BFB

Of course, if you play our records backwards you'll hear subliminal messages only cats will understand. They provide the necessary tools for your cats to raid your stash of catnip & canned tuna. We love cats.

Btw what's with the cats? That a forum thing? Or a 'this thread sucks ass so here's a cute cat .gif to get you by' thing?

 

Its the internet, my friend. Without cat pictures there would be nothing but politics and pron. 

 

Also, can we get confirmation on whether or not the ETR pressing has the backwards cat messages? Or is this something which my cats will need to wait for the 10yr version to hear? 

we do but TWC is an F- in speed tests.

I thought TWC was bad, then I moved and I now have Charter. Its atrocious. 

aw yisssss

 

north carolina internet mafia

that's all i can say

omerta and all that

 

Truth. We live in NC... we'd die of boredom if we didn't have the internet. 

 

ah. so your solid '2nd' post was from a seasoned vet.

 

welcome back...as i dont know you quite yet.

 

Just glad to know it didn't take me too long to shake off the rust.

Dig deeper: hah. I deserved that. sorry man. thanks for the grammar editing.

BFB: I promise you I had no idea

It was being released. If we knew about this last year then we completely forgot about it or (obviously) never followed up. But this isn't something you just forget about. Again, it was flattering to see it out.

Next EP will be "hear! Say!"

 

Yeah man, and listen. I'm not trying to rag on you or anything. I thoroughly respect how supportive you are trying to be through this whole issue, and I thank you for taking the time to come in and talk with us. My interest in this is mostly out of disbelief that all this could've happened without your knowledge, or with only a few band members knowing and not responding to this information. I'm not trying to put you down for it, I'm just having a difficult time wrapping my head around it. Thanks again for your input. 

You were gonna have to after our trip anyway

 

Yep, we'll start just what the internet needs: another thread about Brand New. 

who is BFB? PLEASE TELL ME

 

Former AP poster from long ago. Been on a 4+ year hiatus. 

 

It stands for Back Fat, Baby. 

 

I cannot argue with this. 

it's good to see you here

assuming you are who i think you are

 

 

He is (the avatar should confirm haha)

 

 

NC gang represent!

 

Heck yeah Steph, I've decided to come out of my message board retirement. I'M BACK BABY!!!!!!!!

Hey guys this Nic from Cartel. Here to clear up any questions you guys may have. This isn't some official statement, just me needing to get it off my chest.

I've been monitoring all the "hear say" the past few days but haven't really gotten involved with this ordeal, frankly I hate that it has created all this drama. We always seem to gravitate towards drama. Hah.

I think this release just caught me, as well as the other guys, by suprise. We(the band) literally had no idea or heads up this was happening. Honestly I consider it a compliment that someone would want to release our pressings for us. We certainly dropped the ball on getting a chroma vinyl out. A lot of it was timing, legal & financial issues. We are an independent band now in the US so everything we make or sell literally puts food on our table.

We wanted (& still will of course) to make the 10yr anniversary vinyl for chroma very special, with a lot of extra goodies in the packaging. So when we saw this, it took a little bit out of us. It bummed me to see chroma vinyl out before we could add anything to it.

I don't hate ETR for pressing chroma, nor do I condone fans from buying it. could we potentially loose $ over it, yes probably, nothing were not used to in this industry. But I do wish communications between all parties (Cartel, ETR, epic) were better so we weren't caught so off guard. Not this "he said, she said". When company ink pressed 'the ransom' were very involved with them on the process. I wish the same would have been for ETR. Again ETR is well within their right to do this & I'm flattered for them actually doing it. I do feel we deserved to know when it was happening, not kept out of the loop (all good, I'm used to being out of the loop, at the end of the day we just show up to play & have a good time with all of you, as it's always been....except for that bubble thing(but who wouldn't pass up that opportunity. No regrets).

Chroma is our baby, so we defend it as such. It doesn't matter if we sold our souls to the industry, in the end we made Chroma for all of you. Thank you ETR for doing this, & thank you guys who have supported us.

Nic

 

 

Just wanted to post this because nobody quoted it yet. If someone randomly asked me is "Company ABC" releasing your record, I'd probably pick up the phone after the interview ended and ask questions to the right people.

Will Pug from UndertheGun in June 2013:

"Speaking of the other records on vinyl, I’ve heard that Enjoy the Ride may be involved with that. Is there any truth to that rumor?

Nobody is onboard to do any sort of vinyl rerelease or rerelease otherwise. At this point, now that we’re releasing stuff on our own, it would be ludicrous to try to involve somebody else. We may go to somebody for distribution when we do Chroma on vinyl just because of how many copies we sold originally and we’d like to have it in stores not just online or at shows. We’re going to be very careful with that just because it is our baby. Just to be completely honest, it’s probably going to be pretty financially lucrative. So, we don’t want to share what we’ve shared too much of already, you know? At this point we don’t know how it’s all going to work because of licensing and whatnot."

 

^ I think this interview actually took place back in Feburary of 2013, so that's well over a year that the band has directly known about ETR's repressing. 

 

That being said, I'm at a loss for how band members keep showing up acting shocked and surprised. While I'm glad to see that they're becoming more optimistic and supportive after the original negative outburst... them claiming to not have known beforehand is simply an untruthful statement.