Spektorologist

Looking to grab one of those "if it's not dirty i'm gonna wear it" tees off the store and get quoted $15 for shipping to Australia.
 
 
Surely there are cheaper shipping options for a tee 

Not as if Sean's going to get much help crying about 'trolls' on the internet, the edgelords can't endure it.

Ok, this is NOT what happened.
 
STS emailed me from the start with an extremely hostile letter saying how they had the mother license FROM NINTENDO and that they were going to sue me if I put it out because they now owned the rights to it. This was their first email. Now I hadnt even mastered the tracks to send into the pressing plant yet at this point and was already planning to remove two tracks from the album previously because I felt like they didnt mesh as well with everything else and were too boring in comparison to everything else on the record (the mother track being one of the two). I wrote them and said no problem, I wasnt planning on putting it on anyway and also asked how they got a license from nintendo and if they could possibly forward me any info on how I could get in contact with them as I was very interested in getting licensing as well. Their response was equally as hostile, essentially "sorry we dont talk to bootlegger criminals". The next day I got a ton of emails from people asking if I was now working with STS and found out they took everyones email from the list and added them to their mailer, without anyones permission. This pissed me off so I spitefully put the track back on the album and then let everyone know that they essentially were releasing a literal copy of cd album that wasnt even a soundtrack, but an arranged album being deceptively sold as a soundtrack to people, under a mechanical license (from sony, not nintendo as they had claimed over and over).
 
I would have never done any of these things if they hadnt been so incredibly hostile from the start with me (and in retrospect wish I hadnt) and I have tried over and over to squash whatever bad blood there is but they continued to spread literal lies (like how I flipped a record on discogs, even though 100% of that sale was for charity) and literally spur people directly connected with them to post my HOME ADDRESS online with a message to "pay me a visit". Thats not just internet trolling or moralistic grandstanding anymore, thats fucking actual real life threats.

I really wasn't ever calling anyone out for buying them or anything. I even said in my first post that I knew everyone was going to support him anyway :\.
 
Everyone accusing me of "taking it too seriously" when they are the ones attacking haha. I'm just chatting.

Lmao go fuck yourself. I literally could not have been any nicer. I asked for proof saying id love to take back what i said.

DM me your email.
 
and go follow masuda on twitter. something youll really enjoy will happen soon
 
also in the meantime, heres a bootleg autographed by some random guy who created the best castlevania game of all time
https://www.instagram.com/p/73jU1_EgIJ/?taken-by=unfortunateface

Seriously, what did I do to you personally for you to have such a vendetta against me? Did bootleggers murder your parents as a child? I just dont understand how you can absolutely hate me and everything Ive made with such fevor. They are fucking game soundtracks for christsakes. You speak like Im Al Capone or something. 
 
Also, meanwhile Do-Jo music repressed the $20 Super Mario Bros 7" for like the 80th time, which is a counterfeit of an actual record that already exists, not even something specfically designed by them, and you are completely fine with that. 

So they asked you to remove the tracks that you were going to remove anyway, but you didn't like their business practices so you put it on there to spite them.
That sounds like it worked out well.

i saw a copy of castlevania at a record store today, that is all

Right? Homeboy is such a petty, childish asshole that he actually compromised his own product out of spite. Ridiculous.

No mas!
 
Was asked and requested to lock this thread for a multitude of reasons. If you've been reading along all this time, surely you can guess why.
 
Thank you for tuning in. 

It's a long post in response too your long e-mail. Do-jo is bad, but at least they represent the products to match the franchise. While you're here, why can't you just ditch the bootlegs and go legit? You're representing products fans love, I think everyone would rather you made the most of it. It's something you've invested so much into and have the potential to go right direction with, how can you have respect for the composers when you say it's just 'fucking video game soundtracks'? Come on mate.

I'm just gonna add into the discussion here that throughout the whole thing I've found Sean to be nothing but professional towards me. In fact I've had a better "service" than I have from actual legitimate companies. Take that however you will, but I do feel like beyond all the bootleg "debates" he is a decent guy just trying to make a product that, for the most part, wouldn't see the light of day.
Also I know that a lot of the discussion seems to be centred around royalties and payment to the composers, but everyone seems to be missing that he has repeatedly pointed out that when this hasn't been possible, any profit has pretty much gone to charity. I can't speak for everyone, but I can bet he's probably donated more to charity than a lot of others here have, and that surely has to have some merit.

I thought we couldn't talk about fight club?

I love when people try to be like "get out of the thread" like they own an Internet message board. My favorite is when they say "my thread" lol

All this drama could have been prevented if everything was released as "tributes" 

video game soundtracks are very serious lol you're all soooo mad

GTFO of this thread then.

Fine, white label test pressings are closer to $2 each. I dunno why you're changing the record producing process and acting like I was saying it was possible to just make one for that cheap, stop that I guess.

So, does anyone here bashing Ship to Shore have any actual proof of them stalking the dude other than leaving a negative star rating on Discogs or not being too happy about him using a track from an album that they spent a long time working to secure the rights to?
 
I've bought a couple of their releases (the two Mother games, Manos and Martin) and all of them have been pretty nicely put together. They could use a better pressing plant, but that's my only qualm. 

All other arguments aside, please point me towards a process where I can bootleg vinyl for $0.99 a pop, I have a lot of albums I like that were never released on vinyl that I need to add to my personal collection.

That's fine. Like I said, I'm not out to change anyone's mind. I don't care if people buy his stuff, I don't care that he stopped making them.
 
I just think it's silly that everyone keeps coming back to this argument that he directly paid composers and artists when there is absolutely no way this happened. That's all \
 
Everyone is free to spend their money on whatever they want. Even when the last thread was locked all anyone against the bootlegs was saying was this will only bring trouble, and it's only a matter of time before it gets shut down and god forbid it happens before records were sent out and after people paid like has happened in the past with other bootleg labels.

Not sure where the bitching is. I don't support his label and I don't give a fuck if that upsets you or not.

I hate when I see a bunch of bitching on this thread.  I support Sean and his label and I don't give a fuck if that upsets you or not.

Also, little profit? You guys were buying records that cost 99 cents to produce at what? $30?