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Time for everyone to get mad at me again.
I know you're on the right side of this and I am not attacking you personally. The "what if it was your daughter/mother/sister/girlfriend?" thing needs to stop. I get what the point is and its coming from the right place, but it's kinda shitty. It implies that women are their relationship to men before they're just human beings. It just perpetuates the idea of women belonging to men. Not actively, but shit like "Hey man, that's someone's daughter (or whatever)" in response to, say, something like street harassment is like saying "Hey, think of how another man would feel about this"
I WILL NOW BATHE IN YOUR DOWNVOTES

"hey bro sux that u raped a girl lol but ur music is rad tho!!!!"
 
that's all I see from thatvinylguy

Latest gets.

I think the new RSD pricing guide is about $2 per inch of vinyl.

They still are a cheaper, quicker turn-around item, but what we're selling is not usually priced at $1-$5. Maybe I am wrong, and there are people out there losing money on every cassette they sell in the name of DIY, but those people are probably not getting cassettes professionally duplicated / printed in the first place. Tape labels that people on this messageboard follow or even own charge $6-$7.50 for 4-6 song EPs on cassettes. $11 or whatever our full length cassettes end up being after shipping is essentially a dollar two at most more than what it costs to download it from iTunes. AND it comes with a download. 
 
Also keep in mind we have tons of other expenses to recoup, like the cost of advances, recording costs, radio campaigns, publicists (sometimes multiple per record) pressing 5,000+ LPs, in store marketing, etc. You could say "well the tapes cost you $3 a copy, why can't you sell them for $6 and profit $3." Because after all of our costs, the tapes don't cost $3 anymore. 
 
Either way I am going to see if we can get them priced down a bit. 

It is easier for me to say since I live here, but I try my best to check out a bit of each band before coming out. There are several months to do this. Like all shows, I have actually discovered quite a bit of bands I would otherwise sleep on because of this festival. The reunion bands are definitely icing on the cake, but this festival is more so for the bands out there still working hard to keep this "scene" together.
It is not about the bands playing their 10th reunion show or hanging out with old friends trying to play music again. These bands will grab your attention and make the sell easier, but don't sleep on the young bucks coming out and leaving it all on the stage. Except that Turnstile tribe stage mosh bullshit the fans do.
I agree with you that I would rather catch these bands at a different venue without the massive amount of people, but that really can't be avoided with festivals unless you have multiple sets going on at the same time. Then people get upset when they have to miss something and the smaller bands get even less attention. I think Joe has done a great job with TIHC and booking such a diverse lineup every year and gives everyone their fair chance to be heard.

guitarist says "all lives matter" when talking about police brutality, probably not intended to be racist but it's pretty easy to see how it could be construed that way someone from the crowd says that's racist/dismissive of police targeting black people, a reasonable criticism
guitarist punches them, definitely not a reasonable response
turns out they were trans, people start calling guitarist transphobic, also unreasonable, since the guitarist wasn't aware of it when he threw the punch

Yeah, that was my bad.  I should have made it clear that the band would have some to sell also.   I've refunded a couple quid on the shipping mate.   

Shit, I don't even like the Foo Fighters but damned if I don't want that.

Just bought the last one! Really digging this band, hope they tour around NY soon.

We give out Near Mint mints and pins with our orders!
 

 

The difference between flipping and selling for profit is intent. If you bought it only to make money off of, it's flipping. If you bought it and enjoyed it and listened to it for years but then you need extra money for bills or what not and sell it high, it's aight.

ANYONE WHO HAS PLAYED BOTH THE A AND THE B SIDES OF AN ALBUM HAS FLIPPED A RECORD

Wait until you walk into the shop, the owner tells you that all the sandwiches are sold out, and then you walk outside and 200 touchy 26 year olds try to sell you the same sandwich for $80.

I've sold records for more than I paid for them.  I've also sold records for less than I paid.
 
IMO, there is a difference between some dude selling an old OOP LP for more than he paid for it 7 years ago and someone selling a Sufjan clear or Brand New seafoam that they ordered 3 copies of and haven't even received in the mail yet.  
 
Also, I don't necessarily think there is a Golden rule where you must sell all LPs at cost or loss but I think people who do so are doing the Lord's work.  In general, I feel like context and the manner in which the seller presents their item can make a big difference whether they come across as selling off LPs or flipping records.

Just got in some new one-off 7" lathe cut records I had made (under The Gristlejaw Pressing Co. moniker).  This time around i used Audio Geography  http://www.audiogeography.com/.  Kudos to Tyler Bisson who did a great job cutting these; they sound incredible. 
 
The Bakerton Group (feat. members of Clutch) - Space Guitars (1st 3-song CD)


 
The Bakerton Group - Bill Proger's Galaxy b/w live 2 live songs (to accompany a future lathe cut of El Rojo CD for LP+7")


 
Radon - Cock Among Us 7" (live misfits covers from We Bare All CD)


 
Samantha Jones (rumbleseat, cassette, bitchin', vanbuilderass)- So Low 7" (Demo Cass + 1 live in studio springsteen cover)


 
Crustaceans 7" (to accompany a future lathe cut of the self-titled CD for LP+7"...features Samantha Jones)

Didn't even know this existed. When Life For Rent and No Angel were reissued by Classic Records in 2003, they had plans for both of them to release them as a part of their Clarity series, where they press them as single sided 4LPs on clear, 200 gram vinyl, all with etched b-sides. That never happened, but the test pressings for them still exist and sound incredible. Still need to find the No Angel boxset, but it's insane to be able to own this. Somebody on eBay has sold a few, must have worked for Classic Records or something.

got a couple a few weeks ago by Tron in Brooklyn. Finally! It's been forever since I've been trying to get tattooed by her
 

 
 

The best way to make people on the internet like you is to complain about people on the internet not liking you.

In all seriousness for some reason:
Before you post on any internet forum it's smart to lurk a bit and get handle on things. Use the search function before you start a thread. Get the lay of the land. Remember that it's new to you but a lot of people waste too much time there.
This can stop you from saying something that's been said a million times before. Feeding a troll. Or just anything that will get casual/harmless ridicule directed towards you from regulars.
Most importantly, just expect to get a few hostile or mean comments directed at you. It happens to everyone and doesn't mean much of anything.

I was going to until I read the rules in that forum saying keep the equipment talk in this section but then again nobody is courteous around so here so I don't know why I listened

#I'dliketobuyavowel

That splash page is a "new media" internet marketing solution to people googling "is VNYL a scam?" All the keywords are there- is, VNYL, a, scam- and I'm guessing they are trying to appear on the first page of those results and have some control over the info people get.
Then the content of the landing page is some soulless, post-post-appropriated-hipsterism detached irony bullshit that only people on the outside of the sincere, authentic original movement think is funny or irreverent or cool. Like someone who saw Borat in 2005 and their takeaway was saying "ITS A NICE! I LIKE! MY WIFE!" loudly is what was funny about the character and missing the context and satirical message behind the most annoying, surface parts of the movie.
This detached response to controversy is usually utilized by lower status groups deflecting authority and marginalizing the higher status group's power. Here, however, it's being used by a for-profit company that pissed off its paying customers in a "haters gonna hate" subtext and it feels like they think they are as cool and funny as counter-culture rebels telling authority and the mainstream to go kick rocks.

yeh the latest vibe is #bullshit