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Sorry man, looks like your package has grown up, found a job, and is commuting from LA to SF.... or vice versa.... who knows....

Are you actually serious? Do you really think this is anything but garbage quality control on overpriced trash for people they think won't notice (for good reason)? Lmao.

they're right to be fair. they're voting with their wallets because they don't want to support the label

Never feel guilty about any music you listen to & artists/bands you love. Ain’t no shame. 
 

No one's mentioned above, but Thank U, Next and 7 Rings 7" singles have come and gone on Ariana's site... 

Right now there's a Break Up With Your Girlfriend 7" single available, marked as limited... If it's the same as the others, it'll only be available for a few days

https://shop.arianagrande.com/products/break-up-with-your-girlfriend-im-bored-7-vinyl-digital-single
 
 
There's a cassette available too

This term always makes me laugh!
All records are "gimmicks".....if people honestly just wanted the music there is this crazy thing called digital.

there are three videos dropping, one a week starting on the 18th

I’d say the exact same thing if it was Opposite Day. 

well at least they kept some stock for situations like these! I hope you both get your vinyl soon. 
I ended up getting one pink and one teal like I ordered, thankfully. 

Pink is over half gone now even... Around 1800 copies left. Glad I was online at the right time.

So clear vinyl was both true and not true at the same time..?? What a rollercoaster, FYE

He also helped cowrite it

This may be the case for many of their exclusives, but the P!ATD exclusives seem to be strictly limited to a certain amount and won't be repressed like the many of their other big sellers. I don't know for a fact that they won't press more,, but all of the other Panic exclusives sold out fairly quickly and don't seem to be going back up

Personally, I enjoy it. It is something a little extra to look forward to and see releases for RSD and Black Friday. Every year I end up getting 1-2 releases at least and then a good hand full or so more down the road once they go down in price. People can cry about limited quantities but that is 95% of the reason there are tons and tons of people that go crazy and buy all kinds of stuff they normally would not have in fear it will go up in cost once sold out. I am sure most record stores also like it because it gets people in the doors to buy other stuff or influence them to come back. Guarantee the majority of these people would not be buying so many records if they knew they could easily get it down the line for the same price or less. Limiting releases or making pressing numbers bigger is the last thing the curators of rsd probably want to do since they love every little bit of the craziness and hype it gets each and every year. I would prefer that but complaining about it for months before every rsd day year after year is not going to change anything because the majority of people are still eating all this up.
 
    There are a lot of ridiculous things released and I do not agree with many of them but I still usually end up buying a novelty or two release a year from it so I am part of it. The younger generation with there Crosley playing Justin Bieber listening fans get nonstop shit but they are part of the reason the hobby is thriving and so many artists make sure to release on vinyl as well so I am more then happy to deal with all the stuff I personally do not care much for if it helps keep the medium as a whole healthier.
 
  That is my 2 cents at least. Too much other shit in life to worry about since I still end up getting a few releases I am happy about every year anyways.

Sounds swell. Then afterwards I'll take my best gal down to the soda fountain for a phosphate before the sock hop.

I've been there.  I've been fortunate enough that a lot of the shit I listen to – and you as well, I'm sure – isn't exactly sought after.  Or at least not clearly, upfront.  Dude isn't going to gamble and buy 3 copies of weird ambient records or obscure shoegaze that Newbury isn't peddling.  But I still prefer to play it safe and just text friends or VCers directly, before making a thread.  After a bit of time and confidence that we're all hooked up, I'll make a thread if there isn't one already... and it's really shitty that that's what it has come to, as a community, but it's the safest route.  And I'm so grateful for the people who text me when shit pops up, immediately: you know who you are.
 
I give a lot of shit in this thread and others when I see copies of the new Green Day record being flipped, or some limited Day To Remember variant, or whatever.  I joke around and suggest that no one should care enough about those records, in the first place, and that they're better off without them.  But I can practice enough empathy to realize that the situation fucking blows.  I see a lot of defense for flipping – "it's their money, dude, who are you to care what he does with it?" and "lol, Derek doesn't understand supply and demand" – but at the end of the day, if a release I wanted - really, seriously wanted - popped up and sold out while I took a night to sleep and a day to work, and was being sold immediately after at triple the price... I'd be crushed.  "Ya' snooze ya' lose" is a horse-shit rebuttal to that and I think we all know it.  I spend a ton of time tinkering on VC on my breaks, or during the evenings when I'm home, and I still find stuff that has slipped through the cracks that pertain to my interest.  It's harder for me to sympathize with people when they don't log in for a week and are devastated that they missed a PO in that timeframe, but I can actually understand why some people had been waiting on that BCR repress for years, and were miffed when it went up with minimal heads-up, and sold out within 24 hours.  That isn't to fault Pseudo Travis' subtle and brief marketing strategies in this thread – but instead of giving everyone a week or a month to mark their calendars and prepare a bulk-buy to offload on Ebay, only the unemployed neckbeard lurkers were privy to the drop.  I guess it's better to have 2-3 sweaty flippers divebomb a limited release rather than 12+?  But again, this loops back to my first paragraph, and how tricky the situation is however you cut it.
 
These aren't people who are buying a copy to listen to – that's a given.  But they're not even people who are buying a copy to frame, maybe eventually play, photograph on Instagram, and then resell at twice the MSRP.  These are people with zero interest in any of the bands in these threads, buying 10, 15, 20 copies of a release /900 or so, and listing them for sale before they even have them on their doorstep.  Really stupid.  And considering the limited nature of vinyl and its aftermarket these days, they can afford to cast a wide net over any topics consistently bumped at VC, because the ones that "strike it rich" will more-than compensate for purchases that they wash even on or lose money with.  It's greed and its worst, and it's gross to consider that some of these sellers probably give a cursory glance at the album art or a quizzical look over the packaging before putting it in a mailer and sending it out.  "Huh.  Is a King Gizzard Wizard Lizard the new Circus Survive?  Is that what you kids are into these days?  Alright."  If they're not already among us as a shitlord in sheep's clothing, I imagine RareLimiteds' introductory post on VC would be akin to
 

Actually I heard there was a panic! at the pressing plant

I cannot really afford to spend $50 shipped on this right now, but if I'm being honest, I cannot really afford not to.

Too Weird To Live, Too Rare To Die is now available on their website... No sight of Vices & Virtues yet though. 

http://www.hottopic.com/product/panic-at-the-disco---too-weird-to-live-too-rare-to-die-vinyl-lp-hot-topic-exclusive/10790937.html

I love the number of folks who evidently despise bands like Panic! but still feel the need post on threads about the band.
Get over yourselves!  

I'm always amazed that people can read enough to know who Travis is but can't read enough to find release dates. 

Look at the thread. It has been bumped constantly (and yes I'm bumping it again, but for good reason) by people constantly asking about the dates. It's been said multiple times. I'm not saying dig through 20+ pages to find it... there's 2 pages to this thread. 2!

In the time it took you to be angry, you could have quoted the post that had the information (since it's so easy to find!) and got your point across in a friendlier way while still deciminating the same information.
 
Food for thought. 

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Just a heads up to the people who follow this thread....my last day at Hot Topic is this Friday and after that I will no longer be posting info on HT related vinyl. I'll still be around here on the boards but most likely won't post nearly as much.