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Why not just press say 1000 instead of 250-500? These releases sell out very fast, so there is obviously demand, and the difference in price from a run of 500 compared to 1000 is hardly anything, isn't it?

Not being sarcastic at all. We hugely appreciate anyone who's taken the time to check out the Alex G song, any of our back catalog of releases, or taken the extra step and purchased any vinyl (or tapes) that we've helped to put out. I would never be snarky or sarcastic about something like that, those kinds of gestures are literally the lifeblood of Orchid Tapes that help us to continue what we're doing and putting out more releases.
 
I know a lot of people are used to paying a bit less for LPs from "DIY" labels, but this is how it breaks down for us: Between doing music as Foxes in Fiction, occasionally mastering music and running Orchid Tapes, I have no other forms of income at this point. As of the past three months or so, I usually spend about 10+ hours on day-to-day operations related to the label, and a bit more around time periods where we're shipping large amounts of vinyl. We try to spend a lot of time being very fastidious over the physical packages that we send out to people (hand-written notes, stickers, hand-stamped envelopes and tea bags) because this is the kind of stuff that makes the process special to us, and hopefully to the people that buy things from Orchid Tapes. Because this can be such a time consuming process and because of the time required for my other 'jobs', I don't have any time left over to pursue any sort of employment that would provide a regular stream of income for things like food / rent / future Orchid Tapes releases. We put all our releases for free on Bandcamp because it's something we strongly believe in (with all the donations going back into purchasing download credits) so we make basically $0 on digital sales at this point in time.
 
At this point in time it's just not viable for us to charge any less and still afford to be able to put out physical releases (as well as pay the artists we're releasing music for) and still like, have a place to live and work. Maybe in time when we're a little bit more established and have different avenues figured out for making actual money, we'll be able to charge less. We're not trying to rip anyone off, we're just trying release beautiful things that we can be really proud of and charge what we think is fair to both us as a label, our artists, and the people who are choosing to support us.

AHAHAHAHAHA

20 for Alex's full length (which I doubt hits far past the half hour mark in length) really is steep as hell. I thought it was merited for Boring Ecstasy since it was an anniversary release for the entire label that will never get repressed....they're already talking about maybe repressing this though. 15 would be a lot more reasonable. And hopefully they start doing less limited runs with all this exposure.

So does every other diy label that charges $12 for an LP

$1000000

I had one. Gave it to this girl who came in late and asked the guy at the store if they had any left. She looked kinda bummed so i gave her my copy. My good deed of the day

While Im all for hating on stupid threads, do we really need to stoop to attacks like this?

Zay, you make it very hard for Paramore fans to exist in peace.

Hey now, I understand why people think this is silly, but at least Paramore is trying to give their fans SOMETHING for RSD!  I wish it wasn't a remix on the b-side, but rather a demo or something, but at least they're doing something for RSD.  I wish my favorite band would release anything on RSD, whether it's a single song or a repress of an album.  It's cool for collectors to have something like this available.

It's actually just black and shaped like its broken. The inner 7" like part is the only playable part.

It's like she designed a record that's representative of her fanbase's brain.  Awesome.

"I'm such a nerd/geek."

Well....is it?

As posted on VLV and DF...

Does the last track cut off really suddenly on the LP too?

Jackets are due in next week. Shipping out as soon as they are assembled. 

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I know they posted a picture of the vinyl on tumblr saying they got them in but that was all I heard about it

I think they were waiting for inserts or maybe I'm confusing it with something else

I dont see why these havent shipped already. The band posted a picture of the records a week or two ago.

I really hope these start going out tomorrow/soon. Waiting til the vinyl comes in to listen to it.

Same here