need to act fast. 

I'm assuming this 3xLP is not as limited since the self titled was out of 1,000 and this does not state how many are being made. 

An hour ago. Her twitter.
 

Also, maybe just wait to create the shipping label and you have the item in hand?????

I see Sandbag is up to their old shenanigans...

I see Sandbag is up to their old shenanigans...

I definitely think people should stand by their word and it should be Illegal to market things this way to people only to change it after they realize they misread the market. You're right, totally scummy thing to do but your vote is your money and u can vote to stop doing business with people who do this as well, which is what I'll be doing with Rough Trade after this release.

I don't think so. They've been alluding to the 3xLP in general being a one-time run. Maybe they'd eventually do a color version of the 2xLP but I feel that's doubtful.

Apparently more copies are now available from cancellations, saying "ships out within 50 days".

I just think it's a bad road to go down. Mae did this with (m)(a)(e) not too long ago, too. There was the whole "Dream Catalogue 2814 fiasco" recently, too. 
 
Making a colored variant is catering in SOME WAY to collector culture. When someone decides when and where to spend their hard earned money, when it comes to a limited record, pressing number is undoubtedly a factor. If they were to press more, they should have changed something up -- otherwise it's a slap in the face of someone who purchased a record that was far more limited.
 
If this keeps up, collectors are going to be wary about spending money anywhere and these presses will stop selling out. 
 
Guarantee they won't come close to selling out those 800.

a hand pressed the button to start the machine that numbered them

update... it got pushed back to november 3rd now.

This is just straight bullshit. Unfortunately, this is getting more and more common and I'm sick of it. I am all for an artist making money on their art but there are other ways to go about it rather than lieing to your fans that it is limited. Press 1,000,000 copies. I dont care just dont tell me its limited and press more when it sells out. Thats sneaky and its false advertising. Plain and simple

The simple point is that, if a producer chooses to capitalize on a product's scarcity (making it 'out of' a relatively low number),  especially in a market particularly based on rarity, then later, after the money is collected, renege on that 'agreement' and make a bunch of copies of the exact same fucking thing, no one should be shocked or surprised that there is backlash from the consumer. Yes, yes, 'more records for more customers = good thing,' but - echoing many others in this thread - if that's what they wanted, they should have done it open to begin with.  If they were gonna make a bunch eventually, every record shoulda been cheaper. But this 'hype' 'snooze ya lose' bullshit about buying new records forces people to be quick on the button, and when that hot-on-the-button savvy is cheapened like this, everyone who paid money ahead of time thinking they were securing a coveted spot is stabbed in the back.
 
You can downplay the 'rarity game', but it's ever-present when buying new releases. There are websites and forums and a gazillion notifications constructed to make sure people are aware of new, limited releases. There's dozens of new PO's in this forum every day for that sole reason.  It's an inextricable part of this community. People SHOULD be mad, because where does that stuff end? Soon every 'limited deluxe' that costs 60 bucks for 'true fans' will just make more when the preorders are done, and the value of everything decreases, and people will stop preordering because who cares, they'll just make more. Then smaller labels preorder advances will shrink and smaller labels will fold left and right. I know I'm taking an extreme slippery slope view, but I can't help but be drawn to these conclusions. Seriously, just make a separate second pressing, how is it not the same thing? Why make it identical, just to be sure to spit in the face of the preorders?
 
And no, a tiny sentence indicating the second press isn't good enough if that's the only difference. I'll agree to that much.

a simple "initial run of 1000 copies, more may/will be pressed based on demand after that" would have sufficed. i could have budgeted the 80 bucks accordingly instead of spending it yesterday in fear of missing out.

Nobody is against people having access to the vinyl, but there is a correct way to go about doing an unlimited run, and this has not been it.

That's funny because the "first pressing" is not actually the first pressing. More like second and third pressing.

That's funny because the "first pressing" is not actually the first pressing. More like second and third pressing.

That's funny because the "first pressing" is not actually the first pressing. More like second and third pressing.

Wow, that's so messed up. Why even limit it in the first place?