orchidtapes

No problem, I hope you guinnea pig is okay!!

Posting this here first: http://orchidtapes.bigcartel.com/product/angeltown-ii-compilation-tapes-10-only

Just wanted to show you guys these in case you didn't see the photo we posted on Instagram. The HEAVEN part is beautifully embossed and pressed with gold foil and it just really looks insanely good. We also just got an order of 2,000 custom-designed mailers in, which meeeeans no more shitty looking, half-collapsed 12" boxes arriving at anyone's doorsteps anymore!! Thanks everyone x

Just replied to (what I believe is your) email. These should be going up for sale in a couple hours too, if anyone's interested.

Oh no let me know if you want a copy and I'll send you one, it should have included one, we just printed a bunch of new ones for the leftover copies using our risograph.

Also WTF I'm so happy so many people are into the new Foxes in Fiction stuff, so incredibly anxious with anticipation for the whole thing to come out

Hey guys thanks for all the nice comments and general interest in our weird little label. Officially going off the grid for about 9 days starting this afternoon, but if anyone has any questions or anything at all, just send those sweet lil bb emails to [email protected] and I'll get back to everyone ASAP. We only have about 10 of those comp tapes left but we'll be adding them, new pressings of the Bilinda Butchers record AND more of our showcase t-shirts to the store once we're back home and ready to tackle the load a bit more. Much love, Warren

Not sure of a repress at this point, have to discuss it with the band but it's very likely.

Yeah that's right. They'll be getting here on Wednesday but we're (Brian and I) gonna be leaving for the LA Orchid Tapes showcase on Thursday and then we're both gonna be spending some time in Canada until about August 13th, we'll send them out as soon as we're back though! Thanks for being so cool and patient everyone.

Seriously though guys I'm so happy and stoked that you're all this excited over the different editions of this record, it's been very cool and unexpected to see everything unfold this way. So blessed to have had a hand in helping to make all this happen in any small way. Working hard to get the rest of the 1st and 2nd pressing out before we leave for on the 31st for our showcase in LA. xoxoxoxo

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That's totally okay, I'm gonna try and combine whatever orders I can over the next little while just so we can be a bit more efficient with everything. Expecting these to arrive in about two weeks or so. And sorry it's taken a while to get back to you, we've been ~swamped~ lately.

Working on the posters for this using our new Risograph over the next few days, I'll give you guys a sneak peak once we're finished printing everything 8]

Glad you like it, I've been hanging on to it since 2008.

We are, also thank you x 1,000 for the kind words.

No one's sayin' I can't bring shipping supplies on the road with me Also, if anyone's having any concerns over the price vs. the length of the record, the whole thing may only be 7 songs but it's about 34 minutes long. (Also it took me over three years to finish lol i've literally never put myself into something as much as i have with this record, maybe that means something, maybe not)

Ooo this is a good idea. Also if you really wanted a bottle I could knock a few dollars and the shipping costs off for you.

This is so on-point and exactly what we wanted to happen with the frangrance aspect of the comp, thank you for writing this.

We've just been swamped :\ Getting the last of the 75 or so compilations / orders in general out over the next couple days, thanks for being so patient guys.

Hey thanks for the kind words regarding this, everyone. Re preice: for this one we actually really had to charge the $20 price tag, the combo of the coloured vinyl + adding the gold foil to the cover really drove the price up, especially for just a run of 250 records. The combo of those things + the inserts is gonna come out incredibly though, but we can understand if it's still too pricey for some. If anyone really wants the record and the price is a big thing standing in the way for you, just get in touch and we can try and knock a couple dollars off for you. Thanks for listening / checking us out, either way.

Thanks for the love and support, everyone.

Pirates Press usually gives us a good deal of overstock with all the orders that we do with them, so once we've made sure every copy has properly gotten into the hands of everyone who bought one, we'll probably put all the 'extras' up for a sale. You can email us directly if you wanna try and set something up for down the line, too: [email protected] Thanks everyone!

These get in to our HQ tomorrow, gonna start sending them all out later this week. Thanks for being so patient and supportive, everyone.

That's amazing that they do that and make it work, but when it comes down to it, we're a business and not a charity. For the goals that we have in mind (paying our artists and having enough money to do more / bigger releases and still making enough to live on modestly) that's obviously not a realistic or sustainable model. And like I said, both Brian and I are trying to make livings off our other creative efforts (which collectively occupies 100% of our time) so it's not like we're raking in big money on the side with Wall St. jobs or anything. Anyways. I'm not here to further justify why we charge how much we do, I've tried to make it pretty clear, and I just wanted to come here to say thank you so anyone who chooses to support us and has helped us to get to where we are as a label. The exchange of money for the physical versions of music is an increasingly rare thing and we're blown away each and every time someone decides to pay for something we've put out. We're very humbled by the small successes we've come across and we hope we're graced by more good things in the future.